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[sam_gamgee]

I've decided that in my effort to eat better, lose weight, etc., I need to finish what I started months ago and really go through the kitchen and use up what we have and start getting fresh blood in (so to speak) in the way of food.

As it stands now, I'm hesitant to cook because I want to use up what we have first, but I don't know what we have. And I don't think my dad knows what we have - which is why he almost always make the same stuff. (Plus, he has a tendency to buy stuff because he figures we can use it "at some point", and then we never do because it's not something we use on a regular basis - hence the absurd number of cans of peas, when we don't use canned peas to begin with.)

And I figure that if I clean things out and know exactly what we have, then I'll be more inclined to buy things on a regular basis to cook and eat better.

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[sam-gamgee.livejournal.com]

And I agree too. :-) And as I told her, I'm also looking at it as a positive, since it's making me go, "So, what can I do with this?" and I'm finding new recipies and dishes and the like, since my parents have, like, three or four things that they just rotate between. When I asked my dad about the peas, he was like, "I thought we could make vegetable soup with them." which made me laugh, because no one in my house has made vegetable soup in my house since my brother and I were little. :-P (Hmmm... peas, chicken broth, crockpot, might have to set up a meeting. :-P)