audreyh1
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Oops - just made a cross town visit to the new Sprouts store!!!
I start my shopping at Aldi's, and they require a quarter to get a shopping cart. Trouble is I never carry one cent of cash, and someone in our family keeps taking my quarter out of the cup holders in my cars.
My trick to minimize food purchases is just buy what you can carry. Use no shopping cart. Just shop for a specific item--not looking at everything in the store.
We have 1 deep freeze, 3 fridges, a pantry, a cellar storage area, a 1400 bottle wine cellar, a home generator, and plenty of bullets.
We are not alarmists or wear tin foil hats, and it just worked out that way.
DW and I bought a deep freezer when we first got married, we have always bought a annual Black Angus beef from the same farmer, and occasional hog. I have mentioned in other threads that I have been making my own bacon, hams and sausage.
When dear MIL passed, we inherited her International Harvester fridge from the '40's.
It still keeps things ice cold and I used it for wine making and it keeps my beer kegs cold. My 3rd fridge came when my mother got tired of her old fridge and decided to get a new one. I also use it for wine making, when you have 500# of wine grapes from halfway around the world, you gotta keep 'em cold while you process them.
The wine cellar speaks for itself, when you make a 30 gallon barrel of wine, you gotta find a place for the bottles when it's ready.
A few years back, we lost power for over a week during the winter. We ate out of the little freezer in the fridge so we didn't have to open the deep freeze. We kept warm by the gas logs, cooked on the gas stove and grill. A few years back in August, dear MIL lost power for over a week from down South and she stayed with us. She was in her late '80's. Later, we moved her up here, and the generator was needed to insure her comfort.
Bullets are always cheaper in bulk, and to be a good shot, you have to practice. 100 rounds doesn't last long, between DW and I.
I will agree with you, it was very hard to pass up pork loins this week at $1.66/lb, but we already had 3 in the freezer.
Wow, sounds like you are running quite an operation up there in grapetown...
I love this forum - it always brings to light issues I didn't even realize I had".
I too am a bit of a food hoarder and will take this as a nudge to "work on" my freezer. Part of the problem is my DS who seems to switch tastes on a whim. He'll, for example, consume pizza pockets as if they are going out of style so he always runs out. Then, I stock up, and then they really do go out of style in his mind.. and I have to cajole him into using them them up anyway
But the other part of it is that I'm a bit of a pack rat who has trouble passing up a good sale.
Way tool regimented a life for me. I have no desire to know what I'm having for dinner beyond tomorrow.I plan meals in advance and shop based on that. It's a lot of food, but very little is bought on impulse. We shop biweekly at the box store,
I'm clearly not a survivalist. This thread freaks me out. Bye.
I'm clearly not a survivalist. This thread freaks me out. Bye.
Just an observation I want to throw in since it is similar to this thread...
Have any of you seen those coupon queens who can buy $1000 worth of stuff for nothing or a few dollars The few shows I watched they were showing their stash... we are talking about a BIG stash... like hundreds of bottles of washing detergent or similar... to me that has to be a life time of laundry detergent... and they are using their house etc. to store all that.... just nuts!!!