![]() ![]() It’s taken years and years for me to learn this principle, as I was always the very embodiment of the “shop meal by meal” approach, which can work for a single person household but which has proved to be untenable in my current rural existence. In the coming months, I plan to periodically discuss the concept of buying in bulk-not necessarily as a means of amassing huge quantities of food, but as a means of strategically stocking your pantry for longterm meal preparation, and, in the long run, saving considerable amounts of money. It’s an important lesson for any home cook to learn I just had to move many miles from civilization to learn it. If a key ingredient is missing in my meal preparation, I simply have to wing it. But in the country, with a hungry cowboy and four kids to feed, I learned very quickly that there’s no “running to the store real quick” if I run out of an important staple. In the city, with every convenience at my fingertips, it never occurred to me to wing it in the kitchen, to reinvent the wheel, to make do with what I had…because what I had, grocery-wise, was anything I ever wanted. Oh, believe me, I’m not suggesting that one has to move to the country in order to be inventive, resourceful, or creative. Before I moved to the country and started raising a family, I hadn’t a clue what that adage meant.
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