On Saturday, I gutted my pantry and refrigerator.
For a variety of reasons, I haven’t been on a “real” shopping trip in about a month. Fortunately, we have a well stocked freezer and pantry so that hasn’t been much of an issue. However, when I took out some pork chops for dinner on Saturday and realized that we were down to two chickens, a small turkey, two pounds of ground pork and a pound of ground beef, I decided that it was time to start thinking about shopping.
I started through the pantry to figure out what we needed and decided the whole thing was a disaster. I rearranged the shelves and chucked some stuff so old that I couldn’t even begin to guess when I bought it. It always kills me to do that too – so many missed cooking opportunities - all because I’m not organized enough to know what I have on hand.
Things were particularly brutal in the refrigerator. I probably pulled out about 12 jars that were past prime. I emptied out the food and washed out the jars for recycling (please wait while I pat myself on the back). Then I pulled apart the fridge shelves and washed them. I won’t tell you how long it’s been since that’s been done. Found some really, *really* disgusting gunk under the produce bins. I mean **really** disgusting. Bleh!
But it all looked so pretty that I had to take pics. I’ll put them up later when I have my camera handy.
After all that work (and it did take hours), I never made it to the store. Now, three days later, I still haven’t been shopping but I did decide that I should make up a pantry list. I’ve always wanted to do one, but it’s seems like such a daunting task. However, with a little help from my friend Google, I was able to find a lot of other people’s pantry lists and used them for inspiration.
And voila, my pantry list is done! But I'll have to post it later since Blogger doesn't like how I formatted it in Word. Darn technology!
For a variety of reasons, I haven’t been on a “real” shopping trip in about a month. Fortunately, we have a well stocked freezer and pantry so that hasn’t been much of an issue. However, when I took out some pork chops for dinner on Saturday and realized that we were down to two chickens, a small turkey, two pounds of ground pork and a pound of ground beef, I decided that it was time to start thinking about shopping.
I started through the pantry to figure out what we needed and decided the whole thing was a disaster. I rearranged the shelves and chucked some stuff so old that I couldn’t even begin to guess when I bought it. It always kills me to do that too – so many missed cooking opportunities - all because I’m not organized enough to know what I have on hand.
Things were particularly brutal in the refrigerator. I probably pulled out about 12 jars that were past prime. I emptied out the food and washed out the jars for recycling (please wait while I pat myself on the back). Then I pulled apart the fridge shelves and washed them. I won’t tell you how long it’s been since that’s been done. Found some really, *really* disgusting gunk under the produce bins. I mean **really** disgusting. Bleh!
But it all looked so pretty that I had to take pics. I’ll put them up later when I have my camera handy.
After all that work (and it did take hours), I never made it to the store. Now, three days later, I still haven’t been shopping but I did decide that I should make up a pantry list. I’ve always wanted to do one, but it’s seems like such a daunting task. However, with a little help from my friend Google, I was able to find a lot of other people’s pantry lists and used them for inspiration.
And voila, my pantry list is done! But I'll have to post it later since Blogger doesn't like how I formatted it in Word. Darn technology!
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