# What foods/ingredients do you just blow through at your homestead? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 24, 2011, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-ingredients-do-you-just-blow-through-at-your-homestead/586754 "2011-06-24T20:28:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-ingredients-do-you-just-blow-through-at-your-homestead/586754/21 "2011-06-25T01:29:56Z")
Bananas, yogurt, butter, Diet Coke, eggs, coffee, cherry tomatoes, and marble rye bread. I can buy white, Italian, whole wheat, and it sits around, but the marble rye gets snapped up immediately. And potato chips and Doritos. I buy Doritos for Mr. Sali, who will eat a whole bag at a time if I let him. I don’t care for them myself. But if there’s a bag of lightly salted Lay’s chips in the house, they call to me like a vampire to a Victorian heroine. Oh, and ice cream. …“I thought I saw a carton of ice cream in the freezer yesterday, what happened to it?” “Because I already EATED it! Duh!” I wish I had a whole separate freezer just for ice cream. I don’t, and a good thing I don’t. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-ingredients-do-you-just-blow-through-at-your-homestead/586754/22 "2011-06-25T01:43:15Z")
Baby carrots, yogurt, cereal, fruit, frozen veggies and bagged salad. Like some of the others, I buy stuff that keeps in the pantry or freezer in bigger quantities in one trip, but not as often. This is the stuff that goes in every shopping cart. ---
**Author:** ![ems](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@ems](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ems)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-ingredients-do-you-just-blow-through-at-your-homestead/586754/23 "2011-06-25T02:01:54Z")
Onions, garlic, bell peppers (what ever colour is on sale), avocado, ranch dressing, lean ground beef, chicken broth, canned tomatoes, seasonal fruit/veggies We rarely eat out and we both love to cook. Right now corn is is 25 cents a piece so we are eating a lot of that and blueberries & strawberries are going down a treat. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-ingredients-do-you-just-blow-through-at-your-homestead/586754/24 "2011-06-25T02:14:57Z")
Definitely onions. Plus chicken, tomatoes, zucchini and any kind of greens. And cat food. ---
**Author:** ![Alpine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpine/32/17813_2.png) [@Alpine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpine)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-ingredients-do-you-just-blow-through-at-your-homestead/586754/25 "2011-06-25T02:21:26Z")
Tortillas, half and half, coffee, tea, frozen raspberries and blueberries, green onions. And gin and tonic. Oh, and popcorn. Yogurt is homemade, so that doesn’t count, but we go through a few quarts a week with all those berries. ---
**Author:** ![apollonia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2bfe46/32.png) [@apollonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apollonia)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-ingredients-do-you-just-blow-through-at-your-homestead/586754/26 "2011-06-25T03:02:12Z")
Bread. I’m a single person living alone and I can go through a couple of loaves a week. Also onions and Diet Coke. For my parents, it’s milk. Two people and they go through six or seven half-gallons a week. It’s amazing. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-ingredients-do-you-just-blow-through-at-your-homestead/586754/27 "2011-06-25T04:17:40Z")
**purplehorseshoe** -I had that onion experience a few weeks ago. Had never seen it b4. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-ingredients-do-you-just-blow-through-at-your-homestead/586754/28 "2011-06-25T04:24:36Z")
Milk Peanut butter Diet Coke ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-ingredients-do-you-just-blow-through-at-your-homestead/586754/29 "2011-06-25T04:29:45Z")
Roomie blows through the milk and bread. I rarely use either, but she’s always using it up and buying more. For me, it’s coffee. There’s two of us drinking it. I can’t tell you how often, but I buy it eight pounds at a time from Community Coffee. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-ingredients-do-you-just-blow-through-at-your-homestead/586754/30 "2011-06-25T04:30:45Z")
I kind of picked up on the whole Taco Bell method of cooking fake Mexican. I blow through the same basic ingredients of: cheese, sour cream, fresh spinach, tomatoes, corn and flour tortillas, various sauces (El Pato “duck” tomato sauce, assorted salsas), brown rice, beans. If I run out of one or more, I’m still able to make _something_ edible. Rice, beans, salsa? No problem, pretty tasty. Tortillas and cheese? Quesadillas! Flour tortillas are probably the number one thing I go through; I use it in place of normal bread, so it not only gets used in my fake Mexican, but I use it for sandwiches or to “wrap” anything I happen to find. Other stuff: sriracha “cock” sauce, couscous, dried whole wheat pasta, peanut butter, Nutella (or generics), bananas, raisins. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-ingredients-do-you-just-blow-through-at-your-homestead/586754/31 "2011-06-25T04:31:03Z")
Wife: Diet Coke Me: Reese’s Puffs cereal, beer Son: Milk, fruit snacks, pepper jack cheese ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-ingredients-do-you-just-blow-through-at-your-homestead/586754/32 "2011-06-25T05:07:58Z")
Eggs, cheese, milk, bread, cereal, butter and cookies. Not necessarily in that order. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-ingredients-do-you-just-blow-through-at-your-homestead/586754/33 "2011-06-25T05:10:34Z")
Milk, lunchmeat, frozen veggies, diet Coke [hubby], bread and cat food. Oh, and tea. Hubby hates it, it is Nectar of the Gods for me. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-ingredients-do-you-just-blow-through-at-your-homestead/586754/34 "2011-06-25T21:08:53Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > **purplehorseshoe** -I had that onion experience a few weeks ago. Had never seen it b4. I always have a big old vidalia onion sitting on the kitchen counter, all year round, in a basket (no, not the same one! I buy new as needed). It’s funny how at the end of winter, it will begin to sprout, and the sprout will reach up toward the kitchen window reaching for the sun. It knows! ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-ingredients-do-you-just-blow-through-at-your-homestead/586754/35 "2011-06-25T21:14:43Z")
Lemons. Red Tea. Spicy V-8. Cheddar. Diet Cherry Pepsi. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-ingredients-do-you-just-blow-through-at-your-homestead/586754/36 "2011-06-25T21:36:13Z")
Limes. This time of year, I love my margaritas! ---
**Author:** ![I\_Know\_Nothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f04885/32.png) [@I\_Know\_Nothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Know_Nothing)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-ingredients-do-you-just-blow-through-at-your-homestead/586754/37 "2011-06-25T21:42:04Z")
Me: Artichoke hearts(I am an addict), ground beef(chili, hamburgers), flour/butter(calzones, tortillas) My Brother: Microwave popcorn, string cheese, chips Notice a difference? ---
**Author:** ![Fourtyfold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f475e1/32.png) [@Fourtyfold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fourtyfold)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-ingredients-do-you-just-blow-through-at-your-homestead/586754/38 "2011-06-25T22:23:57Z")
Cheese. I just love it, rarely have less than a couple of pounds in the fridge at any time, usually several different types. If I can think of any excuse for using it in a meal, I will. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-ingredients-do-you-just-blow-through-at-your-homestead/586754/39 "2011-06-25T22:25:59Z")
Liquids: Tea, Sobe waters, Gatorade, Almond Breeze, and various sodas Also, toilet paper. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![brainstall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@brainstall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brainstall)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-ingredients-do-you-just-blow-through-at-your-homestead/586754/40 "2011-06-25T22:26:45Z")
Eggs. I usually have two for breakfast so go through a dozen pretty quick. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-ingredients-do-you-just-blow-through-at-your-homestead/586754.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-ingredients-do-you-just-blow-through-at-your-homestead/586754.md?page=3)