Provision means to stock up on food or other needs- aka (grocery) shopping. The term provisioning is used widely in the boating world due to the stock-piling necessary for survival when living on a boat. The cost of goods in the Bahamas is much more than we'd pay for the same items here in the United States, so our goal with provisioning was to purchase as much food as we think we'd need over the course of the next two months- for the 5 of us and a few guests who will be joining us along the way.
Before we left, we provisioned at Costco and Publix. Besides the 5 of us, we will be having some visitors join us along the way.
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If you chose B, you are correct!
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| Both carts are ours. |
We could have picked up a lot more, but we quickly learned last summer that trash and recycle aren't always readily available, so that meant a lot of hauling it around with us. As you can imagine, that built up quickly, got stinky, and took up our limited and precious space. We went in with a less-waste mindset to help us make some decisions about what we'd buy.
I honestly wasn't sure all of this would fit. Ben knew it would. I was just super excited to organize it all.
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| Most of the haul sat in the bed of the truck. The bins are each packed full, with leftovers sitting in the bed along the edges. |
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| Frozen and cold items were placed in a bin and sat inside the air-conditioned truck cab. |
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A peek into the settee, after some Costco items were already stowed, leaving mostly the Publix haul. Plastic bags are awful for the environment and normally we use our reusable bags. We dropped most of them off to be recycled and kept a few to use as trash bags while on the boat. |
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| If you don't know, this family loves milk. We usually go through about 3 gallons a week when we are home. Not super excited, but we bought about 9 gallons of shelf-stable milk in hopes of stretching out our consumption and not paying an arm and a leg for milk in the Bahamas every week. (Several cases of Horizons Organic Singles are hidden under these 32 oz. boxes.) |
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| Pantry next to Bear's room is full of backstock items, mostly. |
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| This is the storage space under the fridge. |
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| The fridge, surprisingly, isn't as full as I thought it'd be. Most of our cold items are freezer items and are in one of our 3 freezers, which are packed FULL! (Not pictured because you can't really see past the top layers.) |
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| Main pantry area- with snacks and frequently-used items. The bottom 2 shelves are awkwardly shallow, so those shelves are full of whatever would fit there!) |
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| Hidden goodies in the drawers under the washer/dryer. Hoping it is a well-hidden spot for a while! The milk is in the drawer just below this open one. |
These little stools came in handy for hiding food. The kids don't even know that they open yet!! (Any guesses on how long we can keep this gem under wraps?)
Closed stools in the settee on the left. On the right you can see a ton of storage, now stocked with food.
Ben was right. It all fit. I did have to get creative toward the end as well. Some wound up in Bear's closet, our closet, and the laundry room- not all pictured here to keep you from getting bored.
The hardest part was finding great hiding spaces so Moose wouldn't break into the food he wanted most, leaving us hungry and without food in a week. (Anyone else have children who eat any and everything in sight every afternoon morning day??)
All of this is exciting to organize and put away. I'm hopeful that I'll remember where things are when I need them, which is another reason for taking the pictures. The pictures are good documentation or as one of my fellow type-A besties suggested: organizing my organizing. My other best hope is that we didn't purchase too much or too little food. A little one way or the other will be fine. Since we've never had to provision for this long of a trip before, now we have a starting point moving forward!
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