Anyone else do this on accident from time to time?
Anyone else do this on accident from time to time?
by tnick771
49 Comments
Dresden_2028
No, but only because my flour goes into airtight containers to keep the humidity out of it.
Pointy-Kitty
I do this with spices all the time. For some reason I historically cannot be arsed to double check what we already have.
Sad-Celebration-411
Every. Single. Week. I have four boxes of cake flour and 5 bags of powdered sugar.
optimist-21
Currently me with 1 airtight container of AP flour, two bags of AP flour, 1 airtight container of bread flour, 2 bags of bread flour, and 2 bags of GF flour
SpartanSoldier00a
No, because I buy ap flour in 10kg bags so i can usually safely assume i dont need flour when i go to the store. Cornmeal, specialty flours, and ww flour that I buy in smaller bags, get emptied into large storage jars once opened. It helps with storage and preservatin yes but something about this helps me not to have multiple open bags of the same thing, because it’s in my head to look for the flour container, not the flour bag
Clan-Sea
No, I do this on accident *every* time
WeirdGirl825
I hoard flour on purpose actually
MeInSC40
With butter.
Worried_Corner4242
I do it by accident with lots of things other than flour. You should see how much baking powder I have.
Carosello
Yup! I get so annoyed because I spend money I don’t need to spend just because I was too lazy to take a look at what I had on hand.
MrsLadyZedd
Oh yeah.
WeeLittleParties
Constantly, especially with powdered sugar. I’ll wad the bag up all the way when there’s only like a cup or two left, chuck it all the back in my pantry and forget it exists until I’m rummaging around for other ingredients during the next bake a few months later lol.
Smallloudcat
Yeeesss
Hiphophooray234567
I do this with butter. Sometimes I have 1 stick and sometimes 10
SecretAgentVampire
I open my flour bags from the center with a box cutter so I can pretend I’m a narcotics investigator.
maria_tex
This doesn’t tend to happen to me but, if it did, it would just be another way that my vacuum sealer would pay for itself!
hanimal16
*hides three bags of bread flour behind her*
Hair_I_Go
OMG! Just did this like 10 minutes ago. Added a new bunch to the flour container and went to put the rest in a tin and found another quarter bag😆🤨
Keep a note pad and pen easily accessible in the kitchen so you can write down quickly when you’re low, also if you bake often enough, I’d marry the two open bags, roll it up and keep it on/near your canister to use it up quickly since you already have an unopened back up bag. Get rid of the opened, not airtight bags first to clear up cabinet/storage space. You can also weigh it to get an idea of how much you have (if you have a kitchen scale, or even doing the weigh yourself with and without and find the difference method) because if you know how much you have to use up quickly, you can plan out a few recipes to get through it within in a week or two.
-I have ADHD and these are some things I do or otherwise the note pad thing I just watched a video about that which I somehow never thought of and it’s honestly been a lifesaver lately. I still forget to check the milk, eggs and cheese before a grocery run but everything else is better organized and I minimized unnecessary bulk. But I’m just shy of 35w pregnant and I have an aversion to the fridge and leftovers so I only open it to bake friendship bread every 10 days, give my kids juice or make them dinner (which my fiance usually likes to cook so that’s not something I even have to do often lol).
Solid_Chocolate9311
I combine them. That activity reminds me not to buy more flour.😂messy every time
TheLurkerSpeaks
Opposite. I am ways certain I have something stocked only to get home and forget I ran out.
Warm_Peak9545
There was a time in college when I kept buying vegetable oil every week for ~6 weeks straight because I forgot I still had vegetable oil.
Completely unrelated, I ended up getting an ADHD diagnosis a few years later.
lamettler
All. The. Time.
sarcago
Yes but I’d just combine the two smaller ones and call it a day! I would probably be able to get through those two in no time, especially with some kind of bread recipe.
katydid026
I’m more upset about that random cupboard door in the corner that looks completely unusable.. 👀
TheMemeRedeemer
What box do I check if I do it on purpose.
