What foods/ingredients do you just blow through at your homestead?

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Since I started Weight Watchers in early March, Greek yogurt has become a can’t live without staple in our house. I’ve started buying 3-4 32oz containers of Chobani plain 0% a week. On WW, any fruit that you add yourself is 0 points, so I use the plain and sweeten it myself with Splenda, add a couple of tablespoons of sugar free Torani syrup (usually vanilla) and then add a cup of fresh fruit. I’ve started buying the Torani syrup direct from Torani in the 750ml bottles that you see in Starbucks. Oh and I buy 3 at a time (much less expensive than buying them from the grocery store when you use as much as I do). I like the way the syrup thins down the yogurt. I have 2 fave combos right now - vanilla with fresh pineapple and almond with fresh bing cherries.

I also make myself a homemade iced latte every morning with fat free milk and more sugar free syrup (yeah, I really needed the bottle size upgrade).

With this breakfast I get over 1/3 of my daily protein requirement, 2 of 2 dairy servings, 2 of 7 fruit/veg servings, and 2 liquid for only 7 points out of my current daily allotment of 37

My Must Have In the House At All Times List
Chobani Plain 0%
Fat Free Milk
Torani Sugar Free syrups in several flavors
Fresh fruit
Decaf K-cups for my Kuerig

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Butter and olive oil.

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We go through 3-4 dozen eggs a week, and coconut milk doesn’t last very long either.

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Onions, vegetables (seasonal), milk (my wife is a milk fiend), diet sodas, and fruit are the big 5.

In the next tier are beer, cheese, tortillas, ground beef, butter, flour and bacon.

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If you look for ‘yeast’ on Amazon, you get several brands and sizes; this seemed to be the best bang for the buck. 4 lbs for $16.

http://www.amazon.com/Red-Star-Active-2-Pound-Pouches/dp/B003Z7UR2Q/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1309442839&sr=8-9

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Carbonated beverages. I tend to drink whatever I have. If I’ve been lazy and haven’t bought soda, I’ll just drink tap water. If I do buy it, I can consume a 2liter daily (on weekends, less during a workday since I wouldn’t drag a 2 liter bottle to work).

That carbonated fruit-flavored water from walmart is really good and better for you. I should invest in that stuff more, but it’s hard when I know I can just schlep a bunch of 2liter soda bottles from aldi’s for only 59 cents apiece.

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Now there’s a question:

“What foods/ingredients have you stopped buying because you just can’t keep them stocked up?”

For me, the Zazz lemon and lime soda water. And before that the flavored Perrier. I absolutely love it, but the bottle s are really heavy, and it’s just not worth schlepping it in the quantities necessary.

Also frozen cookie dough. Because I would either blow up like a blimp, or die of food poisoning if I kept it in stock.