Today was a run day from the moment I staggered out of bed just after 5 am listening to the lamb, bananing me.. I needed to be out and on the road by 6:30, which gave me only an hour and half to get ready, have breakfast and get my share of chores done. As I did morning critter chores, I also set my porridge to cooking, Half for me, half for my old girl Lily, she gets her’s with yogurt, I get my typically with a bit of sheep milk, and somedays a touch of sweet. The out the door and to the Bird Sale. Home early afternoon to find DH coming up from the barns where he was working, and I was hungry enough to chew on wood just for the taste, typically I would have eaten at the sale but I am on no food outside the pantry and I forgot and left the packed snack bag, thank god I remembered the water.
So ask if he had made lunch, nope, nor had he eaten since breakfast.. so into the house and in the same time it took to make the porridge (about five to eight min) bowls of hot steaming soup where hitting the table, and yes seconds were had.
Back out to the barns where work began again, finally we called it and came back in the house four plus hours later, tired, sweaty and hungry again, whipped together pasta an sauce, the meat was cooked and in the fridge, in the time it took to cook the pasta, everything else came together, again under ten min and plates of hot comfort carb filled food was filling tummies.
Do I think that todays meals where as well rounded as I would like, Heck no, what who am I Kidding.. my Hubby eat cake for breakfast LOL and where the heck was the fruit or veggies??
However even when living out of your pantry, there are days where life gets busy, and that means you want fast food at least in the sense of getting something filling on the table and in you.
Breakfast FG-Red River Porridge, done fancy, brown sugar with sheep milk. DH’s Watermelon Cake, two big Pieces.
Lunch, Chicken Noodle Veggie Soup
Supper, Pasta with Corn Beef, Mushrooms and cream sauce, spices.
Drinks: Water, Tea and Hot chocolate
Extra’s Popcorn and Chocolate Cranberry Loaf.
What about you? What is your homemade real food quick meal? What do you cook or make if you have want to eat now but don’t have extra’s in the fridge or leftovers to reheat? Give me your thoughts on all three meals of the day? On hard working days, are you ok with cold meals or do you like hot meals like we do?
Just another Day on the Farm 
The Russian complains all the time that I never buy ‘easy’ food so almost everything we eat has to be prepared and cooked, which takes time. With the pantry challenge I have been making extra of many things so we would have leftovers in the fridge for fast reheating. Other than plain cooked potatoes (which I had earmarked to make into something else) he hasn’t eaten a single leftover, preferring to make things from scratch himself. I can’t decide if that’s good thing or not-it’s two of us messing up the kitchen now and double the dishes!
I am making a batch of pierogies today which I will freeze the majority of for later- that’s probably the closest thing to fast food in our house. They take a bit of time to make up ahead but are partially cooked before freezing and once made, a quick reheat and it’s just a single frying pan to clean!
Double the dish’s does not sound like fun to me
Are you going to do a post on how to make those pierogies? I would love to know any tips you have on making them, I make the most basic only and have often thought that its a skill I should work to improve on.
Looking forward to reading your weekly report when you have time to write it, really enjoyed reading your post last week. tried to convince hubby this morning that we could make bacon pancakes.. but he wanted bacon on the side.. still it was very good.
I don’t know if I have any tips but I will include the directions in my weekly wrap up since you asked!