Cleaning the clutter: Food

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Today's daily dose: Cleaning the Clutter: Food
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Unless your diet is perfect and you are the ideal weight for your height and shape, then you may want to have a look at the food stuffs you have sitting in your cupboards and pantries. Believe it or not, these are places that say everything about the kind of life you are leading right now.

If someone were to come into your home and offer to cook dinner using on the ingredients they found - what would they be able to make?

Would it be healthy and nutritious? Or processed and re-heated?

My next question relates to the first point I made when starting this piece - are you the perfect height for your weight? Or do you need to grow another six inches?

So lets look at the food you bought.

Is it processed beyond food recognition?
Did you buy it and not eat it?
Did you buy it to try it - and never got around to finishing it off? If it's looking like a weird science experiment - I'd be thinking about throwing that away right now. Do you want to finish it off (assuming no fur !!) then before you buy anything new, go through your cupboards and bring to the front - everything that has been stuck at the back.... and use it....or pack it into large cardboard boxes and take it to your local shelter where they can make use of all the unopened and still in date foods you no longer want.

Get out the cookbooks if necessary and start to use some of the "stuff" in your cupboards. If you don't like it - throw it away - and ask yourself - WHY did you buy it in the first place?

We can all benefit from this particular cleaning session. I complete this process once every couple of months - well with 2 children it can be easy to be swayed by popular opinion as to what they would like for dinner. As a consequence I can cut my shopping bill down quite a bit.

With many thoughts
Elle