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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
