This eat-down of food stocks was well overdue and, I can promise you, it is no hardship. I'm using it as an opportunity to try new recipes using odd things in my stores but I'm also enjoying meals that I have cooked and frozen over the past few weeks and months which has meant that I have not been cooking every day.
My fridge is the neatest and tidiest that it has been in months and my bank account is feeling happy.
One thing which I have noticed over the past few years is that I have been getting better at organising the shopping once I get home. At one time I would come home, put stuff in the fridge/freezer/cupboard without too much care and then flop down with a coffee/coke/gin depending how shattering the shopping expedition had been. These days I spend at least as much time putting shopping away as I spend preparing to go shopping. Vegetables are removed from poly bags (or the bags pierced in several places), cheese is grated and frozen, meat is split into usable packs etc before the drink is poured by which time I have definitely earned a gin. Maybe this portioning is more important for me as I live alone, but unpacking groceries carefully seems to get very little mention in advice for canny shoppers.
I haven't been shopping again yet - the coffee purchase from Amazon has been my total expenditure so far,
This virtue will be the death of me.
I haven't been shopping again yet - the coffee purchase from Amazon has been my total expenditure so far,
This virtue will be the death of me.
I split loaves into three as hubby is the only real bread eater and it would be mouldy by the time it was used. I occasionally have a piece of toast and will get a slice from the freezer if there isn't any.
ReplyDeleteI brought home a couple of bananas and left them in the bag. I could not find them and thought I was losing my mind. When I saw a dozen fruit flies, I knew where the bananas were! So, I started removing everything from the bags and have lost nothing lately.
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