Flashback to my mother buying entire brown cardboard shipping boxes of cereal out of the back storeroom of the grocery store and storing it in her basement pantry ๐โค๏ธ
For those of you who have the luxury of buying in bulk, what do you buy in bulk when it's cheap? Do you do it because it's always going up in price, because it's seasonally expensive, or because it's a staple item that you always need. To what extreme do you go with your bulk purchase?
Examples from my own life,
- toothpaste and mouthwash, buy when cheap store extra tubes, usually no more than 5-10
- cleaning supplies, chemicals and towels. Enough to keep a backups closet stocked.
- pasta, probably have enough for a couple of months
- coffee, ten to fifteen bags
- shoes, buy multiples if I find ones I like
- consumable hobby items like bike intertubes
The basic idea is to identify the items I will almost certainly decide to buy then snag them up when they're at their cheapest to achieve long term frugality.
so, I always soak the beans overnight, and they don't soften even after more than a full day of cooking - it's almost like the cooking prevents it from further softening.
I'm not sure I've tried soaking 48 hours, though, and I would be happy to make them into a refried bean or cooked into a starchy soup - anything that doesn't leave hard beans would be great.
Thanks for this advice and for helping me, I'll try it out - this is giving me some confidence to try bulk beans storage again. I usually keep them in mason jars with the oxygen absorbers like you describe, so I'll try that again.
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