Winter food musthaves on a budget.

WantToBeSE

I am just wondering what other people stock up on for winter? I always crave hot stodgy food when it is dark and cold outside, so i always make sure that i have some appropriate foods. I also love my slow cooker in the winter

This is the list i have come up with so far:

Porridge oats
Cheaper cuts of meat
Lentils/beans/pulses
Cous-Cous/Rice/pasta/Quinoa
Tins of beans/spaghetti hoops
UHT milk
Frozen veg
Frozen fish (for fish pie)
Bread flour
Bacon (for carbonara and bacon baps)


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EDIT: List so far (mix of everyone elses posts):

Porridge oats
Rice
pasta
Tins of beans/spaghetti hoops
Tomato Ketchup
milk
Frozen veg - Peas, Sweetcorn, Green Beans, Carrots, (failing that brought fresh and frozen)
Frozen fish (for fish pie)
Bread flour
Dried yeast
Bacon
Tea bags
Instant Hot Chocolate
Instant Mashed Potato
some nice things like chocolate, nice biscuits,etc for those very grey and cold days when you need a lift.
Cuppa Soups
Dried Fruit
Jam
Lemon Curd
Instant Custard
Mince
Oxo cubes,
Gravy granules
Packets of wraps - some have a month to run!
Cooking oil
Cans of peas,
cans of sweetcorn
A couple of bags of frozen chicken strips - quick chicken wrap foundations!
Jars of curry sauce
Frozen burgers & burger buns
teabags - double the usual purchase
granulated coffee
Orange & lemon squash bottles
loo roll
Microwave Rice
Microwave Popcorn - Cheap, easy, warming and nice to munch on whilst snuggled up watching films
Tinned Fruit
Biscuits
Butter - Will put a couple in the freezer
Semolina
Rice Pudding
Toothpaste
Deoderant
Value Orange Juice
Value Apple Juice
Cheese in bags
Tinned new spuds
Bread
Few whole chickens
Chicken portions
Cheap Value gammon steaks
Any cheap meat cuts I can find
Alcohol


Medicines:

-calpol for holly
-calpol for ben
- paracetemol
- ibprobrufen
- lemsip
- cough and cold meds for kids
- beechams all in 1
- haliborange liquid multivitamin for kids
- cod liver oil

fuddle

I would add stock cubes for soups and suet/lard for dumplings/yorkshire puds.

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Tea bags
Instant Hot Chocolate
Instant Mashed Potato
Pudding and Risotto Rice
some nice things like chocolate, nice biscuits,etc for those very grey and cold days when you need a lift.
Cuppa Soups
Instant Cappuccino Sachets
Dried Fruit and Jam/Lemon Curd for steamed puddings
Chutney and Pickles for cheering up cold meat and cheese
Oatcakes
Marmalade
Instant Custard
Dried Milk.

bossymoo

Tea and chocolate exactly what's being consumed here right now...

paidinchickens

Cherry brandy, only for when you have to go out in the snow and come in wet and cold.

savingqueen

custard and accompanying puddings (both ready made and ingredients to make) eg sponge puddings, strudels, fruit pies and crumbles mmmmmmmmmm

tins of soup and rice pudding

crumpets, tea cakes, currant buns and similar - lovely toasted and buttery with a pot of tea

root veg
casserole ingredients

some of mine already covered in previous posts

Fruball

Sachets of cooked microwaveable rice in case you come down with norovirus and are too weak to cook! This happened to me and my neighbour had to bring me a bowl of rice so now I always have some in the cupboard for emergencies.

Last time I was poorly, I found a tin of chicken in white sauce in the cupboard which the kids had with some rice so at least they had a decent meal. It isn't something we usually eat but I was grateful to have it in the house.

WantToBeSE

Fruball wrote: »

Sachets of cooked microwaveable rice in case you come down with norovirus and are too weak to cook! This happened to me and my neighbour had to bring me a bowl of rice so now I always have some in the cupboard for emergencies.

Last time I was poorly, I found a tin of chicken in white sauce in the cupboard which the kids had with some rice so at least they had a decent meal. It isn't something we usually eat but I was grateful to have it in the house.

No good for me, as i dont have a microwave! But i will make sure that i have a few quick and easy meals ready.

Rummer

I always make sure I have a variety of baking bits so that I can make cakes/breads/pizzas. Packaged foods like falafel mixes etc are handy to have as well as plenty of the basics like tinned toms.

This is something I am going to have to think about over the next few weeks.

Aside from food loo roll and a full medicine cabinet are essential for me.

cutestkids

OXO Cubes beef flavour make a lovely hot drink with loads of black pepper great for a cold.

Horlicks
Hot chocolate
Mini marshmallows for the hot chocolate
Lots of Homemade soup frozen into portions so I can just quickly defrost one when I want it.
Always have a good supply of cough sweets, paracetamol etc.
Sponge pudding
Chocolate biscuits.

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WantToBeSE wrote: »

Do you fancy sharing yours?

No I don't.

Buy your own.