Waste Not, Want Not

So remember all those milk and creamers we took home from the wedding?

Well the milks were about to expire and needed to be used up. So I took one for the team and decided to have a bowl of cereal with them.

I'm obsessed with Cinnamon Bliss, which is Sally's Cereals version of Cinnamon Toast Crunch, and had some on hand to go with the milks. I didn't want to have any soggy cereal, so I opened all the little milks before I added them.

I did pretty well and only ended up with eight leftover.

And I used those up by having another half bowl of cereal. Which was easy for me to do because Cinnimon Bliss is so incredibly good. Super yummy and no milk was wasted. Double win.

Everything is a Photo Opportunity #11

We stayed at a cottage for a night last week and got to enjoy a quiet sunset over the water. This is definitely summer at its best.

Cottage Supper #FoodPornFriday

We got to spend a night at a cottage in Victoria Harbour last week, as the newlyweds went back to Vancouver a few days before their two week rental was up. It was a total win for us and super relaxing.

The cottage had a full kitchen (and a mostly full fridge) so John pan fried some pork buttons with some spices and sauteed fresh mushrooms. The mushrooms were packed with flavour - I think I could have eaten a whole pan of just them. On the side we had some steamed carrots and broccoli and a big scoop of leftover wedding potato salad (which still tasted amazing, as this was before I ate waaaayyyy too much of it). 

This post is part of Big Dude Likes Food #FoodPornFriday link up. Feel free to head on over to his blog and link up an awesome food post!

Family Wedding By the Numbers

It's been almost two weeks since we had a family wedding and all the numbers in my last post reminded me of some things I could quantify from the wedding.

Date the wedding took place: July 20, 2013

Anniversary that Jena and T were celebrating on their wedding day: 10th

Number of years Canada was celebrating having nation wide equal marriage (signed into law on July 20, 2005): 8 years

Distance the brides traveled to get to their wedding: 3600km (2237 miles)

Distance T's dad and brother traveled to get to the wedding: 2268km (1409 miles)

Distance I traveled to get to the wedding: 23km (14 miles)

Number of wedding guests: 45 (approx)

Scheduled start of wedding ceremony: 7:00pm

Actual start time of wedding: 7:30pm (approx)

Number of cars that broke down in and around the wedding: 6* (*I'm counting mine twice)

Number of 5kg (11 lb) buckets of various salads purchased for wedding: 6

Number of buckets of potato salad that ended up at my house: 1/2 a bucket

Number of days in a row that I ate potato salad: 4

Amount of time before I can eat potato salad again: 3 months (approx)

Number of slices of wedding cake I ate at the wedding: 0

Number of slices of wedding cake I ate in the week following the wedding: 3

Number of slices of ice cream cake I ate in the week following the wedding: 2

Number of cucumbers we had at the house following the wedding: 5

Number of days in a row I have forced myself to eat part of a cucumber: 10

Number of days in a row I ate a fancy cucumber sandwich: 3

ALL the Food

Last week I posted about the creamers we got to take home from my sisters-in-law's wedding. We are still working through them, but it was premature of me to only tell you about that one thing. We actually brought home ALL THE THINGS from the wedding (mostly food with a few non-food items).

The abundance of leftovers was due to family + friends catering the wedding and buying way more than enough. There were also leftovers from the cottage the brides rented, as it had a full kitchen and they lived there for two weeks. They had multiple friends/family staying with them for a week around the wedding, so the fridge was kept pretty full. They couldn't really take it back on the plane to Vancouver, so all the food came here. It is one of those 'best of times/worst of times' situations. So. Much. Food.

So here is a #ListPost about all the amazing things we've been working our way through since the wedding.

Food - Fruits & Veggies

9 assorted peppers (red, green, orange, yellow)

4 cucumbers

2 bags of mini carrots

1 head of celery

2 giant onions (Vidalia and purple)

Package of sliced fresh mushrooms

A bag of mini potatoes

A container of pre-washed spinach

Head of broccoli

An avocado

A pineapple

2 lbs of strawberries

1 pint of blueberries

3 nectarines

Green and Purple grapes

A mango

Foods - Assorted

2.5kg (5.5 lb) bucket of potato salad

2.55kg (5.5 lb) bucket of coleslaw

A bag of deli style ham

18 pack of eggs

A bag of brown sugar

A bag of garlic salt

2 bags of fusilli pasta

A bucket of Feta cheese

A brick of old cheddar cheese

Various salad dressings and BBQ sauces

Full ketchup, mustard, and relish

2 giant jars of dill pickles

4 small jars of bread and butter pickles

A giant jar of olives

Cakes (assorted)

1/2 an ice cream cake

Bottom tier of Black Forest wedding cake

Drinks

2 jugs of Arizona ice tea

2 boxes of orange pekoe tea

Non-Food Practical Items

A multi-purpose 20'x10'x13' canopy

A giant tarp

1 box of Nag Champa

4 vegetable serving trays

6 assorted serving trays

1/3 bottle of sunscreen