What do you stock up on?

I have lots of tissues, toilet paper, and heating oil.

Tissues, toilet paper and paper towels

Spaghetti sauce, soup and pasta.

Gin…........and beer.

Toilet paper, shampoo and conditioner are the main ones.

I often buy things from Costco so inadvertently there will be 2 or 3 of an item (things like contat lens solution or aluminum foil) or large quantities just from one purchase (garbage bags for example, maybe 90 in a box).

Toilet paper, canned soup, orange juice, frozen vegetables.

Boneless chicken breasts when on sale. I buy 5 or 10 pounds, saute or bake them, and freeze individually wrapped. When I want to use a couple, they thaw in the fridge in about 24 hours.

I few times a year I roast a chicken, make chicken stock, and freeze. I get about six 1-quart bags so it’s like $12 worth of stock, a dinner and several lunches from a $5 chicken.

When I get stuff from the bulk aisle I buy a lot – dry beans, raisins, oatmeal, rice, walnut pieces.

Rice (15 pounds), aluminum foil (heavy duty 130 sq ft) and trash can liners (205 total three different brands)

Not much. Water, toilet paper, paper towels, soap.

There’s a great super market a mile from my house, so even in the worst weather, I can get there.

Not much due to space. There are no big box stores where I live. MREs are number one. They have a three year shelf life, in general, aren’t bad tasting, and do not require refridgeration. Toiletries would be number two, including toilet paper. Back up nutrition and hygiene.

@Espiritus_Corvus Just wondering….do you eat the MRE’s before they expire and replenish them or do you leave them on a shelf for three years and then discard them for newer stock?

@Espiritus_Corvus My bicycle camping friends call these “Indian MREs”. Boil in the pouch entrees. Good stuff!

Tasty Bite

@rojo I eat them long before they expire, then replenish. I don;t like to waste things. They really aren’t bad at all and they self-heat. It’s not a like a paranoid survivalist thing. They are good to have on the boat as back up. Portioning out a smalll tin of pate and a half bottle of pimento olives for four days at sea—once is enough. And then the humiliation of having a bunch of young coasties shake their heads. LOL.

@Call_Me_Jay Those look like they might be good and they don’t take up much space. I’ll order a few and check them out. Thanks.

When at sea, I bathe and wash clothes in salt water in order to preserve the fresh water in my tanks. So I also stock up on Kirk’s Castile Soap Bricks and I usually have a gallon or two of Joy dish detergent on board. Also, the mate, who is female, uses Johnson’s baby shampoo.

All these soaps are good for washing dishes, clothes and yourself in salt water. Most soaps won’t do it. It’s the chemistry in these soaps that allows them to suds-up in salt water.

Dial dishwashing detergent also works and cuts bilge oil very effectively. It’s one of the few chemical solutions left that are still legal to use to flush your bilge.

LOL. When in doubt, always ask the local fishermen’s wives what the best local soap is for washing in salt water.

TP, Viva paper towels, bottled water, canned cat food and Tootsie Pops. lol

I have about 500 food cans, 200 l ltr bottles of water, a couple of dozen boxes of cereal, a few boxes of powdered milk, 15 or so lbs of rice, 10 1 lb packs of beans and several of legumes, 6 3 lb packs of spaghetti, and three shelves of misc boxes and bags of food staples, such as flour, coucous, stuffing mix and such. I also have a freezer full of cooked and sliced roast beef, pork loin, chicken breast, fish fillets and other various frozen foods. I have two shelves of bulk items such as toilet paper as well.
I go through this food on a regular basis, and there is about a year turnaround for most of it.

Toilet paper, washing liquid. I tend to stock up on expensive household products when they’re on sale.

I always have beans and tomatoes in the cupboard. I always tend to buy them in bulk because they never go amiss.

Butlers

Sometimes fresh salmon which I freeze.

First aid supplies, water. toilet paper, canned diced tomatoes and tomato sauce, notebook paper, pens, tote bags, purses.

Toilet paper

@Earthbound_Misfit reminded me laundry detergent is another. I get it on sale and have a backup supply.

I buy my K-cups at Costco – about 80 or 100 in a box and I drink about two a day so I’m never out.

@Espiritus_Corvus Toilet paper has nutritional value? haha

Toiletries would be number two, including toilet paper. Back up nutrition and hygiene.

^^ One never knows when HC might pop in.

Meat, tp and paper towels. Although my No 1 hoard is supplements to the point of insanity.

Toilet paper.

I did discover I had a rather large collection of canned peas when I did a recent cook everything in the house project. Apparently when I buy canned veg I buy 2 of whatever is on sale. Then the peas get left behind because Set doesn’t like them. He had to suffer for about six weeks while I worked through all those orphan cans of peas. The only other thing that came close was bottled original Ragu.

@Aster Send me your address have so many un-used/opened supplements. I never can take anything for more than a few days without forgetting or getting bored with having to remember. haha

I remember when I was little, my babysitter lived with her mother and they didn’t have a lot of money. Once I was in her bathroom and there was no toilet paper. I had to tell her I needed toilet paper and she said they ran out, and she gave me tissues. I think that episode seared itself in my brain, and now I have a little thing about never wanting to run out of toilet paper.

@jca :: Similar experience. But I was handed newspapers.

So now this happens. Deal at safeway with the club card. I bought all they had on the shelf $9.99 each.

http://imgur.com/a/Ccgbm

I don’t consider myself a prepper or anything. But I have about a months worth of water and food stashed away. There will probably be a big earthquake here in my lifetime so it would be foolish to not store some stuff. And I store stuff I eat so it does get rotated. And it is cheap stuff like tuna and pasta. The entire stash was probably around 300 bucks.

Toilet paper, tissues, paper towels. Shampoo and facial cleanser (I’ve used the same one for about 20 years, and it’s been discontinued, so I’m buying it whenever I see it). We use a Brita pitcher, so I buy the filters in bulk. We buy the big bags of cat food and put them in a sealed bin.

We have a freezer full of meats from the local farmers (I was just saying that we want to cook up what we’ve got on hand before we move). Our pantry is overflowing with who-knows-what, too. The kitchen is my husband’s version of his ‘man cave’

Since my son moved out, I stock up less. Only on items that are hard to find or have a great sale price. I’m pretty good at recognizing when stuff is getting low so I buy replacement product in advance.

Pretty girls… Oh wait… “Stock,” not “stalk”