I haven't done very much food shopping in the last two months. And that's not very good. That doesn't mean I'm not eating -- there's plenty to eat. But none of it is very straightforward food -- I'm trying to deplete the stockpile of canned, frozen and dry-packaged items. We've got years worth of the stuff, and I'm finally clearing some shelves. But getting there has not always been easy.

I really have to start marking canned foods, with at least the year of purchase. Same with frozen food -- I've eaten some chicken in the last few weeks that tasted like refrigerator mildew.

And I'm running out of rice already.