Are You a food hoarder?

-taff

I have quite a bit of stored food, tins , pulses, pasta & rice, and sauces, herbs, condiments and pickles and things. I've got more now than I had before the pandemic. I am a food hoarder.

My sister has just cleared out the dresser cupboards 7 years after my mother died and 2 after my father died. They went from six full cupboards to 2. There was a tin that ran out in 2001....And she hasn't got ot the cupboard out the back yet.

MovingForwards

I've a pantry and have enough to create vegan meals for months. I even store homegrown peas and beans for winter use.

Happy_Sloth

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hmmm i think i have a problem.... is 124 tins of tomato's too many? 

phoebe1989seb

124 tins of tomatoes??? Blimey!!!

In that case, no, definitely not, lol 😂

I thought we had a full larder with our 10 tins of toms (plus similar amounts of other tinned foods, obviously, as well as some dried foods etc 😉), lol!

Like maisie_cat, we moved from England to Wales (in 2018) and as we now live more rurally - and have also had a few 'skint-ish' moments due to being self-employed/having huge amounts of DIY renovations to do, sucking up the cash on building materials - felt that keeping a well-stocked larder was important even before covid.

We don't have a big freezer though, just a fridge freezer where the freezer section makes up only a third of the space. Power cuts are too frequent here for that.....

Even though we have our own borehole providing a private water supply to our home, we do keep large reserves of bottled water... because - once again - if we have a power outage the borehole electrics cease working 🙄

nannywindow

Another hoarder here if you count my overflow dried goods in the office, the spare bedroom bookcase, a cupboard in the dining room and the bottom of a wardrobe. I also have a chest freezer and a half and half fridge freezer both of which are usually packed to the gunnels, sadly I get twitchy if they start looking low on stock 😱
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maisie_cat

The extra thing I have lots of is aromatics & spices. Garlic & chilli puree, onion powder, smoked paprika etc. If we ever have to live on beans and rice it will have flavour!

OrkneyStar

I am not a hoarder in relation to some people, but I also tend to have 'one in use', 'one or two as backup' in my grocery 'system'. I think one of the downsides of hoarding, unless properly managed, is the waste of resources because it goes well past the date to be safely eaten. If you do it properly, and rotate etc, then it's ok, also as long as you don't buy so much that others have to do without (e.g. because you bought 10 of something when you needed 2, and 3 would have been a little extra, and two/three other families/people actually needed that other 7).

Pollycat

I always like to keep 1 spare item such as mustard, mayo, ketchup in stock so when I start a new one, I put it on the shopping list for next time.

I keep extra stocks of tinned tomatoes, tuna, various beans in my little 'shop' in the garage.

I have lots of herbs and spices but I do use most of them regularly. I buy large packs from a Chinese deli or fairly local market and decant into 'regular size' jars.
I buy big packs of oregano when we go to Greece and hot paprika from Turkey.

My freezer is always well packed.

LadOnTheHill

You're not alone. 😳

I don't personally think that covid is going away. I reckon it's going to be like the flu, every year or two will have a new variant, and occasionally one will get out of hand, and there will be more reason to not leave the house again. In light of that, we keep plenty of food on hand.

Even without covid, life sometimes takes you down roads you don't want to go,  such as loss of employment, massive hikes in energy bills, etc. Being able to ride the wave as best as one can is essential. Not having to worry about the basics means one can focus on the problem more.

I'm very fortunate in that DH is an awesome cook. I only learned the difference between chopping and slicing an onion a couple of months ago. 😁

candygirl

I had a look in my herbs n spices cupboard last night!!!😂😂Think I have enough there , to last till the next millennium , n as for dried beans n pulses!!!
POLLY, I get all my spices, n pulses,  from the Indian supermarket, n also put them into jars.
Realistically, I won't need  any shopping for at least a month, except for fruit n veg , n maybe soft drinks .