Thinking about my budget and eating more at home I decided to clean out my pantry the other day.
First, I took everything out.
Keep in mind my pantry is only two shelves, the rest of it is Mems'.
Then I sorted what I had by group:
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| Grain! I love to use canning jars to store things: oatmeal, millet, quinoa, flax seed, chia, slice almonds, etc. |
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| Beans/Ro*Tel. My fave food group. |
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| Soup! I heart soup. |
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| My mixes, a variety of countries are represented in my pantry. |
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| Vegetable stock is my basic. |
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Beans! Staple of a vegetarian diet. Yes, those are black turtle beans.
Members of my recent trivia excursion know how those beans hurt me. |
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I buy these in bulk at Sam's. It says the jars are re-sealable, but I eat the entire jar and drink the juice in one sitting.
I heart pineapple. |
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| Fixins! Peanut Butter powder for smoothies/oatmeal. Nutrional yeast, sea salt. Used sparingly and often. |
Then I put it all back together and decided what I wanted to eat this week.
I invented a recipe using 1/2 cup of quinoa, 1/2 can of rotel and 1/2 a cup of corn. Delicious.
And I perused my stash of cookbooks to find a curried lentils recipe that is currently cooking in the kitchen and smells delicious. We'll see how it goes.
I'm hoping re-organizing my cooking ingredients will make it easier for me to eat healthy and eat at home more often.
Either that or I guess I'll starve.
