Stocking up!

I agree that it is a good thing to do. If we could afford to I would do the same.

My household tends to have a good amount of peanuts so that we can make peanut butter and wheat for bread making and baking yeast is always in the freezer.

We always stick up on our meats and canned veggies only thing canned as far as veggies go we get is green beans we buy a big bag of frozen corn it lasts us a while. I hope you find good deals on your stuff when you get it.

Price hikes and shortages are making stockpiling a necessity. With the government extorting more money from us, we don't get tax returns either. Stockpiling is difficult when one lives paycheck to paycheck. But as much as possible, we have been doing that since last summer. Many suggest purchasing from My Patriot Supply and the like, but their prices are outrageous.

I run my pantry and household stuff like a business and keep an inventory, track prices, and shop according to who has the best price—always. And I have always done it this way. In times like these there are many items I simply will not buy unless I absolutely must.

Besides basic items to bake and cook with, spices and so forth, make a list of maybe 2 weeks worth of meals that your family truly likes to eat. Put the ingredients for those meals on your list, possibly buying enough to make the meals more than once if your family really enjoys them. Keep plenty of flour, sugar if you use a lot of it, things to do basic baking with. I always keep some dehydrated eggs as well as egg replacer for baking if eggs are really high. They work fine in baking. Yes, you are so right, rice, pasta, beans, you are a busy mom, so stock some sauces you can toss on pasta in a hurry if you need to. It's not the healthiest to eat canned sauces all the time, but it beats the cost of fast food when you're tired and hungry. Don't forget the paper goods you use, as well as cleaning products, dish soap, and so forth. It takes a lot of planning and such to run a home, doesn't it? But to be able to go to the pantry and freezer for ingredients to throw a meal together is priceless. Good way to spend your extra money, for sure.

I'd have to say soda is one of the big things for us. Along with a few other things. Salad fixings are a big thing for George.

With just the two of us, I don't bother to stockpile too much. There doesn't seem to be much point for us. We do buy extra meat if there is a good deal going and we freeze that.