Running Out Of Things

We're starting to run out of some of the perishables. Greg is now officially out of cheese for his lunches, and he's running low on milk. Sophia and I still have some frozen bread left, and one package of GF bread mix, but Greg is all out of wheat bread. We finished the last box of sweetened Morning O's this morning, though we still have some sweetened rice cereal and the granola I just made. We usually mix these with unsweetened cereals -- of which we still have plenty -- in an attempt to get the sweetness without the blood sugar spike. We also finished off the tortillas last night, though we still have half a package of vegan cheese (which is reserved for making pizza -- we have one meal's worth of GF pizza crust mix.)

I sent Greg off today with a salami and some olive paté, which he can eat with crackers for today's lunch. I'm not sure what he'll be eating for lunch after that, though we do still have plenty of crackers and peanut butter. He was joking last week about breaking out some of his stockpile of MRIs, but I don't know how serious he was. (I'm not sure what MRI stands for, other than magnetic resonance imaging, but he's referring to those freeze-dried food packets.)

As a non-food-related observation, my gas tank is also running on empty now. So if our challenge had included fuel, this would be the end of life-as-usual tasks like driving Sophia to after-school programs and commuting between the houses. Greg has started taking the bus (almost) every day to get to work and back, as sort of an addendum to the challenge experience.

A Sampling of Menus:

• (dinner) hot italian buffalo sausage with collard greens, roasted beets & potatoes, kohlrabi salad
• (dinner) turkey, baked squash, sauerkraut
• (dinner) homemade rice nachos with refried beans, salsa, vegan cheese, and mache
• (school lunch) leftover turkey & refried beans w/rice, carrots, frozen blueberries
• (school lunch) leftover lentil/lamb curry w/rice, sliced jerusalem artichokes, frozen blueberries

The nachos were made with rice tortillas that we found in the freezer. We hadn't been using them because they get stiff so easily, and crack when we try to fold them, but the nacho idea worked out really well. I cut them in sixths and deep fried them, and they turned out a good bit tastier than I was expecting.