Pantry Challenge Continues: Part 2

Pantry Challenge 2010 is in full swing.

Success:
Tonight, I set up to make kung pao chicken. I opened the thaw container of cubed chicken ... and find pumpkin. Yup.

They look very similar frozen through a not-quite-clear plastic container.

Well, now what do I do?

I have some veggie crumble on hand. Hmm. I'll call it kung pao "beef" and broccoli. (It's not my fault my husband doesn't here the quotes when I say it.) You know what, it was mighty good ... possibly even better than the chicken. My husband ate it, and I told him afterward what the beef actually was. He was quite surprised (and surprisingly unbothered by the revelation).

Failure:
I made hamburgers for the kids. Since I didn't have any hamburger buns, I cut them up and put them into hot dog buns and announced them as "hamburger hotdogs." My oldest child was unimpressed and only ate his apple.

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I'm starting to think that I don't have quite the supply on hand that some of these ladies have. We're having to get creative at just the midway point right now. Hmm ... what will the rest of the month bring?