Thanksgiving Week Pantry Purge

A few days ago, I bravely ventured into the pantry in an attempt to organize the chaos. I made some progress, but ran out of glass jars before I could completely make sense of the masses of plastic bags. During my expedition, I discovered 4 different kinds of couscous/quinoa type grains, 4 or 5 different kinds of flour, innumberable variations on the Chinese noodle, etc. Some of these redundancies exist in very small, nearly useless quantities.

So, this week, when most Americans celebrate bounty by buying and cooking enormous amounts of food, we will be celebrating by purging our pantry during the week. We're going to eat as exclusively as possible from the shelves you see before you, and from our freezer. For the sake of proper nutrition, we'll probably be buying some vegetables/fruit and protein, but we do have a fair supply of the canned/frozen variety. And we mustn't forget about the greens in our winter garden, and the cherry tomatoes in our sunroom. Bounty indeed.

I hope that the "after" shot of this pantry will be considerably sparser. This way, we can begin the new year with fresh dry goods and a hell of a lot more order.