You know I recommend doing frequent grocery shopping fasts during which you don’t buy any new groceries and simply use up everything you have on hand.  This is called using up the pantry or the pantry challenge, and if you haven’t done it before, it’s about time you started! We’ve vowed to use up the last of our pantry stockpile to start off the new year (which I’ll admit is pretty meager at this point) before we buy any new groceries.  The exceptions to this off-limits grocery shopping are milk, baby food, baby formula, and diapers. Most of the time we only do a pantry challenge for about 2 weeks,…