Use It or Move It

We are moving in two days, and so once again are faced with that immortal dilemma, use it or move it.  This applies to many things in our house, but mostly to food.  Rather than buy any new food this week, we are attempting to somehow use the more bizarre items on hand, in hopes that we will not have to schlep them to the new house.

The sheer amount of weird or old food is surprising.  We have only been living in this apartment since October!  How can we have already amassed such a massive supply of food that we would never normally eat.  We have at least four different kinds of meat in the freezer, waiting to be defrosted.  We have cans and cans of stuff that doesn’t seem to go with any of our other stuff, but on moving week, you make it work.  How does one combine ground beef, a can of pineapple, white chocolate chips, three kinds of mustards, and half a block of cheddar cheese?  I don’t know, but it sounds like a Top Chef challenge of some sort.  Any ideas out there?

And it’s not just food.  If we time it right, we can use our last trash bags to pack up some errant clothing and thus not have to pack the box of trash bags themselves!  Anything that we can use up in the next two days is one more thing that we don’t have to move!  If I can just have three more headaches, we don’t have to pack the Tylenol!

Writing it all out like this, it seems a little silly, but believe me, it makes total sense.  We are not made of boxes here people.  Faced with limited packing supplies and a small trailer with which to move, every little bit helps, so if you need me, I’ll be in the kitchen, packing up dishes and eating a peanut butter and tuna fish sandwich.