50 kilos of olive oil per person per year: What do you need to stock in bulk?

I am probably the only person who can stand up, hang on (Wolfie gets up) and says catergorically (big word!) that he can't stand olives or olive oil, nasty stuff! OUCH! But before I suffer the wrath of the Olive Growers it's just not something I like or use. We always use sunflower oil for our cooking and never olive oil. My ex used to buy pots of fresh olives and eat them raw or in his pasta, yuk! I must be a fussy eater cos I neither like olives or pasta, vile stuff. Our food tastes were as different as chalk and cheese. So here's one household that has ZERO kilos of olive oil. So somone out there must be getting an extra 150kilos?

I was always wondering about this olive oil that you need to stock up for the whole year. It seems this is very important for each household at your place because you did mentioned about olive oil in another topic of yours. I am really fascinating, I think for me to really understand the culture and Greek lifestyle, I need to personally visit this beautiful country In Malaysia, we have abundant of almost everything in the supermarket. The most important thing is CASH and valid credit card. There is one or two occasion where the price of cooking oil went up, and people are buying litres and litres to stored up at home just to avoid those price hike. However, our normal sundries will be in such a way that we alway keep one of each item as spare (buffer), then we will go tot he supermarket and replenish. For eg. we bought cooking oil (groundnut oil) for stir frying and deep frying. For my case, I bought the big bottle of 5 litres. So once I open this bottle and use, I will look out if at any time this particular product on promotion, I will purchase and keep as spare/stock up. It applies to sugar, rice, flour..or any sudnries items. I hope I did answer some of this topic of discussion!

For my husband it would have to be cheddar cheese. I do not buy it, he goes out and gets some when he runs out. We may keep track next year, just because you started this discussion. My home goes through maybe 4 liters of olive oil a year. We also use real butter. I try some of those "healthy margarines" and they just make me crave more fats and oils. Olive oil and butter do not make me crave things, they satisfy.

i probably use a 1 liter per year maximum.it's not that i don't like it or anything,i need to get more recipes using it.it seems to be real expensive local to me for some reason,especially the extra virgin olive oil.

good morning, thea09...not soooo sure you would like me to weigh in here...(no pun intended), but to be honest, I could probably stock some of our "local stores!" Because of the complications; ferries, etc., I always have a larder stocked! Food, canned...by the case. Bulk foods, buy meat in bulk, cut to my needs, and freeze..veggies the same, clean, cut & freeze. It is a lifestyle, living semi-remote, and as said before, have a generator for power outs! When I moved here 30 years ago, it was a total re-thinking of how one shopped! Many times you will organize your life for a "city trip"....and for some reason, or other, the Ferry doesn't run..breakdown/weather! So you must be pliant, and "roll with the punches" and be prepared. Mind you, a shopping trip to the metropolis, is a challenge of time, speed & motion. Shopping is not a leisurely outing...but a long list, checked off when complete....oft times, it is like a "triage" gathering items by necessity! Olive oil...why yes, at so late in life, I am learning the many benefits of that "liquid gold" and NOW using it as the staple of life! Little did I know the benefits of the wondrous OLIVE OIL, until I heard about if from Dr. Muhamet OZ, and then did a huge internet search. Folks, living/eating a Mediterranean diet, have 40% less heart problems, weight problems...general health problems, and it is rightly contributed to the almighty Olive Oil! To answer your question...I keep, at least a 4 months supply of essentials on hand! My goodness, you are a tiny little person physically...good things come in small packages...LOL (ouch, so does dynamite!) Have a spectacular day..and HUGZ!

olive oil is not in regular use here. there is no local produce and imported ones are very expensive. here mostly refined oil is used. sunflower oil is becoming popular and is much in demand. traditionally mustard oil is more in use here. interestingly mustard oil is traditionally a multi utility oil. apart from cooking, it is also used as hair oil, body massage oil and is also good for ear aches. you will find mustard oil almost in every home. also in south India coconut oil is a very popular cooking medium (which again is also used as hair oil and body massage oil as well). we don't stockpile anything as everything is readily available. except for rice and pulses as they are cheaper during season (we buy it directly from farmers)

I am desperately trying to converts kilos to litres. We get through about 52 litres pa of olive oil. So that's 1.24 X 52 = 64.5 kilos pa. Wow, that's a lot. But that is between two and sometimes three of us.

hi thea well before I got stuck in here in the retirement center I always used both olive oil and peanut oil for cooking , frying I used peanut oil as it doesnt smoke as easily as olive but love olive oil with my pastas. here I no longer do any cooking and really miss that.We should really use more olive oil as its so much better for our health than other oils. As for stocking up on stuff my family was just myself and my adult son so we weren't really needing to stock up on stuff.I don't really know just how much olive oil we used in a year but we used a lot.

gOOD MORNING NIECE, tHIS IS PROBABLY GOING TO SHOCK U BUT I NEVER KEEP OLIVE OIL ON HAND. i DON'T USE ANY KIND OF OIL MUCH. i KEEP CANOLA OIL ON HAND BUT A BOTTLE LASTS ME A LONG TIME. I like a well stocked kitchen but i don't guess u could say i stockpile anything except just for myself i buy in bulk on most things because it is very hard for me to go to the store & real hard for me to get things in the house when i do so i don't go as oftenas most people do.

Olive oil is so expensive here I don't use it. I am really not sure how to convert it but 10 ounces runs normally $11.00 or so in the store and I can buy canola oil for about $2.39 for 16 ounces. A big cost difference that I can't justify.

I do not stock pile it, i just get some more when we run out, I hate Olives, but my husband loves them..I use olive oil when ever i need oil. And i love using olive oil with some herbs added just to dip my bread in.

Hello, Thea. I love olive oil, although I can't manage to pour half a bottle on my salad, as the chap sitting next to me in the restaurant did last week. I probably use about a litre a month, give or take a drop or two. I couldn't buy enough for the year though, as we don't have that much storage space. Luckily I don't need to, as there's never any shortage here.

what do i need to stock in bulk? apart from bullets (6 sacks per year at the last count)?. pasta, coffee and tinned tomatoes. now are you drinking some of this oil thea? - i use olive oil every single day for at least one thing and i'd estimate i get through about 3 litres per year. or are you doing the greek thing of pouring it on everything from pizza to icecream?

...Hi there theo09, My notifiers are all on. I love olives, the green ones. When I was younger, my Aunt, who I stayed with for a while, would buy jars of olives, just for me, I loved her dearly, not just for the olives, but for her caring and largess of heart. I don't like black olives, and I know olive oil is good for you, but I don't buy it often, recently, not as all. I use Wesson oil or a similar oil for cooking. It's interesting, your topic, are olives not being grown, or are the people wanting more than are available in the marketplace? I am making myself crave green olives just by writing about the? :o) Take care.

I probably go through one large bottle (a liter-ish?) per year, but then the husband uses vegetable oil to cook, so I'm the only one who uses it. I wasn't raised with olive oil and I can live without it but I like it for steaks and certain other things. What do I stockpile, mostly canned goods, I guess.

Hi thea after a short gap though it felt like weeks... Olives are very expensive here and not to mention the oil. Extra virgin olive oil being the most expensive. We buy not more than 250ml and it last for more than a few months. We use it for tortillas,pastas and pizzas. Also for chicken salad. My mother in law used to use it for a massage and sometimes on hair... on a very general note, we do not stock anything. Almost everything we use is available round the year and definitely the price fluctuates during off season. But then a varient is available at a cheaper price. For example we get green peas (fresh) only in winter, but for other time we buy frozen peas which take time to cook for a cheaper price than the fresh ones!!!