yesterday's food culls from work: pasta and sauce!

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The grocery department at work is resetting the pasta area in the store and discontinuing some brands, so those items (in addition to some packages that were close to their sell-by date) were placed in the donations area for the employees to take home. I brought home 2 boxes of pappardelle pasta, 2 boxes of lasagna noodles, one package of whole wheat orzo, 2 boxes of farfalline (tiny butterfly pasta that I mostly just use in soup), one package of bucatini, 2 smallish jars of tomato basil pasta sauce, one jar of marinara, and a jar of roasted garlic marinara. Also, not shown in the photo are the 2 packages of prosciutto and 2 blocks of Tillamook extra-sharp cheddar that I got from the refrigerated culls area. It's funny, just the previous day I was looking through my pantry and saying that I needed to get more pasta soon -- and the universe heard me! I wasn't at all surprised to see several boxes of chickpea pasta in the culls area. Remember the food shortages last year at the beginning of the lockdowns? Our pasta shelves were pretty empty -- except for the chickpea pasta. Nobody wanted those, not even during a pandemic. I didn't even take any to try for free! Do you find these sorts of posts interesting? Should I keep posting about what I didn't have to buy? Let me know.