There are various types of food items in the pantry
- Treat foods - favourites such as chips, sweets (lollies, candies), chocolate.
- half used foods - Rice, pasta, cereal packets, biscuit.
- Expired foods - cans of food, packaged foods, long life milk.
Some leave a mess as they spill out into the pantry and congeal around others and hold them into place.
Others gain dents, rust and bulges. It all depends on how long they've been there.
- Treats represent our favourite bile text and favourite faith characters we like to keep on hand.
- Half used foods represent our mentors and parents who direct our interest and sometimes our behaviour and values. We sometimes use and then ignore or turn away from.
- Expired foods represent the devotional books that lie on the shelf and never been read, Herb Larsen's plan for revival we planned to do and didn't, conference we went to and gained ideas for a better life and didn't follow through with.
I think you start to get the picture of what each one represents. Yes we have quite and lot of work to do to clean up the pantry.
Then when you do sometimes there are surprises that you find in the pantry if you haven't cleaned it for
awhile. Do you find candles, forgotten treats, maybe medication or just maybe the kids put something in there to keep for later.
My friend told me she once found christmas decorations at the back of the pantry that someone who stayed at their house had left behind.
When we have friends come to stay they bring foods to share. This also to add to our collection in the pantry if not consumed while there.
I'm sure you could add much more to this thought so please don't let this one expire. It needs to carried and shared beyond this webpage.
