S/O - what's in your pantry?

[Kestrel]

Recommendations of two week's worth of food has got me thinking - what's in your pantry? How long could you feed your family with what you have right now?


For my family, we live an hour from major grocery stores, and 1.25 hours from Costco. So, we always stock heavy. We could easy go a month at any time, with dry goods and freezer. Freezer with beef, chicken, pork, meatballs, frozen veg, frozen orange juice, and a "just in case" bag of frozen fruit and one of peaches. Heat-and-serve meals of pot pies, fish sticks and corn dogs, plus homemade stuff - soup, chili, pasta sauce. Also, a few packs of frozen lunch meat and cheese.

Dry goods with the normal cereal/rice/pasta, plus can soup,beans, fruit in the little plastic tubs, lots of canned tomato items and chicken broth. Flour, sugar, yeast, cornmeal, oatmeal, breadcrumbs, bisquick. I use dry milk in baking, so I always have some, but not much - I also have Ovaltine so we will drink the dry milk that way if needed.

We have a huge propane tank, a (propane) generator, and a well, so we don't worry about bottled water. I do worry a little about gasoline for the cars.

With some warning, like snowstorm or this situation, we also load up on longer-term perishables like eggs, cheese, apples/oranges, potatoes, carrots, onions, and winter squash like butternut and acorn. (for spring/summer we have the garden.)

Any other suggestions?

[georgiegirl]

I’m only 5 min from Costco, target, Walmart, Trader Joe’s, etc.

Pantry: rice, beans (dried and canned), canned tomatoes, pasta, flour, sugar, yeast, oatmeal, couscous, canned pineapple, cereal, granola, lots of salsa, pasta sauce, pickles, tortilla chips, pretzels, brownie mix, kodiac cake mix, cornbread mix

Freezer: lots of Trader Joe’s items my family eats regularly, frozen meals I made (about 7 dinners), frozen veggies, lots of frozen fruit (for smoothies and açaÃ* bowls), some meat, some fish/shrimp, tortillas, ice cream, and the crazy stuff...frozen lemon and lime juice (squeezed lemons and limes into an ice cube tray) and frozen raw eggs (scrambled in 2 egg increments), butter

Fridge: lots cheese (expirations in summer/early fall), apples, oranges, potatoes, onions, garlic, ginger

Wine and whiskey

I’m sure there’s more

[doberbrat]

dd1 would be hurting as we dont keep the same amount of GF stuff around and she is beyond picky. But, maybe if it came to eat a can of soup or starve, she'd eat the soup. ? Maybe??

We dont have a Ton of breakfast food other than some old cereal and a bunch of oatmeal. We dont keep extra loaves of bread on hand but we do have a few bread mixes. We have a ton of meat, some rice and a bunch of pasta and stuff that the kids dont like.

I need to stock up on dog food. We only get food every 6-8 weeks and we'll be out next week I think.

[twowhat?]

We are just not pantry stockers since we are minutes from major grocery stores and Costco. But I did try to stock up a little more each time I run to the grocery. We have pasta, rice, grits, oatmeal, a grain mix (quinoa, etc), canned chickpeas, tomato soup, and canned chicken. In the freezer I got a giant Costco lasagna, salmon, and giant bag of frozen veggies, and I have a bag of veggie scraps and meat bones for making stocks. I think we could go 2 weeks, though it wouldn't be lovely meals. Between not eating and eating something not great, I assume the kids will live:) Next time I go to the grocery, I will get bacon, potatoes, sour cream, freeze-dried chives, and butter (for baked potatoes), and just a little bacon easily dresses up a plain meal like pasta.

We have a bag of dog food that will last at least a couple of weeks, and we have frozen chicken and green beans (we do 1/2 homemade dog food).

Oh, and I also made sure to get a bag of that cheddar caramel popcorn from Costco. So important.

[hillview]

I joke that we could feed a family for at least a month from our pantry. It might get boring but we have 4 large (costco) jars of peanut butter. a case of Tuna. a case of pasta. a deep freezer that usually holds a 1/4 cow. and at least a full box of oatmeal. It WOULD get boring after a while but we have plenty for a week or 2 almost always (this is not a stock up for a virus it is business as usual for us). We also almost always have a full case of TP and paper towels. I apparently live in fear of running out (yes my therapist would find this interesting).

