Who doesn't have a stock cupboard

sophlowe45

Excellent, pesto, jam, and ketchup going in the fridge.

If tupperware can go in the fridge with food it, then i presume it can go in empty too = a bit of cupboard space for tins!

Fruball

sophlowe45 wrote: »

Excellent, pesto, jam, and ketchup going in the fridge.

If tupperware can go in the fridge with food it, then i presume it can go in empty too = a bit of cupboard space for tins!

I find that I run out of room in the fridge... but if you have spare space in there, chuck it in!

sophlowe45

fridge is the only space in the entire flat with lots and lots of free space. Everywhere else...i can never finish food that goes in the fridge before it goes bad so try not to buy food for the fridge apart from milk (only Cravendale everything else goes bad before i can finish it) butter, bread, ketchup, jam, eggs and pesto. I can't even finish a tub of philadelphia as it goes bad so quicly once opened. Have a rotting aubergine in the fridge at the moment.

Freezer is full, thankfully i have now read the thread that says once frozen food never goes bad. I was told by a work colleague that i could keep meat for a max of three months in the freezer, preferably one month and i believed him! I have meat and fish in there thats been there for more than a year and i thought i would have to throw it all away. Guess i dont, got whole chickens for £2 from M&S already marinated, just need to put in the oven and i thew one away as i was thinking its been in the freezer for too long, it must be bad by now. This board is amazing, my notes run into several pages on a word document.

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I have just heard about the bad drought affecting eastern european crops, harvests are down 50%, so that just strengthens the need to have a stockcupboard to cover at least the whole of the next 12 months. I have always had a stockcupboard, having been brought up in the 50s and seeing what living hand to mouth was like. Then again 70s and 80s when shortages really did happen

My stockcupboard is full but I am dehydrating my surplus allotment veg as though there is no tomorrow. I have a specialist excalibur dehydrator and it has made the job very easy. It was my choice not to have a second freezer but to go down the dehydration preservation route and tbh it was one of my best ever decisions. I am now about to go further and am investigating dehydration of fully cooked meals ie just add water, heat and eat. For the last two days I have been dehydrating home grown celery and have taken 4 big plants down to just two 470 ml boxes. Today it will be bought pineapples and bananas, tomorrow beetroot, next few days apple slices.

All in all my food storecupboard is going to be revamped and changed to some extent and I`ll be moving out of tinned veg and tomatoes and into dehydrated, which will save me an awful lot of space so I`ll be able to store a lot more of the food basics

prepareathome

What a great idea Kittie and one I hope one day to copy, but at the moment my dehydrated food is in the freezer until I can get a decent vacuum sealer. I can't trust them in anything else, so sadly for me tins for now are the way to go,but its not stopping me dehydrating anything I can. Am planning on having a go with strawberries today, as you know my dehydrator is only a basic one but so far I find if I leave it on long enough things get done.

I would love a set up like yours, one day hopefully....you are an inspiration and I mean that in the nicest way possible.

dizziblonde

I don't have much of one - we simply do not have the spare space in the kitchen is the reason. Plus my mother has a ridiculous one and she never ever uses 90% of what's in there - she's just got this emotional need to have a full cupboard - it could be full of poo for all she cares - long as it's full.

sophlowe45

Thought i would clean the fridge before storing stuff in it, so the stuff is still all out and i broke one of the pesto jars on my way out this morning. Waste of £1.46!

Amazing space management Kittie.

Dizziblonde - if you ever did have a small storecupboard then you'd have one where you used 100% of the stuff in it right?

D&DD

I have a serious fetish for Plenty kitchen roll I do use an awful lot of it as well as normal dishcloths I can reuse.

Whenever I see it on sale I always buy it therefore I've never actually had to pay fullprice for it.. but I think my eldest was trying to tell me we had enough the other day when we were sorting out their bedroom.
He said and I quote (!)I don't really need to put anything under my bed now but I'm going to because if I don't you'll end up filling it up with that *pointing to my packs of plenty sat on top of the games cupboard* :o

heavenleigh

As promised, updated picture of new stock room, the shelves have now been bought and built, it's slow going but i'm getting there, a few extra tins here and there to fill it up.
I feed 6 everyday, as well as saving me nipping into Mr T's for a loaf of bread and spending £40 i also feel much more at ease with the prospect of oh's job only lasting another few months.
Then again i am easily pleased, a few shelves will make me smile much more than flowers etc :0)

Popperwell

That's great. Much better than my crates and probably not as expensive...and I guess even though a food store is best hidden from public view should I ever be moved into a smaller property. I will erect shelves even if it is in a bedroom or a lounge, there's only me after all...if needs be I could fix a curtain across the unit...

Hope it doesn't come to that of course...