I was all set to buy more TP, thought I must have given away more than I thought... found a carton I'd packed because I didn't have room in the supply closet, unless I didn't want to store anything else... (I bought a caselot, a long while ago, before COVID.)
I had a disagreement with the janitorial supply company I used before, and wasn't looking forward to finding a new source and then finding room to store ? rolls of TP... fortunately, now I don't have to do either! I have 2 year old TP and it works just fine, thank you. There was enough in the box to keep us through winter, probably.
Going through all these boxes of stored stuff is sometimes VERY useful! How the TP wound up in the middle of a stack of book boxes is a mystery, but I'm grateful just the same. If I'd known I had these, I probably would have given them away, like I did many, during the worst of the shortages....
We deliberately ate down the pantry this past year after the shortages. Decided I'd rather have an empty pantry than go out and maybe get COVID, so I used up much of my backlog. I have a few dried beans and some pasta left, but that's it. The beans/pasta are getting used, some every week, and I intend to keep that up until they're gone, or all but...
Then I suppose I'll restock.
I will say my "spideysense" is tingling: it's fall and my pantry is nearly empty. This makes me frankly nervous. I thought I'd have it emptied it by now and refilled. I had more than I thought when I started this, and everything can't be served on a pasta, rice, or potato or it just gets old. Or, you can't have beans and rice or barley or... all the time or the same thing happens.
Tonght's dinner? Squash soup. I have 2 small and 1 butternut squash to use up. I'll be out of squash. I'll soak some beans for tomorrow night's dinner, whatever it is?
Last night we had sauteed peppers on pasta with pesto. Used up the end of the peppers from last week's farm haul and some pasta.
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