What are your storecupboard and freezer staples?

picklednut

I'm trying to build up my cupboards and freezer so I have a selection of foods to make meals with. I often find if i haven't been shopping I struggle to make any meals with the food I have in the cupboard. I'd like to get to a point where I have 3 or 4 or more meals I can make with cupboard / freezer stuff only for times when I can't bothered to go shopping or for whatever reason. I've read on hear people have stuff in their cupboards they could live off for months!

What do you always have in your cupboards and freezers as your staples? What meals do you make with them?

Thanks!

cleggie

Cupboard:

Tinned tomatoes
Tinned tuna
OXO cubes
Spices
Herbs
Soy sauce
Worcestershire sauce
pasta
rice

Freezer:

diced onions
chilli
garlic
mince
chicken breast
garlic bread

coldcazzie

Cupboards: pasta, rice, chopped tomatoes, tomato puree, passata, tinned fruit, tuna, onions, potatoes, flour, seasonings and herbs/spices

Fridge: cheese, eggs, milk, butter, carrots, philly

Freezer: mince, sausages, diced chicken breast, peas, various soups

I can always make cottage pie, toad in the hole, sausage casserole.
I can usually cobble together a creamy chicken something, lasagna, or risotto.

I try to have some frozen celery/peppers/mushrooms in for the recipes that need them but that depends on what I've made recently and when I last went shopping.

cutestkids

Freezer

Peas
Green beans
Peppers
broccolli
Bread
Rolls
Garlic bread
selection of crumpets, muffis, pancakes etc (kids love these for breakfast)
ice cream
frozen berries

Cupboard

Tinned tuna
oxo cubes
chicken stock cubes
veg stock cubes
baked beans
aweetcorn
mushy peas
tinned tomatoes
passatta
kidney beans
butterbeans
chick peas
peanut butter
chocolate spread
jam
crackers
porridge
worchester sauce
soy sauce
sweet chilli sauce
curry paste
mustard (dried and jars)
selection of spices including cumin, corriander, chilli, nutmeg, cinamon, ginger etc.
Olive oil

Fridge

Butter
eggs
cheese
bacon
mushroom
salad stuff
carrots
onions
garlic

Also when I cook bolognes, chilli, shepherds pie I try to do more than one so that I can put one in the freeser for another time

LondonDreamer

I think my essentials have all already been listed above, so these threads might help...

Storecupboard Essentials
What essentials do you have in your freezer?