Disadvent 2

[psocoptera]

While planning some holiday baking we discovered our can of canned pumpkin was a couple years expired, so for the second day of disadvent I went looking for other old or expired stuff on the shelves. I know that in theory many canned goods will stay safe long past those dates, but a) it freaks out one of the kids in particular, and b) I'm less sure about stuff in plastic bags or those plastic-foil packets, and c) while every wasted food is A Failure, we can certainly afford to not use this stuff and it's not crazy to have some budget for wrong guesses about what would get used. (Also some of it is tricky because I'd like to have a few things as emergency supplies that don't get used in anything my kids will eat, and I just don't have the energy any more to cook two dinners and wash two sets of cookware, but then I'm deliberately repeatedly wasting the replacements, bleah.) Anyways, I managed to fight the urge to immediately replace all of it, and also found some old opened hard candy of indeterminate age and unappetizing appearance (I think it's been *several* years since I bought any Valentine's conversation hearts), so that's something.

ETA: I'm amused to realize I made basically this identical post in last year's Disadvent. I guess my challenge for next year is to cull the pantry without feeling defensive about it. :/

Comments

[dwvanstone]

I love your disadvent calendar so much. It's a testament to all the stuff all of us accumulate. Maybe next year I can convince Tom to join you in our version of disadvent.