Serious Eats - seriouseats.com

I do hoarding (though generally with things, not food), but my mom also is a SERIOUS cranberry hoarder! Our freezer is almost entirely cranberries. I love it!

Why else would anyone own a freezer if they weren't going to stock up on things they like. I spend way too much time picking blueberries in the summer and freeze them for use all year. I also hoard things like cuts of meat I use regularly when they go on sale; for use later. During the holidays I buy a turkey when they are "loss leaders" for use later in the spring.
Now if you really want to talk hoarding, I can't remember the last time I threw away a glass jar that looked like I might be able to can or store something in it. I may have to build a room addition to house all my jars ;~O

Pastorelli's pizza sauce...it's getting harder and harder to find around here. I finally found a quick recipe I like just as well, but when I run across those little cans somewhere, I forget all about the recipe and buy a dozen!

@czken - I'm a jar hoarder too! I store dried beans and grains in them. As others have mentioned, buying extra stuff on sale or in season and freezing or canning just makes good sense.

When I was a very little girl, I hoarded my candy. My mom was pretty strict about how much I could have, so I'd put it into an index card holder (remember those?) and save it. Sometimes I'd secretly take it all out and spread it before me like Midas gloating over his fortune. This was before I learned that things get stale, moldy or full of bugs if you don't store them properly. What can I say? I was probably 3 or 4 at the time.

Whats wrong with dried cranberries?
I hoard everything. When I can buy things on sale I do. When I go to a place I only go now and then I do. 1 deep freeze, 2 refrigerators. Large pantry and two smaller holding areas. I hoard therefore I am.

i agree with sadiepix, where i live it's speckled trout, shrimp and crab season and i'm catching quite a bit right now. i only keep seafood for six months or less in the freezer, if i get to five months and there is still a lot, i give it to co-workers. and as pooch does, i also stock up on good olive when it's on sale, i ain't never seen an expiration date on this stuff.

@JerzeeTomato Dried cranberries are fine for lots of things but not my cranberry muffins - too sweet I think, @Cary I forgot about the pizza sauce but my hubby hoards that.

Mustard, mustard, mustard. There are some I must always have backups of and then there are the ones that I have because they have caught my eye and I simply must try. Yay, mustard!

If you buy the non sweetned ones they will work nice. I buy them at TJ's.
Craisins are sweetened I believe.

I hoard. I have 50 lbs of rice, 50 lbs of beans, enough canned tomatoes and spices to make 100 gallons of spaghetti sauce, and the list goes on. You would be hard pressed to find room in any of my cupboards...chopped clams, soups, fish steaks, coconut milk...other then fresh foods, I could probably eat for a year without shopping.

I used to hoard meat and chicken when it was on sale and before I knew it I had two freezers filled. I would hear that the price of something related to its production was going up or was in short supply and I just knew that meant no more porterhouse steaks for the family. Then the recession hit and my business was affected and I realized that I had to eat what was in my freezer and pantry. Good thing I found some meat that had been in the freezer for two years! What a crazy compulsion it was.

Yeah I call it "stocking up" too...it sounds nicer than hoarding. Generally I don't stock up that much - I only cook for myself, so if I buy too much of one item, it takes forever to go through it (and I can't afford to just throw extra things out). I do tend to stock up on my favorite brand of whole coffee beans (Peet's) when they're on sale, and also buy baking goods in bulk when they're on sale. The one other specific thing I can think of is Hershey's cinnamon baking chips. They're only available during the holiday season - why I don't know; it drives me nuts, though - so I buy tons of bags so I can use them for months.

I hoard everything that has to do with food. Canned, frozen, spices A LOT of spices.

Look, the bottom line is, if it's a great price, and a rare item that you may need for something in the future if you find the right creative moment, get it.
It's never a bad thing to be prepared for an impromptu dinner party.

I wouldn't call it hoarding either. It's more like buying stuff when it's available vs. stuff you don't need (which is how I construe "hoarding"). I like to stockpile (THAT's the word!) fresh cranberries in November and blueberries in summer. I also freeze fresh peaches if I'm lucky enough to have a friend with a tree. I pit them, leave them with the skin on, and freeze in ziplock bags. I've also been known to pit cherries and freeze them.

I guess you could say I have a large amount of olive oil on hand as well - but it always gets used and none goes to waste.

Peaches peaches and more peaches.

My goodness, dear, that's not hoarding. That's thrift. Right now I'm buying nectarines by the crate and slicing and freezing them in gallon ziplocs. Also forcing my children to pick strawberries at the U-pick until their little fingers fall off and freezing, canning, and dehydrating them. Little further on in the season it will be blueberries and raspberries, then blackberries. And oh, the tomatoes! On and on it goes. But I'll be happy in november when I look into my stocked pantry.

Oh, I do tend to hoard Friendship brand cottage cheese (4% is my guilty pleasure). It seems to disappear from the grocery store for months at a time, so I stock up. And I pay no attention to the expiration dates. It's already spoiled milk, how is it going to go bad?