Are you a food hoarder?

bright_side

I ALWAYS buy extra when things are on offer - this week it's been mince cos it was on such a good offer. I have about 12 packs in the freezer Same with chicken breasts, I never buy them at full price, so always stock up when they're half price. My daughter recently moved out and I sent her on her way with (amongst other things) 40 tins of Branston beans that I'd stockpiled, as they are the only ones she eats. I'm now trying to train her to buy extra when things are on offer - but only things she would have to buy eventually anyway, otherwise it's not moneysaving! To me, it seems daft to pay full price for something in a fortnight, when you could get it half price now :T

sassyblue

bright_side wrote: »

I ALWAYS buy extra when things are on offer - tins of Branston beans that I'd stockpiled, as they are the only ones she eats.

meant to say l stock up when they're on offer, and we lovebranston beans too though my record is only 16 cans, lm still a lightweight :rotfl:

9 Toilet rolls are £2.55 in co-op at the moment, live managed to stockpile only 6 packs so far.....

bright_side

Slightly off topic, but after years 22 years of only buying Andrex loo roll, I've been converted to 6 rolls for 99p from the 99p shop The thicker ones kept blocking the toilet (guess it's getting old). I generally have at least 6 packs in the house, as don't get to go there that often.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

No, I wouldn't dream of hoarding food.

Partly because it feels like something my mother does (ten years out of date, strewn about the place, bought because it was on offer but never eaten as that would mean it wasn't there anymore - and might be needed someday :cool:) and partly because my OH would eat everything that wasn't nailed down as soon as he could.

Seriously, if I bought food for more than three days in advance, it would be gone by the next lunchtime. Sausages for dinner Friday? No chance, they've been opened, fried in half a pound of butter, covered in 6oz of cheese and stuck on a plate with eggs, all the bacon, all the mushrooms, all the tomatoes, all the beans by Tuesday morning. And usually what was on the plate was left half uneaten and what wouldn't fit on the plate was left on the side uncovered so the flies could eat it. If it got to the fridge by the miracle of my finding it in time, he'd then refuse to eat it for subsequent meals as he didn't fancy it anymore, going out for a kebab instead.


It took my actually deliberately spending every single penny I had on enough food for a fortnight and letting him eat it all for it to dawn on him he was being ridiculous. I watched as he went through a whole block of butter in 48 hours. A pound of cheese in 72, six eggs in 2, all the meat, ham, everything gone within 6 days.

The following 8 days saw him getting progressively more and more angry as the catering facilities produced more and more vegetables and grains. By the last day (following the previous night's paddy over the curry consisting of potatoes and peas and boiled rice rather than three chicken breasts, three separate vegetable sides, a jar of sauce, microwave rice, naan, chutney, bhajis and fruit juice) he was presented with a bowl of plain boiled pasta. and threatened with imminent death if he even thought about nicking the tuna going in the cat's bowl.



I don't know how I never murdered him.

cottonhead

I never have spare of any food or hosuehold product and Im forever running out of stuff. Wish I did think ahead but with food it wouldnt work - I would just eat it all !

pink_princess

It is legs of Lamb with me.

I love them but only buy them when they are half price, around £6-£7 a kilo. Problem is I end up buying 6 at a time.

That and tinned tomatoes, which seems be common on this thread.

saterkey

Yes I get rather a good feeling of satisfaction from looking in the cupboards and keeping them stocked, especially when things are on offer, for instance the last two weeks cathedral cheese extra mature has been 2.25 in tesco half the price as normal so normally get two or three each time to keep in the freezer, but we are only allowed to bring one out a week into the fridge.

Nicky toilet rolls (i think thats the name) in farmfoods is two packs of 9 for £4 this is the cheapest ive found and they are really good. If you have the vouchers for 2.50 off a £25 spend itll work out even cheaper.

I cant believe the way i used to shop, must have had blinkers on. Now i love to see how much i save when i come back from shopping, making it into a game almost.

Julie
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pawsies

Catti wrote: »

I'm a big fan of approvedfood.com - shortdated or out of date products that are still absolutely fine - a cheep way to stock up on treats if you have somewhere to hide them. Got 250 bags of Special K mini breaks for £11.99, and (don't ask....) 200 sachets of mint sauce for 1p! It's the twiglets I need to hide.......

My delivery cost came to 5.99. Equivalent of the price I was paying for the stock!

Thanks for the site though

Corelli

Oh dear, yes. Approved Food encouraged my tendencies. I've got cartons everywhere and as I'm sorting the kitchen out atm I've nowhere to hide the next delivery that is due soon ... under and behind the settee is full and I didn't want to venture into the shed with it.

adelight

My OH is just like that. The good stuff is expensive so is bought in bulk on offer and rationed, but he doesn't understand rationing. When it's gone it's gone and if we only have boring super cheap food he doesn't like eating it so doesn't eat enough, loses weight, gets tired and grumpy at work etc and eventually we have to go buy more good stuff so he will eat enough to function. I've been away for a few days and go home tomorrow and I just know he will have found and devoured the hidden chorizo, got through several jars of Branston pickle, the frozen cheese etc. The only thing he doesn't find is the chocolate I hide in handbags that I rarely use