About a 1/2 hour ago, I decided to cook up a batch of fried rice and when I reached in the cupboard (literally, since the shelf is below eye level) for a can of Spam, I felt a moment of true sadness when I thought I didn’t have one! Fortunately, I had one last can!
Laugh if you will, but in Hawaii, a local household without at least one can of Spam and few cans of tuna is considered to have hit some really low times indeed. When a hurricane looms, the top three items that sell out at the grocery stores are water, rice and Spam. Not necessarily in that order.
If someone came over, I could pull out a couple steaks or pork chops from the freezer, but no Spam? Head hanging shame.
Ketchup. Mr.Wrekker cannot eat without it. So in turn, my kids are the same. I can live without it. You’d think the ground opened up and swallowed us by the way they act if you’re just down to the last bottle. And eggs. Have to have eggs. That’s the only reason I mess with hens. I’d rather not have the headache, but for the cackleberries they provide.
I would be very sad if I opened the cupboard and didn’t see a bag of Lays Naturals Thick Cut Sea Salt potato chips. But that would be rare…I make sure I always have a bag.
Something not snacky would be not having a pound of hamburger in the freezer. I make lots of hot dishes (casseroles), sloppy joes, tacos, etc. So it’s one of my go-to ingredients.
That’s mine as well. My gf cringes when I use ketchup, but I really like the stuff. And it’s gotta be Heinz. When I go to Sam’s Club to stock up on toilet paper and paper towels, I usually grab a two pack of ketchup even though there are probably four bottles in the pantry at home.
Eggs here, too. I went the other day to make pancakes for the kids to find I was sans eggs. Flour check. Baking powder check. Milk check. Eggs. Oops. It’s okay. You can make them without eggs, but the texture and taste ends up a bit different. Bad because I wanted shakshuka for breakfast after making them pancakes, though (I’m not one for pancakes myself.)
I use oregano like salt or pepper; I sprinkle it on pizza, pasta, burgers - you name it.
Not long ago, I ordered a pizza and realized, to my horror, I was out of oregano. I almost didn’t know what to do. (It was OK with just Cholula and red pepper flakes, but still…)
Fortunately, I had one last can! 
