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OK, sister thread to my other one.
What do you ALWAYS have in your cupboards and what do you try to avoid having? Why?
I always have Kraft Dinner, I rarely eat it but once in awhile I'll get a hankering for it so I like to have it around. Also, Cup of Soup (it's become a regular performer in my lunch when I'm at home for lunch), bread (I love my morning toast) and granola bars (great snack if I'm gonna be at school til the early afternoon..not long enough to bother bringing lunch but long enough to need a snack I can eat quietly in class). I try to avoid chips because I would sit down and eat the whole bag.
Professur
1/25/06, 01:15pm
OK, now you're getting silly
Dry cereal (usually several varieties for the variety of people here)
Pasta
dried beans
sugar, flour, salt etc.
SPAM!!!!!
Tuna fish
Rice
we always have a few different types of pasta, tins of tuna (one of my favorite snacks), peanut butter and assorted canned goods.
try to avoid junk snacks like chips or cookies for the same reason, an open bag is an empty bag.
OK, now you're getting silly
The fridge one was prompted by me realizing I had eatten the last weiner in the fridge...because I was always snacking on them...and then being like "THIS is why I keep them in the freezer!"...this one is because the other is doing so well and I want successful threads...I have caught THE FEVER
BeardofPants
1/25/06, 02:28pm
We recently had pantry moths, which was a ... disconcerting.... experience. :sick: Slowly building up our stocks again, but we always have flour, sugar (dunno why, we never use the stuff), some kind of cereal, pasta, spices, pepper, salt, a myriad of vinegars, olive oils, soy sauce, etc, etc.
Professur
1/25/06, 02:55pm
Well you're only getting the one at work. 3 beef noodle cups, one box of bovrill, one box of cup-a-soup (spring veggy, all out of beef noodle) backup can of coke (warm) and one box of Breton minis crackers. 3 nature valley trail mix fruit and nut granola bars, 36 tea bags, 3 can of sparkling grapefruit soda (warm) and a 40g bag of sugar free mini-mints (damn hot).
Well you're only getting the one at work. 3 beef noodle cups, one box of bovrill, one box of cup-a-soup (spring veggy, all out of beef noodle) backup can of coke (warm) and one box of Breton minis crackers. 3 nature valley trail mix fruit and nut granola bars, 36 tea bags, 3 can of sparkling grapefruit soda (warm) and a 40g bag of sugar free mini-mints (damn hot).
I never said EVERYTHING I said what do you always make sure to have on hand...silly man :p
Hey you have two of the things I had for lunch though! Well, my cup of soup was chicken noodle...but I had Breton Mini Crackers with cheese too!!
Professur
1/25/06, 03:02pm
I never said EVERYTHING I said what do you always make sure to have on hand...silly man :p
Hey you have two of the things I had for lunch though! Well, my cup of soup was chicken noodle...but I had Breton Mini Crackers with cheese too!!
That is what I keep on hand. When I get below that, I restock. Note that those are the warm sodas. The cold ones are in the minifridge.
That is what I keep on hand. When I get below that, I restock. Note that those are the warm sodas. The cold ones are in the minifridge.
I gathered that :p
Professur
1/25/06, 03:16pm
Well what you didn't gather is that I didn't mention the can of spray cheese in that cupboard since it's only a recent addition, and won't be replaced when it's empty. It would be, but it's too far to NY to replace every week.
Well what you didn't gather is that I didn't mention the can of spray cheese in that cupboard since it's only a recent addition, and won't be replaced when it's empty. It would be, but it's too far to NY to replace every week.
You know what you're gonna get for being a pain...
Spray cheese is NY?? I would think it's more Middle America than anywhere else.
I always have just about everything I ever need to cook or bake anything in my cupboards, including the following: many types of pasta (usually only Barilla and DeCecco), ramen noodles, chicken broth, rices (jasmine, basmati, arborio and Minute), Barilla tomato basil sauce, PowerBar Harvest bars (toffee chip), nuts (usually pistachios and cashews for eating and walnuts and pecans for baking), flour, sugar, brown sugar, yeast, baking chocolate (mostly the good stuff -- unsweetened blocks of Scharffen Berger, dark Guittard disks and semisweet chips, and DeZaan cocoa), farina, Quaker whole oats, canned Progresso soups, tuna, Cheez-Its and/or Herr's Potato Stix and at least one package of cookies, usually Pepperidge Farm Nantuckets or Double Chocolate Milanos, or chocolates (usually Ferrero Rocher or Lindt dark chocolate hazelnut bars).
