Day 22: Out with the old, but no new yet!

I started cleaning out my pantry today. I threw out 6 boxes of Helper (hamburger and chicken) because I'm never going to cook them. I would have donated them to a food pantry but they had expired in 2006. Guess I haven't cooked helpers in a long time, huh? I also threw out some other items that had expired and I'll never use. It felt good, and now the pantry is starting to look like there's about as much food as I feel like we have.. not much, lol! I did find a few things that we'll have to cook too. A minestrone soup mix, about 45 boxes of pudding mix, fajita seasoning, hot chocolate.. it's quite the assortment now.

I'm still going through the flour in my assorted ways. I have to send Pete out tonight for eggs, milk, butter, and a few ingredients for those Pioneer Woman rolls. I have to re-make the Snickerdoodles for church tomorrow so there's no way I can even pretend to hold out and not buy eggs and butter. The milk is because I want to try another bread recipe. When I'm through with this flour I think I'm going to have to invest in some bread flour because it seems that all the good sounding bread recipes call for it.

I also have a confession to make. Pete and I went out to lunch today and bought pizza. I think it's the best pizza I've ever tasted. It's funny.. today was the first time in weeks that I've eaten something that wasn't home made, and boy did I appreciate every bite. We bought an entire pizza instead of slices because four slices would have been $16 and a whole pizza was $17. It was so worth it. Pete and I also spent some time hanging out at the book store. We didn't buy anything, but I was able to look at some books I'm considering for homeschooling, which really helped when narrowing down options. Maybe soon I'll make a list of the books I plan to buy for the school year with Ronan.

Ohhh.. You know what I just realized? I can buy cereal this Wednesday after we go to WIC. Ohmygoodness. I don't think I can tell you exactly how excited I am. Yay!! Now that's an amazingly wonderful note to end on, isn't it?