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Storecupboard Essentials
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£130 for 10 days :eek: How many are you feeding?!!:D
I would take the opportunity to restock the store cupboard with items you use regularly, but restock over time rather than all at once.
Can you not cook up the freezer contents- pies, stews, curries, soups, rissotto, ratatouile, etc - with £50 worth of contents, you should get a fair few meals out of that!
Otherwise, just do a meal plan for the next 10 days, and shop for that - restock bit by bit!
HTH.:A FLY FIRST, KNIT LATER :A0 -
well, where do you start?
Well, if you eat meat, I'd get a load of mince. Make up a big batch of bolognaise sauce and freeze. (you've got plenty of room). This is the basis for loads of meals. I use it in spag bol, chilli con carne, cottage pie and enchilladas. You can freeze it in portions then defrost and add extra chili/beans/carrots etc as required.
I'd also make up a massive batch of tomato sauce (tinned toms/passata + onion+garlic +herbs). This can be added to loads of meals too. (I add meatballs or put it on a pizza base, or add chicken/bacon/veggies whatever is to hand). Nice and cheap and very versitile.
So I'd buy.
tinned toms
onion & garlic
minced beef
for the extras...carrots, potatoes, chili, pasta, cheese, other veggies.
Get a load of cheese (you can freeze cheese). Then you can have cheese & potato bake, macaroni cheese... The list is endless!"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants." A. Whitney Brown0 -
Hi there,
Tomorrow is the big day I finally move house! :j I have been trying hard over the last couple of months to use up everything I had in my freezer and cupboards, to save having to move it all to another house! The result of this is that I have very little left.
I live on a small island off the coast of Scotland which only has a Co-Op supermarket, and every so often I take my car across on the ferry (£60 for the ticket! :eek:) and do a really big shop at Asda or Tesco.
I will have a lot more storage space in my new house, enabling me to buy more bulk items etc, and a chest freezer to fill.
So my question here is - what would you all recommend I buy on my next big shop on the mainland? I'm looking for the items that you feel are indispensible to have in your cupboard/freezer etc. This includes both food and cleaning/bathroom products.
I'll get my pen ready, and start writing my list!
Thanks,
Jo x0 -
Hi jomilne,
This thread should help with your list:
Storecupboard Essentials
I'll add your thread to that one later to keep the suggestions together.
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Blimey! £60 to get your shopping! :eek:
As per the pink-winged link - (depends what you eat to an extent but) large bags of pasta, rice, huge amount of tinned toms, baked beans, tinned kidney beans, frozen veg, stardrops (does everything) lots of special offers for the freezer
C xx0 -
Try and find a food wholesaler like costco and buy everything in bulkBlessed are the cracked for they are the ones that let in the light
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this thread will porb be helpful http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1549241
hopefully it works if not it is food section xx0 -
I think I'd be stocking up on SmartPrice Cleaning stuff to really keep costs down PLUS some Stardrops.
Is there anywhere that could arrange delivery of dried foodstuffs for you?
It's going to be so expensive to take your car across to the mainland that, to make it worth your while paying the fare, you're going to have to really stock up with LOTS OF STUFF - will your car be up to this without damage?
Do you know somebody with a transit van who makes the journey regularly and would collect some heavy stuff for you occasionally?
What about 'season tickets' for islanders - is there a possibility of anything like that? Or maybe a couple of you 'clubbing together' for the vehicle fare?
Good Luck, Jomilne - I visited Canna last year and have harboured romantic notions of moving there ever since :j - only I just know that I wouldn't be able to stand the cold and wind of the winter months out there :rolleyes:.0 -
Would like to ask your advice, just about to order a slow cooker and wondered if anyone could point me in the right direction. Me and my family eat just about anything and I would like to know what you keep in your store cupboards tined, dired, pasta, rice etc. I am in the process of copying and pasting recipes and see that a lot of recipes use similar things. What do you find are your staples?
Also I am doing an online shop (as recommended on another thread) so will order stuff asap. This way I can also try and do the GC too. any help :omuch appreciated
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