So far so good!
Someone brought me store bought bread yesterday, and food freely given by people who don't know what I am up to is inside the "ok" category per the rules I set up. Anyone trying to give me stuff through pity or sabotage...that is outside the "ok" category.
So I ate some. I hadn't had industrially processed carbs since an xmas dinner before xmas. Turns out...I do not digest them nearly as well as whole grains well cooked/soaked. Good to know. Also, the bread was not particularly delicious, threw my sodium intake off, and I look like a puff ball today. Totally not worth it. I will try a little of the long ferment sourdough I can get at a local farmers market, but I think store bread type products are just not doing it. I have the no-sodium baking powder and baking soda as well as yeast and the whole wheat, plain flour and keto-ish breads I've made with those, even with additional wheat gluten for texture, have been fine with my guts. Again, excellent info. Store bread is BS for my GI. Like dairy...I might eat some breads now and then, but it will have to be worth it not crap.
Alright, as for the regular pantry challenge. There are 10days left after today and I am clearly not going to clean out the supplies. I will have protein (beans, lentils, duck meat, maybe tuna) left. Grains, probably the whole wheat flour, left. I won't get through the camelina seeds, the vinegar preserved berries, spices/herbs, coffee, tea, vinegar (still literal gallons), cocoa, possibly not the keto-flours, definitely not the vital wheat gluten. Plenty of gelatin (I use it as a protein supplement, egg replacement in some recipes, and to thicken things). Someone at work...and old lady...needed honey to make herbal medicines and casually said "do you have any honey?"...then STARED AT ME POINTEDLY. I couldn't lie and said yes. She stood there until I handed it over. So...I will be out of sweeteners other than stevia. Will need a bit of sugar to keep the kombucha mother going.
I will eat up the squash and I might go for the smoked duck this weekend. Also hitting a jar of that chicken broth. I think an egg drop soup made with that and some hot and sour spices and the dried veggies/mushrooms I have will be quite nice. I plan to get onions, garlic and carrots once off the pantry challenge though I have granulated onion and garlic which is fine and can still do sprouts for fresh veggies and have a few frozen carrot slices. I do want some fermented ginger carrots going again because they are delicious and keep their crunchy texture. That really improves soups made with dried veggie mix.
At thrift yesterday (was in town to re-up the building permit) and got a norpro spaetzle cutter for 94cents! It would have been a buck but I'm old and it was 10% off for the 55 and up crowd that day so whoohoo! I have a spaetzle shaker with a squeezy lid too, also from thrift, obviously.
Once I go back to stores, I might put semolina flour on the "if it is on super sale" list because I think that is the better flour for those noodles.
I could easily go a few more weeks or a month on what I have and it would not be an issue as far as nutrition or calories. NUTS. I had no idea I had that much food. Good to know.
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