Stockpiling

trolleyrun

Toilet roll and food in the freezer. I'm terrified of running out of food a "habit" from years ago when I had literally no money for food and went hungry for days on end. I've hoarded other items in the past such as craft making things but I'm trying to change my ways and only allow myself to buy anything that actually needed. I'm getting there slowly...

Rainy-Days

Haha how weird this morning I had gone into Aldi, and done some stockpiling! Aldi do this amazing ground coffee (in sealed bags) and it's the Ethopian ground bean and it's just delicious. We have a traditional type coffee maker (it's about 12 months old now) but we really like the fact that we can come downstairs in the morning (has a built in timer function to come on at 7am) and fresh cofee is there.

This coffee can be hit and miss if they have it in and it recently got huge raves by Good Housekeeping so as I was in this morning I got six packs. That will be enough to go through to just after the New year as we already have two unopened and then I shall have another stockpiling session again.

Other things like hairspray, toothpaste, rice, tins of chopped tomatoes I always have a good stock of those and then when they are on offer I have another buying session.

Goldiegirl

I try to buy the largest packs that are available, and buy when things are on offer.


But I never have more than about a couple of months supply in the house of any one item.


Most things come up on offer every so often, so if I've already got a good supply, I'll by-pass the offer.


I tend to think that if the stockpiles grow too high, it's the opposite of money saving, having a load of goods in the house that may never get used or eaten, with the money in the supermarkets bank accounts, instead of mine!

andygb

All toiletries - soap, deoderant, tooothpaste, loo rolls, sponges etc.
Big containers Fairy non bio when it is on sale.
Flour for breadmaking - Allinsons 3KG bags when reduced.
Various tins - kidney beans, chick peas, chopped tomatoes.
I keep the spice section topped up for Indian and Chinese cooking.
I also buy 4KG bags of red onions from a local shop and they last a couple of months.

SailorSam

NewShadow wrote: »

meat in the freezer - Black Friday muscle food order for chicken and steak, boxing day salmon, goose, turkey and duck = at least 70% of my meat for the year.

Tins of (various) beans, spaghetti hoops, tomatoes (chopped, whole or passata depending what's cheapest), tuna, 9p mushy peas... I've got a dresser full.

Oats, rice, pasta, noodles - probably about 20kilo all in

Soup mix, couscous, lentils, pearl barley - again, 10 - 15 kilo

Tea bags - c.1000

UHT - c.12 litres

Sweetener - 4 spare packs of tabs and a tub of powder

Hot chocolate - 6 tubs

Spices - cinnamon, cumin, coriander, garam, paprika - c. 1kilo of each

Cat food - c. 300 tins, c.40 kilo dry, c. 35 kilo littler (due to buy litter in Jan)

And that's just off the top of my head.

Only things I don't tend to stockpile are fruit and veg, and even then I'll tend to have a couple of kilo of this or that in the freezer or cupboard (as seasonal and appropriate)

And i thought i was bad.
Except for fresh fruit i could probably not go shopping for a couple of months and i still wouldn't be short of choice, but in comparrison to you i've got nothing.

NewShadow

SailorSam wrote: »

And i thought i was bad.
Except for fresh fruit i could probably not go shopping for a couple of months and i still wouldn't be short of choice, but in comparrison to you i've got nothing.

I think it's the same as has been said above. I was made redundant twice in 18 months, and it took me a good 6 months to get my current job (which is very secure and quite well paid).

I was really stuck the first time i got made redundant - it was really the first time i'd been unemployed since i was about 14, and i had no idea how to cope.

added to this, i'm used to cooking for a houseful - at home with my parents, then at uni for my housemates, then for my ex and ex-mil. I think i've not really gotten out of the habit.

now i'm either working 12 hour days, or sleeping... i can't be relied upon to go to the shops, so make really bad food choices. if i have lean meat, pasta, tomatoes, a bag of potatoes/onions/whatever i can cook a half decent meal one day and it feed me for three or four days.

much better than wandering around the shop after a tough day at work and shoving cake and bread in the basket or relying on my fugued brain to remember when i'm about to run out of/have run out of something.

VfM4meplse

Another one that stockpiles toiletries, toilet and kitchen rolls, cleaning products including bleach.

I do also stockpile foodstuff that I know that I will eat, when it is on offer (eg teabags - although sadly running out, coffee, olives, tomato ketchup, arborio rice, baking ingredients for those wet weekend afternoons). it makes sense to make the savings and enjoy without rationing. If I know I'll use it, there is no guilt and only self-congratulations

HOWMUCH

I will stockpile anything that I use on a regular basis which comes on offer. This way I never pay full price for some of my regular items.

PasturesNew

I'm pretty good. I do like to have 20-30 loo rolls in the house, but that's my lot for stock piling.

For tinned food I always have 4+ cans of baked beans and tomatoes and an assortment of peas, carrots, spuds. I've usually got a can of pineapple, a can of creamed rice and a can of tuna too. Also a couple of tins of what I call "meals", these could be anything from sausages/beans in a tin to chicken in white sauce or a tin of curry.

I keep the cans contained in one plastic storage box, on one shelf in a base unit in the kitchen.

Pasta/noodles/rice/etc, with couscous, instant custard, suet, flour, stuffing, instant gravy, curry sauce etc ... occupy one shelf of one wall cupboard.

I like to keep in my "basics" and not go too mad else you just end up with too much food you'll never get round to eating.

I don't actually have to go food shopping at all for the rest of the month with what I've already got. If I had to "push" my stockpile to its limit I could eat for 2-3 months. But I don't eat a lot. In fact, I've become concerned that I have already got too much in the cupboard and hadn't planned on buying any more for the rest of the year.... trouble is, when you go out you see stuff.

London_Town

I stockpile toiletries/laundry/cleaning products as well as tea bags (!) pasta and tinned foods like soups. Aside from milk, bread and eggs, I could easily last a month without food shopping.

With some of the toiletries/laundry/cleaning products, I must have literally years of supplies. As a business model, it doesn't work terribly well as there is ultimately "money" tied up in my stock for a long period of time. However, they have beaten inflation as I have things like 1 litre bottles of Fairy Liquid that I bought in 2008, still unused. This is simply because I have so many!

I think everyone should have some stockpiled stuff. It's common sense and could see you through a period of redundancy or any other first world famine. Also,your money goes further as if you stockpile when a product is on offer, you never pay full price.

The trick is to know when to stop buying, without running out of something and having to pay full price. I find this difficult and tend to be over cautious, hence I end up stockpiling too much!