What My Excess Food Supply Looks Like

How are you doing with the challenge to eat the excess food in your home? About a week ago I did a post on living with excess and I set out to eat the food on our shelves instead of constantly buying MORE food to just fill our shelves with unused food.

This week, the only groceries I bought for us were milk, saltines (for a mix I have to use up), bread, cereal and tortilla chips. The other things I had to buy for a shower this weekend. So 5 things I bought. That was all we needed. It’s not something I am proud of – it’s sad, really! That our shelves are THAT full, that I only had to buy 4 items to make it til the next time I have to get groceries. The past few days have been easy too. I don’t feel like I have lacked in groceries one bit. It does take a minute or two to think about what to make, but I realize how easy it is to make food convenient. I had the items for chicken pot pie, so that is what I made one night. I had pureed squash coming out of my ears so I found a recipe for spiced squash muffins and they were DELICIOUS! Dan kept commenting on how good they were and then I told him what the base was. He was shocked.

As you will see by my pictures below, we don’t lack in food. Really it’s a bit embarrassing, but I suppose no shame here because this is the very thing I am trying to change.