MPM: Cleaning out, wk 2

I survived my first week of my little challenge. Just to catch anyone up, I'm going as long as I can before I do any major shopping. At the same time, I'm trying not to waste food.

Here's my progress:

1. You can do a LOT of baking with half a gallon of milk that has turned. Ahem. Not that I would know from experience or anything, but I'll be posting about this on Tuesday.
2. I need to stop buying full gallons of milk. We're past that phase. I don't care how good the per-oz price is. I'm all about the half gallon jug, now.
   
3. My family, including my toddler, loves cooked radishes.
4. The soup you cook for lunch needs to be in an airtight container, especially if it uses some kind of meat broth. Half the turkey soup from last week turned into vinegar. The other half was in a jar with a twist top. It's resting comfortably in the freezer.
5. I need to make less soup every week.
6. On Tuesday, I discovered as I was boiling pasta for spaghetti, that I had completely forgotten to defrost the spaghetti sauce. Oops. Instead I opened a can of stewed tomatoes, steamed some spinach, and mixed that into the pasta along with cheese, olive oil, and appropriate herbs. I felt like a hero :D
   
7. The carton of cream I bought at the beginning of the week went bad by the middle. Don't know what that's about, but I do need cream to make baby food.

Which leads me to the next issue: Grocery shopping! What did I buy this week:

• 1/2 gallon of milk. When the remainder of that gallon went bad, I still needed sweet milk around, otherwise I would have waited
• 1 c cream. Like I said, the last carton went bad much faster than it ought to have.
• Bananas. Three large bunches. Did I mention that we are actually a family of siamangs?
• Goat milk and molasses. Baby G is starting to head in the direction of weening, which means he'll need a beverage other than breast milk. These are the primary ingredients in ye-olde-family-formula-recipe-also-recommended-by-a-whole-food-cookbook-I-have.
• Cheese. It was 2 for $4, and I knew I would be using cheese this week. How could I pass it up?

Menu for next week:

• Sunday: Oatmeal pudding (from the freezer), Lamb ribs (from the freezer) and cabbage casserole
• Monday: Eggs and toast, Biscuits (from last week) and gravy (from the freezer) and salad with leftover ranch dressing (homemade)
• Tuesday: Leftover bread pudding from Friday (made from cake crumbs and a strawberry bread heel), Spaghetti (from the freezer!) and salad
  
• Wednesday: Rice, Lamb leg (from the freezer) and cabbage casserole
• Thursday: Eggs and homefries (using some of the excess potatoes from the cabbage casserole), Biscuits and gravy and salad
• Friday: Pancakes, Turkey Pizza (turkey, sauce, and vegetable toppings are all in the freezer)
• Saturday: Spice Bread, Ethiopian vegetables (includes leftover cabbage from cabbage casserole and some ancient carrots) and lamb leg

Please come back on Tuesday to find out exactly what I did with all that sour milk. In the mean time, head on over to Org Junkie for Menu Plan Monday.