One of my priorities in 2009 was to build up my food stockpile. I may have gone about this a different way, as during January I’ve been using up all the food in our cupboards, however I wanted a fresh start, I wanted to build up a store cupboard of useful and used products/ingredients only.
I plan to start stocking up on supermarket offers/loss leaders every week until I’m happy with what I have. This will mean that I need to increase my grocery budget for a while and that I also find somewhere to store it all. I may have to re task a cupboard!
Further excellent reading on stockpiling:
- Stockpiling the Basics at Simple Green Frugal Coop
- Stockpiling 101 at Down To Earth
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Hello Laura
Stockpiling is a great idea with one drawback for me.
We live out of the pantry but I forget to look for the same goods on special to replace the ones we used lol
Like many others I need to find some way of reminding myself to buy and not think about it at the last minute and have to pay full price
Take care
Cathy
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Hmmm….I hadn’t even considered stockpiling, but after reading those couple of posts you linked to, it makes a lot of sense.
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Oh, I like the stock piling idea! I wish I could do it, but we severly lack pantry space. Hmmm… how I can make this work. Don’t you love down-to-earth’s stockpiling containers?
Although, if I organized the cupboards and moved all the pasta in jars… I may just have more room.
BTW, love the new layout!
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