I came home from a shopping trip with 50# of flour and 25# of white sugar. Along with a good supply of nuts and chips and brown sugar. I've also got the big bottle of rum (for rum cake. No, really.)
When I mentioned to someone that I bought the 50# of flour, I was asked, "Will that last you a year?" And I said, "I'm hoping it will last until Christmas."
25# of the flour was bread flour, and that's usually how I buy it, until I run out and then I buy 5# or 10# bags until I get to buy another big bag. So I go through probably 100# of bread flour a year, I'd guess. And that doesn't include the variety flours that I add in. So I'm also using semolina, rye, wheat, and other things besides the bread flour. Some of this bag will probably go for some sweet breads, but otherwise it's mostly for our own use.
As far as the other 25#, that's for all the Christmas baking. And that's where much of the sugar will go, too. And I also make batches of nut brittles for the holidays, and that uses up a lot of sugar by the time I'm done.
Right now my pantry is bursting full, and it looks like I've gone a bit mad, but I figure that buying in bulk makes a lot of sense at this time of the year.
And no, DH and I are not going to eat our way into sugar comas for the New Year. Most of this goes for gifts.
So what have you stocked up on -- or what will you be buying soon?
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