Grocery Store Blackout Time

metzli in The City of Neoxian • 4 years ago

Today while making dinner, I found a lost little tomato attached to a chile serrano.

It was meant to be part of a salsa that never happened.

While looking for pasta, I had to move cans of "stuff" out of the way. Then my kid opened the snack portion of the pantry and stuff fell out.

While some people choose to clean out their pantry and reorganize. I choose to do Grocery Blackouts.

This means that I stop going to the store to buy more food, until my pantry gets a little thinned out.

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Once it is thin, I take the time to check expiration dates, and make plans to cook stuff that will be expiring within the next six months. If there is nothing that will expire in the next six months, I cook with stuff that would expire within the year. At this time, I let myself go back to the grocery story for minimal ingredients that will go with these goods. This means less than $10 for the trip. Maybe some oil, maybe some butter, maybe some chicken, but I make sure that the pantry ingredients are the main stars.

This Grocery Store blackout is looking to be dessert filled this time, I have ingredients for brownies, a pineapple upside down cake, and jello. There is also plenty of pasta and snack foods, and also lots and lots of frozen fruit.

We have lentils and cans of black beans (don't really know where those came from), beans and rice.

Potatoes too, lots of potatoes.

Im starting to think that I should have done this blackout months ago. I am also starting to see that I may be able to spend less than $20 on groceries in the next few weeks.

This is good, as my electric bill is behind...

Thank you for taking the time to read my post today. Hope you are having an awesome one.

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4 years ago in The City of Neoxian by metzli

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shanibeer 4 years ago

I do this every now and then. I like seeing how long I can go before a trip! I get fresh fruit and vegetables delivered each week, so it can be quite a long time 😎

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metzli 4 years ago

Happy to be here :)

We started with left over spaghetti and black bean hummus and pita chips for lunch.

The kids decided they didn't like any of their lunch options, so they are eating (free for everyone) lunch at school. Fine by me, I guess I will be eating "kid lunches" until it runs out. (ham and cheese sandwhiches, pretzels, mandarins, and jello).

I am also gonna work on that pineapple upside down cake today for dessert.

And bean soup and cornbread for dinner which means bean tacos for dinner tomorrow.

So happy I am doing this, if I wasn't all this food would be wasted. How American of me...

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crescendoofpeace 4 years ago

LOLOL, more similarities, as my husband claims that we could eat for six months on what's in our pantry, and he may be conservative in that estimate.

Of course, if I'm running low on Hatch green chiles, all bets are off, as no decent food can be made without them.

Which is of course mostly a joke, and I make many dishes without them, but I am actually an addict. Which is my mom's fault, as she grew up in New Mexico, and addicted ALL her kids to Hatch green chiles. Because they are, hands down, the best.

Growing up, we ate a LOT of beans and rice, and black beans are a favorite of mine, to which I was introduced by Cuban sisters I worked with years ago, and with whom I became close friends. Black beans are amazingly PACKED with anthocyanins, and thus ridiculously healthy, as well as tasty. Yum.

My mom also specialized in out-of-this-world salads, which I had actually forgotten about, until my aunt reminded me one evening. As she said, my mom had a way of taking simple ingredients and making them really special.

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metzli 4 years ago

Thanks for the vote of confidence :)

Something people don't know about the "Native" or "Brown" people of New Mexico, is that they are the descendants of the Aztecs. Before the Aztec empire was torn apart by the Spanish Colonizers, some of them took a group of Aztec people on a trek looking for Aztlan, the mythical land where the Aztec people came from. They stopped somewhere in New Mexico, called it Nueva Mexica (or something) and now it is New Mexico.

I love knowing that story.

Beans, and salsa. Mmmmmm.

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