Yes, I am a snackaholic. No, I do not weigh 300 pounds, or even 200 pounds or even (I don't think any longer) 150 pounds. :D
Spray cheese is NY?? I would think it's more Middle America than anywhere else.
I always have just about everything I ever need to cook or bake anything in my cupboards, including the following: many types of pasta (usually only Barilla and DeCecco), ramen noodles, chicken broth, rices (jasmine, basmati, arborio and Minute), Barilla tomato basil sauce, PowerBar Harvest bars (toffee chip), nuts (usually pistachios and cashews for eating and walnuts and pecans for baking), flour, sugar, brown sugar, yeast, baking chocolate (mostly the good stuff -- unsweetened blocks of Scharffen Berger, dark Guittard disks and semisweet chips, and DeZaan cocoa), farina, Quaker whole oats, canned Progresso soups, tuna, Cheez-Its and/or Herr's Potato Stix and at least one package of cookies, usually Pepperidge Farm Nantuckets or Double Chocolate Milanos, or chocolates (usually Ferrero Rocher or Lindt dark chocolate hazelnut bars).
Yes, I am a snackaholic. No, I do not weigh 300 pounds, or even 200 pounds or even (I don't think any longer) 150 pounds. :D
I think he means he buys it in NY.
Professur
1/25/06, 03:46pm
i mean I can't buy it in Que.
i mean I can't buy it in Que.
That's sad...some gas station in Quebec has the tastiest pre made subs I have ever had...they have a spray cheese type substance on them...it's to melty to be solid cheese but to solidy to be cheez whiz...
I misread that. It's too far to NY for spray cheese, not far too NY.
Like, can't you buy it online if you like it that much? Surely, that stuff doesn't need to ever be refrigerated.
Professur
1/25/06, 04:04pm
Cross border duty is a killer.
But cheez is soooo tasty.
Professur
1/25/06, 04:27pm
Tell me something I don't know.
OK... I made a trip tot he printing plant to grab a spare mac keyboard so that when I make the computer transfer on Friday, I'll actually have a keyboard for the new computer.
Bet you didn't know that.
Prof, meet me at the border at 4:00 AM next Tuesday... I'll throw a bag of spray cheez over the fence.
Erm, not really. It's too far to drive. Maybe in a few years, if I am near the border.
Professur
1/26/06, 08:16pm
If I'm that close to the border to start with, why wouldn't I just cross it and buy the cheese myself?
Anyone notice something strange about this conversation??
We could build a 12 mile long cheese smuggling tunnel into Canada like the Mexicans did for drugs!
Professur
1/26/06, 08:22pm
Oh Gawd, we're all in trouble now.
It'll be twofold! In goes the canned cheese, out comes the maple syrup and the good codeine throat lozenges!...wait...that'd be drug smuggling, scratch that.
It'll be twofold! In goes the canned cheese, out comes the maple syrup and the good codeine throat lozenges!...wait...that'd be drug smuggling, scratch that.
You can still have the maple syrup in exchange for the cheese though!
Most excellent! We finished up all of the can that we bought in Canada and picked up some at the store to replace it...man do we notice the difference!
Most excellent! We finished up all of the can that we bought in Canada and picked up some at the store to replace it...man do we notice the difference!
I try to avoid real maple syrup at all costs...it's so good that it's hard to go back to the not so good stuff and I can't afford the real stuff all the time atm.
I try to avoid real maple syrup at all costs...it's so good that it's hard to go back to the not so good stuff and I can't afford the real stuff all the time atm.
The thing is is that the kind we bought says it is real maple syrup.
There is always flour. And rice.
I try to not have chocolate or crisps in there. Which reminds me, I need to get rid of the chocolate I put there a couple of days ago! :lloyd:
ekahs retsam
1/29/06, 06:36pm
dried pasta/rice
club crackers
popcorn (no nasty kettle corn)
canned albacore
cereal (I like Honey-nut Cheerios and Basic 4)
Andes chocolate mints (they are mine!! NO touching…)
SouthernN'Proud
1/30/06, 09:50am
Macaroni and cheese
corn meal
buckwheat pancake mix
green beans
canned corn
flour
saltine crackers
blueprint of Fort Knox
bread
instant oats
peanut butter
Macaroni and cheese
corn meal
buckwheat pancake mix
green beans
canned corn
flour
saltine crackers
blueprint of Fort Knox
bread
instant oats
peanut butter
:lloyd:
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