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...
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