Something's rotten in Denmark

Or should I say, in my kitchen!  It seems like there is always something unrecognizable in my refrigerator.  Something that is fuzzy or blue, or something that was crunchy turned to mush, or something that was liquid and turned to solid (milk).  Isn't chemistry amazing?!!

The point of the matter is that as food rots, hard earned money gets wasted. 

I am a great advocate of buying perishable food in quantities that can be utilized before the rotting stage sets in.  My husband, however, loves a bargain... and when they are selling bananas for 39 cents a pound, you can be sure we will have 10 lbs of bananas on the kitchen counter.  I have tried to explain to him that if we buy more food than we can reasonably consume before it rots, and we have to throw half of it out, then we are not getting a bargain at all!!!  Please, do the math!

The benefit of having an over zealous bargain hunter in the house is that I can virtually shop in our basement... for canned goods, toiletries, and other non perishables.  I'm convinced that we can survive Armageddon with the stock piles that we have!

  I have been given all kinds of advice as to how to use spoiled food, and most of those ideas involve BAKING... Jenny Craig here I come!
Banana cream pie anyone?

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