I love milk. LOVE. But I live alone so I buy a half gallon of 2% at a time. For the last four months I’ve had to buy two half gallons a week, so three weeks ago I decided to spring for a full gallon.
And I just dumped out the last rancid quart.
Bread? Same thing. I love me some sammiches. I’m simple that way - bread, meat, cheese. All summer long I was all about the local locker summer sausage and a chunk of pepper jack, but the cost of good bread was killing me so I bought a loaf of cheap white. Haven’t even opened it and now it’s a block of green…gunge.
“Man,” I think to myself, “I haven’t had oatmeal in a really long time.” So I buy the box of cute little single serve packs and go through them in three days. Finally, a month later, I buy the carton of Quaker Oats…which eventually grows weevils.
I am certain I am the only person who does stupid shit like this but if anyone would be kind enough to validate me I’d really apprecaite it.
Oh, you are NOT alone. I have some weird compulsion to “save the good stuff for later”. The “good stuff” frequently goes bad. I’ve recently tried to change this behavior by shopping more frequently and only buying what I need. If I buy a whole hand of bananas…I end up with 4 black bananas that go in the trash. If I buy 2 or 3 at a time, I can eat them all.
We can’t win with milk here. We don’t go through it fast at all–it mostly gets used for cooking–so we rarely actually finish a carton.
Thing is, one of the local brands does not last. We’ve literally had to throw out unopened cartons because it was already bad, within the ‘best before’ date. Another local brand keeps far better, but it doesn’t come in 1-litre cartons, and we almost never finish a 2-litre before it needs to be tossed. We can either buy a 1L carton that doesn’t keep, or a 2L carton that we won’t finish.
Oh, I feel your pain multiplied by 5! (4 people live here, but one is a teenaged boy, so when it comes to food, he counts as 2.) I cannot anticipate what we’re going to go through, no matter how finely I try to plan our meals. Right now I have a pound of asparagus and a bag of salad turning to goo in my vegetable drawer. Two weeks ago, I couldn’t get enough veggies on the table, and now they’re all like, “But we’ve *never *liked vegetables, you crazy woman!” ARGH!
One thing I’ve found to be nice is Costco’s three-pack of ultrapasteurized organic milk. Three half gallon containers come out to just a dollar or so more than a gallon of organic milk at the grocery store. And because they’re ultrapasteurized and sealed until we go through one, they last longer than an open gallon. We’ve neither run out nor tossed sour milk since I started getting those milks. Does take up more room in the fridge though. But that’s okay, since apparently leftovers are anathema this month. So glad I made plus-sized meals so they’d have lunches the next day. :rolleyes:
Consider yourself validated. As you may have noticed, you’re far from alone
Yeah, this is one of my wonderful tactics, too. Did you leave off “at once” from your last sentence? Because that would be me. I buy loads of stuff when it’s on sale because it’s such a good deal, moreso canned goods even than fresh stuff, but after about the first 20 cans of tuna fish, it’s like I’d never like to see another can of it EVER. Well, until I get desparate, at least.
My Darling Marcie and I were throwing out so much spoiled stuff that we’ve taken to shopping on a daily basis. We obviously don’t buy milk and cereal daily, but we discuss what we want to have for lunch and dinner and then go buy it. We also quite often don’t have lunch until around three in the afternoon, so lunch also serves as dinner.
Me, too! I’ve been buying milk from the local dairy rather than the grocery store for several months now, because it tastes better than milk from the grocery store. It also spoils quicker, and I’m pretty sure that it’s because they pasteurize at a lower temperature than the big commercial dairies.
There are just the two of us, and I have two unopened GALLONS that expire the day after tomorrow. WTF was I thinking when I bought two?
I do that all the time. Containers in my fridge = things I’d rather forget.
But not bananas. When it seems as though I have too many bananas that are becoming too ripe, I peel them, put them in small plastic sandwich or treat bags, and stick them in the freezer.
A frozen banana is a delicious treat, and it’s also good stuck in the blender with a couple of strawberries and a bit of milk. It’s very tasty because the banana provides the ice for the drink.
