Throwing all the ingredients in my fridge and freezer, I came to know that I am doing groan shopping wrong
After 10 days compulsory withdrawal due to Los Angeles’ Eaton Fire, and an additional two weeks abroad on pre -planned holiday, I am finally home. A lot of things now look different. For the beginning, the house smelled like chemicals from all burnt plastic and electronics in the air, and each surface was coated with a good layer of ash. The sink had three weeks of dirty dishes, a vision (and smell) I would not wish anyone. And, since there was no power for more than a week, almost everything had to be disposed of in my refrigerator and freezer.
I am speculating that most people, until they move much further, rarely or sometimes do not empty their fridge or their freezer. Certainly, there are times when you eventually toss that freezer-burn chicken breast or frozen strawberry bag when you thought you make smoothie every day. Otherwise, the freezer is usually a treasure of goodies for future food. My freezer was so high that I often struggled to close the door.
The irony is that, I told some colleagues that my new year resolution was to be received through all the goods in my freezer. And now, in a twist of events, I have completed my resolve. Having a completely empty fridge and freezer has revealed a lot of complex feelings. At the forefront is a feeling of gratitude: apart from our scorched front bushes and a tree was dropped during the wind, the food was the only major loss that we experienced.
But as I was emptying my freezer, I realized that I like excessive stockpile items, especially those things I love and can’t easily access, which is never physical . My favorite sour Thai sausage that requires a drive in la, ended in garbage because I had never really cooked them. Passionfruit juice that I had collected from my mother’s bountiful passfruit harvest, was also left last year because I could not decide to drink it, use it for a spicy, or for smooth bowls Keep Even there were beautiful bone-in ribe stakes I bought for thanksgiving, before I opted to make a prime rib.
I hardly feel that I am the only person who does this, but in fact my fridge and freezer imagine the amount of food stored by me, and how much to be thrown out of it, I realized how much I realized There is a need to pay more attention. It comes not only for grocery purchases, but also utility. I am not sure why I need stockpile; Perhaps this is the result of anxiety, or the deceitful effect of growing up in an immigrant house with a grandmother, which experienced extreme food insecurity. Regardless, it sounds like an unhealthy way to see food – that some things can only be enjoyed in rare, sacred increment. I was barely immersed in a tricky-infused mustard or lavender and apricot jam, which I bought in Paris in the last summer. But if I have already earned my hard work on these things, then the items that will end legitimately (even in a freezer), then whom does this scattering mentality help?
As I slowly start filling my fridge and freezer, I ask myself when and how I will use a component before buying it. I usually cook food based on vibes instead of any real preapping, I fill my equipment with materials that I will eventually use: chicken thighs, a large bottle of kevpi mayonnaise, a big bottle of meyonnaise, a misso paste Tub. Instead of buying materials to buy them, I want to contact my grocery purchasing with a clear meaning for shopping for my grocery – and in fact a game plan to find utility for what I buy. . In fact, I want to make a point of not overseasing my fridge or freezer. When I am trying to find a specific item for a recipe, it is annoying to reshuffle everything. And if I never see or use what leads the back of the fridge, then this chakra will continue.
If you also struggle to use the material because you are saving them for a rainy day, then give it to my message: Cook with your ingredients! Use the fancy Spice Blend, or the Mach you bought in Japan only draws on big occasions. Spread those special protection on a good slices of bread and bake those frozen cookie balls for yourself. Trust me, it is better to enjoy those things, even in temporary and brief moments of bliss, not to use them at all.
