Great Thanksgiving Challenge

November 2, 2008 by Maggie | 15 Comments

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Bobby and I are going to try to do Kath’s Great Thanksgiving Challenge!

Our rules:

spend $126 on groceries between yesterday and Thanksgiving, including Thanksgiving dinner
whatever is in the house already is fair game
1 night out per week not included
Bobby gets to buy lunch once a week without counting it (because I get free lunch from work on Fridays)

Other info:

my dad is visiting us this coming weekend (Thursday through Monday morning) so we will have to buy food for him as well for a few days
Bobby and I are going to Miami for 4 days next week, and we won’t have to buy any food those days (next Thursday through Monday morning)
we are hosting our own Thanksgiving dinner, so we will have to get a decent amount of food for that… we’re buying a Tofurky meal and having a few other things, which I’ll post about eventually.

This is what’s in my fridge right now (the last time we shopped was on Thursday night):

Some highlights:

13 eggs
various fake meats & turkey bacon
shirataki tofu noodles
applesauce
orange juice
some veggies – plum tomatoes, lettuce, 1 eggplant, 2 red peppers, a few carrots, apples
whole wheat wraps, regular tortilla wraps
yogurt (Fage 0%)
peanut butter, almond butter, bbq sauce, various other sauces and jams

And the freezer:

Highlights:

soy ice cream
lots of bagels
chicken sausages
various fake meats
bread
gyoza
frozen seafood (shrimp and an assorted bag)

And we also have food in the pantry – pasta, oatmeal, nuts, bars, etc… And I have a bunch of fruit in my fruit bowl (more apples, persimmons, and pears). I also have 3 acorn squash, 2 butternut squash, a weird squash that I don’t know the name of, and 2 pumpkins.

At first I thought this challenge would be impossible, but after looking at what we already have I think we have a very good chance of succeeding. Let’s see how it goes! Let me know if you join up!