Pam showed you hers, now we’ll show you ours. Pantry that is. But seriously. How great is Pam? She is an inspiration every dang day we come into work and her blog, A Year of Inconvenience, makes us aspire to be better people once we get home (one of these days.) There’s a lot of admiration going on (sorry if it makes you gag) and it’s completely earnest, we’re big fans of our GM and how she rolls.

It made us feel relieved and well, kinda righteous to read that many of her inconvenient pantry staples we tucked into our pantries too, including beans which we also hate cooking (mostly because it requires forethought and an extra pan to wash.) We are not going to admit how long some of those suckers have been jarred up next to their canned bean buddies. It might be time to drag the pressure cooker out of the basement and have a bean bonanza. Just writing that makes us feel lame – for having stored beans so long, not having a bean party, that part sounds hilarious.

Our pantries also diverge from hers at semolina flour. Don’t get us wrong, we love fresh pasta, we even love making fresh pasta with our kids – it’s just well, inconvenient and isn’t something we have on hand to make it through the week. Bagged and boxed pasta is the best we can do and we’re pretty grateful that it was invented.

But you’re not reading this to find out how righteous our pantries are, no, no one peeks into someone else’s pantry to be amazed – you want to know our dirty little secrets, don’t cha? What’s behind the big jar of brown rice? Why, in the name of everything organic, is there a bag of sticky marshmallows on the top shelf? And really, how old is that jar of black beans? Judge away, friends. Diana volunteered to go first:

Diana’s Pantry Must-Haves