What's in your stockpile?

kitschy

Yesterday I bought some heavy duty shelving for the garage and organised my stash so I can easily reach it and see what I've got. Imagine my panic when I realised there was no pasta or dry cat food! That's now been remedied, but the prices have rocketed (pasta 25p a bag up from 11p a bag in Feb) so I now plan on buying another set of shelves and being a better stockpiler. Most of my stuff is still from the Mr T double the diff exercise earlier this year, but I want to be a better stasher! This is what's in mine at the moment:

Tinned toms
Curry sauce
Dry and wet cat food
Toilet rolls
Dry pasta
Hot chocolate
Wine
Pancake mix
Teabags
Shampoo
Conditioner
Shower Gel
Deodorant
Moisturiser
Toothpaste and brushes
Soap
Candles
Fabric conditioner
Washing powder
Surface cleaner

What's in your stockpiles?

mi_jardin

Bread flour
Tin tomatoes
baked beans (bought on b1g2f from mrT)
gravy powder
candles
toothpaste
loo rolls (bought the mrT 24 for £7...will last us months!)
pasta (bought a 3kg from mrT when on offer last month, will last us forever!)
baby bath for the shower gel decanter
shampoo
washing powder
Soda crystals (always handy)
yeast (bought when I had an Ocado voucher)
dog treats (not essential I know, but they were on a good offer!)
bird fat balls (again not essential but when the local £1 shop got them in for the winter I bought quite a few packs as I don't go into town very often)
De-icer (bought 6 from Halfords when on b1g1f a couple of months ago)
Salt for paths

Its always interesting to see what other people have in stock, if only to see what I've forgotten!

tessie_bear

hi we have
baked beans
tinned spaghetti
peas
sweetcorn
pasta
jam
peanut butter
pasta sauce
passata
flour (plain, sr, bread)
sugar
water
chocolate
uht milk
washing powder

mostly in the garage but some in the kitchen...probably other things but thats all i can think of:)

joedenise

I can't see why it would be worth stockpiling:

Pancake mix - cheap and easy to make yourself. I think the mixes are very expensive unless you get them really cheap from somewhere like Approved Foods, when they cost just a few pence each.

yeast (bought when I had an Ocado voucher) - out of date yeast doesn't work well, if at all. I was given some out of date bread mixes but wouldn't rise properly - think it was because the yeast wasn't working properly. When I used the next one I added a teaspoon of dried yeast which I had in the cupboard, which was still in date, which definitely helped.

I tend to buy extras of things like loo rolls, tins of things I use regularly like beans (baked, chickpeas etc); dried pasta, rice.

I like to keep my freezer full with HM "ready meals", to help when money is tight, particularly December and January. We've been living out of the freezer since mid November so that I have been able to save some of the shopping budget and now the freezer is emptying, I have both the money and the space for my Christmas food.

Denise

kitschy

joedenise wrote: »

I can't see why it would be worth stockpiling:

Pancake mix - cheap and easy to make yourself. I think the mixes are very expensive unless you get them really cheap from somewhere like Approved Foods, when they cost just a few pence each.

I agree - normally I wouldn't have this at all, BUT, at the time, (long story) Mr T were paying me £1.50+ per tub to take it out of the store!

I would like to have more freezer space - I have a tiny freezer on top of my fridge, and no room indoors for any more. I live on my tod, so have always had a mind battle over whether it's worth running another freezer or not. I'm a bit allergic to switching things on! :rotfl:

Emm-in-a-pickle

My old airing cupboard is one stockpile:-
Cleaning cloths/brushes/sponges/kitchen roll etc
Cornflour/veggie suet/`cheat`minty lamb gravy/cooking sauces etc/stashes of jars of mintsauce/ various types of mustard/redcurrant jelly/cranberry, etc., tomato sauce (bought when on offer)
Dried herbs & spices stash.
Multi-packs baked beans/tinned toms/tom soup/tuna
Instant noodles & mash (DS & DGD favour these if I`m out at work so use lots)
Basmati rice in BIG packs when on offer

Second stockpile in caravan:-
All of the above when no room yet in airing cupboard, PLUS-
Usually 3 or 4 multi-packs of toiletroll
A sack each of dogfood/peanuts/black sunflower seed/potatoes/
Sacks of firesticks, & a couple of boxes of firelighters.
Laundry stuff/stardrops & washing up liquid.
(I don`t stockpile pasta anymore as we don`t use that much)

Cat501

My storecupboard looked really good a month ago but it's amazing how quickly it can go down!

Still have plenty of : loo roll, shower gel, baked beans, tinned toms, tinned kidney beans, rice, pasta, tinned soup, instant noodles, red lentils, and big bags of paprika, ground ginger and garam marsala. Have run out of spaghetti hoops and very low on tuna and risotto rice! Loads of yellow sticker sausages of various types in the freezer, they'll keep the carnivores here going for ages. I too am dithering about getting another freezer, didn't think I had room for one but forgot about the space I'd earmarked for that dream dishwasher! It's a real quandary.....:o

bramble1

Baked Beans, pasta, rice and soup are mostly whats in the storecupboard.

oldtractor

cleaning products,both personal and household.
food ,frozen tinned and dried.
coal and wood.
underwear and socks.
spare boots and wellies, gloves,hats and scarves.

jem132

i have in my stockpile

20 tinned toms
22 backed beans
14tom soup
10leek and pot soup
120 loo roll
30 kitchen roll
32 packets of custard
100 packet sauce mixs ie cheese sauce,sasage cassaroll
50 shower gell
20 tubes of tooth paste
20 new toothbrushes
2 freezes full of meat mostly lidl weekend offers and te$co 4 £10
20 bread mixs
4 of each flolur
loads of other baking stuff
40 wood floor cleaner (in my new house i only have one will last years)
38 cif multi purpose cleaner
20 spray dom bleach
30 tolet bleach
6 big and i mean big lenor
20 big 5klio box of washing powder
30 boxs of dishwasher tablets

more but cant think what

60 boxs of 40 tea bags
10 hot chocolate jars
20 jars of coffee
10 bags of suger
10 bags of porage oats
0nly 5 bags of rice
and i have run out of pasta (whats going on )

off i go to mr m to stock up on pasta at least

Miró

Got the usual dried goods and cleaning products....

Also have a 'spare'

Kettle
Toaster
Hairdyer
Iron
Hand Blender
Hand mixer
Sheets & Towels
Tights
Reams of printer paper

Oh dear!