Starting a Backup Box
I hate shopping. Let me just say that up front and get it out there. I resent the fact I need o spend time buying similar items every two weeks for my entire life. I like to daydream ways to minimise the time I spend shopping!
Today's post is about a backup box. It's for when my re-ordering systems fail me for whatever reason, and I find myself genuinely without an item and I don't want to go to the shop for a few more days yet.
Things that mean my household grinds to a halt and I have to go to the shop...
Milk
Bread
Sandwich fillings
Toilet paper
I think everything else I can put off. So in my backup box I should have...
Dishwasher powder
Powdered milk
Flour and yeast
Vegemite
Toilet paper
If I am serious about this, then I should be able to make my fortnightly shop last a proper fourteen days despite minor emergencies. If I really wanted to be hard about this, I would include stock cubes and a packet of dried soup mix so we always have tasty emergency soup too!
What would you have in your Backup Box? Would you include a main meal backup?
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4 comments:
Tea! :D
Ooo, very good point!
I use UHT milk in my backup stores. Also a tube of toothpaste.
And tampons. I keep a loaf of backup bread in the freezer.
As far as backup food goes, I always make sure I have mince in the freezer and a few bottles of tomato pasta sauce in the cupboard. I can usually construct some sort of meal around these, no matter how much other foodstuffs we have run out of.
Pasta, a jar of pesto (I cant have tomato sauce), and a tin of tuna to make pasta sauce with the peas in the freezer. My backup instant food!
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