Who doesn't have a stock cupboard

recoverydust

Store cupboard organised and ship shape, consulted various lists to make shopping list.going to track down the best value stuff.

And baked my first loaf of bread in 30 years and it is yummy and breadlike...

Feeling smug about neat store cupboard and smug about bread.

heavenleigh

New store room, decluttered and newly painted, off to buy some shelves tomorrow.......am i sad that i'm excited about it?

GreyQueen

Not sad at all. When I read your post before the one with the picture I felt ENVY. Good luck with the shelf-hunting and can we have pix when it's all set up, please?

emweaver

I am one that does not have a stock cupboard. I plan for meals and buy what I need. I usually have pasta, stock, gravy and sauces such as ketchup in the cupboard but that is it. Our fridge and freezer is the same come the end of the week all we have is frozen veg, butter and maybe some ice cream.

Popperwell

emweaver wrote: »

I am one that does not have a stock cupboard. I plan for meals and buy what I need. I usually have pasta, stock, gravy and sauces such as ketchup in the cupboard but that is it. Our fridge and freezer is the same come the end of the week all we have is frozen veg, butter and maybe some ice cream.

If the cupboard and fridge freezer is well stocked...and perhaps you don't use everything each week, its still a store of sorts...and you have the basics, you could just add an odd thing here and there and perhaps just have two small crates hidden somewhere. You can do so much with basics...

Popperwell

heavenleigh wrote: »

New store room, decluttered and newly painted, off to buy some shelves tomorrow.......am i sad that i'm excited about it?

Brilliant and lucky you...wish I had a spare room like that!

emweaver

Popperwell wrote: »

If the cupboard and fridge freezer is well stocked...and perhaps you don't use everything each week, its still a store of sorts...and you have the basics, you could just add an odd thing here and there and perhaps just have two small crates hidden somewhere. You can do so much with basics...

The types of foods people say they have stocked on we don't eat very often and we dont like to eat the same meals every week. If we bought what we needed and stocked up on basics that would possibly never be used it would be a waste of money to us.

We are in walking distance to a shop so even bad weather doesn't affect us and the chances of us both being too ill to leave the house for shopping is unlikely and if we were that ill we would be too ill to cook anyway.

heavenleigh

Popperwell wrote: »

Brilliant and lucky you...wish I had a spare room like that!

I think maybe it was a pantry when first built, either that or the cubby hole under the stairs (that is now a toilet/washroom) It was built in the 30's so there must have been a store cupboard/pantry somewhere, but over the years before i bought it the house has been extended a few times (from 3 bedrooms to 5) and i dont really know where the original things were xx

heavenleigh

GreyQueen wrote: »

Not sad at all. When I read your post before the one with the picture I felt ENVY. Good luck with the shelf-hunting and can we have pix when it's all set up, please?

Of course there will be pics, this is my special little project for the summer holidays (poor kids)
Only problem is i will buy the things tomorrow but oh (who works in construction) will probably take 6 months to put them up!

PipneyJane

emweaver wrote: »

We are in walking distance to a shop so even bad weather doesn't affect us and the chances of us both being too ill to leave the house for shopping is unlikely and if we were that ill we would be too ill to cook anyway.

And what would happen if you were one of the unlucky people caught up in the NatWest banking fiasco last month? Would you starve until the bank gave you some cash? Rely on your credit card?

Even though I do not have an account with RBS/NatWest/Ulster Bank, this was a very real scenario for me last month, since my employer banks with NatWest and our payroll was due to be processed about 3 days after the problems were first announced. Fortunately for me and my 6000+ UK-based colleagues, it went through. However, I did have to consider the prospect of paying a mortgage and a month's worth of bills when there was no cash in my bank account.:eek:

emweaver wrote: »

The types of foods people say they have stocked on we don't eat very often and we dont like to eat the same meals every week. If we bought what we needed and stocked up on basics that would possibly never be used it would be a waste of money to us. .

I think you are missing the point, somewhat. The basis of a "stock cupboard" is a well stocked pantry, filled with foods you like to eat but with enough wriggle room that you can take advantage of discounts and sales to stock up when you see them, thus saving you money. It also enables you to not have to shop every week, thus saving you time. If the world goes to hell in a handcart it means you've got suppllies you can eat, but that is a side issue. If you don't use it, don't buy it.

Approximately 90% of my recipes start the same way (fry onion with garlic) and a good 60% follow that up with "add chopped tomatoes" but we're unlikely to repeat a meal more than once every 4-6 weeks. The rest are either roasts or cake.

I have a well stocked "pantry". It includes flour, pasta, rice, cheese (in freezer), meat (in freezer), fish (in freezer), dried beans/lentils (some cooked and frozen) and cans of tomatoes, tuna, salmon and mackerel. What it means is that if I fancy pasties, I have the ingredients handy to whip up the pastry and some filling without having to dash to the shops. Or if we have unexpected guests drop in around tea time, I can turn out a batch of scones (thank heaven for food processors). Or when the first batch of chocolate brownies that were baked on Sunday for my birthday turned out too soft to take to work I could whip up a second batch when I found out at 10pm because I had the ingredients in stock.