Do you regularly run out of milk, bread, cereal etc?

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Strange question but we get our shopping weekly and at some point we run out of these things before replacing them. As far as I'm concerned this is normal life but 16 year old ds1 gets moody and annoyed about this. Are me and dh idiots for not getting 'on top' of this problem or is he just a moody teen? I know this seems very petty but he's driving me mad at the moment🙄

There is no reason why he should be allowed to feel and act superior though…. And would need to be tackled because I imagine that’s not the only issue where he act superior/thinks good shopping is women’s responsibility (and he can be critical) etc…

Yes and it needs hammering out of him now or he may end up with his wife on here at a later date about her dick of a husband who refuses to do his bit as it's beneath him.

Sometimes. When I have not been on the ball with it, dc can use/drink 6 pints of milk in 2 days, I normally buy 3 x 6 pints a go.

Cereal is an odd one as some weeks they eat 2 boxes other weeks they eat none and have overnight oats/scrambled eggs on toast. It’s the kids responsibility to let me know if they need any.

I normally have a loaf of bread in the freezer & I bake a loaf on the weekend in the bread maker, I am also partial to a bake at home one from aldi.

Fruit is my biggest one, I’m always running out of fruit doesn’t seem to matter how much I buy.

Sounds like your teenager needs to step up and do some chores including the buying of milk/bread.

I do need to look at my food shopping and see what I can change.

No, there’s always bread, milk, cereal, eggs, ham and cheese.

I wouldn’t be able to keep up these with a once-weekly
shop; bread and milk are mid-week top ups

Yes, I do a top up shop, usually lands on a Wednesday. Can’t wait til dds are a bit older, they can go to the shop for me like I did for my parents. We’d skip to the shop to get bread and sandwich stuff. Your ds is 16 and can hop to it himself. Should stop his mardyness.

Rarely. We do a regular top up shop for this. Also have bread frozen and long life milk.

As an adult you should have a system in place, although always good to get your teen involved by going to the shop.

Same here, just text him to pick something up on the way home from school.
Also keep a loaf in the freezer and long life milk in the cupboard, and shout at Alexa when something runs out, and she'll compile a list for you

No never

is it fair to assume the teen is the one eating the bread and drinking the milk? Then he can be part of replacing it. Really cheeky to moan at you.

we sometimes run out as usage hard to predict - no one moans, we just go to the shops and replace. Rarely do a ‘big shop’ anyway to try to avoid food waste. Not always successful - but trying!

If he isn’t pulling his weight, devise a chores divvy up so he does.

You have to run the system, doesn’t mean he can sit on his arse. He can do the mid week shop,

(also you can keep spare boxes of cereal in the garage or a cupboard somewhere, if you have a small kitchen)

Rarely if ever. I know what we use and by the end of Friday (I do my weekly shop on a Saturday morning), we’ll still have enough milk/bread.

If we run out milk there's a shop just down the road so we go and get another bottle of milk but if we run out things like bread, ham, cheese or cereal we just eat something else instead so it doesn't matter if we run out of one of those things. We don't need all of them available at all times. Milk is just the thing we always have and always replace if we need to. That being said there's a couple of bottles of UHT in the back of the cupboard if we're really desperate the the shops are closed.

No, I see what we have in and if it's not enough to last until the following weekly shop, I buy more. Usually 4 pints of full fat milk one week and 4 pints of semi skimmed the other week. It lasts way past its best before date. 1 loaf of bread gets bought if there isn't one in the freezer so that keeps supply up. We don't eat loads of bread tbh. And one box of cereal. Only the 3 year old regularly eats cereal so one box most weeks is enough (we usually have 2 open boxes for choice).

He needs a good talking to about respect and pulling his weight - the lazy cock.

I'm going to presume that he has arms and legs and isn't in a wheelchair, or something.
As such - he can get off his hole and walk to the shops to stock up, when needed.

We usually keep 2 litres of long life milk, and as soon as one is opened someone will be sent to the shops. Sometimes this is DH who often pops to the shops for work, or it could be any one of the children. I am unlikely to pop out for milk as I don’t use it at all.

As far as bread is concerned, I tend to keep one in the freezer, plus often one in the fridge too if the open one is nearly finished.

We have a system where you write what is needed on the list on the fridge, if not on the list, it won’t get bought.

if someone wants something we are out of, there are 2 supermarkets in walking distance and they can ask for the money to get it.

Just DH and I at home but we do run out of milk if I'm not keeping on top of it (it's only me that uses milk). I don't really mind though as I will either have black coffee or get myself a cappuccino from the supermarket cafe if I don't have any milk for my morning drink (supermarket is only a 5-10 min walk away)

A 4pt of milk usually lasts us from date of purchase until its just about to go off, so I often let it "run out" before I buy a new bottle. That way I'm not chucking out any milk (I hate waste) as there's no overlap between old and new milk.

Bread we don't use as much of, so I keep the loaf in the freezer and snap the odd slice off when needed. Rarely run out.

Cereal lasts forever so having a couple of new boxes in the cupboard while the old ones run down is no hardship.

We constantly run out of milk and bread. We live opposite a corner shop and everyone on the road is used to using it as an extension of their kitchen cupboard.

No because I live on my own with no teenagers.

I either run out or have loads left over that gets thrown out so I can never win. I now try and make sure I've got a spare milk in the freezer for emergencies!

Evidently physics passed you by.

Mum to three teens and we never run out.

We are always running out of milk, despite having 2 pints a day delivered just in case. There are two days they don't deliver and deliver double before, and those days are particularly bad. I buy extra, as there are six of us, but we always seem either to have stacks or none.

It is generally down to the children who don't bother to check how much there is before whipping up French toast, milkshakes or cereal and then don't bother
to mention it afterwards.

No, we always have long life milk, plenty of cereal and bread, plus I can put a loaf in the breadmaker overnight if needed. We like to keep a 3 month store of essentials. My DH needs his 4 cups of tea first thing, so we could never run out.

Actually, come to think of jt, we run out of cereal to. I view this as Karma, however, as I have no way of knowing this if people shove the empty boxes back to they don't have to make the massive journey to the other side of the kitchen 🙄 to put the box in the recycling.

But it's mainly milk. UHT/freezing milk not an option as no one will drink it.