09-03-2018, 10:49 PM
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Living alone, I shop once a week. I always make sure that I have sufficient in the freezer, a small one, to provide me with meals to last at least a couple of weeks. This has proved useful during the recent bad weather. I also make sure that I have a spare jar of coffee and tea bags. I make all of my food from scratch, so keep a stock of herbs and spices, pasta etc. I have homemade soups, stews and lasagne which I make and freeze.Apart from that I dont stockpile food and the only tinned goods I tend to have are tomatoes, tuna, a spare bottle of sauce mix.
09-03-2018, 11:23 PM
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I always have too much of this...... usually chai concentrate and soy milk -which if I did not have in the morning would stop the earth from rotating on its axis....
...and strangely, never enough of that.
There are always a few things like dishwasher detergent and ketchup that I cannot remember to save my neck.
On more than one occasion I have had to return to the market despite having been earlier, on a late night run (and disparaging myself most fiercely using a rich and varied vocabulary en route) for simply having run out of some critical item.
09-03-2018, 11:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Rehab44
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Spam, you can’t have enough spam..you will all thank me come the Zombie Apocalypse
09-03-2018, 11:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Adanac
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I admit to being squirrel like in my food buying habits. I need to always make sure I have more than enough and sometimes have to put stuff away other than the kitchen as there is no more room.Likely something to do with a poor childhood or just being a touch on the greedy side. Not sure which?
What about you?
There is a downside - on at least a couple of occasions fruit salad tins have rusted through from the inside and mucked up the back of my cupboard (it seems a problem confined to fruit salad!)
I had to clear out my chest freezer recently and discovered meat with an expiry date over half a decade ago not to mention some venison shot by my son in law a decade ago. Embarrassing or what?
10-03-2018, 12:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Bruce
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I tend to shop everyday but I am also a hoarder so if I see something on special I might buy it. God knows how many tins of baked beans, tuna and fruit salad I have in the cupboard or how many loaves in the freezer.There is a downside - on at least a couple of occasions fruit salad tins have rusted through from the inside and mucked up the back of my cupboard (it seems a problem confined to fruit salad!)
I had to clear out my chest freezer recently and discovered meat with an expiry date over half a decade ago not to mention some venison shot by my son in law a decade ago. Embarrassing or what?
10-03-2018, 12:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Bruce
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I buried it all.
You can't do that.
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