rewrite this title Day 3: $100 Savings Challenge: Eating From the Pantry

Published: by Crystal Paine on July 16, 2025  |  This post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure policy here.

It’s Day 3 of the $100 Savings Challenge and I actually did today’s challenge early, on sort of accident!

You see, if you read my post yesterday, you know that we needed groceries but our grocery order wasn’t scheduled to come until today. So instead of running to the store for a few things like eggs, milk, and yogurt, we made do with what we had!

More on everything we ate yesterday below…

But first, if you haven’t signed up for the $100 Savings Challenge, be sure follow the directions to sign up (there are prizes!!):

How To Participate in the $100 Savings Challenge

Go sign up for the $100 Savings Challenge to get your free 14-day plan.

Every week day of the challenge, I’ll be posting on Instagram, Facebook, and here on the blog as I work through the challenge myself.

I will invite you to do the daily challenges with me and to share your successes! Every day that you complete the challenge and submit it, you’ll be entered to win one of 5 $100 Amazon gift cards we’re giving away randomly at the end.

You can participate every day or just some of the days — whatever works for you! But every day that you participate and fill out the simple form, you are entered to win!

Day 3 Challenge:

Our fridge was quite bare, but I had fun getting creative and coming up with meal ideas. Here’s some of what we ate:

Eating From the Pantry:

Breakfast: Eggs (I found a carton of pre-beaten eggs I had forgotten I bought a few weeks back!), the last of the Cheerios, fruit, and toast.

Lunch: Snacky odds and ends — I had mandarin oranges, a mini taco that was a free sample at the gym, plus some salmon and the very last bits of lettuce we had in the fridge.

Snack: I remembered this candy stash I had stuck up at the top of the pantry and pulled it out and let the kids each pick something from it. They were thrilled!! I also had some crackers and a Quest bar for snack.

Dinner: Browned ground beef and onions with rice on the side and burger sauce.

After dinner snack: blueberries sprinkled with walnuts and chocolate chips

We were pretty much entirely out of vegetables, but we made do and actually ate some pretty yummy food!

I already counted the money we saved by not going to the store yesterday for our No Spend Day, so we’re going to stick with saying we’re at: $25.25 found/saved so far with the challenge. How much have you saved/found so far as part of the challenge?

Enter to Win a $100 Amazon Gift Card (we’re giving 5 away!)

Go sign up for the challenge here! And just for fun — and to motivate you to join us for the challenge — if you do today’s challenge and fill out the form linked here, you will be entered to win one of 5 $100 Amazon gift cards I’m giving away at the end of the challenge!

Note: We may possibly share a few of the best entries over the course of the challenge, so by submitting the form, you are giving us permission to possibly post your entry. If you’d rather we don’t post it, please note that on your entry.

Did you participate today? I’d love to hear how today went for you!