Food supplies (non-perishable)

[hmpf]

We've recently discovered that we have mice again (we had some some four years ago, but got rid of them - but we live right beneath the attic, and occasionally mice from the attic will find a way into our flat). So we've been busy mice-proofing our supplies, i.e. putting everything in jars and boxes, and that drove the point home for me of how much edible stuff I regularly keep in supply. Am I weird? Or is this normal?

Here's what I usually have at least one packet of at home:

- rice (arborio & basmati)
- noodles (spaghetti, lasagna, ramen and 'soup noodles')
- semolina
- brown lentils
- red lentils
- beans for chili (I don't know what they're called) - in a tin
- soy beans
- chopped tomatos
- pureed tomatos
- dried tomatos in oil
- asparagus (in a glass)
- ground almonds or nuts
- whole almonds or nuts
- pureed peanuts/peanut butter

Plus the obvious - flour, sugar, salt, spices and sauces, onions, garlic, and the various perishables.

What about you?

Comments

[nick-101.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's weird at all. I personally don't like mice around my place.

Well, who does?!

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

*g*

Of course, our place would be much less attractive to mice if I kept less food around...

[amonitrate.livejournal.com]

nope, you are normal. Unless I"m abnormal too...

here's what I know I have offhand:

Rice (aborio, red, brown, basmati)
Lentils (red and green)
yellow split peas
beans (white and garbanzo)
spaghetti noodles
rotini pasta
peanut butter
whole almonds
whole hazelnuts
sunflower seeds
wheat germ
flour (white and whole wheat bread flour, white all purpose flour, chappati flour)
canned hummus
canned tomatoes
dried tomatoes
Steel cut oats
bulgur wheat

Mice are hard, we had them at our last house. Good luck! Now that I look at my list, I'm prime mouse bait. I think our house is pretty well sealed up, so I'm lucky.

I sometimes wonder at my flatmates.

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

Because I'm the only one here (out of four people) who seems to keep supplies. Their shelves are always almost entirely empty, while mine's always overflowing. (We have one shelf per person.)

Heh. My supplies and yours aren't so different!

What's steel cut oats?

Re: I sometimes wonder at my flatmates.

[amonitrate.livejournal.com]

same with me! My roomies also don't keep fresh fruit or veggies in the house for the most part. I have no idea what the heck they eat.

We do have remarkably similar supplies, for being thousands of miles apart:)

Steel cut oats are less processed than rolled oats so imho make better oatmeal. They might be called irish oats elsewhere? I don't know. here's wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel-cut_oats

they are delicious.

Oats.

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, now I know what you mean. I have those around sometimes, when I'm in a muesli phase. (I have muesli phases and non-muesli phases.)

I know what my flatmates eat, mostly. It's rather depressing. (Noodles without anything - because making a sauce is too difficult. Heated sausages from a jar. Frozen pizza. Etc.)

Re: Oats.

[amonitrate.livejournal.com]

yep, sounds like what mine eat. My brother, who lives downstairs, eats a great deal of cereal and frozen pizza. Upstairs roomie #1 eats lots of microwave dinners. Upstairs roomie #2... takeout and the occasional chicken breast.

It is depressing, isn't it?

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

I mean, my eating habits are far from perfect; a lot of the days I can't be bothered to cook, so I live on bread and cheese and yoghurt and muesly and fruit etc. a lot - and I will admit to the occasional frozen pizza or instant ramen. But at least I *can* cook if I want to, and try to do it at least once or twice per week. I dunno, it seems like such a basic, necessary survival skill to me. And it really isn't rocket science!

Re: It is depressing, isn't it?

[amonitrate.livejournal.com]

me too. Also, because of dietary restrictions, I can't eat most prepared foods. So if I want more than peanut butter or cereal or yoghurt I have to make it myself.

[jazzymegster.livejournal.com]

Hummus in cans? I didn't know it came in cans (well, not in England, anyway, afaik).

[amonitrate.livejournal.com]

well, it's not the best hummus in the entire universe, of course. Fresh is always better. But yep! In cans.

[jazzymegster.livejournal.com]

Wow...colour me stunned (I mean, I know you can put pretty much anything in cans, but for some reason, hummus never crossed my mind).

[jazzymegster.livejournal.com]

Apart from the dried tomatoes down, we have everything else on that list in our kitchen. Or have had at some point. So no, you are not weird. We added couscous for the first ever today (on my instance, as I am sick of rice).

No, you're not weird (and even if you were, we'd still love you anyway :D )

Not the best person to ask this question...XD

[jantalaimon.livejournal.com]

I have way more stuff than you on a regular basis. Plus, I buy rice and flour in 25 lb bags, which I keep in airtight rolling bins in my kitchen. *g*

I think as long as you're keeping it all in intelligent ways, and you're not a chronic spiller of those items who doesn't then clean up whatever they've spilled, you should be fine as far as mice go.

Funny story, when I was little, I had pet guinea pigs. And of course, we had pelleted food for them, and my mom wanted to teach me responsibility, so I was in charge of feeding them. I was very happy to do it, but I was also 6, and not the most careful of kids. I spilled pellets, but I didn't think much of it.

Later on, we had mice (which were NOT pets), and they were the most healthy, well-fed, sleekest pests ever since they were obviously eating all the pellets I'd spilled. XD

Well, I'm a single person who has to share a 4 square metre kitchen...

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

... with three other people. Admittedly, those three people don't cook, but there's still only so much you can store in that little a space, especially if that space also holds two fridges, a stove, a sink and dish cupboard... *g*

As for the mice... well, the last time it took ages to get rid of them, so I'm really afraid... (not afraid of mice per se - they're cute and all, and I'm not a person who jumps onto chairs at the sight of them. But I don't look forward to a repeat of that endless battle we had in 2003/2004.)

[ommadon.livejournal.com]

If I'm lucky there might be some (possibly out of date) meat and normally some kind of bread product.......... That's usually about it aside from spices etc of which (given I don't ever cook) I have hundreds.