I decided to clean out my pantry recently. It was like a great big junk drawer of canned, boxed and bottled food. Apparently I have been stocking up on the necessities. I am such a “nester”…
Apparently, every family of 5 needs THREE 40 ounce bottles of BBQ sauce. Yeah, because my kids use BBQ sauce instead of milk in their cereal.
Chocolate syrup. Keeps the marriage alive. Just kidding. You can NEVER have enough of the syrup that is chocolate…A.K.A. “The Nectar of All Things Good and True”. I mean, really… What if a school bus full of children broke down in front of my house and I had an insufficient amount of chocolate syrup for making chocolate milk? How embarrassing.
I guess I could always offer them…
What is this all about? One might think I operate a soup kitchen… or a healing clinic called, “Bring Me Your Sick, Your Sore Throats”. Nope. I just harvested a bounty of canned chicken broth… for all the soup I make in the summer. Ahhh… nothing like sipping on steaming hot bowl of soup In. The. Summer.
Tomatoes anyone? My kids HATE tomatoes, but - by golly - I am gonna keep these diced, sauced, crushed, whole, canned, red orbs in my pantry. I wait for the moment enough of their young taste-buds die off and the children realize tomatoes won’t gag them to death.
Oooh - a vinegar bar! I look at this line up and I am reminded of Bubba Gump…
…white wine vinegar, apple cider vinegar, Balsamic vinegar, red wine vinegar, rice vinegar, vinegar-vinegar…
***Note: One item that was NOT in my pantry…. Oreos. Because I ate them. All.
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Are you sure you weren’t cleaning out my pantry?
Oh my goodness, my family (my bro’s mainly) LOVE Sweet Baby Rays. Hey when there is a good thing stick with it!
I am impressed by the bounty that is your pantry. Mine is usually bare.
Admit it, the chicken stock is to cook all the quinoa. You do eat quinoa (prounounced KEEN-wah)right? I just like saying the word.
This amazing grain “contains a balanced set of essential amino acids for humans, making it an unusually complete protein source”
Ok, I borrowed that bit from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinoa
Just here to expand your food world :-)
I have that much broth, too. But, it’s JUST ME.
Also, you need all that vinegar! YOU DO!
Good job, chocolate and BBQ sauce … ya can’t go wrong.
I’m going to need a full pantry picture becuase it looks dang cool…Take a step back. What does it all look like..and no I won’t sho w you mine, but I’d love it if mine looked like this (hee)
Looks like my pantry - There is never just one of anything they all have friends!! Sweet Baby Rays is the best !!!
Duuuuuuuuude. That is our favorite BBQ sauce around here. I’ll take some off your hands! Oh sweet baby ray!
Dude, that’s a lot of chocolate syrup. I think I’m in love with you.
We love sweet baby ray’s, usually have two choc milk syrup bottles in the fridge at all times and a strawberry one for The Calm One. And you can never have too much chicken broth, just sayin.
So you gonna come and do mine next? hehehehe
Now the real prize would be if you could make something (edible, of course) out of all that…
It’s all about the Sweet Baby Ray’s!