Dismal-Buffalo3600
There was a brief period where I did this with turmeric. I think I got up to 5 jars before I was like, girl stop!
Otherwise-Fox-151
No, I buy the giant bag, put it in food safe buckets, and freeze until i remember to take them out. I only have to buy flour a couple times a year this way.
I do that with stuff like ketchup, mustard, ect because yeah I can’t remember if I have an extra in the cabinet or not.
ModifiedSammi
Nope. I use 1 air tight container.
jcon567
Once ended up with about 5 separate rolls of parchment paper.
catsmagic-3
I just did this in November.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Exaggerbator
No, every time.
MilkRats
yes 🙂 im blaming the adhd though! plus i find unexpected flour when i need it 🙂
CheckRaiseDaTurn
No I buy 25lbs at a time.
MiddleFishArt
It’s worse when you think you have enough and then end up a quarter-cup short
BeyondAddiction
By accident* 😑
InMyNirvana
Yes but with sugar lol
Bearacolypse
I thought this was my kitchen for a moment.
caf4676
No.
All of the damn time!🤬
Impossible_Smoke1783
No, never is anything done ON accident. Perhaps BY accident
dishabituation
No! Never! (Says the woman with three bread flours in her cupboard currently 😂)
OpinionatedOcelotYo
Buy a weekend house.
liisathorir
I do this but I have ADHD. What I’ve done now is have a shopping list that’s shared with my partner. We both update it when needed.
The one thing that might be better is have a pantry inventory and when things are low/out of stock at home it can then be checked to buy.
GwennyL
I did this once with flour. I store my left over flour in the freezer (because the bag is too big to fit in my big Tupperware container). I had complete mom brain and forgot to check the freezer to see how much flour i had when i was making a grocery list – i just knew the tupperware container was low. Was at the store and bought another thing of flour since it was a good price. Went to put it in the freezer and I see the almost full bag of flour staring at me. Whoops.
inide
Sugar is where I do it. I forget to check the drink-making cupboard, so I currently have 2 bags each of granulated and demerara sugar opened. As well as bags of caster, golden caster, and icing sugar that are open. Yes, that makes a total of 7 opened packs of sugar, across 5 types….I’m type 1 diabetic.
nickalit
No. Never. Well *almost* never. I’m ~~ana~~ meticulous about everything has a place, and you put it back in its place when you’re done with it. Thus, stuff like this doesn’t happen. Well, that’s the theory hahaha.
Recent_Bumblebee_992
Yes, but see my 3 cans of baking powder. 😂
Tofuhousewife
Nope. I bake too much and am painfully aware of how little storage I have in my kitchen cabinets 😔
49 Comments
No, but only because my flour goes into airtight containers to keep the humidity out of it.
I do this with spices all the time. For some reason I historically cannot be arsed to double check what we already have.
Every. Single. Week. I have four boxes of cake flour and 5 bags of powdered sugar.
Currently me with 1 airtight container of AP flour, two bags of AP flour, 1 airtight container of bread flour, 2 bags of bread flour, and 2 bags of GF flour
No, because I buy ap flour in 10kg bags so i can usually safely assume i dont need flour when i go to the store. Cornmeal, specialty flours, and ww flour that I buy in smaller bags, get emptied into large storage jars once opened. It helps with storage and preservatin yes but something about this helps me not to have multiple open bags of the same thing, because it’s in my head to look for the flour container, not the flour bag
No, I do this on accident *every* time
I hoard flour on purpose actually
With butter.
I do it by accident with lots of things other than flour. You should see how much baking powder I have.
Yup! I get so annoyed because I spend money I don’t need to spend just because I was too lazy to take a look at what I had on hand.
Oh yeah.
Constantly, especially with powdered sugar. I’ll wad the bag up all the way when there’s only like a cup or two left, chuck it all the back in my pantry and forget it exists until I’m rummaging around for other ingredients during the next bake a few months later lol.
Yeeesss
I do this with butter. Sometimes I have 1 stick and sometimes 10
I open my flour bags from the center with a box cutter so I can pretend I’m a narcotics investigator.
