Pantry PILE-UP

Really Michele? You broke the container code? Shhh now... keep that to your shelf!

After years of summer barbecues and winter dinners at each other’s houses, I have finally come to understand that nobody actually owns these plastic food containers we all have. There is just a pool of them that exists in the universe and, from time to time, various ones will come to visit our kitchen and then move on.

I took a proper look at the shelf-full of food storage boxes in my pantry recently and realised with shocking clarity that I didn’t actually buy any of them. Not only this, but the ones that I have bought aren’t here.

We haven’t talked about this before, but we all know how this works. I take my homemade salsa round to yours and we don’t quite fi nish it that night, and it feels rude to take it home again, and no-one can be bothered tipping salsa out of one container into another probably identical container at leaving time, so the whole shebang belongs to you now.