Comments on: Food Futures! Three-month stash grubstaked

By: What Products Should I Stock Up On?

What Products Should I Stock Up On? — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:31:14 +0000

[...] About Money’s Food Futures post and shopping list (pdf) have been stuck in the back of my mind since it was originally posted in [...]

By: Food Futures: Can Your Pantry and Freezer Save You Money?

Food Futures: Can Your Pantry and Freezer Save You Money? — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:31:03 +0000

[...] asked if I would give you an update on my “food futures” project, wherein I bought a freezer and stocked up on three months of meat, frozen veggies, beans, rice, pasta, staples, and household goods. The dual goals were a) [...]

By: Carrie

Carrie — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:52:56 +0000

this post has been stuck in the back of my mind for months now. i think i need to start keeping track and see what 1 and 3 months worth of total groceries would look like for me so i can maybe try something similar.

By: Cherryl Lewis

Cherryl Lewis — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:52:16 +0000

We are doing the same thing, though we just order bulk foods that we like online. And we are doing without a freezer, in case a significant power outage is part of any disaster or man-made event. Also, we eat non-traditional foods from the America’s, like quinoa, chia, and amarinth, have loads of Himalayan sea salt and various oils stashed. We are vegan and have sprouting seeds stored for daily vitamins and minerals, plus an indoor vermiculture for worm compost. I’ll bet we can trade the red wigglers to folks for fishing bait in exchange for items we need, if necessary.

By: Buy! « Funny about Money

Buy! « Funny about Money — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:34:16 +0000

[...] level, we’ve hit upon the very reason I bought a freezer, planted a garden, and started stocking up food and household goods. Prices may very well go haywire in the next few months. If I were living [...]

By: Ellie

Ellie — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:18:13 +0000

Just be sure to circulate your freezer contents and don’t just buy things because they are on sale… they will rot for 3 years in that thing, constantly being pushed aside for all the other things in your freezer that you want to eat instead of eating it because there is nothing else in the freezer. But if you can do those things, it is a great way to save some money, time, and sanity.

By: What’s “groceries,” anyway? « Funny about Money

What’s “groceries,” anyway? « Funny about Money — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:06:56 +0000

[...] I bought a freezer and started the great Food Hoarding Project a few weeks ago, I decided to break these things out, so that I could see what portion of my [...]

By: The Grocery Pool: So far, so good « Funny about Money

The Grocery Pool: So far, so good « Funny about Money — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:08:13 +0000

[...] Grocery Pool: So far, so good March 8, 2009 Mwa ha hah! It’s working! It lives! The scheme to stockpile groceries and shop as though I dwelt in a remote small town where a trip to the corner store would entail a [...]

By: Budgeting for “extraordinary” costs « Funny about Money

Budgeting for “extraordinary” costs « Funny about Money — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:57:11 +0000

[...] for “extraordinary” costs March 2, 2009 So pleased am I with the scheme to hoard “pool” groceries (can you believe it? No trip to any food purveyor needed this [...]

By: funnyaboutmoney1

funnyaboutmoney1 — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:31:13 +0000

Been there, hope never to do that again! It used to take three months to ship stuff overseas, so you couldn’t even pack up rice or pasta, ’cause it would be consumed by nits or stale by the time you got it. Or stolen by customs agents.