Poor (wo)man's dinner (and dessert!)

How to make a delicious dinner (and dessert!) when you have no money (or groceries):

Step 1: Open your fridge and realize you have no food, sigh heavily and close fridge.

Step 2: Open your fridge again and pull out all the food you actually have (don't be dramatic, you must have something in there!)

Step 3: Decide to make something that doesn't taste gross if you add a bunch of random crap to it, for example, stir fry, soup, or pasta...I chose soup

Step 4: Realize half-way through cooking that some of your ingredients are spoiled.

Step 5: Add other random things you find in the fridge to replace spoiled ingredients.

I followed this 5 step process and ended up with miso soup with udon noodles (linguine), daikon radish (that was bad, so I used a carrot I found at the back of the drawer), shitaake mushrooms (dried), wakame, and scallions (which are miraculously not spoiled!). For dessert I ended up with bread pudding, how cool is that?! The bread pudding rocked so here is the recipe:

Ingredients:

One really stale baguette that your sister was about to throw out, seriously, stale is good!

2 3/4 cups almond milk (that never expires, right?)

1 Tbsp. butter or margarine

4 eggs (I used 2 eggs and 2 egg whites so I could eat two slices of bread pudding)

1/3-ish cup brown rice syrup 

3/4-ish cup sugar

1/3 c. raisins (or realize you only have a quarter cup and throw in some currants, mmmm)

random spices! (Okay, maybe not random, I used vanilla extract, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and allspice)

Directions:

Using a bread knife, cut bread into one inch cubes. Drizzle with melted margarine. Toss with raisins and currants. In a separate bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, brown rice syrup, sugar, and spices. Pour over bread and let soak until very squishy! Pour into a greased 9 X 13 inch pan and bake at 350 degrees F for 45-55 minutes or until lightly browned and top springs back when touched. 

Eat a slice drizzled with honey or caramel sauce if it's not sweet enough, go back for second slice and pat yourself on the back for your resourcefulness!