And then I cleaned out my pantry...

So as of Thursday our house is officially on the market.

Sigh.

Mixed feelings. 

Of course that meant that every nook and cranny needed to be clean. 

Another sigh.

The dreaded pantry...

But hey!

What about this blog title?

"And then I cleaned out my pantry"

Thrilling, huh?

You're just itching to hear more right?

I've talked about my pantry issues before so I thought I'd share a bit of the madness.

So, lets just see what I found when I finally cleaned the pantry:

Yep.

You counted right.

That's twelve boxes of spaghetti.

And I don't coupon. 

I just ended up with that many via poor planning. 

And then there are the sauces...

I had to put newspaper down because the soy sauce had...

...well it had abandoned ship. 

Turned over and spilled everywhere.

And then there were the spices.

A good many of them went to live in the garbage can. 

So many duplicates.

It was all terribly tragic.

We did have one score though!

I love this stuff.

Yes, it was technically expired but I consider expirations as more of...

...suggestions.

Unless I'm cooking for company and then it's the straight and narrow all the way!

You can be confident of it. 

Speaking of confidence...

My oldest...

Sadly, sometimes not so confident.

Except in one place:

The woods.

Why?

You would think they would be scary.

But no.

Put the kid in the woods and suddenly he is a man among boys.

Now if we could just import the woods to my backyard...

I'll probably figure out how to do that at about the same time I figure out how to keep my pantry clean. 

It could happen!

I'm confident of it.