The tall cupboard I use as a larder needs a good sort out and I am working on it shelf by shelf. This time though, rather than just clearing a shelf, cleaning everything including the shelf, and putting it all back tidily, I am really thinking about what I store there and what is just wasting space.
I have decided to keep dried lentils of various kinds as I use those regularly in my cooking. But other pulses I will just have a couple of tins of to use as and when. I have loads of dried chickpeas, and quite a few aduki beans and mung beans. I am soaking a couple of handfuls each weekend to have with a rice dish I usually use green lentils for. It'll take me most of this year to get through them all!
I also have some dried maize I made popcorn with once. I am soaking a couple of handfuls that to see if it will soak up the liquid. If so, I'll add it to my rice dishes. If not, the wormery will have them all.
I also have a unopened pack of gram flour which I can't remember what I bought it for. Can't think what to use that for so am trying to convince myself that would be better off in the wormery!
I am not too fussy about use by dates on tins but the tin of pineapple rings was ready to blow. I was presumably given this as I don't like pineapple. I opened it, drained the juice into the garden and put the can into the recycling. The "use by" date was June 1996!
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