I like good, quality food.

Stuff that I can buy locally in the supermarket I will eat right away.

Stuff that are more difficult to get / are gifted to me, I may just pack away for a rainy day even though it should be eaten more immediately.

For example, in general, Japanese sake should be drank more immediately. It's not meant to be stored and aged like wine. And yet I'll keep a gifted bottle for months or years before drinking it (should generally be consumed w/in the year, sooner is better). Another example, Japanese snacks / cookies that come in sealed packages that are gifted to me - I may eat one out of the box then save the rest of the box (cookies are individually wrapped), eating them sparingly and on occasion. It may take me a year or so to finish a box of cookies that should be eaten within a day, perhaps a week, certainly within a month.

It's like a pack rat type of mentality. I don't know why I do it. I can't be the only one, can I? I need to stop. It drives my wife crazy.

Next to a full firewood shed, a full pantry of my favorite stuff feels good. I love feeling like I've got a bunch of ammo, but I benefit more from, and enjoy good food far more than ammo.

I love to cook, and I love to share my food.

I would rather have years of food than years of $$ in my bank account.

I don't stop...my family benefits. We eat what we store. No dinty more stew or MRE's in our house, we've got chilis, spices, good rices, wheat berries, preserved pasta's and quality canned (mostly home jarred) foods.

I learned the hard way. I'd rather eat it soon than let it go to waste which is a shame. Especially for the kinds of food you mention - something that is hard to get due to your location. We have to drive 4 hours one way to get to a decent Asian market in Henderson, Nevada. We put up the dogs for one day and night and make a day trip out of it.

I pig out on the food cooked in the premises and I just eat what we bring back without hoarding it even though it might be 2 or 3 months before we go back.

Somewhat related but a tad off-topic:

My wife comes from a background - both childhood and first marriage - where sufficient food, much less excess, wasn't a given.

As a result, she's something of a hoarder. A VERY well-stocked pantry is a major source of comfort to her. No problem there, we can afford it, it's practical and convenient.

The difficulty lies in volume, especially since we've been empty-nesters for 30+ years. Another phobia she has is "expired" foods. I've tried numerous times to explain to her that "best by" dates are guidelines, not drop-dead dates. No dice, if the date on the bottom of the can is 24 hours over, out it goes.

Best I've managed is to insist - to the point of words being exchanged - on not buying replacements until stock is down to a level likely to be used before expiration.

Sigh.

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Originally posted by konata88:
I like good, quality food.

Stuff that I can buy locally in the supermarket I will eat right away.

Stuff that are more difficult to get / are gifted to me, I may just pack away for a rainy day even though it should be eaten more immediately.

For example, in general, Japanese sake should be drank more immediately. It's not meant to be stored and aged like wine. And yet I'll keep a gifted bottle for months or years before drinking it (should generally be consumed w/in the year, sooner is better). Another example, Japanese snacks / cookies that come in sealed packages that are gifted to me - I may eat one out of the box then save the rest of the box (cookies are individually wrapped), eating them sparingly and on occasion. It may take me a year or so to finish a box of cookies that should be eaten within a day, perhaps a week, certainly within a month.

It's like a pack rat type of mentality. I don't know why I do it. I can't be the only one, can I? I need to stop. It drives my wife crazy.

I'm the same way. I feel like if it's something special that I received or bought I'm not going to be able to easily replace it so I hoard it away and never consume it. I really have to force myself to use it.

Chris

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:

We have to drive 4 hours one way to get to a decent Asian market in Henderson, Nevada. We put up the dogs for one day and night and make a day trip out of it.

Rey, have you been to H-Mart in Mesa? It’s about 2 hours, maybe a little less depending on how you drive. It’s a mostly Korean market. Across the street is Mekong Market. It’s rather large and has a fairly diverse selection, but seems to be more Thai/Vietnamese based. Five miles down Dobson road is Le Le Supermarket which is a mix of Asian and Eastern European foods.

I’m curious as to where you go in Henderson, as we had pretty dismal luck finding a good Asian market in the Vegas metroplex.

We've got a different problem...we always have to "double move" leftovers: first, from the restaurant (or table) to the refrigerator (thereby stuffing the refrigerator and making it impossible to find anything within or utilizing the refrigerator for its intended purpose); then from the refrigerator to the garbage.

I constantly *suggest* we eliminate the middle step and just move leftovers straight to the garbage from the restaurant or table.

My lovely, smoking hot bride, however, just cannot abide that thought process.

Oh, well.

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Originally posted by Beancooker:

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:

We have to drive 4 hours one way to get to a decent Asian market in Henderson, Nevada. We put up the dogs for one day and night and make a day trip out of it.

Rey, have you been to H-Mart in Mesa? It’s about 2 hours, maybe a little less depending on how you drive. It’s a mostly Korean market. Across the street is Mekong Market. It’s rather large and has a fairly diverse selection, but seems to be more Thai/Vietnamese based. Five miles down Dobson road is Le Le Supermarket which is a mix of Asian and Eastern European foods.

I’m curious as to where you go in Henderson, as we had pretty dismal luck finding a good Asian market in the Vegas metroplex.

I don't know about H-Mart. I've been to Medong Plaza in Mesa. They have a Dim Sum restaurant section there in what's their equivalent of a food court. And there's also an Asian market that gives 20% discount to veterans and military. That was pretty cool. But the supermarket itself had more "durable" stuff as oppose to stuff that quickly goes bad?

We went there for the dim sum and it reminded us of fun times when the servers who rolled the carts don't speak English and you don't speak Chinese and you just point to what you want to eat.

In Henderson, we go to Island Pacific Supermarket and Seafood. They have groceries and they also cook food on the premises to eat. That's a Filipino grocery store in an Asian open strip mall.

I'm sure there are Chinese groceries around Henderson. We went to a Chinese all you can eat where most of the people eating were Chinese and the food was targeted for Chinese people as in there were some unusual dishes on display.

In Chandler, there's 99 Ranch Market but even though it's big and there seems like a lot of well-to-do Chinese in the area, the offerings aren't as plentiful as the ones in the Bay Area.

I can relate to this to some degree. I always save the best for last and sometimes, it gets out of hand. And I think with me, I get into habits and straying from those habits can be different. Not quite uncomfortable, but I have to adjust.

I am sort of the same but instead of food I get usable goods.

Toothpaste, t.p., paper towels, stamps, cleaning products, bedding,
Basically sale items that will never be cheaper.



Shave cream, toiletries, pharmaceutical stuff.