These are often fun - it’s a hot Friday afternoon, so let’s do a new one again!
Prompted because I was at a friend’s house the other day and idly commented on the onion sprouting merrily in his produce basket. His fiancee laughed sheepishly and said, “Oh, yeah. We don’t use onions much. I can never go through one before it goes bad.”
:dubious:
What kind of heathen barbarians are these people? The Other Shoe and I friggin’ blow through onions. I mean, they go in practically everything we cook. So, for us, it’s that, and chicken broth. If I could afford to, I’d probably even boil pasta in it, but I at least use it for everything where the cooking moisture is absorbed: rice, quinoa, amaranth, coucous, instant mashed potatoes.
Then again, some people eat pasta like it’ll be gone tomorrow but we usually just keep some around in the pantry for emergencies.
Your turn!
Any kind of fruit, the kids will hoover up practically before I even have it out of the grocery bags. I bought two pounds of plums the other day - two pounds! - and they were gone in a day.
We are also perpetually running out of garlic, onions, and coffee. (AND TOOTHPASTE. Save the jokes.)
Bread, bananas, lettuce/salad fixings, avocados and apples are readily consumed in our house and purchased quite often. I think we go through other items at a similar rate, but they tend to be items we can stock up on and don’t go bad. I can buy two weeks worth of crackers, but I can’t buy two weeks worth of bananas on a trip to the store.
For me: milk, cereal, tomatoes, and peanut butter to the point that I won’t even buy it in order to avoid the calories. For my husband: salsa, bananas, and yogurt.
My kid would happily eat simple lunchmeat-cheese-bread sandwiches 5 or 10 times a day if we let him. We’re forever running out of one of those things because if I buy more at a time he’ll just eat more at a time.
Fruit, juice and vegetables, but I think that’s because everything else keeps. I can buy tons of bacon and freeze it, for instance, but not so much cherries, peaches and salad stuff.
Mature cheddar cheese, bananas, berries (any that are available), milk, smoothie, porrage, tomatoes, carrots. TBH, the workers at my supermarket could probably, if they were so inclined, do my shopping for me without even having to ask what to get.
We get through more than honey in a month than most people probably do in a year.
Flour (sometimes whole wheat) and butter. I’ve just recently gotten over my fear of baking, and I’m right now in the middle of a pie crust obsession. In the last 6-ish months I’ve also gone through chocolate chip cookie and shortbread manias.
I use the no-knead recipe to make bread every couple of days. Pounds and pounds of butter and flour have been consumed, and it’s hard to believe that almost all of it has been consumed by only two people :o
That may sound gross, but I promise the rest of our eating is varied and mostly healthy!
ETA: coffee and milk. I have a cafe con leche every morning, two if it’s a day off.
Bourbon, rum, hot sauces, garlic, soy sauce, tomatoes, olive oil, chicken broth. These are in almost every shopping cart. The only reason I don’t list red chili flakes is because I’ve started buying them in bulk from the local Mexican grocery. Saves a bundle.
It isn’t a food or an ingredient, so cat litter misses the list.
I’ve said often that I need to just get a cow for the back yard. My family of 5 goes through about 6-8 gallons of milk per week. Cereal too. And cheese, bread, frozen veggies, salad stuff, and bananas.
