Who doesn't have a stock cupboard

Popperwell

fuddle wrote: »

pops you have more than me! I saw your lager Store envy here.

What I do, when I have everything (have you got everything now?) Is calm down with my buying. So, as I have a nice store of everything I need (2 in store and 1 in use) when the one that is in use runs out and I have to get the one from the store I add to my shopping list that I have to replace. This has reduced my monthly shop drastically. I'm well on target this month for coming under budget and going to reduce my budget next month.

I see a store as a way to save money on shopping, as well as preparing. Hope that you can pull back soon pops and see some real money saving with the groceries. I fear Aldi is going to be your haven when it opens

Does your stocks allow to feel a sense of calm for the future? I hope so.

I think so Fuddle,
I had a reasonable choice for Mum and myself but never what I could call a store room, your idea of two in stock and one used is a pretty good idea. Perhaps I said it on the blog but where some items were quite close date wise and at best have 2013 as their dates...now some are dated 2015 so will last ages. And tinned stuff often is ok long after the date on the tin.

Now I have a shopping trolley even if I have to add bus fare(perhaps I will visit a neighbouring town and explore other supermarkets now and again)as they do allow push chairs on board so a trolley should not be a problem. I mean Bishop Auckland has an Aldi, Lidl, sainsbury's Tesco's, Iceland, ASDA and Morrisons. A Poundland and a B&M. There are more than that. You are spoilt rotten there, all you need is money to spend.

Bigjenny

Pops don't know if you have ever looked into this, to see if you qualify for a Disabled Persons Bus Pass.

This site has some information http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/travelandtransport/publictransport/busandcoachtravel/dg_10036264

HTH

quintwins

Pops you have loads, i'm just wondering if you think you need a store of tumblers for some emergency i'm yet to discover


Just be careful folks my food cupboard is next to my fridge (was in the old house aswell only higher) and i had to throw 3 bags of flour out this week cause they had got so damp from the condensation for the fidge motor the bags were acually mouldy and the flour was in clumps. i'll be changing my cupboards around in a few days, everything else in there is in a proper plastic packet, a tub or a tin.

elona

DD came home for weekend and was able to let her have washing up liquid, laundry liquid, toilet rolls,shower gel, hand wash, porridge sachets, tinned tomatoes , baked beans, pasta sauces, pasta, quinoa and some frozen fish and some pork steak to take back.

It may not be fancy but it is stuff she does not have to spend time, money and energy to get.

DH was not happy when I got a few two litre bottles of water for emergencies but when neighbour had to cut off water supply (and ours as shared stop c*ck) and I could fill kettle for cup of tea - he seemed to change his mind.

Pops

If you bought premium bonds with some of the money - would that count? Or an ISA?

raven83

sharloid wrote: »

I can't believe there are people who don't have any kind of stock at all! Not even a few tins they never open unless it's an emergency?

I don't have a stock cupboard... I have a stock pantry!
I also have a cupboard full of flour/sugar/herbs/spices and other baking things.

This is similar to what mine is like, I have a pantry full of tins and packets, I am always buying things for it with my weekly shop to keep it topped up. I have a cupboard for of baking ingredients and every flour possible, cake decorations, flavourings etc and a massive herb and spices haul. I feel really on edge if my cupboards start getting low:o

Popperwell

I might not have thought about that QT, regarding the flour etc...at present my food store has to be where the tumble drier and fridge/freezer is but it's away from them. I hope that I can move things around a bit.

In doing so I freed some space as I found items that were best before around march/april of this year even something going back to 2011. They might be ok but I decided to let them go.

Popperwell

elona wrote: »

Pops

If you bought premium bonds with some of the money - would that count? Or an ISA?

I have wondered about that myself Elona.

Wish I had shelves for my store room Raven, may have to move things around a bit, see if I can get more tinned stuff in the kitchen cupboards and more dry goods/cartons into the crates.

