You Must be Kidding Me

Otherwise known as "How can we be out of that AGAIN, so soon?" BTW, have you entered to win a $150 or $100 Visa Gift Card? Interested in ice cream that's 150 calories for the ENTIRE PINT?

Milk. Toilet paper. Cheese. Stonyfield Farms Yogurt tubes.

Strangely, cheese.

We run out of those things every time I turn around. The milk, I  can kind of understand - my oldest son drinks a gallon a day. Riley would eat four yogurt tubes a day if allowed, most of them frozen. We also run out of orange juice and grape juice as soon as they arrive in the house, and bread goes in 2 days during the school year.

During the summer, I buy bread maybe once a month. We just don't eat many sandwiches when we aren't packing for school lunches.

We can keep a lot of stuff for a while, but it's gotten so that every time one of us goes to the store, we bring home a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread - and cheese of one type or another - without even checking with each other.

Because we know.

Cheese might be Babybel, string cheese, American, Colby Jack or Muenster. But we never have all four at once. It's like a law or something.

What are you always out of at your house?

Comments

[KG]

TIME

there is just never enough TIME.

Everything else my husband buys by the truckload at Costco. Plus 3/4 of mine are 6 & under so I only have the one 13yo who could drink a gallon of milk but for now paces himself :)

[amie]

Flavored waters, gold fish crackers, and apples. Can you tell my kids are back in school?

[Beth]

lunch meat, yoplait yogurt (the yummy black forrest cake ones) and saline solution. 6 out of 8 of us wear contacts :)

[amy]

wine :)

[Carolyn]

Bagels, cream cheese, milk, and lemonade! (But I have to confess, I'm pregnant and right now those are the only things that consistently sound delicious. So they're not usually such high priority items, but right now, we're at the store in the evenings twice a week to make sure I don't run out!)

[addy]

Bread, tortillas,ICE CREAM, you ever heard of the ice cream burglar?

[Retro Jordans]

Great site Garth! I've looked at it many a time and enjoyed. Now I understand why the Chinese do exercises every morning as a way of life... (that's true isn't it, that a.m. exercise is a way of life?

[Shelly]

Bread and fresh fruits. My boys LOVE fresh fruit and we are always out of them..apples, bananas, oranges, peaches, pears, cherries...the list goes on.

[Luckyduck]

We're OK, at least for tonight. That's because last night we were out of fruit, milk, bread, bleach and lemon juice. Do you know how hard it is for me to find some random item in the grocery store like lemon juice (or marshmallows, or matches, or safety pin)?! And while I'm venting, can someone in this family please put the name of the item that is in short supply on the white board? It's not that hard, really! Can't tell you the number of times I have gone to the grocery store and when I came home and opened a jar of mayo, or need to use an egg, there is none left.

Tonight, we were not out of anything, but found we needed to have a seat cushion for our child's rear as she sits in the bleachers with her dance team at the football game that is tomorrow. You guessed it...a trip to the big W. This turned in to a trip to Academny when Wallyworld failed to produce. Did I mention I have shopped for school supplies three times for one child? Tomorrow, I am sure it will be necessary to go to some store to get some item. It will be an emergency, and it won't be on the white board.

There, I feel better!

[Kait]

Eggs, bread, cheese and nutella. We go through those like there is no tomorrow and right now there are only four of us! I can't imagine what we'll go through in six months when we have six people in our house!

[Jennifer]

Toilet paper.

[Carrie]

Cheese, sliced turkey, Ritz whole wheat crackers, honey, bananas, grapes. Bread. We go through so much bread. I buy peanut butter in bulk. Like a case at a time so we have not run out of that yet(I have five kids). We have a lot of case lot sales around here so I try to stock up in the fall and spring on things that we normally use like peanut butter, black beans, soups, tuna, apple sauce, etc.

[HolyMama!]

always ALWAYS out of milk, but i subsist on kashi bars so i can't stand if we run out of those. my kids like those hideous fruit gummy things that are shaped like transformers or batman or bugs. those are so gross. but i still buy them in bulk.

[kyooty]

Waffles. I still haven't found the happy buying using ratio. AJ goes through 64waffles in 2wks, with help from TJ and MJ when they want them.

[Backpacking Dad]

Patience.

And milk.

[Tish]

Bananas, bread, lettuce, and OJ.

[Jenn W]

Milk, yogurt (kids eat it constantly), cereal, toilet paper and paper towels. My kids LOVE Babybella cheese (as we call it) but I rarely buy it since it's so darn expensive!

[Nelson's Mama]

Cat food and dog food!

[Justice Fergie]

love this post! we are ALWAYS out of milk, Popsicles, juice and diapers/pull ups. i live at the grocery store. i can address each and every cashier and manager by name. it's a problem.

[Amanda]

Bagels, paper towels, and cheese. ALWAYS.

[Brandy]

We're always out of Milk, breyers yougurt, sandwich meat and sandwich cheese. Especially since the meat and cheese we buy are low sodium and light, meaning only a few stores here in The South carry them. *sigh*

[MamaCas]

Milk, eggs, bread, bagels, cheese slices, and apples. When I go shopping, I pick them all up...whether they're on my list or not. Cuz I'm guaranteed to run out if I DON'T pick them up.

[Kristie]

Apple juice!! We would normally be out of milk and bread, but we have the milk delivered and we buy bread at Costco and freeze it. FYI- people look at you funny when you buy 8 loaves of bread and 8 gallons of apple juice.

[NikkiMoon]

This has been a really sore subject at the Moon household lately. It is almost maddening how fast we can go through food with our 6 kids age (14,13,10,9,4,2 years). I sometimes feel alittle guilty getting upset over it but mostly because things are wasted or eaten in their bedrooms or half eaten and stuff in the sofa cushion. But our main items are Cereal, Milk, granola bars, cereal bars,lunch meat, any sort of package snacks, tea, good cheese.

[Sandra]

we are always running out of milk and fresh fruit.

i never ever run out of bread bc i keep my bread in the freezer. i buy a few loaves at a time when on sale. my family only likes a certain wheat bread, so i buy lots of it and keep it in the freezer.