sparkling husband primitive's wife cleans out pantry

[franksolich]

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Oh my.

Sparkly  (1000+ posts)        Sun Apr-26-09 04:59 PM
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What does your pantry look like?

Or cupboards, if you don't have a separate pantry...

We have a little closet pantry near the kitchen, and I just cleaned it out. It was amazing. Even though it's been cleaned out before, I still found expiration dates going back to 1997! We even had dog biscuits that have expired. A box of dried milk powder didn't have an expiration date, but the women pictured on the box had hairdo's I haven't seen since the 1980s.

Three huge garbage bags later, I have room for the box of Cheerios that was always hanging precariously off a shelf. I feel guilty for throwing out so much food, though. When it's in garbage bags, it seems impossible that it all fit in that little closet in the first place.

Among the unopened discoveries I kept: 19 boxes of herb teas (not to mention the dozen in the cupboard and more downstairs), six plastic bags of dried beans, three big jars of mayonnaise, three boxes of girl scout cookies (although I'm suspicious of them), and a big jug of real maple syrup. How could we forget we had a big jug of real maple syrup?!

Downstairs we have a storage shelf in the laundry room with yet more food, but I'll tackle that in a few years.

How about you? Do you have old stuff in your pantries, or do you go through it regularly?

I dunno.

franksolich has always lived in places with superlarge refrigerators; I have no idea why, it just happens, probably a coincidence.

franksolich puts all groceries excepting those in tin cans, and peanut butter, in the refrigerator.

The Rita Hayworth primitive:

Tangerine LaBamba  (1000+ posts)      Sun Apr-26-09 09:25 PM
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5. About once a month, I go through shelves and the pantry, and get rid of stuff that doesn't thrill me any more. This happens with far more frequency that I care to admit, since I'm a great impulse shopper.

Fortunately, our building has an ongoing collection area for a local Food Bank, so it's just a matter of taking it with me on my way out and depositing it. That Food Bank idea has kept me on my toes, and there are times when I buy stuff that's on sale - like Betty Crocker potato mixes (scalloped, au gratin) at 10 for $10 - and just put it into the big boxes.

Funny how those things work out. What started as a twice-a-year event is now a constant. Tells you all you need to know about the state of our economy ......................................

Hmmm.  One wonders whose economy that might be?

And here's Mom:

troubleinwinter  (1000+ posts)      Tue Apr-28-09 03:15 AM
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13. Two years ago, my daughter visited and opened my pantry and exclaimed, "OH MY GAWD, MOM! YOU'RE A PACK-RAT!"

I explained that I might get snowed in or break my leg or they might close the grocery stores for awhile or the road to town might wash out or something and it's nice to buy stuff on sale and I might hanker for some smoked oysters or anchovies sometime.

[JohnnyReb]

But...but....but people are starving.....and needing beach trips for hip replacements.

[VelvetElvis]

Tangerine LaBamba  (1000+ posts)      Sun Apr-26-09 09:25 PM
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Funny how those things work out. What started as a twice-a-year event is now a constant. Tells you all you need to know about the state of our economy ......................................

The fruity one never stops to compare the actual results of the Messiah's reign with the Instant Utopia that candidate Zero assured would follow immediately upon his rise to the Throne.  She completely misses the fact of whom her statement is an indictment of.

[Ralph Wiggum]

I feel guilty for throwing out so much food, though.

If you feel so freaking guilty, then eat it or give it to the homeless.  It's the thought that counts to you libs, remember, even if the expired food will make them violently ill.

[jtyangel]

He'll tackle it in a few years He means after the rodents have had their way with it? 


I clean out a pantry the size of a 6 ft standard closet about once every 6 months. Always good to make sure nothing has spilled and to clean anything that has like flour, sugar, etc and to move things to the front that might be getting close to expiration so they can be used. Years to clean a pantry? And here I though tI was bad because I had something expired like 9 months earlier the last time I cleaned it wow!

[franksolich]

The fruity one never stops to compare the actual results of the Messiah's reign with the Instant Utopia that candidate Zero assured would follow immediately upon his rise to the Throne.  She completely misses the fact of whom her statement is an indictment of.

But remember, the Rita Hayworth primitive is no spring chicken; actually, she's pretty old.

And so probably she forgets things.

For the record, I actually have some degree of affection for the Rita Hayworth primitive, who's a first-tier primitive, the second-highest degree of primitivity, and it helps to make allowances for old age and its cerebral ailments.

[Flame]

I clean my pantry about once a month, before I do my big grocery shop.  That way it's organzied for when I come home, and I have room to put stuff.  I also know what i"m running low on, etc.  If these people have foodstuff they haven't even looked at in tears, that tells me they aren't that concerned about waste or anything else...in other words, a typical lib. a hypocrit.

[The Village Idiot]

if you have 19 unopened boxes of herbal tea you forgot you had... you gotta be a DUmmie!