Comments on: What Would Be Your Food Shopping List When Moving In To A New Home?

By: ALLENROU

ALLENROU — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:50:56 +0000

start with staples then go from there.

By: ozfan98

ozfan98 — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:38:24 +0000

If you’re looking for nonperishable things to stock your cupboards, you can get things like:
Main dishes – Pasta & pasta sauce (you can usually get pasta very cheaply on sale); soups; chili; all-in-one meals that even include the meat (like Campbell’s Super Supper Bakes, for instance); canned tuna and other meats (roast beef, chicken).
Side dishes – rice; packaged potatoes; pasta sides.
Fruits & vegetables – you can get a ton of stuff in cans, like pineapple, pears, peaches, green beans, asparagus, corn, peas, etc. You can also get dried fruit that will keep for a very long time.
Breakfast – packaged oatmeal; dry cereals.
Snacks – chips, crackers, rice cakes, cookies.
Condiments – ketchup, mayo, mustard, relish, salad dressings.
Peanut butter, jam and bread is great to have on hand for a quick bite with no cooking and very little prep.
Once you’re ready to buy refrigerator and freezer stuff, you’ll want to make a trip for dairy, fresh produce, frozen veggies, fresh meat, frozen foods like pre-made pizzas and other things that won’t keep during a move without fridge access. I find I can get a lot of things for good prices when I shop at a bag-it-yourself type of grocery store.

By: oldham_b

oldham_b — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:12:52 +0000

i’ll say rice coz i’m asian. Pasta’s good too. Next comes sauces like chilli and bbq and mayonnaise. Then comes milk and sugar and eggs and salt and flour. I tend to stock up on chocolates and cookies too… =)

By: Natalie

Natalie — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:21:57 +0000

Frozen dinners, like the big lasagnas and stuff.

By: p_doell

p_doell — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:29:07 +0000

A big bag of rice. My wife is Filipino, and they actually consider it bad luck to move into a new house without a bag of rice. When you think of it, it is very practical. Rice takes a very long time to go bad, its very filling, goes well with a lot of things, and its cheap.