Winter food musthaves on a budget.

WantToBeSE

Medicines are a great idea, i'd forgotten about them.

I think i'll add them to my list, along with flour, sugar and other baking bits and milk powder.

WantToBeSE

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

No I don't.

Buy your own.

LOL, i swear you just visit different threads imparting your 'wisdom' upon them all!

betterlife

definitely oxo cubes (£1 for 18 from HB) basic gravy granules, hot choc, sugar, tea bags, long life milk, part bake bread, lentils, porridge, (medicine for us and kids) i also stock non perishables that dont need cooking incase of power cuts, baked beans, corned beef, basic custard and rice pudding etc, xx

DigForVictory

It's cold, dark & snow is forecast - what am I flinging into the supermarket trolley? (Presume a vehicle to get it home in!)

Porridge oats
(Fine dessicated coconut but that's what I like on my porridge)
Spuds. At least 5 kilos.
Onions (I buy one per person per meal, and if there are leeks & garlic puree, they go into the truck too.)
Every root veg you can stew, plus tins of stewing beef. (I start buying in early August & try to hold a steady cache til Spring!)
At least 3 bags of frozen mince as most of my quick cook meals are based on it.
Six cans of chopped tomatoes (if my can stash was looking puny)
A handful of tubes of tomato puree (T's budget the cheapest I know of)
Oxo cubes, peppercorns, chilli powder, taco &/or tortilla packet spice mixes, if you use them.
Packets of wraps - some have a month to run!
Cooking oil - biggest bottle I can lift, pour & cook with.
Cans of peas, cans of sweetcorn
Fresh peppers (I'll sliced &/or chopped them, then freeze them)
A couple of bags of frozen chicken strips - quick chicken wrap foundations!
Jars of curry sauce &/or sweet & sour sauce (add chicken from freezer)
Rice (the biggest sack you can lift is the best value, unless you only eat rice dishes once a month.)
Frozen burgers & burger buns
Favourite teabags - double the usual purchase
Double up granulated coffee stash
A couple of tubs of hot chocolate (I have sons who volunteer to do chores for a single mug)
A jar of Marmite &/or Bovril (great to cook with & again, son bribe)
Biggest bottle of lemon juice you can find. Cook with, and/or add to tea. Also improves most feeling-ropey-with-a-cold fluids.
Orange & lemon squash bottles - to keep the family hydrated (they don't all drink tea or coffee.)
Sachets of cappucino if you like coffee - add a splosh of brandy in the cold dark cut-off-from-power moments.
Jams, honey, sweeties, chocolate. (If Christmas hasn't filled the stashes.)
Fresh milk - 2 x 6pints is our usual shop.

Powdered milk I should experiment with sometime
Never managed to stock up on bacon - my lot eat it on sight.
Haggis is grand as a next level go-to, but an hour to cook.

I try to stock up on precription meds, loo roll & painkillers when the weather looks particularly unfriendly. If you can schedule a dentists appointment early in December, that's one less thing to worry about. (Oil of cloves if you can't. **Yeuch** but effective)

I also hustle the livestock into charging their tech while we've power. A kindle works for a long time, compared to a phone!

Sorry this will overlap with other folks lists but as I thought, faster brains posted!

bossymoo

Soups / things to make soups

Mmm with fresh baked baguettes...

Josslette

Thanks DigForVictory! Great list, looking forward to getting stocked up when pay day comes

good_advice

Winter is casserole weather. Slow cooker meat,veg and potatoes all thrown in for a one pot meal

my lot all like sausages

jacket potato with grated cheese

yesterday we had rice with veg in and quarter pound burgers

rice pudding, apple crumble

Josslette

I'm going to stock up on...

- Tins of beans - Baked, kidney, pinto, cannellini etc
- Squash
- Microwave Rice
- Microwave Popcorn - Cheap, easy, warming and nice to munch on whilst snuggled up watching films
- Value Pasta
- Passata
- Tinned Sweetcorn
- Tinned Fruit
- Biscuits
- Jam/Nutella
- Butter - Will put a couple in the freezer
- Custard and Rice Pudding
- Red Lentils
- Part Baked Baguettes
- Toilet Roll and Basic Toiletries
- Tinned Tuna
- UHT Milk
- Orange Juice - Good for when you have a cold
- Onions and Garlic
- Oxo cubes and Bisto Best Gravy

maman

bossymoo wrote: »

Soups / things to make soups

Mmm with fresh baked baguettes...

good_advice wrote: »

Winter is casserole weather. Slow cooker meat,veg and potatoes all thrown in for a one pot meal

I just bought shin of beef and portioned up for the freezer and made the first batch of soup for hot lunches.:)

Another favourite is ham & lentil soup using the stock from cooking a piece of gammon.

calicocat

I don't tend to add too much to my basics as I stock up my freezer. Possibly due to having been snowed in in the past I tend to be a bit over organised and could probably survive for 3 months on the things I already have made and frozen. (which can be a negative, as when snowed in I get bored and want to cook but then no room in freezer to put anything)

Cupboards I make sure I have pasta, rice, beans, s/corn, tuna, passata, tinned toms, marmite, p/butter,marmalade,stock cubes,salt,pepper,dried herbs,spices,garlic,ginger...etc.

I freeze a block of butter and a couple of blocks of cheese, also lemons and limes to use for drinks or cooking, and a couple of spare packs of pastry to make pies or lattice. You can freeze ginger too in usable lump sizes.

if I have room I also pre boil/half bake a load of roastie potatoes...especially if I find a big bag going for 30p like I did the other week...nothing wrong with them, and made probably 8 portions if not more.


I could probably feed a small country thinking about it...oh and I usually make lots of soup to freeze......you would think I lived in Alaska!!

Lots of the stuff I make are slow cooker casseroles and cost pennies if I have managed to get bargains at the shop.