With my wife and daughters traveling, I’ve decided not to go grocery shopping this week– instead focusing on eating only food and ingredients we have in the pantry, fridge, or freezer. Everyday, I get to surprise myself.
Thawing chicken wings for tomorrow. Dumplings for lunch. Steak , soba and salad for a few days.
It would have been easier to go shopping, to add to our pantry and fridge, but the satisfaction of putting a meal together based on subtraction , imagination and domestic foraging is too delightful. Also , surprising.
Imagine if people would just do this when stuck in life. Instead of adding on, take deep inventory of your own inner resources, then make something with what you already have. You’re bigger than you want to know, and that’s the problem in a nutshell: people don’t want to know–and are too scared to know– because knowing is responsibility.