Storecupboard Essentials

emiliah

Linda32 and Evie 74 - thank you very much for your suggestions.

I've just looked at the Storecupboard thread and got loads of ideas just from the first few posts - hadn't thought about homemade chutneys, jams etc.!

Off to get a notebook and start making lists:j

vanoonoo

salt and water for 'just in case'

zippychick

we have an essential storecupboard thread which should help loads as you will see loads of peoples input

Ill merge this with it later on

Zip

mrs_lds

Would you use out of date packets of yeast. I am tempted to use them??

specialkthefirst

hi :wave:
i am just starting to build up a store cupbored after lurking and reading on here
i was wondering what your top things are to store?
if anyone would share any ideas about what i should add to mine i would be most gratefull

bossymoo

I think the best suggestion I've read on here is store what you eat, and eat what you store!

It's all to personal taste really. And depends what you are storing for? (eg just general cooking ingredients, enough for meals in case of bad weather, stocking in case of future income issues etc).

I tend to have tins of spaghetti bolognese (Urgh but the kids love it), cereals, tinned tuna, tomatoes, veg, soups, meats. Anything you will use that has reasonable date on it really. Tea, coffee, long life milk. Water in case the supply is interrupted etc.

quintwins

depends wht you eat really, mine consists of

beans
pasta
jars of curry and pasta sauce
packet sauces (cheap from af, some are 20p in tesco at the mo i bought 20 peppercorn sauces cause i love it)
tinned fruit (as a back up pudding for the kids)
passata
tinned rice and pudding
flour and baking supplies


you don't need a big out lay, £1 a week extra gets you plenty, for example £1 gets you any of the following (assume there all value items)

2 tins of pineapple and 3 tins of rice pudding
bag of flour and tin of tuna
bag pf pasta a jar of pasta sauce and a jar of curry sauce
4 tins of beans
2 tins of kidney beans and a bag of rice

Pink.

This thread should give you lots of ideas:

Storecupboard Essentials

I'll add your thread to that one later to keep the suggestions together.

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dancingfairy

Hi. I hope one of you lovely people can help me. I'm moving into a shared house and need some ideas of what to buy for a store cupboard. I don't have much money for loads of things and I probably won't have a lot of space.
If anyone has any lists / links to previous threads where this has been discussed I'd love to see them.
Many Thanks
df
P.S I'm sure this has probably come up many times but I couldn't find it when I did a search.

TheBanker

If it's a shared house, you'd be as well to find out the "rules" before you buy anything. The last shared house I lived in we all paid into a kitty for milk, butter, loo roll, salt etc.