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Itzl Alert Network: Tuesday, 29th of August, 2023: Some of the food I have on hand. Ha! [1]
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Date: 2023-08-28
I try to keep my food in rotation, eating the oldest first.
To do that, I need to constantly look, again and again, at the food I have on hand. Otherwise, some of the oldest food will be forgotten: out of sight, out of mind.
The canned food can sit for some years, as far as I know.
But the food in my freezers and in my fridge, I need to keep myself notified, every day or so.
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I look in my chest freezer about once a day. I look in my kitchen freezer and fridge at least three times a day. But I decided, just for fun, to write down what I have in those places, and then post it all here.
Okay, I sleep on my small twin bed located in the front room, where normal folks would have a couch. I have never owned a couch.
So, the bedroom of this nice apartment is my guest room and my storage room. It has a queen-sized bed in the corner, the last bed that Tonia and I shared. If anyone visits, and needs to spend the night, they could use that bed.
In that room, I have my newly installed can crusher. I mounted it to a bookcase. I am having great fun with it.
Also in that room, I have a cardboard box with about five pounds of sweet potatoes, sitting on the floor, just in front of the small A/C window unit.
Next to the can crusher, I have my nice 5 cubic feet chest type freezer.
(I just looked at Walmart dot com, and it said they have sold 1,000 of one model of 7 cubic feet chest type freezer, within the last 48 hours.)
In my 5 cubic feet freezer, I have:
1 large Honeysuckle White Frozen Young Turkey
1 2lb cheese block, similar to Velveeta
2 15oz tubs of Country Crock 38% vegetable oil spread
8 9.6oz packages of Smart & Simple Sandwich Slices
9 1lb packages of Imperial 50% vegetable oil spread
In my kitchen freezer above the fridge, I have:
23 small patties of turkey sausage
1 bag of shredded cabbage
1 small bag of frozen minestrone soup
1 tub of ice cream
12 patties of ground beef
3 small frozen pizzas
2 large bags of apple slices
2 boxes of Kroger Unroll and Bake pie crusts
1 bag of peas
2 small bags of carrots
2 large bags of corn
3 large bags of baby spinach
2 bags of cauliflower
1 very small bag of okra
1 very small bag of homegrown habanero peppers
In my fridge:
chicken soup
minestrone stew
cheese and olives, swimming in oil (charcuterie treats I got free)
whole vitamin D milk
a quart and a pint of healthy fruit and veggie smoothie
2 tubs of free yogurt
2 tubs of Country Crock Spread
1 pound of Imperial Spread
a dozen eggs, from my in-laws’ back yard hens
Hershey Kisses
4 small bags of bacon bits
bread
Another 2lb cheese block, similar to Velveeta
Hershey Chocolate Syrup
grape jelly
strawberry spread
ranch dressing
BBQ sauce
Worcestershire sauce
Vlasic sweet relish
2 giant zucchinis
In the drawer at the bottom of the fridge:
6 banana sized zucchinis
7 red delicious apples
2.5 pounds of mini sweet peppers
7 small homegrown tomatoes
All that fridge food, especially the apples and veggies, those are the top priority, to be cooked soon.
Seems to me.
I can put some apples in my next batch of smoothie.
The sweet peppers can go in a batch of stew.
I may not get the zucchinis consumed fast enough.
We will see.
On the kitchen counter:
farina (cream of wheat)
quick oats
graham cracker crumbs
cranberry sauce
6 cans of tuna
apple cider vinegar
2 bottles Italian dressing, expired
2 bottles ranch dressing, expired
1 quart paper carton of tomato soup
vegetable oil
In my upper cabinets:
Lipton dry soup
3 jars of sweet relish
1 bottle mustard
cinnamon
nutmeg
turmeric
more farina
lots of Swiss Miss hot cocoa powder
Gatorade powder
In the lower cabinets: many pounds of:
rice
beans
pasta
Aside from all that, I have 33 small bankers boxes in the front room, behind my bed, sitting in bookcases, and they all have food:
canned food
dry beans and rice and pasta in Mason jars
bags of potato flakes
boxes of mac n cheese
canned meats
One small bankers box has nothing but canned chicken.
Another small bankers box has the following:
tuna (lots of tuna)
Vienna Sausage
chili, no beans
7 24oz cans of fully cooked ground pork
5 24oz cans of fully cooked beef
I truly like those big cans of pork and beef. I have not eaten any of that lately, but they have lots of fat, and I always make sure that nearly every bite of food I eat is loaded with fat. That way, I am full after just a few bites, and the fat turns into energy slowly, as I need it, unlike carbs.
Each of those 24oz cans has:
96 grams of fat
120 grams of protein
So, I could open one can, and make a nice batch of stew, with some veggies.
Well, I hope I did not bore you with all that prepper stash of food.
Take care of yourselves, and each other.
And try to eat your older fridge food sooner, and your other food later.
Hugs!
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