Confession time.
My name is Nada, and I am a food hoarder.
It’s true. I constantly buy more of the same foods and squirrel them away in cupboards and drawers where they remain long-forgotten for months on end. I discovered this most unfortunate trait during my Living with less challenge last month.
Determined to lower my weekly grocery shopping bill, declutter my kitchen and use up any surplus pantry staples, I turned the contents of my cupboards inside out, and boy did I find some gems. Unopened packets of rice noodles and rice paper, wakame and kombu seaweed, whole flaxseeds, freekeh, TVP chunks, chickpea flour and bag upon bag of dried legumes. Split peas, black-eyed peas, adzuki beans and a plethora of lentils in all their varieties – I’m fairly certain I could’ve given the bulk bins at my favourite supermarket a run for their money with the stock I had accumulated.
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