Eating from the pantry/freezer week 1 recap!

Ok, last week went pretty well! I stuck to my proposed menu almost exactly, and everyone was very happy with the variety of meals, even the kids!

I also found out that both my husband and my children LOVE pork chops. I've made pork chops before, but this time I used a pork loin that I had gotten at Kroger a couple of months ago for about $2/lb and just sliced it up into pork chops. They were so much more tender than I remember. I am totally attributing that to the cut of the loin.

I also made them a couple of different ways, and my husband LOVED the Jaeger Schnitzel that I made. He loved it so much that he ate it right out of the pan, not even letting me put it on a plate or put gravy on it, which must mean that he really loved it! I found the recipe on Allrecipes.com, which is my favorite recipe resource. I'm including the link HERE if you're interested, although I altered it slightly, but you get the basic idea.

Anyway, the pork loin cost about $10 and made three regular meals, plus I used the leftovers once for dinner and then cut up the rest of the leftovers and made stir fry with it, so all in all, it made five total meals! I'm so glad that I bought three of them when they were on sale, and will definately be doing it again!

I'm really enjoying this challenge and am so glad that my husband pushed me to do it. Shhhh! Don't tell him I said that though!

By the way, the picture in this post is of the jaeger schnitzel, but it's not MY jaeger schnitzel. Like I said, my husband didn't even let me put it on a plate, so taking a picture was out of the question, but isn't it pretty?!