[bcafe]

We have a variety of food stuffs. We also have chickens so we could live on the eggs alone if need be. BUT, there are 6 of us so we always have a bunch of food. I do need some TP though, but that is because we fly through it.

[TwinFoxes]

I'm one of those weirdos who likes to grocery shop. Pre-kids I'd go shopping pretty much every day for dinner. Now, I go shopping a few times a week. So we don't typically have a lot of food on hand. But I've doubled up on some things. Usually I buy a family-size ground beef, but I bought two. I bough extra oatmeal (my picky kids' favorite breakfast) and TJs butternut squash soup. Extra frozen chicken tenderloins from TJ, extra strawberry bars, extra meatballs. I also bought a gigantic family-sized bag of broccoli from Wegmans, family-sized frozen waffles. A jar of mayo and a bag of sugar. Coffee! And a box of wine. :) I bought Fairlife milk, because it's ultra-pasteurized, and told DH not to use it (it's good until May). Extra pasta and sauce. Family pack of Wegman's frozen pizza. Frozen ravioli. I have ingredients for a couple of Keto soups for me, plus tuna. (I've lost over 50 pounds, I'm not going to let COVID-19 make me fat!) I also froze two loaves of bread for sandwiches. Oh, and an extra Costco jar of almond butter. And we have like five boxes of GS cookies, but I'm cookie mom. :)

I know this sounds like a lot. But my kids are picky, and underweight. I have to have food on-hand they will eat.

I bought our next pack of TP earlier than normal, but every place I've been to except Costco has had TP. I have Clorox wipes, but I use that commonly. A couple of weeks before everyone freaked out, DH had bought a gigantic bottle of hand sanitizer. I don't get buying extra water.

[o_mom]

Family of 5:

Pantry: Beans, rice, pasta pasta sauce, cereal, oatmeal, ramen, soup, Clif bars, pancake mix, boxed milk (mainly to use in baking if needed), instant mashed potatoes, canned fruit, dried fruit, nuts, chips, baking stuff (some dry ingredients, some mixes), oil, spices.

Freezer: beef, chicken, pork, venison, whole turkey, sausage, salmon/fish,corn dogs, pizzas, various TJs meals, other heat and serve stuff, frozen veggies

Fridge: Milk (at least 1.5 gal at a time), eggs (2.5 doz right now) cheese, tortillas, fruit and veggies, butter

Also have 20 gallons of bottled water (in 4 gal containers), and a bag of dog food that would last a month.

ETA:. Big container of powdered Gatorade, applesauce and crackers... Basic 'sick food'.

[Indianamom2]

Well, I used this as an oportunity to clean out y pantry and fridge/freezer and stock up, just in case of a quarantine as a worst case scenario and so that we will have plenty of staples and easy meals in the coming months best case. It doesn't hurt anything either way!

I cooked 6 and 1/2 lbs of ground beef and portioned it out in smaller 1lb. Or less bags to use in various meals, chopped up two Costco rotisserrie chickens and portioned out the meat in bags for various meals. I bought two large bags of meatballs, a large Costco package of chicken breasts for the freezer, a 5 lb. Bag of chicken nuggets, several frozen pizzas, a family-size frozen lasagna, frozen breakast burritos and a variety of frozen veggies...oh and several packs of frozen fish food for our saltwater fish tank.

For the pantry, I stocked up on pasta, sauces, canned tuna/chicken, canned veggies and soups, boxed bread and pizza crust mixes, brownie mixes, evaporated milk, yeast, bullion cubes, chicken stock, noodles, mayo, applesauce, chips, tortillas with long expiration dates, apples and oranges.

We also stocked up on toilet paper, paper towels (have a 5 month old puppy), feminine products, contact solution, dog food, cat food.

We spent a lot, but everything is stuff that will be used by our familh, so Imjust consider it my advance grocery shopping for a month or so!

