Building a Pantry, Step 6: Shopping Again

As you go continue to spread your food shopping trips further apart, keep tabs on how much money you are spending and try to make a budget that works for your house hold. Each time you shop think about the categories approach and build up what you have on hand. An example of this might be with grains. Maybe you start out with a few large bags of rice, so on a subsequent shop when you still have rice at home, you could grab barley or pasta, and create a wider variety of items in your pantry.

If you find that you still have a good amount of staples on hand, it could be a time to grab some extras you missed the first time you shopped, things like extra oil or nicer cooking vingears or different spice blends.