Starting a Store Cupboard from Scratch

SpendlessKaren

As the title says really. If you were just setting up home and wanting to fill up your cupboards/freezer, what items would you say were necessary to have ?

Pink.

Hi SpendlessKaren,

This thread has lots of advice that should hlep:

Storecupboard Essentials

I'll add your thread to that one later to keep the replies together.

Pink

SpendlessKaren

Thanks. I didn't know about the other one and having had a look it answers my questions

Linda32

I would imagine its different for each person. I'd tend to wait and see what you want, and what suits a persons lifestyle, for example, do all members of the family eat together, or do people want different things at different times?

I can imagine following a list and then throwing alot of things out as you've just not wanted/used them.

HTH

poppy-glos

i'd agree with linda, plan a weeks food, (of food you like), then buy the ingredients for it. there are some things you will buy and only use some of (ie, flour, salt, pepper, curry paste), then the next week if you are doing recipes with these things in then you will not need to buy the things you already have in. Also in my storecupboard are extras where things i like are on offer, which are buy one get one free or reduced, so i buy loads (enough for a couple of months) so i have them in (hopefully) til the next offer. enjoy your new home, poppy x

oldtractor

And dont forget its not just food, its things like loo roll,toothpaste etc too.

Bella79

Hmmm for me it would be:

Flour plain and self raising
Corn flour
Stock cubes
Sugar
Pasta
Cous cous
Rice
Tin toms
Tin beans
I always have a few tins of tuna
Few tins soup
Selection herbs, parsley,rosemary,thyme,mint,all spice
Pudding rice
Jelly sachets

Viniger red and white
salt pepper
tom sauce (kids)
brown sauce
olive oile and xtra virgin


Toilet rolls
toothpaste

bleach
stardrops
cheap disinfectant
magi cloths

Freezer:
mince, so many uses
chicken breast fillets
always have a bag of oven chips
sweetcorn
mixed veg
sausages
and a tub of icecream lol