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No your ridiculous.

The items are not pantry staples for a single mom with one kid on a serious budget.  They are products meant for one single recipe and are a splurge. The only item from the list I keep on hand is olive oil and it's a product that lingers in my cabinet for a year or more and still isn't used up. It's really hard to understand that when you have never lived it so instead of arguing why not accept that someone else simply has experience in this area that you don't.

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Sorry, I absolutely have lived it as a homemaker feeding a family of 4 on $300 a month.

Oil, dried beans, and nut butter pastes are examples of pantry staples, meaning that they last a long time in your pantry.  They are not a splurge, unless you only buy them once a year to make one particular recipe, of course.  In that case, they are a splurge and if you are only going to have, for example, hummus once a year then you would not buy the ingredients to make that particular meal, of course.

But from my personal experience living on a strict food budget, you get the BEST bang for your buck buying the pantry staples and cooking from scratch.   You don't sound like someone who has a reason to use olive oil in your home cooking, so in your case, it would not make any financial sense to buy olive oil.  But I assure you many home cooks on a budget (including many in the immigrant community) buy olive oil in bulk and use it up every month.

With olive oil, dried beans, and bulk purchased pasta, oats, rice, cornmeal and flour  and nut and seed butters like peanut butter and tahini, you have the basis for many nutritious and filling meals (supplemented with fresh produce and some animal products).  These are very cheap items, and do not go bad within a week, unlike the store prepared products.  These pantry staples are the KEY to surviving on a very limited food budget.[/quote]

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