11 Pantry Staples Southern Households Buy in Bulk, All Under $5 at Walmart

📖 The whole pantry — what to buy big, what to buy small, and how long each one really keeps — is written out in my book, Nothing Goes to Waste (e-book and audiobook): https://missevelynsnotebook.com/ Forty years, the same store, the same cart, the same eleven things — and not one of them costs five dollars. These are the pantry staples a Southern household buys in the big plain bag: rice, grits, self-rising flour, evaporated milk, white vinegar, vegetable oil, black-eyed peas, dried beans, salt, sugar, and at number one the one that makes it taste like a Southern kitchen and not like a cafeteria. For each one: what my mother did with it, the small expensive twin sitting beside it on the shelf, and what it replaces. Then the two seconds that change how you shop: the little number on the shelf tag, the one printed small, and low, and in grey. And the honest limit the other lists leave out — I bought family-size everything one year and threw a third of it away. Buying big only saves money on the things that keep. None of this is your fault. Nobody taught us to read the little number. They taught us to look at the big one. CHAPTERS 0:00 The same store, the same cart, the same eleven things 0:25 Three things to stay for 0:53 None of this is your fault 1:20 11 · Rice 2:07 10 · Grits 2:52 9 · Self-rising flour 3:40 8 · Evaporated milk 4:31 7 · White vinegar (and where it never goes) 5:29 Halfway: every one has a small expensive twin 6:04 6 · Vegetable oil — the big bottle, not the gallon 6:46 5 · Black-eyed peas 7:11 4 · Dried beans: the cheapest supper in my house 8:28 3 · Salt 8:58 2 · Sugar, and sweet tea by the gallon 9:36 1 · Cornmeal: the difference between food and our food 10:30 The whole cart, under forty dollars 10:46 One trick in eleven aisles: the little number 11:37 The honest limit: only what keeps 12:21 This week: one bag, the arithmetic once More from Miss Evelyn's Notebook: ▸ Stop Wasting Money: 10 Things My Mother Never Threw Away (And Why We Should Still Keep Them): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lavYKD5ujo&list=PLAx8wFt8e9HM ▸ I've Never Had a Bug in My House in 40 Years, The Old Trick My Mother Swore By: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6gycDWmfRg&list=PLAx8wFt8e9HM ▸ 12 Freezer Rules That Make Your Groceries Last Months Longer (I Lost 2 Years of Food): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF8k9y5sRJI&list=PLAx8wFt8e9HM ▸ 15 Foods for Your Winter Pantry — Don't Buy More Than This: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDiz10IK-zk&list=PLAx8wFt8e9HM ▸ Borax vs Baking Soda vs Washing Soda — My Verdict After 40 Years of Keeping House: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md706leWpt8&list=PLAx8wFt8e9HM ▸ 25 Southern Kitchen Rules Grandma Never Wrote Down (I Tested Every One — 7 Never Worked): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwDtywyjEEw&list=PLAx8wFt8e9HM ▸ 18 Old Southern Storage Tricks That Make Fresh Groceries Last Weeks Longer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WD_MZY2RVo&list=PLAx8wFt8e9HM ▸ All my kitchen & household videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAx8wFt8e9HM No miracles. Just what works ❤️