Raiding the freezer and pantry......

Since I've run out of money from being unemployed for so long, now is an ideal opportunity for me to start going through and eating the food I have in the freezer and the pantry.

The rule of thumb I've always followed was to have enough canned goods in my house to last a week if I was snowed in or couldn't leave the house. That may be practical in snow-prone areas like Buffalo or Cleveland, but is it practical here in Dayton?

Also, some of the canned goods were bought on 12/31/99, a day before the Y2K "bug" was supposed to hit. (I know because I marked the date on the cans.) The plan was that I'd either eat out of the cans, or heat the contents on the propane grill or use Sterno (aka "Napalm in a can"). I was fully prepared to go into camping/survival mode if we didn't have electricity on 1/1/00.

I've also taken inventory of what I have, and entered the data into Excel spreadsheets. (For the past couple of years, I've only tracked the month and year of the purchase date of canned goods.)

( Here's what I'm discovering: )

Ultimately, I hope to have more room in the freezer and pantry for more goods. But I don't plan to overload it like I've been doing.