Stock the Pantry

[Anonymous]

What items do you buy in bulk or stock up on that have a long expiration date? I always try to grab a few extra items if they are on sale, but wondering what items make the most sense to look out for.

[Anonymous]

Rice, rice noodles and bean thread, lentils, canned tuna and salmon, lentils, tea, sugar, marinara sauce.

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I keep a good spice cabinet. Canned tomatoes for sauces, garbanzo beans (we make hummus for snacks). Beef/chicken broth, cooking vinegars. Pasta has a decent shelf life if you don't open it.
I keep a few high quality bbq sauces, then just pick up chicken to oven bake at home.
We like "midnight pasta" so I have capers, anchovies.

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Peanut butter (never on sale), pasta, rice, cereal (when the kind my husband likes goes on sale, I'll buy like 8 boxes), oatmeal, diced tomatoes, tomato paste, Raos pasta sauce, lentils, chickpeas, beans, artichoke hearts, always have a bag of flour, sugar and brown sugar on hand as well

[Anonymous]

+1 to the above, plus cans of evaporated milk, and yeast (keeps awhile in the freezer)

[Anonymous]

Goodles pastas, Barilla Protein Plus pasta, Seeds of Change brown rice & lentils, - mainly heavy starches.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What items do you buy in bulk or stock up on that have a long expiration date? I always try to grab a few extra items if they are on sale, but wondering what items make the most sense to look out for.

Most long-term storage items usually are never on sale enough to justify stocking up for savings.

Stocking up for a food supply in case of emergency is different. Rotate your stock so it doesn't go to waste. Most people hoard some, then never rotate their stock, or else use up their stockpile.

[Anonymous]

Chicken stock, pasta, rice, tomato sauce, oats, mayonnaise, canned beans, tuna, canned soups, frozen vegetables like carrots and peas and corn, frozen fruit like mango

[Anonymous]

I’m in the process of trying to cook DOWN my pantry because for me it’s out of sight out of mind, so I rarely cook anything in there and it’s gotten out of hand. Bases on what I’m working with, it appears I heavily stock canned beans of all types, pasta and rices, oatmeal canisters, canned tomatoes, tuna, and nut butters.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m in the process of trying to cook DOWN my pantry because for me it’s out of sight out of mind, so I rarely cook anything in there and it’s gotten out of hand. Bases on what I’m working with, it appears I heavily stock canned beans of all types, pasta and rices, oatmeal canisters, canned tomatoes, tuna, and nut butters.

Same, I like to HAVE it so I tend to just keep it. Can of crushed pineapple for when I want to make impromptu pineapple cake. I don't collect nut butters or tuna but I do have various flavored rices that need to be made up. But if I use them then I won't have them. So I always make a rice or cous cous from scratch with stock to keep my flavored rices available. I'm weird.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m in the process of trying to cook DOWN my pantry because for me it’s out of sight out of mind, so I rarely cook anything in there and it’s gotten out of hand. Bases on what I’m working with, it appears I heavily stock canned beans of all types, pasta and rices, oatmeal canisters, canned tomatoes, tuna, and nut butters.

Same, I like to HAVE it so I tend to just keep it. Can of crushed pineapple for when I want to make impromptu pineapple cake. I don't collect nut butters or tuna but I do have various flavored rices that need to be made up. But if I use them then I won't have them. So I always make a rice or cous cous from scratch with stock to keep my flavored rices available. I'm weird.

I so relate! I have to have one or two of everything on hand just in case, because if I use the last one I'll run out and buy 3 more and take up even more space, lol.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m in the process of trying to cook DOWN my pantry because for me it’s out of sight out of mind, so I rarely cook anything in there and it’s gotten out of hand. Bases on what I’m working with, it appears I heavily stock canned beans of all types, pasta and rices, oatmeal canisters, canned tomatoes, tuna, and nut butters.

Same, I like to HAVE it so I tend to just keep it. Can of crushed pineapple for when I want to make impromptu pineapple cake. I don't collect nut butters or tuna but I do have various flavored rices that need to be made up. But if I use them then I won't have them. So I always make a rice or cous cous from scratch with stock to keep my flavored rices available. I'm weird.

I so relate! I have to have one or two of everything on hand just in case, because if I use the last one I'll run out and buy 3 more and take up even more space, lol.

Something about having that stocked full pantry just makes me feel secure and ready. But yeah, I have to find the balance between it’s stocked enough for any emergency and I’m also still actually cooking from it so I don’t just have shelves full of jars from 2021.

[Anonymous]

Nuts.

[Anonymous]

I really let the stockpiling get out of hand the last few years. Now I am moving and will have a smaller kitchen and less storage so really have to just save most buying for the day I want to make something in particular. It feels good to simplify and declutter.

[Anonymous]

Only stock what you use. If you eat a lot of pasta but extra on sale. If you like olives buy them on sale. As for a staple pantry you can google that.