Foods that you stock up on

[moomies]

What food do you always have in your cupboard/pantry?

I just realized that I get a chocolate craving so I should stock up on some candy bars...

Staples we have in our cupboard...dried stuff like pasta and other types of noodles, seaweed (for miso soup n things), canned food, some sauces (e.g. soy sauce), lots of different teas, that's about it, all boring stuff...

I don't have any sweets *gets cranky*

[SVZ]

you know.....nothing really comes to mind!

i'm gonna say butter, i always notice when there's no butter left

[chuckpony]

black olives, canned tomatoes, pickles, salsa, chicken or veggie stock, crystal light, coffee beans.

[LynnieD]

Pasta, lots of black beans/kidney beans. Crap like that. Nothing at all exciting.

[pacific breeze]

I live with a packrat so all kinds of stuff. When I first met hubby he had dozens and dozens of cans of the same things -- peaches, peas, carrots, eww. I stock up on staples: beans, pasta, rice, popcorn, and other stuff that's on sale that I know I'll use. I have to keep reminding hubby that even if we couldn't leave the house for a week, we'd be just fine. Hell, for a month!

I also stock up on butter (I freeze it) and frozen foods from time to time.

[miss_perfect]

Peanut butter - I'd go into convulsions if I didn't have peanut butter every day.

[darksithbunny]

Ginger Ale(Canada Dry), Hershey's chocolate, bottled water, and white bread. Got tons in the freezer.

[NoDayButToday]

bottled water, fruit (apples especially, there are ALWAYS apples in my house), bagels and cream cheese (as does any Jewish home), and those little tuna lunch packs-they are easy to grab on your way out the door, my mom keeps buying them every time she goes grocery shopping.

[Rogue]

Pasta, rice, cans of beans, cans of tomatoes, tomato puree, vegetable stock, noodles, tea (my god I have far too much tea) coffee, random veggie meals I can put in the freezer when they're on reduced to clear, sauces and vinegar. I'm in a student house, we have two cupboards each and one cupboard is just all condiments. Four different vinegars, sauces, herbs, spices, stock. It's ridiculous!

[Tati]

Pasta, rice, various beans, chickpeas, lentils, canned tomato soup, canned diced tomatoes, fresh spinach, avocadoes, bananas, teas, coffee.

[lovely bones]

Spam
Cheese
Yogurt
Coffee
Tea
Milk
Almonds or cashews
Gummy bears
Nutella spread
Peanut butter & jam
Potatoes
Bread
Evian water
Bourbon & ginger ale
Red wine
Chips/crips

[Corsair]

Things I don't want to run out of:

Flour
Sugar
Baking Soda/Powder
Eggs
Milk
Crisco
Rice
Pasta (buy LOADS of it when on sale)
Baby Carrots
PEPSI

and my weird one; Top ramen. My kids love them for snacking after school; buy by the case when they are on sale.

I like to cook from scratch so I consider these basic must have items. I can use up whatever meat and veggie I've got and come up with SOMETHING for dinner. I check these every time I shop and try to have one of each in reserve all the time.

The pepsi I try not to run out of so I don't take it out on my family when I'm in withdrawal.

[aabbcc]

Potatoes, different kinds of dry pastas, brown rice, different kinds of beans - both canned and dried, canned diced tomatoes, small cans of plain tomato sauce, salsa, frozen vegetables, coffee, tea.

[barbiedoll25]

I tend to stock up on cans of chickpeas ( I make my own hummus about twice a week), Diet Pepsi, these Pita chips from Costco, and lemons (for the hummus).

[Aella]

Well, first and foremost-coffee.
Also honey, pasta, some kind of muesli, herbal teas and...that's it. I think that's all I actually have in my cupboard right now. And some cheese in the fridge.