Seeing Is Believing

The first week of Lent is already gone, and I can't see much difference in my long-term food storage places. Because of that I decided it wasn't too late to post some pictures, hoping that there will indeed be a visible difference by the end of April.

The first picture is my freezer. As you can see there's not a lot of room there. I didn't bother to photograph the door; it's full too. The bottom level is mostly vegetables; the top level has some prepared meals, some frozen leftovers, and anything else that needed a place. As you can see, I did get 2 ice cube trays in, but the fish filets had to go on top because otherwise they stuck out too far for the door to close properly.

The next picture is my pantry, at least the part of it that holds the majority of my canned goods. Things like crackers and cereal are stored in cabinets in my kitchen. Because I'm short, I don't put things I really want to reach on the top shelf. So the pantry is where canned goods live. As you can see, I have enough soup to eat nothing else for 2 weeks, and more canned vegetables than I can reasonably expect to use in the next month. Above the soup I have cans of tuna, sardines, and then fruit. At the very top are extra condiments and salad dressings. I'm a little scared to look at expiration dates on the stuff that's up there. Maybe I'll go through that stuff before I restock after Easter.


Finally, there needed to be a picture of my "tea cupboard." Okay, there's also some hot chocolate mix up there, but almost all of it is tea. The box of Luzianne is one that came from my Dad's kitchen in 2001; it's the box I'm using to make iced tea right now. At the beginning of the week there was another box of Luzianne up there as well; at least I managed to empty something.

So far I've been mostly using up fresh things. The bread will be gone by the weekend. Crackers are going to be in short supply by the end of the month. I'm hoping that there's some margarine lurking in the back of the fridge because I only have 2 1/2 sticks of butter. I also have less cheese than I thought.

But the point is to make do with what I have, not worry about what I don't have. I certainly am in no danger of going hungry. It will be a while before I go through all that soup.