So what do you do when you wake up and the power is still out from when it went out at 9pm? You strategically plan on how both you and your spouse can get items out of the fridge at the exact same time. You talk through where everything is and who gets what and then you  open the doors praying to feel coldness.

We did! The milk and the eggs were still cold!!! We grabbed the cheese and bacon too. If it was going bad, we should use it up, right?!

That was us last Saturday morning. After that craziness in the kitchen, Brian went out to the grill …

Boiling eggs in the pot … cooking bacon the cast iron …

Scrambling eggs (using the bacon grease as the fat!) …

And ta-da breakfast was served …

It was so good too! It was great energy to go start working on cutting up THAT tree! As of Thursday night, the tree is all cut up. Some of it went off to age for a family in need for this coming winter. Some it is sitting in the back field waiting to dry out so we can burn it in the fall.

As I said in the post on Wednesday about the derecho storm that came through, we were blessed to only have one grilled breakfast. There are still families in this area that don’t have power (tonight will make a week of no power for them). It is great to hear stories of the community pulling together to help those in need though and a huge thank you to all of the power crews that came to Virginia to help! (I have heard of them coming Texas and even Canada!)

All that being said, what would you whip up for breakfast and you had to use up what was in your fridge fast if the power was out? Leave us a comment and let us know!