Within the next year, we will be moving from a city where we are a mere ten minutes walk from a supermarket to a more rural area where we will be twenty minutes walk from a tiny corner shop.
As a result we intend to use the corner shop for the dairy perishables such as milk and the supermarket online shopping for everything else. We will have the luxury of more storage space so we can easily get cases of store cupboard items such as sugar, tins, kitchen roll etc.
The stumbling block is what I would call the mid-term perishables such as spread and butter.
The supermarkets have a minimum order before they will deliver and a higher order before the delivery charge becomes efficient. At the moment, because we can just walk in and shop whenever we want, we rarely hit even the minimum threshold. This means that I will go in for the milk and think "Ooh, the spread is on special, I'll grab a couple".
I know butter freezes (to a point) but the spreads generally don't.
How do I deal with the things like spread that only keep a few weeks if I am not ready to reorder any of the long-term stuff yet?
