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Storecupboard Essentials
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wholemeal flour
rice flour
cornflour
maize flour (polento)
polished rice
brown rice
porridge oats
dried milk
raisins
currants
apricot kernels
cocoa powder
spaghetti
fusili
cous cous
honey (Don't like sugar.)
millett
quinoa
coffee beans
Christmas tea. (Reduced in Wilkinsons after Crimbo.)
split peas
chick peas
black-eyed peas
adzuki beans
black beans
mung beans
kidney beans
red lentils
puy lentils
soya mince
assorted stock cubes
assorted dried herbs
almond essence
(Thrilla from) vanilla essence
cinammon sticks
bicarbonate of soda
white wine vinegar
spirit vinegar
lemons
potatoes
FRIDGE
milk
vegetable Atora
bottles of water to combat heat loss
eggs
bacon
cheeses
peanut butter (for making satays)
FREEZER
Bread
frozen peas
frozen sweetcorn
frozen seafood cocktail for making bouillabaise
crabsticks for same
frozen cod, pollock, haddock, plaice
assorted leftover soups and sauces
homemade ice cream
The following, I have, but are not essential:
wild rice
red rice
raw cane sugar (for the ice cream)
powdered carob (John the Baptist loved locust beans, but all I do with it is add a teaspoon to a mug of cocoa.)
black lentils
canned pilchards
plain flour
self-raising flour
Vegemite
Soup mix
dried onions
treacle
mustard powder
Worcestershire sauce
soy sauce
I also have the following to serve to visitors only:
Earl Grey tea
Ceylon tea
Stolichnaya vodka0 -
:eek:OH GOOD GOD I FORGOT THE MARMITE:eek:
And the the tea. And the emergency Whiskey. And the wine cellar.
Basically I need my own personal supermarket warehouse in my cupboard at all times if I am even going to contemplate making dinner...0 -
Hello,
Moving house so have ran-down my store cupboard to next to nothing!
Has anyone any ideas for a complete fresh start? There's only me and my 2yo son, and I'd like to try out cooking just one day to feed us for a month.
Would prefer to try this on a small budget as i've blown some savings on furnishings...
Thanks all
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the best ess for me is pasta you can chuck any sauce with it and anything else so id say first item on ya list should be pasta.IM A DTDER ADDICT0
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What did you have in your old store cupboard, and what of that do you want to keep or get away from? So we have an idea of what sort of things you eat or are likely to use.
Till then I'd second pasta (a couple of types, such as one pack shapes, one pack spaghetti) and add rice. Possibly also a bag each of plain and SR flour depending what type of cooking you do and if you bake at all. Maybe stock cubes/pots if you don't make your own stock but I'd wait to buy them until there's a recipe you will use them in, then you know what type to get and don't end up buying them all and never using one or two types.
In fact, I don't go and buy a store cupboard as such, it just appears over time as I buy the staple items when I come to need them and don't have them already.0 -
Have a look at Weezl's website - http://www.cheap-family-recipes.org.uk/index.html. This contains a meal plan for 4 people for a month for £100 and contains all the necessary vitamins, protein, carbs etc that you need. It also shows how to bulk cook some of the meals and freeze. You'll need an extremely large freezer if you do it all!
Denise0 -
As this has fallen from the front page of OS, I'll add it to the exisitng thread to give you more ideas:rudolf: Sheep, pigs, hens and bees on our Teesdale smallholding :rudolf:0
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I've decided over the summer holidays that I'm going to try a bit of OS cooking. I'm going to start looking up some recipes now and see what I can find, but are there any staple store cupboard items that people would recommend to me? I'm veggie but my hubby and kids eat chicken and beef. I'd loce to start freezing stuff, but want to have a go first before I decide on buying a bigger freezer!0
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well for me tinned toms (along wtih onions and garlic) form the basis of so many sauces/ dishes I would never be without them.
dreid lentils and tinned beans are great for veggie dishes
flour, sugar, eggs and butter for baking
pasta, rice etcPeople seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson0
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