Grocery Hauls and Pantry Snooping

I was thinking I am way high on calories because it’s all candy.
I am WAY high on sugar. I basically only eat junk. Even the raisin bran is basically all sugar.

When my husband cooks, I usually have a decent dinner, and if I have motivation, I then eat it for lunch. But depression has affected my ability to even microwave a container.

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That sounds hard.

But the sugar cookie is very cute!

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I’m sorry :frowning: That’s terrible. I really hope you are able to get it under control - that’s no way to live your life, but do whatever you need to do to get yourself through the day :heart: I was also trying to be non-judgemental about the sugar. However, that really isn’t many calories either, even though they are mostly calories from carbs or sugar.

The stir fry looks really good and healthy though!

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Thankfully I’m “functional” in that I go to work and do a good job. But something else still needs to change. I just hate messing with meds. Too many side effects. So I’m sticking with my current ones.

The stir fry is great. It’s just a bag of kirkland vegetables with chicken, and whatever stuff my husband throws together for sauce - so it’s an easy dinner.
My husband has also been experimenting a lot with vegetarian cooking, and last week we had some amazing black bean and quinoa enchiladas. (Homemade corn tortillas too.) Those were great leftovers.

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Main storage: This built in deep pantry that came with the house. This is a lot more than we normally keep on hand but we have been stocking up for winter.

Early in the pandemic my husband wanted to make a list of everything in the pantry to help plan meals. I suggested some sort of app or spreadsheet, but he insisted that paper would be simpler. I don’t think we ever updated it.

I’m thinking about trying the app Out of Milk to track our inventory and manage grocery lists, but that will be a project for another day.

Spices are alphabetical. Once upon a time canned/dry goods were grouped by category. Now it’s all haphazard.


Tea/coffee/breakfast things in the kitchen

Baking supplies in a few random cabinets near the table that we use for an island.

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I’m so impressed with everyone’s food stocking skills! I have not built up to that yet.

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Jesus I would’ve bought your house for that pantry alone.

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I know! At one time daffodil either posted a pic or talked about it and I was trying to figure out where to put one in my house.

That was before I discovered the whole room under my stairs that was meant as a pantry, that I’d completely forgotten existed for several years.

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Whoa - a multi-layered pantry! How great!

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Look at that. LOOK AT THAT. B&M brown bread. Comfort food from childhood.

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FUCKING GODDDAMNIT. I protest so fucking vigorously.

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Amazing but also yeah, I’d eat that plus more

Is that… can bread? I have never before seen can bread. This is so delightfully new.

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I’m glad husband makes real food to help fight the depression monster

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My husband is a phenomenal cook. Without him we’d eat spaghetti and cereal.

The only frustration is sometimes he does TOO much, and it just takes up way too much time.

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I have frequent dreams of finding rooms in my house.
I’m amazed it actually happened to you!

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Your pantry looks identical to one my across the street neighbor had growing up. If you live in Texas, I wonder if you have their old house.

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Isn’t all Boston Brown bread steamed in a can? (I thought it did and have also only made it that way but genuinely don’t know after you said you’d never seen canned bread) It’s sooooooo good! I think my mouth watered spotting that label.

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Apparently it is. I have just never encountered this bread before. Does it taste like bread? Is it textured like bread? Or is it like a British steamed pudding?

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In between, I think. It tastes like molasses and heaven. Haha. Crumbier than pudding, more wet than baked bread.

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