Cooking for one

caronc

Lovely to see you back Karcher:D

Hollyharvey

caronc wrote: »

It would be interesting to know what other folk have as there "must have ins" and what although a staple they don't mind running out of?

I'm with you on the milk, eggs, tinned tomatoes, onions and garlic. I also have to have bread, butter, a couple of tins of fruit, tea and coffee, porridge, pasta, and a couple of tins of beans. I always keep at least one packet of biscuits in as well in case I really want something sweet. If I was to run out of any of those I would panic, which is why I make sure that I never do run out of any of them.

caronc

Hollyharvey wrote: »

I'm with you on the milk, eggs, tinned tomatoes, onions and garlic. I also have to have bread, butter, a couple of tins of fruit, tea and coffee, porridge, pasta, and a couple of tins of beans. I always keep at least one packet of biscuits in as well in case I really want something sweet. If I was to run out of any of those I would panic, which is why I make sure that I never do run out of any of them.

Oh I forgot about tea, coffee and butter running out would be unthinkable :eek: and I always make sure I have plenty of those in. I probably need to add olive oil as well......and dried herbs and dried chillies

karcher

caronc wrote: »

Oh I forgot about tea, coffee and butter running out would be unthinkable :eek: and I always make sure I have plenty of those in. I probably need to add olive oil as well......and dried herbs and dried chillies

Must have milk as you say...having tea and coffee is no use without milk in my world.

So long as I have all the above, I'd cope

caronc

I'm swithering between what is a "staple" and what I consider to be a "store cupboard item":eek: if one and the same I need to add plain flour, red lentils, stock cubes, salt and ground black pepper to my list........:o

candygirl

I'd freak without cheese, n bread lol 😂

PasturesNew

I gave up milk about 35 years ago. I wasn't using it up, so it'd go off and be nasty to deal with. I was only using it at the time for quite dark coffees... and it saved me suffering other people's creamy milk overload in coffee when I said "yes, white".

I've usually got margarine in ... and usually got tins of tomatoes in ... but I did go years without bothering to buy/use any marg/butter as I didn't get through it. Tomatoes are mostly used by me as part of a cooked breakfast, or alongside mac/cheese, or, more recently, for lobbing into slow cooker recipes.

Potatoes I love, but I buy a bag, then have a break of some days/weeks. Eggs I like, I buy these in boxes of 10, but like to have a break.

If I just bought: potatoes, eggs, cheese, beans, loaf of bread, marg .... I'd find that I never had time to eat anything else. I have to give things a break to free up space to eat something else.

I've not often had a freezer in my life, hardly ever at all in fact. So I guess I started from a lifestyle where they weren't part of "the system of eating" - and now the one I've got's too small to freeze everything I could wish to eat ... and yet if it were bigger I'd, no doubt, just end up with food overload in the freezer.

Some others aren't always "just one", they have moments when they can break out of "the norm" to produce food for people/groups etc and so benefit occasionally from the freedom that brings as they can either use stuff up, buy a big packet of X, or make a big batch and freeze just 1-2 portions.

I even did Xmas dinner for 1.

karcher

candygirl wrote: »

I'd freak without cheese, n bread lol 😂

I can concur with that

caronc

I'd freak without a freezer LOL:eek:
But interestingly none of my "must not be withouts" need one;)

Bread while I love, I frequently run out of a sliced loaf but as long as I have some other type of bready product be it crackers or crumpets or pitta I'm fine with that but I have never so far run out of a spud:D

PasturesNew

This was my Xmas dinner.

https://s28.postimg.org/xo8g7kdvx/Xmas_Dinner2016.jpg

You have to really work out what you really want ... and rein in many ideas as simply impractical. Even though it's national scoff day you still can't eat as much as your mind can dream up

I've still got some of what I bought in the freezer... brussels are still lingering. Next year I'll actually buy just 8 brussels, instead of a whole 1Kg!