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Your kitchen staple and why?

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  • comping_cat
    comping_cat Posts: 24,006 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    Pasta, brown rice, tinned tomatos, eggs, butter and cheese. I also keep stocked up on lots of other tinned products and frozen veg, i hate to think i could run out of food!!!!
  • scholt
    scholt Posts: 245 Forumite
    Garlic

    Because it has loads of flavour, so reduces the need for salt and makes everything taste fab frankly.

    Might not be old style but I couldn't condone cheap meat.
  • Pasta, Cheese, Eggs, Flour, Potatoes, Butter, Bread, sugar & onions - can usually cobble together some decent meals out of that lot
  • Kelinik
    Kelinik Posts: 3,319 Forumite
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    Tinned chopped tomatoes - they go in practically everything lol! :)
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  • Nix143
    Nix143 Posts: 1,130 Forumite
    All of the above, plus a chorizo or salami - pound for pound I can get more meals out of a chorizo sausage than any other meat. I tend to make a basic tomato sauce but slice a lil bit of that in and instantly its a chili type pasta sauce and because the flavour is so intense you don't need loads of meat. Plus salami goes in butties or sliced on top of pizzas - AND they keep for a relatively long time
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  • Sassers
    Sassers Posts: 1,303 Forumite
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    Mmmm Lidls do a huge salami for about 2.50. :D Well worth the money and lasts ages in sarnies, etc etc:j
    My other staples are butter, flour, eggs, potatoes and onions. Funny enough just made a potato and onion pasty which is doing in the oven at the moment. :T
    The size of a small slipper :eek: it cost about 20p in all - so looking forward to my lunch!:rotfl:
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  • Sassers
    Sassers Posts: 1,303 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic
    Mmmm Lidls do a huge salami for about 2.50. :D Well worth the money and lasts ages in sarnies, etc etc:j
    My other staples are butter, flour, eggs, potatoes and onions. Funny enough just made a potato and onion pasty which is doing in the oven at the moment. :T
    The size of a small slipper :eek: it cost about 20p in all - so looking forward to my lunch!:rotfl:
    Current debt and mortgage: £25, 820.35 Debt/Mortgage at start: £92,598 (27/09/2010)
    DEBT FREE!
  • Sassers
    Sassers Posts: 1,303 Forumite
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    oops sorry computer's playing up:mad: :eek:
    Current debt and mortgage: £25, 820.35 Debt/Mortgage at start: £92,598 (27/09/2010)
    DEBT FREE!
  • black-saturn
    black-saturn Posts: 13,937 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    For me it's mince. Theres so many things you can make with mince so as long as I have that in stock you can make a meal in a short time.
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  • In a previous existance my OH was always given Mince and now isn't keen! He is always saying her 1001 ways with mince! lol

    I always have pasta in sauce dried packet stuff in the cupboard. I am a slimming world member and these are free food on a green day - so can have them any time.

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