Just a cute pic of Miss Olivia for you to enjoy!

The no spend challenge is off to a great start! Helped by an impending blizzard and frigid temperatures, I didn’t even want to go out shopping anywhere today, lol  I was also eased in by fact that items I bought before the month started showed up at my house today. Case in point, my $2.50 shipped box of 720 wipes. I’ll have to add a pic later, but that’s a lot of wipes, a much bigger box then I was expecting.
For dinner last night I wanted to use up some extra fried chicken from the weekend. I don’t normally eat fried chicken; usually I buy it once a year to remind myself why I only buy it once a year. We had trivia, and I planned to bring pizza and chicken. My wonderful, fabulous, amazing husband went to the grocery store with both girls all by himself, since I had some other errands I had to do at the same time. I asked him to grab the pizza and chicken. Apparently, they don’t have cooked pizza at the store he went to, so he doubled up the chicken. 2 16count buckets of chicken. That’s a lot of chicken, anyway you look at it. Add to that the fact that 2 people on our trivia team had just come from Essenhaus, two were trying to eat healthy, one hates chicken on a bone, and yep, we came home with almost all the chicken.
For a few days we ate it for lunch, but I think we were all getting sick of that, so I sat down and goggled “recipes for left over fried chicken.” Apparently, this is an issue many people have faced, as I had a multitude of sites to choose from. One site suggested making chicken tacos, and that’s what we did. I included some pictures of the process and the finished result. Except for some tragedy with a can of supposed mild chili peppers, everything turned out pretty yummy, and I all the items I used came from our pantry.


Still to come....pictures of my pantry and freezer. These are the before shots, we'll check out how they look at the end of the challange!