As The Workhouse Approaches....How To Do Everything To Avoid It, the Old Style Way

BitterAndTwisted · 7 June 2011 at 12:21PM

I replenish stores as they are used. To my mind there's not much point in having a store-cupboard if you run all the stocks down all the time. But that's dependent on the time of year and what specials are on offer. I'm constantly thinking about winter-time and bad weather causing disruption to food supplies. At the moment I'm building what stocks I can in things like pasta and dried pulses as I don't have a (properly working) freezer. If I had, I'd be buying up seasonal veggies and freezing those while prices are more reasonable.

If the harvest-forecast is accurate wheat and grain prices are going to go through the roof in the autumn so I'm buying the cheapest pasta and flour I can get my hands on while I can.

floss2 · 7 June 2011 at 12:36PM

freudianslip wrote: »

There's a head teacher I knew who fought so hard to get a wind turbine in his school, when it was proposed that there would be turbines where he lived he opposed the plans wholeheartedly. I lost respect for him from that day on. It didn't sit right with me and I certainly didn't understand it.

He was probably budget-holding, so a wind turbine would cut his school's bills, but he wouldn't have to look at it from his lounge window!

Re stocking up, I feel that sometimes we personally have too much "money" sitting in our cupboards in stored foodstuffs so I tend to have one packet open and another unopen of most daily staples - cereals, pasta, rice, couscous, polenta, flours, oil etc. other things will get replaced when there is one serving / use left in them. Then I feel more comfortable with my bank balance and my stocks!

saveabobortwo · 7 June 2011 at 12:36PM

put new stock in a cupboard etc and use as required but not stop NOW looking for absolute bargains to stock up on with grocery money that i have each week and im doing this untill /if prices calm down and increase at a slower/rate. but don t hold out much hope of that as there seems to many problems with food production etc etc. basicly buy in as much as possible for the money eat up everything and avoid waste .

alec_eiffel · 7 June 2011 at 12:45PM

floss2 wrote: »

He was probably budget-holding, so a wind turbine would cut his school's bills, but he wouldn't have to look at it from his lounge window!

Re stocking up, I feel that sometimes we personally have too much "money" sitting in our cupboards in stored foodstuffs so I tend to have one packet open and another unopen of most daily staples - cereals, pasta, rice, couscous, polenta, flours, oil etc. other things will get replaced when there is one serving / use left in them. Then I feel more comfortable with my bank balance and my stocks!

I agree with you. The things I stock up on are usually things I buy from shops I don't visit very often and have to make a special trip (when they have the item on special offer). Most other things I do the same as you have one open and one or two in storage, when I open a new one I buy a replacement. Same with things like tinned tomatoes and dried things, I bought quite a lot of when I got an online order and now just replace them as and when we eat them.

I tend to keep in enough food so we can make meals of some kind for about 6 weeks - we went without any money coming in for 2 months when DH changed jobs so having enough in to make some odd but filling combos was useful.

LittleBrownFrog · 7 June 2011 at 12:47PM

We're running down our stores at the moment, because we're moving, but generally...
everyday food, the things that I use constantly, is rotated and replenished, so levels are pretty constant.
'emergency food', tinned stuff, extra flour, dried milk etc- this is the power cut/snowed in/can't shop for whatever reason type stuff, just gets reviewed every six months or so, then i'll use up anything nearing the expiry date & replace it.

Uniscots97 · 7 June 2011 at 12:53PM

After checking my cupboard, there's a tin of cherries lurking at the back that are 3 years out of date. I don't think I'll risk it.......

saveabobortwo · 7 June 2011 at 12:57PM

people describe here untill recently now im thinking about storing a little bit more of the basic items ie so there is always a tin of rice pudding no matter what and the reason im doing this is because i cannot afford alot of the prices in the supermarkets Now. SO HOW WILL I MANAGE if they go up any more. im trying to attempt beating inflation by purchasing the cheapest products available and having a good stock. if prices drop all well and good but what if they dont?

bargainhunterss · 7 June 2011 at 1:11PM

I tend not really to stockpile, but if I se something on special offer, which I know wont last long then I tend to buy a couple. Maybe I should buy more and start a stockpile! :S