Hoarding Ingredients - suffering from Allgoneophobia?

[JoNorvelleWalker]

I am not alone!

 

[liamsaunt]

I definitely buy more than is immediately needed.  I have an entire shelf of pasta, and each shape must have at least two boxes, because you never know if you will need more than 1 lb. to feed the number of people who are eating.  Another large shelf consists entirely of tomato products, etc.  I am meticulous about rotating my stock, and keep stuff in my garage freezer if needed.  The only section that is out of control (to me) is the sweets baking section because it's my sister and niece's domain.  I just know there is old and useless stuff in there, but I am not allowed to touch it. I keep it in my auxiliary kitchen so I don't have to see it daily.

 

Another pandemic holdover I have not let go of is keeping extra paper products in the house.  My family's preferred brands, (along with Lysol wipes and good masks of course) were the hardest things to find for the longest time, even after yeast and flour came back in stock.  I converted a closet in my guest room to storage for that stuff during the pandemic, and it's not ever going to change back.  

[TdeV]

15 hours ago, liuzhou said:

I'd forgotten this topic.

 

For some reason (pandemic?), all my sources of my favourite Portuguese canned sardines in olive oil have dried up. I normally buy them in batches of 30 and when I'm down to the last ten start to panic and re-order. Now I'm down to seven and can't find any more, so I have stopped eating them, because if I do, I'll run out! I'm saving those seven until I don't need them any more.

 

 

I looked through google images.

https://sukli.com/products/century-tuna-premium-premium-sardines-in-olive-oil-120-g

 

[liuzhou]

Thanks but I'm not in the Philippines.

[liuzhou]

3 hours ago, TdeV said:

I looked through google images.

https://sukli.com/products/century-tuna-premium-premium-sardines-in-olive-oil-120-g

 

There is something decidedly strange about that website.

First of all they claim it's 100% Authentic Filipino (Filipino Portuguese Sardines?), but then you look at the delivery information and find everything is shipped from the USA.

 

The sardines (without delivery) cost more than double per can what I have been paying with delivery to my door. I don't really feel like paying to ship sardines from Portugal (to the Philippines?) to the USA to China on top of that outrageous price.

 

But sincerely, thanks for trying.

Edited December 15, 2022 by liuzhou (log)

[Shelby]

These are my most hoarded right now.  Wild artichokes that I get from Zingerman's.

 

 

They are currently $20 a jar.  I can't tell you how many times I've taken them out of the cabinet and then put them back in, unopened.  

[weinoo]

7 minutes ago, Shelby said:

They are currently $20 a jar.  I can't tell you how many times I've taken them out of the cabinet and then put them back in, unopened.  

 

That's what I call - Inventory Control!

[Anna N]

10 minutes ago, Shelby said:

These are my most hoarded right now.  Wild artichokes that I get from Zingerman's.

Take the advice given on their website:

"open the jar and just eat 'em straight up."

 

[TdeV]

You'll be happy to know, @Shelby, that I have put a jar in my cart!

[Shelby]

1 minute ago, TdeV said:

You'll be happy to know, @Shelby, that I have put a jar in my cart!

They are really good.  If you can bring yourself to open them lol.

[TdeV]

57 minutes ago, Shelby said:

They are really good.  If you can bring yourself to open them lol.

 

This seems to imply that you have (sometime previously) actually opened the jar, then? 😀

[Anna N]

24 minutes ago, TdeV said:

 

This seems to imply that you have (sometime previously) actually opened the jar, then? 😀

Perhaps before they reached $20 a jar?

[liuzhou]

I am ecstatic. Today I took delivery of 12 cans of my favourite Portuguese sardines after them being unavailable for months. I was down to my last three cans after careful self-denial. Now back to 15!

 

 

 

 

[haresfur]

On 9/9/2017 at 5:12 PM, liuzhou said:

Chinese food stores and supermarkets have this insane habit of stocking something, having it sell out within days or minutes, then never restocking. I have a pet theory that they just think it messes up their shelving arrangements.

 

"People just come in here and empty that shelf I spent 10 minutes filling up. Why can't they just let it be? Don't get that stuff again!"

 

Or maybe the stores are just hoarding their stock

[liuzhou]

24 minutes ago, haresfur said:

Or maybe the stores are just hoarding their stock

 

I doubt it very much. For twenty years?