This doesn’t tend to happen to me but, if it did, it would just be another way that my vacuum sealer would pay for itself!
*hides three bags of bread flour behind her*
OMG! Just did this like 10 minutes ago. Added a new bunch to the flour container and went to put the rest in a tin and found another quarter bag😆🤨
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Keep a note pad and pen easily accessible in the kitchen so you can write down quickly when you’re low, also if you bake often enough, I’d marry the two open bags, roll it up and keep it on/near your canister to use it up quickly since you already have an unopened back up bag. Get rid of the opened, not airtight bags first to clear up cabinet/storage space. You can also weigh it to get an idea of how much you have (if you have a kitchen scale, or even doing the weigh yourself with and without and find the difference method) because if you know how much you have to use up quickly, you can plan out a few recipes to get through it within in a week or two.
-I have ADHD and these are some things I do or otherwise the note pad thing I just watched a video about that which I somehow never thought of and it’s honestly been a lifesaver lately. I still forget to check the milk, eggs and cheese before a grocery run but everything else is better organized and I minimized unnecessary bulk. But I’m just shy of 35w pregnant and I have an aversion to the fridge and leftovers so I only open it to bake friendship bread every 10 days, give my kids juice or make them dinner (which my fiance usually likes to cook so that’s not something I even have to do often lol).
I combine them. That activity reminds me not to buy more flour.😂messy every time
Opposite. I am ways certain I have something stocked only to get home and forget I ran out.
There was a time in college when I kept buying vegetable oil every week for ~6 weeks straight because I forgot I still had vegetable oil.
Completely unrelated, I ended up getting an ADHD diagnosis a few years later.
All. The. Time.
Yes but I’d just combine the two smaller ones and call it a day! I would probably be able to get through those two in no time, especially with some kind of bread recipe.
I’m more upset about that random cupboard door in the corner that looks completely unusable.. 👀
What box do I check if I do it on purpose.
There was a brief period where I did this with turmeric. I think I got up to 5 jars before I was like, girl stop!
No, I buy the giant bag, put it in food safe buckets, and freeze until i remember to take them out. I only have to buy flour a couple times a year this way.
I do that with stuff like ketchup, mustard, ect because yeah I can’t remember if I have an extra in the cabinet or not.
Nope. I use 1 air tight container.
Once ended up with about 5 separate rolls of parchment paper.
I just did this in November.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
No, every time.
yes 🙂 im blaming the adhd though! plus i find unexpected flour when i need it 🙂
No I buy 25lbs at a time.
It’s worse when you think you have enough and then end up a quarter-cup short
By accident* 😑
Yes but with sugar lol
I thought this was my kitchen for a moment.
No.
All of the damn time!🤬
No, never is anything done ON accident. Perhaps BY accident
No! Never! (Says the woman with three bread flours in her cupboard currently 😂)
Buy a weekend house.
I do this but I have ADHD. What I’ve done now is have a shopping list that’s shared with my partner. We both update it when needed.
The one thing that might be better is have a pantry inventory and when things are low/out of stock at home it can then be checked to buy.
I did this once with flour. I store my left over flour in the freezer (because the bag is too big to fit in my big Tupperware container). I had complete mom brain and forgot to check the freezer to see how much flour i had when i was making a grocery list – i just knew the tupperware container was low. Was at the store and bought another thing of flour since it was a good price. Went to put it in the freezer and I see the almost full bag of flour staring at me. Whoops.
Sugar is where I do it. I forget to check the drink-making cupboard, so I currently have 2 bags each of granulated and demerara sugar opened. As well as bags of caster, golden caster, and icing sugar that are open.
Yes, that makes a total of 7 opened packs of sugar, across 5 types….I’m type 1 diabetic.
No. Never. Well *almost* never. I’m ~~ana~~ meticulous about everything has a place, and you put it back in its place when you’re done with it. Thus, stuff like this doesn’t happen. Well, that’s the theory hahaha.
Yes, but see my 3 cans of baking powder. 😂
Nope. I bake too much and am painfully aware of how little storage I have in my kitchen cabinets 😔