No groceries in the house
It has been a joke in my family for years. One day my dad declared, “There’s no groceries in the house!” despite the fridge, cabinets and shelves overflowing with food.
Turns out, he really meant, “There’s no peanut butter in the house!” Peanut-butter sandwiches are such a staple in his diet that to him, a house with no peanut butter might as well contain no groceries at all.
Most of us have something like that, though—The things we’re always using up, and that go right back on the shopping list once they’re gone. If those magic ingredients are on our shelves, we feel we can survive. If they are missing, we fear we’ll be going hungry, no matter how much else is on the shelves. You can see that anytime there is a chance of snow. Store shelves are stripped bare of bread and milk as people lay in their stock.
For me, the magic ingredients include brown rice, miso and frozen mixed berries. Oh, yes, and beer! And the cats said I also better mention catfood. They don’t add up to a balanced meal quite the neat way peanut butter, bread and (soy)milk do; but it works for me. What do you always keep on hand?
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