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  • #1

    Pantry Madness

    So, I decided to reorganize the pantry because I could not think of a more satisfying G-rated way to spend my birthday. We are having a big food bank drive out here so it seemed like the right moment.

    At some point in the process I have the stunning realization that I can get a number of extra cubic feet of storage by giving up the broom closet thingy in the pantry. However, I will have to acquire a very specific size of free-standing shelving to do this since I already know that modular stuff won't fit unless I want to live with sawed off metal. Mr. Snaps could build the shelving but my entire kitchen is stacked with stuff and I want to do this today.

    I find a shelving unit designed for bathrooms that fits perfectly. Mr. Snaps assembles it.

    We find that we have to remove a door on the pantry to install this.

    My "morning project" looks to go long.

    On the plus-side, the food bank will get some top of the line organic donations.
    "Alexa, slaughter the fatted calf."
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    Happy Birthday, Ginger.
    May we raise children who love the unloved things - the dandelion, the worm, the spiderlings.
    Children who sense the rose needs the thorn and run into rainswept days the same way they turn towards the sun...
    And when they're grown and someone has to speak for those who have no voice,
    may they draw upon that wilder bond, those days of tending tender things and be the one.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Michele View Post
      Happy Birthday, Ginger.
      Thank you!

      I kicked up Google this morning and saw a birthday cake logo. I naturally thought some notable shared my birthday so I moused over it. It was a personal message to me. Clicking the logo brought up my empty Google+ profile. This did not produce the warm, happy feelings Google's minions of Satan sought to produce.

      But my pantry is back to better-than-normal, I have a lot of extra space, and the food bank will be thrilled to know that I apparently over-buy angel hair pasta, canned beans, and a particular brand of tomato soup that Mr. Snaps' enjoys.

      Everybody over-buys something - what do NEIP members over-buy?
      "Alexa, slaughter the fatted calf."

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Gingersnap View Post
        Thank you!



        Everybody over-buys something - what do NEIP members over-buy?
        Guns
        If it pays, it stays

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Frostbit View Post
          Guns
          Do you keep them in the pantry? I didn't think so.
          "Alexa, slaughter the fatted calf."

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          • #6
            Kidney beans.
            Colonel Vogel : What does the diary tell you that it doesn't tell us?

            Professor Henry Jones : It tells me, that goose-stepping morons like yourself should try *reading* books instead of *burning* them!

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Gingersnap View Post
              Do you keep them in the pantry? I didn't think so.
              You'd be surprised
              If it pays, it stays

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Billy Jingo View Post
                Kidney beans.
                Great Northern bean and chick peas. It's like a sickness.
                "Alexa, slaughter the fatted calf."

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Gingersnap View Post
                  Great Northern bean and chick peas. It's like a sickness.
                  It used to be cans of refried beans. But after I conquered that, kidney beans started showing up.
                  Colonel Vogel : What does the diary tell you that it doesn't tell us?

                  Professor Henry Jones : It tells me, that goose-stepping morons like yourself should try *reading* books instead of *burning* them!

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                  • #10
                    honey.
                    Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live...
                    Robert Southwell, S.J.

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                    • #11
                      Country style dijon mustard and soy sauce. It's usually because I went to the market without a list.
                      May we raise children who love the unloved things - the dandelion, the worm, the spiderlings.
                      Children who sense the rose needs the thorn and run into rainswept days the same way they turn towards the sun...
                      And when they're grown and someone has to speak for those who have no voice,
                      may they draw upon that wilder bond, those days of tending tender things and be the one.

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                      • #12
                        The list thing is critical. Even with a list, the zombie apocalypse is going to be gassy.
                        "Alexa, slaughter the fatted calf."

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Gingersnap View Post
                          Everybody over-buys something - what do NEIP members over-buy?
                          Until recently, pears. This was a transitory thing, but I bought several cans of pears a while back, but I did not get as much cottage cheese to match (for obvious reasons). A week or two later, I couldn't remember how many cans of pears I had left, so I bought several more. When I got home, I realized that I had a sum total of eleven cans of pears in the cabinet.

                          So, I went on a bit of a fruit and yogurt and fruit and cottage cheese binge for a bit. It got a little boring, but I just adore pears and cottage cheese especially but also pears and yogurt.

                          So, I'm back to normal levels of stuff in the pantry now and all is right with the world.
                          It's been ten years since that lonely day I left you
                          In the morning rain, smoking gun in hand
                          Ten lonely years but how my heart, it still remembers
                          Pray for me, momma, I'm a gypsy now

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Adam View Post
                            Until recently, pears. This was a transitory thing, but I bought several cans of pears a while back, but I did not get as much cottage cheese to match (for obvious reasons). A week or two later, I couldn't remember how many cans of pears I had left, so I bought several more. When I got home, I realized that I had a sum total of eleven cans of pears in the cabinet.

                            So, I went on a bit of a fruit and yogurt and fruit and cottage cheese binge for a bit. It got a little boring, but I just adore pears and cottage cheese especially but also pears and yogurt.

                            So, I'm back to normal levels of stuff in the pantry now and all is right with the world.
                            That's a substantial amount of pears. I can't eat pears. I like the way they smell but the texture (canned or fresh) is just......evil.
                            "Alexa, slaughter the fatted calf."

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Gingersnap View Post
                              That's a substantial amount of pears. I can't eat pears. I like the way they smell but the texture (canned or fresh) is just......evil.
                              Hmph. The texture is much of what I love about pears: firmer than peaches, but softer than apples.

                              More than anything, though, I love the versatility of pears. I love them with salt, pepper, and lemon over cottage cheese. I love them sprinkled with a little bit of brown sugar in yogurt. I love them steeped in rum and on fire atop pork. I love them with cinnamon. Pears can be used for damn near anything if you want them to.





                              OMG! Pears are actually Solyent Green!
                              It's been ten years since that lonely day I left you
                              In the morning rain, smoking gun in hand
                              Ten lonely years but how my heart, it still remembers
                              Pray for me, momma, I'm a gypsy now

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