Did I say some of my goods are now dated as far ahead as 2015.

Peabel

Hello, can I join this thread please?

Popperwell, I love those pictures of your store cupboard, I would be much too embarrassed to show mine. I would be interested in reading your blog but I have never done that before, how can I access it (don't laugh people, I have never looked a blog before).

We are living in a rented house which has a pantry and ample storage in bathroom for toiletries and cleaning/laundry stuff. We have about six months worth of pasta and rice, and then stocks of tinned goods, peas, beans and lentils, herbs and spices, stock cubes and oils, vinegar etc.

I have a stock of flour, sugar and stuff to make cakes, biscuits and bread, but none of the baked items, cos they wouldn't last five minutes!

I have about three months worth of toiletries and about one year's worth of laundry detergent and fabric conditioner :eek:

I suppose that we would be considered quite well off, but we live in Perth, WA which is the most remote city in the world and regularly features in the top 20 most expensive places to live. Things go out of stock and take a while to come back in.

In the past, both as a child, an adult, and a parent, I have been in situations, both self made and outside induced, where we have not had enough. My store cupboard(s) are my insurance against this.

Peabel

GreyQueen

Welcome, peabel. I once had an interesting evening chatting with a Perth lady in a youth hostel in Scotland - temps of about 40 in summer, isn't it? Does that impact on your food storage?

elona premium bonds count as capital for the purposes of claiming means-tested benefits. They have to be declared.

Haven't added a single thing to the store cupboard over the weekend but have rearranged some of the tinned goods. I would adore a larder but my tiny kitchen ( 6 x 8 feet) has very limited cupboard space. Most of the larder is under the bed in a mixture of wheeled trollies and flat banana tray boxes. It sits on a tiled floor and it is both dry and airy under there.

When the few items in the kitchen wall-cupboard go down, I "shop" the store and then renew the store when I see a sweet price. It isn't rocket science but I find it works for me.

Re storing flour, I had a couple of bags in a kitchen wall-cabinet with an air vent where it should have been fine. Unbeknowst to me, my (then) neighbour had a water leak coming into his bathroom from the flat above his own. He didn't speak English and didn't communicate with our mutual LL, so the problem went on for months. I knew the guy above him and he had no idea that there was a slow leak from under his bathtub. I had flour ruined by damp and I was very annoyed as it had been bought on a 3 for 2 and the price had gone up substantially since purchase, never mind the offer wasn't there any more.

After it was all resolved, I changed my kitchen around so that cupboard holds crocks and don't keep any dry goods like flour on the party-wall side of the flat.

We're mostly from the generations who never bought more than would be needed for fairly-prompt use, so this is something we'll all have to learn, depending on our individual circumstances.

prepareathome

Hi Peabel, your city is one I hope to visit if I ever get over - son who now lives in Melbourne getting married there in 2014 has visited your fair city and loved it.

Having read about a few peoples problems with damp flour for whatever reason in the past, I keep my bags of flour in storeroom with Bay leaves around, was told they help keep insects away, in plastic containers and decant them into cereal containers from Ikea to store in kitchen cupboard. I freeze my flour for 24hrs before it goes into these just to be sure nothing in them as my storeroom is 3rd bedroom and combi-boiler is in there and although no heat on still does get rather warm in there especially since we put the freezer we got from Freecycle the other week in there as it seems to give off a lot of heat.

I got my first and maybe last order from AF last week and at moment its all still in boxes it arrived in as only spent £42 but got so much for my money and got now to try to find places for everything so it can be used in rotation.

I am like you GQ I 'shop' in my stores and put those items in kitchen cupboards. Then when go out 'real' shopping the new items go into stores.

I had read on MSE people were finding value lines disappearing but yesterday in my local Mr S they had full shelves of things like basics tomatoes (31p), tinned potatoes(19p), carrots(20p). I cannot stand mushy peas so never look at them -even if I was starving I could not eat them as the texture makes me gag.