Bullshit in My
Pantry That My
Mother Hoards:
Part 1
By: Kristen Zeimetz
My mother likes to tell anyone that will listen that we have “no food in the house”. This is a bold face lie. In fact, there are many things we have far too much off. Here are a few.
Pasta Sauce
Although we eat pasta once a week because we are Italian, a lot of the variations are cheesy, butter base, not all of a tomato variety. You wouldn’t know this by glancing in my pantry because my mother decided we needed 6 jars of Ragu at some point. I’ll give her credit that they were probably on sale, however, it’s far too much. We end up not using an entire jar, freezing some, and then later down the line, I am blindly opening tupperware trying to figure out what to do with all this damn leftover sauce. For some reason we like to freeze it, but refuse to use said frozen sauce, and continually buy more. Ugh. The sauce itself is okay, but enough is enough. C
Storage Bags
My mother seems to think every shopping trip we need Ziploc storage bags. She never actually looks at what we have on hand. She just KNOWS we “are low” (SPOILER: We are not). There are about 8-9 boxes in various sizes in my pantry at the moment, jumbled all over the place. Some are good ones I can reuse, some are crap. I’m tired of looking at them. Product themselves is a must, but enough is enough. D
Granola Bars
These are another one of those items that we “need” every week, but no one is actually them. That’s not entirely true, my daughter and I will MAYBE eat one or two, which sends my mother in a frenzy that “all her granola bars are gone!”, and she’ll still proceed to buy 3 more boxes. Currently there are only 3 boxes in the pantry, so it could be far worse/ Product itself is so-so. I’ll eat it if it’s offered to me. B-
Generic Top Ramen
Ok, this is actually an item I can’t blame on my mother because it was myself that stockpiled 48 packages of this generic chicken Ramen. They were reduced for quick sale at my local grocery store for 99 cents for 12, so I would be crazy NOT to buy them, since I am poor now. I will say that the name brand of these noodles are far better, but for that price, I give them a solid A.
