A New Container

Today was an exciting day in my household.  My husband finished off a 40 oz. Jif peanut butter container.  So now I have another one to add to my collection and store beans.  I delightfully washed the #2 PETE plastic container and Goo Gone’d the label off and poured 2 lbs (actually 1 lb. 15 oz.) of lentils into it.   A 40 ounce peanut butter jar typically store 2 pounds of beans.  Therefore we need 30 of these containers for each person in my family to have 60 lbs of beans per person.  Our family finishes off a 40 oz. jar in approximately 3 weeks which means we collect containers at a rate of 17 per year.  Hmmm…that means it would take us about 14 years to complete our collection.  I may have to enlist the help of friends or eat more peanut butter.