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Don’t you sometimes feel as though food is running out of your ears, yet every time you turn around, you’re at the grocery store? With grocery prices so high, we probably all need to spend a little more time eating what we already have.

Every few months I do a Kitchen Sweep. That means I won’t buy any groceries, except for milk, juice and bread, until we pretty much eat everything in the pantry, frig and freezer.

Sounds good? My family absolutely hates this! I mean, they really hate it, particularly my teenage son. They don’t even like my weekly (usually) clean-out-the-refrigerator/just think-of-it-as-a-buffet night. 

Still, I persist. I always say we could eat for three months with what’s in the house. It just might not be everybody’s favorite every night. When we do the Kitchen Sweep, we certainly do eat some odd combinations. And, through the years, the kids have taken some unusual lunches to school. I’m sure they’ve opened that paper sack and complained loudly about their mother. But the Kitchen Sweep gets the job done.

Any war stories out there?

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