[budgetmom]

Shortening for starters. I went to my local store a little while back while they were having a rare triple (up to 1$) coupon sale so I loaded up on lots of stuff, I ended up getting several of those small cans of Crisco for free. I got as many as I could, figuring they had a pretty good shelf life.

Baby food. DD has moved on to solids and absolutely won't touch the stuff any more. I have several days worth that my DH bought when on a really good sale. I don't particularly want to eat pureed turkey with gravy or the like. I wish they had recipies that I could blend it into or something. Seems like a waste of money sitting on the shelf. As is the baby cereal. When I got to thinking that DD was starting to want solids I started getting the oatmeal. That way we would at least be able to put some fruit in it and eat it. But I still have boxes of rice cereal and barley, I think. What else can you do with them? I've tasted the rice, I don't know how she survived! I guess if you never knew good food to start then it wouldn't be a problem. That's probably why she wont eat any of it now!

I also have a few bags of frozen berries that should probably be eaten up in the freezer. But that won't be too hard to use up. Maybe in pies, that would use up some of the shortening making the crusts.