[sariana]

A few years ago I ordered a bucket from Costco with 30 days of meals; it's for our earthquake kit. That is in addition to all the random foods we have in the pantry. We don't have enough water, though, if service were cut off for some reason. We have a pool; maybe I should invest in some dechorlinator.

[DualvansMommy]

We have chicken, ground turkey, extra bread, frozen waffles, cod, big bag of frozen shrimp, few large bags of frozen variety vegetables, drumsticks, extra homemade chicken noodle soup in our garage freezer. Garage fridge holds our extra gallons of milk, OJ, cranberry juice, water, seltzer water, kombucha drinks, butter, and eggs.

Our kitchen fridge holds good amount of fresh vegetables, peppers, lemons, limes, few different containers of leftover food that can feed us this week, milk, OJ, tuna, many Jams, a quarter of an onion, endless condiments, different cheese & eggs. Kitchen freezer holds our usual big bags of frozen fruits for smoothie, homemade muffins, breakfast sandwich, different smaller cuts of meats, frozen smaller bags of broccoli, peas, and corn.

Pantry holds our usual dry goods different shapes pasta, few cans of tuna, PB, sunbutter, flour, sugar, baking soda, Cheerios, wheaties, oatmeal, different kinds of beans, red sauce, canned tomatoes, kids snacks, pretzels, noodles, and other stuff I’m forgetting.

I do need to go shopping for more TJ & Costco as halfway through our supply of TP, paper towels, but not gonna stock up like crazy. Just enough supplies to hold us for 3 months if we have to. I also don’t want to stock up our freezers as going away on vacation next month. So I’m hoping my Costco will have those supplies, as totally not looking forward to shop there! If worse comes the worse, I can always use Wegmans as it’s never out of TP, wipes, or paper towels.


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[jgenie]

I haven’t bought anything other than ground pork and stew meat for the freezer since we were almost out. We have ground pork, steaks, stew meat, a roast, pork roasts, breakfast sausage, bacon, Canadian bacon in the freezer. In the pantry I have easily 10 boxes of assorted unopened cereal (I buy on sale and donate extras), several large bottles of pasta sauce, multiple cans of crushed, diced, whole tomatoes as well as tomato sauce and paste. Cans of tuna although I would likely be the only one to eat that. Lots of dried fruit, old fashioned oats in the bulk size, pasta, cake mixes, butter in the freezer, extra flour in the freezer, dried beans, lentils, rice, tortillas in the freezer. I tend to buy multiples when I shop or buy at Costco and donate extras.

[essnce629]

We usually shop at TJ's 3 times a week. One big trip for all our weekly meals, then usually again for a few more items we're low on like fresh fruit, and then DH goes every Sun for his work lunch foods and whatever else we're low on. DS1 is 5'11 and 195lbs of all muscle. He eats a ton at every meal and also can't have gluten, nuts, soy, or coconut. Any extra food is eaten by him almost immediately! I made a big shepherd's pie tonight for dinner which filled an entire 9x13 pan to the brim. All we have left after dinner is 1 small serving! We have the smallest french door fridge on the market in our kitchen, which means a super small freezer. We have a regular fridge in our garage, also with a small freezer. Before my weekly grocery shopping trip last week I cleaned out both freezers. Even after doing that I really couldn't stock up on much! I was able to squeeze in 2 packs of chicken thighs, 3lbs of ground beef, 3 single serve pot pies, 3 packs of sausage, and a few bags of frozen fruits and veggies. There's no way that I could fit a single Costco size frozen item in there. Both freezers are packed to the brim already! We have a small galley kitchen with basically 4 deep shelves for our "pantry." Stocking up means buying 1 extra bag of GF pasta and spaghetti, jar of sauce, and some chicken broth! We just have no room for anything extra. I did buy a 12 pack of shelf stable milks from Amazon and a few extra boxes of GF cereal from Target. We have a few boxes of GF pancake/waffle mix.

We do have a large closet with our earthquake kit/supplies and I have a large storage container of shelf stable foods in there. I think I'll pull it out tomorrow, throw out anything that's expired, and replace stuff. We also have 2 large buckets of emergency freeze dried meals (the kind you add water to). The GF bucket has 84 servings of food and the regular bucket has 29 servings. I also have some large cans of freeze dried meals (30 servings total) and several pouches of freeze dried meals in our go bags (another 20 servings). So basically about 2 weeks of freeze dried meals for a family of 4 that we could eat after going through all our fridge/freezer/pantry foods.

