So yesterday I hinted about what I would be talking about today in my Tackle it Tuesday post.
I posted a picture of our pantry.. here is another one (shows the upper shelf also)
With all this food I was having a hard time figuring out what we use and how often we use it. So I started dating the cans/bottles/boxes when I purchased them. For example:
So.... even though they have a use by (or best by) date on them I know when I bought them. For instance I just used a can of corn from 1/07 - means I know we are not using as much corn as I thought we would - we try to keep at least 3 months worth of food on hand and our goal is more like a year.
Having the dates on them helps me see if I need to buy more.. take for instance the canned fruit cocktail - the one I opened the other day was dated 4/08 - I know that we need to keep a bigger stock of that on hand.
When I use something that has a recent date (with in the last year) it goes on the grocery list for the next time it is on sale - so I can restock what we have used. If it is dated longer ago than a year then I generally leave it off the list until we are getting low on it (2-3 cans left) - unless of course we just are not using that product any longer!
Okay... enough of that. It works for us. See what works for others at Rocks in My Dryer.
1 comment:
that's a great idea. i just recently started stock piling and am already seeing that some of the food that i purchase isn't getting used much.
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