UncleSam (who seems to be the only sister actually participating on this blog DAMN YOU KIPSY) mentioned her occasional "pantry months," where she doesn't buy new food but just empties out what she's got stashed.
Today, I started to leave the house to do my occasional Costco run for groceries, and got blasted in the face with a -30 degree gust of wind. Her pantry month idea became instantly more appealing.
After feeling to my fingers and nose came back, I searched and found that I do have a ton of crap in my pantry and my freezer that have been there for well over a year. Among the crap: bottle after bottle of half-empty (half-full?!) hard liquor that my last roommate left behind about five years ago. She was a drinker, so I doubt it's much older than five years, but still--would drinking this antique stuff make me go blind? A quick google-search suggested not--it all apparently lasts forever. And so I am typing this while drinking a "finger" of Ballantine's blended scotch whiskey (with yellowed-with-age pricetag of $14.99 still on the bottle.)
It's not nearly as nasty as I thought it would be. Given how little I drink, and how much of this kind of stuff is cluttering my pantry, I've decided that for the next year, I'm going to make my way through it once and for all, by god! This will save on my beer expenses, which had been running a good $15 a month.
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January, I am definately having a "eat from the pantry" month. I actually could have easily done it this month but I need to go to the grocery store today to get lot's of chocolate for Chip's stocking. (Her divorce is not final and I guess she's feeling a little blue.)
ReplyDeleteShe sent me an email saying that it did actually become final--in the last few days. When my divorce became final, I felt relief, coupled with massive disappointment in myself. It was a pretty awful feeling.
ReplyDeleteI seem to remember feeling quite celebratory for my divorce.
ReplyDeleteI need to clean out my cabinets, too (I don't have a pantry). It's probably more my freezer. Although mostly, it's B.C.'s stuff in my freezer. But I should go back to baking my own bread again. Maybe I'll add that to my rules - no bread bags to throw away.
Liquor doesn't go bad, apparently, and it actually can be worth something. I did an Estate sale for someone who died, and she had several half-full and more-than-half-full bottles of liquor. I actually sold them for a couple of bucks apiece, I couldn't believe it.
ReplyDeleteI have have a bunch of food in my pantry, too, that I am trying to get through. The stuff that has been there over a year, and I'm pretty sure we won't be eating, I took to the local soup kitchen.
Chip
CHIP!!!
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