Blessings, Darlings!
Even before we agreed to a date we'd be out of the house by, I had started packing. As I previously noted, we have 24 bookshelves alone, and then there's the in-house 3 month supply of food, clothes, the BUSINESS, the KITCHEN (my condiments alone are daunting to pack and move), etc.
The food, of course, is a bit of a dilemma. It's a lot of stuff to move. We can't eat ALL of it in the next 4 or so weeks, but we CAN reduce it. And I could 'rotate' commercially canned food by donating it to the food bank.
But if we greatly reduce our stored food, that greatly reduces how prepared we are after our move. And the town we're moving to doesn't have the vast array of supermarkets that I use here, or a BJ's/Sam's Club/Costco, or an Aldi's, and CERTAINLY no H-Mart! So stocking up again, at the low prices that I could get by hitting the vast array of store loss-leaders I'm used to is going to be right out.
So, a compromise. We're eating our way through about 4 cans a week, sometimes up to 8, and I'm not replacing most of them. I'm doing just-in-time purchasing of things we use up, like cream of mushroom soup, only buying what I need for planned meals.
Some food will certainly be donated rather than moved. Commercially canned tomatoes, mostly, along with scattered other items.
It's been great to have the food when our income was so low, but, boy, I dread moving it all.
Frondly, Fern
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Yesterday's use of storage: two cans mixed veggies, 2 quarts of frozen stock, 2 cans mushrooms, 1 jar spaghetti sauce, 1 box of pasta. But we'll be eating the soup over a week's time, and get at least one more meal from the spaghetti & sauce.
ReplyDeleteThe day before yesterday I used two cans of cream of mushroom soup plus a chicken breast out of the freezer - and we have leftovers of the chicken & dumplings, too.