Friday is trash day in our neighborhood. In the Miles Travis spirit of having really random things on one’s blog, let me let you in on a dirty secret of our lives: the pantry! That’s right, ladies & gents, we clean out our pantry once a year whether we need to or not! The last time it happened, our 1-year-old was a newborn and it was actually my mom who had the ubiquitous honor, as she was staying here doing grandma duty just after his birth. Anyway, it fell to us this year, so we thought we’d list the contents thrown out of our pantry this year (my husband says there’s no “we” in this. He sees no reason for the entire world to know what was in our pantry.) So for your reading pleasure, Rejects from the Pantry:
1. About 25 jars of Gerber & BeechNut baby food, which will be donated to pregnant friends.
2. Half a bag of chicharrones (fried pork skins) plain.
3. Half a bag of chicharrones, spicy.
#2 and 3 were a gift from my grandma to Jesus.
4. Three open boxes of Saltines in various varieties, untouched for about 8 months.
5. Unopened jar of Dole Peaches “best used before August 2004”
6. Partially (read: barely) eaten box of prunes (pregnancy craving)
7. Potassium salt substitute
8. Dog food bowl. Sorry Pansy. We miss you but not that much.
9. Instruction manual for George Foreman grill.
10. Application to UNC grad school. Still in the plans but not in the immediate future.
11. Eraser for dry-erase board. We don’t own a dry-erase board.
12. Paper grocer bag full of Thanksgiving food donated to our church from another local church. I guess they figured that since we’re a Hispanic church we wouldn’t know how to put together a proper Thanksgiving meal. I don't know.
We sincerely hope this brightens your day.
1 comment:
BethAnn and Jesus- hello! Glad to hear you have a blog, and wow a 1-yr-old son, too :) Congratulations! I should take a page from your book and clean out my pantry more often. Right before I moved to Barbados (study abroad for 1 yr as a Fulbright scholar) I cleaned it out. I found many of the same things you guys did: 2-yr-old *expired* foods, half-eaten items, tons of duplicates, things that looked good at the time, etc. I gave some to the salvation army but had to throw most of it away.
Hey- my email address is bsbarret@hotmail.com. Add me to your photo email list :)
peace -bb
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