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[squimp]

My new life hack is to fill up my local grocery app's cart on the weekend and do a grocery pickup once a week. I thought I would find it hard to trust other people to pick out my food, but honestly I have been really happy even with our fruit and veggies. We have a ton of staples in the pantry and freezer. It's not because of the zombie apocalypse, I work full time, all of us are going in 3 different directions all at once, but I feel so much better when I have the meals ready to go easy peasy and I am not shopping several times per week or eating out a lot.

We have a freezer in our utility room full of fish, half a cow from one friend and half a lamb from another friend. The half cow had almost 40 1-lb portions of ground beef, so we are going to be set for a while. Yep it would be boring, but we would have plenty.

In the kitchen fridge/freezer, I have a lot of things in large packages (yogurt, peanut butter, frozen fruit, frozen veggies).

In the pantry, I have 5 or 10 lb packages each of brown rice and white rice from Costco. We have gallon containers full of several kinds of dried beans. And I just bought two 12-packs of Tasty Bite packets from Costco - they are an easy quick meal for my vegetarian athlete, and taste pretty good. We used to take them camping, their Saag Paneer is yum.

My other life hack is that I have an Instant Pot that I use 4-5 times per week, it is a huge help in making things like beans and roasts quickly. That one $70 purchase has reduced my stress level so much in the last year! It's not gourmet but my food is done in a fraction of the time and it's pretty good and healthy. I will still make some fancy stuff and we still grill but this thing is a miracle for every day.

[div_0305]

Vegetarian household: Pantry has lots of rice, beans, quinoa, pasta, flour, dried beans, jarred tomatoes, tortilla chips, nuts and nut butters, and some treats/snacks--but I always have those on hand. Have lots of dog food, too. Deep freezer has milk, tortillas, some homemade muffins and bread, and veggies. I have an extra fridge with lots of lacto-fermented salsa and peppers, eggs, butter and cheese. I will need to stock up on some other items from Trader Joes this week. I don't want to have to rely on grocery food delivery if I can help it, especially as those services may be strained in a quarantine.

[Tenasparkl]

I like to keep a good "earthquake kit" supply of food and water.

At the moment we're pretty well stocked on most of our typical foods. We also have SO many girl scout cookies and way too many frozen bags of fruit from a smoothie box subscription that we can't seem to make a dent in before more shows up. We'll have frozen fruit if/when everything else runs out.

[squimp]

We also have SO many girl scout cookies and way too many frozen bags of fruit from a smoothie box subscription that we can't seem to make a dent in before more shows up. We'll have frozen fruit if/when everything else runs out.

See Tag-a-longs would be a perfect food.....

[TwinFoxes]

I should also mention we bought a much bigger bag of dog food, just in case. They will be taken care of.

I did buy extra frozen fruit today.

[newnana]

between hating to shop, shopping at Costco, working full time and generally running like mad, I always have a few weeks worth of food in the pantry/freezer so I didn't do anything special to stock up. Fresh fruits and veggies are the only thing I run out for with regularity so it's about a 4 minute run (from my door to back home) since our local grocery store is tiny and well stocked. Worst case scenario we don't have access to fresh fruits/veggies. We have plenty of frozen fruits/veggies to get us through. Always. We have spare fridge/freezer in the garage and a decent size pantry

Generally stocked on same as pp's:
canned tuna
canned chicken
frozen chicken
fish sticks and frozen pizza
more noodles of every variety than I care to admit
Shelf stable soups
pb, jelly
cereal, oatmeal
cheese for months
lots of friends with chickens for access to eggs
Frozen seafood
tortillas
pot pies, DH loves pot pies
And a ton of smoothie stuff. I have recently developed a hate of washing the blender so haven't been using it. It'll pass.

[mikala]

Related to this, one of my fave food bloggers just posted some pantry recipes. https://www.budgetbytes.com/pantry-recipes/