Cycling

[stoutfellow]

I like all three of the Chex cereals. (Corn, Rice, Wheat: I refuse to acknowledge any others.) I like Wheat Chex rather more than the other two, but I don't want to lose my appreciation for it by eating it too often.

Likewise, I like to keep cheese around for my sandwiches. I particularly like Gouda, Swiss, and Vermont cheddar (and asiago, but SnS doesn't sell it in sliced form any more), but again - and I think the problem is even more serious for cheese - I don't want to grow jaded on any of them, so I also buy half a dozen other kinds. (I like the other kinds too, just not quite as much.)

I solve this problem by alphabetical rotation. I just finished a package of Gouda, so today I bought some Havarti; when that's done, I'll move on to Lorraine. Likewise, I cycle through the Chex cereals alphabetically. (During my recuperation, I violated this; Wheat Chex has lots of iron, so I bought that at every opportunity. But I've gone back on rotation now - Corn Chex today....)

Does anyone else do this, or anything like it? Does this strike anyone as weird? (When I mentioned this to W, he expressed surprise that I could always remember which cheese I'd most recently bought, but it's probably easier for us singles than for a family man like him.)

Comments

[mmegaera]

I'm not quite that organized about it, but I do rotate some things. For instance, I make three kinds of muffins for breakfast (banana, pumpkin, and apple), and I tend to rotate them.

I think it's a single-person thing, though.