Well, the pantry challenge is in full force now that our daycare closed, schools are closed for 4 weeks, and I am working from home full-time. G and I haven’t left the house since Thursday besides going for walks. M is still going to work, but is now taking his lunch and washing his hands as much as possible. Many people are traveling for spring break this week so it will be interesting to see what happens in the next few weeks. The markets are doing terribly and I am not wanting to look at our investments. Here is what has been happening with the food.
Friday, we made our last frozen pizza for dinner.
On Saturday, M had a work thing that he had to go to. I made a salad for lunch and snacked on random things. For dinner, we had baked breaded chicken breasts with pasta and marinara, and broccoli. I also baked a batch of brownies and now we are out of oil to make the other batches. If we end up craving sweets we can maybe make one of the other recipes on the box.
Sunday, I baked all day. I made sourdough crackers, sourdough pizza dough, and prepared some sourdough bread dough. I also made a dip with cream cheese, red onion, garlic, and salt. We dipped the crackers in that. I had leftovers from the Saturday for lunch and we made a pizza for dinner with some of the salami, some olives that we found with the condiments, and some red onion. We have a giant thing of Irish Cream in the fridge so I had some of that. M also made me a cold brew coffee, with some maple cream he made out of oat milk and maples syrup and served it in Guinness glasses.
Today, M took leftover pizza to work. I had pasta with some vegan cheese that I made with sweet potatoes, carrots, mushrooms, nutritional yeast, and spices. I also ate some peanuts and raisins. For dinner we made chicken and rice with pepita salsa. I baked the sourdough, even through it stopped rising for some reason. It reminds me or hardtack, but it was ok with some vegan butter with dinner. Tomorrow M will take leftovers for lunch again.
G has been eating his frozen treats, thawed. He has bananas, a mixed berry smoothie, and butternut squash soup. We will be out after a couple of days.
COVID-19 is making a strange feeling for me. I feel stuck at home with G. It would be better if I could work, but it is so hard to work with him home. My work offered 5 extra paid days off to deal with daycare closings. Our daycare plans to be closed for a month. My cousin’s wife can take G on Friday, but I am super nervous about dropping him off with someone he doesn’t know in a strange place. I don’t want to freak him out. We are going to meet with her on Thursday, but if he freaks out, I am going to have to take PTO for awhile. It would be different if we were planning on staying there long-term, but we aren’t. It is too far away for it to be a long term solution.
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