Who doesn't have a stock cupboard

LittleMissAspie

I don't have one. I hate cluttered cupboards and we rarely eat cupboard food anyway. My cupboards mostly contain crockery, cooking utensils, gadgets etc. I have two half-cupboards with edibles in them, one has olive oil, lemon juice and spices/herbs/salt and the other has my boyfriend's tuna, packets of whole or ground nuts and seeds, and eggs.

All other food is in the fridge (also lovely and uncluttered, everything lined up labels facing front so you can see every item in there) and the freezer (hard to have an uncluttered freezer really but I try to keep it tidy by not having too much in there at once).

I buy in bulk if it's cheaper but not to keep things forever, I use them as normal and replace when they run out.

kiss_me_now9

We have a proper larder that my BF and I cleared out on Monday; now the stock pile is massively diminished but at least anything we pull out will be in date! My parents tend to avoid tidying/rotating it because they just haven't got time. I love the thing and get a bit :S when it's low - food is a bit of a safety blanket for me! Can't imagine not having it.

Popperwell

LittleMissAspie wrote: »

I buy in bulk if it's cheaper but not to keep things forever, I use them as normal and replace when they run out.

Mine is a store cupboard but it is being used and items are being replaced. If I don't(being single)a lot would just go passed their dates and be thrown out but luckily the dates on many items are long...years long in many cases.

I'm going to try and tidy it up a bit more and make certain the items that expire soonest are at the front and that I can see what I have more easily. Even it means buying some storage boxes...and perhaps putting a list of what's inside the box, how many and the dates.

Popperwell

It's funny I love food but I eat less than I use to and so many of my meals are simple and put together in minutes...

Lots of cheating...salads that can be done in minutes. If it's a meal like a meat and two veg(I often use frozen veg)and possibly some sliced meat(rather than cooking a joint of meat(and the cost of the energy)Cereal and fruit or fruit on it's own. Fish and chicken.

A lot of sandwiches.

Basic comfort food.

And of course what I have in the fridge/freezer. That has to be used first.

prepareathome

Oh can I point out my store cupboard is a 'living one' - I use it daily I don't just put stuff in and forget it, that is not the way it should work......

I have stuff in kitchen and when it runs low or out go to store cupboard and replace it and then when next shop replace what was taken out of store cupboard - just have to remember to always to put new items at the back. So you could say I shop for items I have run out of in store cupboard if kitchen cupboards are classed as normal food supplies.

Nothing ever sits there for years, I never have that much in nor space to have that much stock.

If I of course totally run out of something both in kitchen and store cupboard ( by the way its actually a bookcase in study for food and shelves under window in study for toiletries and a big plastic box for packets like sugar, pasta, rice etc) then of course I put things straight into kitchen and if bought enough then that goes into stock cupboard.....

I have a fridge freezer where freezer is half size of fridge as full size to big for narrow kitchen ( always felt as if it was going to topple on you) and a big chest freezer which I keep full and do try and go through them both at least once every 3 -4 months as chest freezers are so easy to keep taking and filling from the top - did have baskets that came with it but they took up precious space so removed. So I grab my plastic laundry basket and place it by chest freezer and toss everything into it until I reach the bottom as I remove most meat/fish etc from the packaging they come in as they take up so much space and put in freezer bags and so easy for say a couple of pieces of fish to slip to bottom. I keep a pair of thermal gloves by freezer for this job as hands do get rather chilly to say the least.

Missli

I always keep a stash of basics in my cupboards/fridge just in case.

In the store cupboard are lots of: rice, red lentils, macaroni, pasta penne, spaghetti, tinned tomatoes, passatta, butter beans and other pulses, tinned tuna, tinned anchovies, baked beans, flour, and bread making ingredients, spare unopened sauces (ketchup, encona hot pepper sauce, etc), boxes of chamomile tea, drinking chocolate powder, digestive biscuits, lots of different herbs, and spices, and usually marmite, peanut butter, and honey for spreading, recipes, or snacks.

In my fridge there is always milk, cheese, bags of onions, carrots, apples, bags (various sorts) of potato, garlic, and sausages (all sorts). I don't buy a lot of frozen stuff except peas, and sweetcorn, fish-fingers, and chicken nuggets (for my son who is a poor eater). I also freeze fresh ginger, and chillies, and keep those in supply.

These are staples, and good store-cupboard standbys. I have a fear of running out of food, with 2 hungry children to feed, so make sure I always have this stuff to hand.

I do a weekly shop for fresh stuff, and replenish my store cupboard when supplies dip down.

BugglyB

Amaretti - Ididnt mean to sound like I didnt think there was any point in having extra food in the house! I also have a store cupboard and use it for keeping shopping costs down and weeks when I dont get paid on time etc. Its just good all round.

What I was referring to in my posts was previous posts saying that they had at least three months food in case of disaster or civil unrest. We've seen how quickly people descend into looting and rioting in these sorts of situations. Guess I'm just a doom monger, lol.

Popperwell

I think my store will last months/years but originally I did it not start it with an emergency situation in mind but should something unexpected happen that would be a bonus.:)

GreyQueen

Heaven forfend, but if there is a total breakdown of society, all bets will be off and the prepped ones better keep their heads down to avoid attracting attention to their supplies.

It isn't that long ago that things went belly-up in short order in Europe. Anyone recall the countries-formerly-known-as-Yugoslavia? Seige of Sarajevo?

I've read about people who managed to get thru those times holed up in urban areas. It wasn't pretty. Some smart cookies started looting early on and managed to barter their way thru the worst of the crisis with looted alcohol and smokes. Some women were trading their bodies for a can of food to feed their starving children.

I sincerely hope to never see such things again in my lifetime, but when things do go wrong, they go wrong very quickly and very badly.

Barbeduk

I've got a store cupboard, even though there's a huge supermarket around the corner. We used to live 15 minutes drive from the nearest village shop and would get snowed in every winter and I just can't get out of the habit of having a stockpile. Also it makes me feel panicky when I haven't got supplies! That baked bean mountain makes me feel .

I was gobsmacked looking in a friend's cupboards and they were almost completely empty. I couldn't live like that!

Edit: we've got a stockpile of wood too even though we can't afford the logburner yet!