Treasure Beyond Measure

Since all the kids have been sleeping through the night, and since it has been snowing and the neighbors have been keeping their (evil) dog inside, I have nothing exciting to blog about. I thought about taking pictures of the snow and blogging about it but I am pretending it never really happened.

Can you tell what this is a picture of? I found it in my storage room.

Yep, it is a lonely, stray potato that had fallen out of the bag and gotten all shrively. I actually found it because I noticed a funky smell and lo and behold, there it was.

Here are a few other priceless treasures I found in there when I was cleaning:

This hot sauce is dedicated to my friend Kate. Not because she's saucy, but because she lives in Louisiana. I inherited this hot sauce from my parents a couple of years ago when they downsized their food storage. They gave me a bunch of random things. It has only been expired for 4 1/2 years.

Wow, 3 for $1! I guess back in 2000 when this was made you could still get hot sauce for only $.33. Darn inflation.

Here's another treasure. It's a container of Gerber baby raviolis or something. It was in my 72 hour kit. I bought it when Ian was eating baby food. I am sure it looks and tastes the same as it did when it was first made: disgusting. My kids never would eat that stuff.

This is perhaps the scariest food(ish)-product known to man. Barely beating out cheese in a can (and only because the turkey is "mechanically separated", whatever the heck THAT means). These meat sticks (along with their relatives Vienna Sausages) just make me wanna barf. They weren't expired yet, so I gave them to my kids. Bleck.

Here's another thing I inherited. This time from my sister-in-law. I really can't remember why she was giving away Malt-O-Meal. Maybe she just had a surplus of it. The moral of this story is: When people give you stuff you wouldn't normally buy for yourself, just throw it away from the get-go and you won't have to hold on to it for 7 years. Or better yet, just tell them you don't want it.

And last of all, I found a couple of bags of bulk stuff that I bought at the health store a long time ago. Some millet and some mung beans. I decided to put them in some jars and sprout them just for kicks. I'll have to come back with the sprout update later.