It's Sunday, and the pantry clean out continues

Today was the end of season soccer, so we wrapped up two games, and then I spent the rest of the day getting stuff done. I cleaned the kitchen, vacuumed, and cleaned the bathrooms. Party animal. ;-)

After that, I made yeast rolls & white bean chili & then we went to a pool shop to pick up a replacement part for our pool filter, and then stopped by another grocery store to (finally) find a turkey breast for Thursday. 

I've been making big progress on our pantry clean out as well! Here's the latest:

• An enormous (25 oz) jar of green olives. Side note: what was I thinking? - Done! Made a giant batch of green olive tapenade, with basil from the garden. Kept some for the fridge, and froze the rest. 
• 1/3 or so of a package of chocolate breakfast cereal. This is nothing we would allow the boys for breakfast, but I'm open to using it in something a little more snack like. One of our house guests brought this. - used, in a batch of granola bars!
• The end of a bag of pretzel chips. Used these for these delicious granola bars. 
• Two 1/2 used boxes of lasagna noodles - Used one 1/2 box, so down to the other half
• A 1/2 bag of pine nuts. -  Made more homemade pesto. Down to 1/4 of a bag. Those pine nuts go a really long way!
• Most of a container of almonds - used all of it! In pilaf, plus almond butter. 
• Most of a container of cashews . . . Done! Used to make lots of yummy cashew butter
• A few bits & bobs of trail mix - used, in a batch of granola bars!
• Most of a large bag of sourdough stuffing. - haven't used it up, but planning to in Thanksgiving. 
• The last of a bottle of green chile sauce (from the fridge) - used up in chicken fiesta rice!
• An unopened jar of Nutella - turns out this was expired (& had a funky taste), so unfortunately, it was tossed. I have no idea why M bought this way back in the day, but it will never make it on another grocery list, so I feel like we can avoid this type of waste moving forward. 

I've also been using up other stuff that didn't make it onto the original list:

• Remnants of a bag of trail mix - used in granola bars
• White chocolate chips - used 1/2 in granola bars
• Heath bar chips - haven't used yet
• Walnut oil - used the last of a jar in my pesto recipe
• Another jar of olives. Yikes.
• 2 jars of green enchilada sauce - Used one in a white bean chili tonight. 

Looking forward to a more relaxing week ahead, with no school! What about you? Any big plans for this holiday week?