Cupboard & freezer staples

CapricornLass

tins: fruit, beans, pulses, tomatoes, tomato paste, evaporated and condensed milk, tinned custard, syrups

Sugars, (caster, brown, demerara, muscovado and ordinary), gluten free and ordinary self-raising, plain and bread flour, rice flour, gram flour

Pasta, rice, herbs and spices, stock cubes, vinegars, oils (olive, rapeseed and sunflower), baking powder, bicarb and cream of tartar. More pulses, polenta

Dried and glace fruit. Jams, marmalade honey, and maple syrup

Teas and coffee.

Freezer seems to contain: a lot of raspberries, (I grow them to make jam), strawberries (ditto) just haven't got round to making the jam yet, homegrown cherries, a pack of mixed frozen berries, peas, sausages, garlic and naan bread. Outside freezer contains meat, (currently beef and lamb) as well as salmon steaks, but this is more of a moveable feast.

One thing - I don't think with all that in store we'll be starving soon!

Tink_04

I have most of the same but the kids love cheap noodles! Like the ones with chicken or curry flavourings on and will eat these as a quick lunch/ snack food if hungry! Not my cup of tea but cheap and good to have in.
I also have normal dried noodles/rice noodles for a quick stir fry!

MandM90

Cupboard:
Tinned plum toms
Baked beans
Bread flour
Stock powder
Oil
Onions
Garlic
Dried lentils - brown and red
Dried chickpeas
Dried beans - kidney, black turtle, butter bean
Spaghetti
Rice
Cous cous
Soya mince (dehydrated)
Parsley, thyme, oregano, basil, various curry powders (garam, cumin, coriander, chilli etc)
Peanut butter
Spuds
Oats

Fridge:
Yeast (but lasts for months)
Condiments
Spread (vegan)
Jam
Lemon juice

Freezer:
Yellow sticker bread
Sweetcorn
Peas
Spinach

All of the above last ages and I can then make:
Bean chilli/ soya mince and kidney bean
Chickpea tagine and cous cous (throw in whatever root veg I happen to have)
Lentil spag bol/soya spag bol
Lentil and spinach curry
Beans on toast
HM bean burgers, HM wedges, baked beans
Bean/lentil soup and HM bread rolls
Rice and beans (mexican spices, onion, garlic, tomato, rice, black beans)
PB+J sammiches
Porridge

purpleybat

in my freezer I always like to have :- peas, spinach, sausages, mince and ready meals made by me.
in the store cupboard I generally have :- pasta mountain (all different types), basmati rice, flours (plain, self raising, bread), cornflour, suet, milk powder, tinned tomatoes (no less than 6 cans), tomato puree, 3 of each type of various beans inc baked beans, 1 spam, 2 corned beef, 3-4 fish in tomato sauce, a few tuna, 2 coconut milk, 2 soup, loads of herbs and spices, mayo, ketchup, worcester sauce, marmite, stock cubes.
in the fridge there's always butter and lard (to make pastry), cheese, carrots, marg. also always have plenty of spuds and onions.


anything else that's in there is what I want to eat when making shopping lists, but those things I always have. I do suffer a bit from 'siege mentality' and generally have more than that in stock, also after having a job with a 7 hour contract I got into the habit of buying tinned and dried food when I had the money so that when I barely worked I could still eat well.

steph2901

In my cupboards I've always got rice, pasta, noddles, herbs, spices, chopped tomatoes, sauces and stuff to make cakes.

In the freezer there's always a variety of veg, diced chicken, ice cream, garlic bread, pizza, oven chips and sometimes a ready meal.

purpleivy

suki1964 wrote: »

Ive learned from having no power for a week not to rely on the freezer for help during a cold snap

I have a whole shelf of herbs and spices, all types of flour, yeast, bicarb, baking soda. Pasta, rice, couscous, lentils , dried soup mix

Tinned toms,chickpeas,butterbeans,kidney beans, baked beans, sweetcorn, tinned carrots

Tinned salmon,mackeral,sardines, kippers, tuna, corned beef

Stock pots, jars of pickled vegetables, condiments

Tea, coffee, sugar, dried milk, drinking chocolate

That and the contents of my fridge of which there is always at least 4 blocks of cheese, cooked meats, butter, lard and milk, bacon and sausages, will keep us well fed for a good while just needing fresh veg

Oh and eggs galore

Did you lose power? Couldn't you put the freezer stuff under a heap of snow? Would that even work?

Poppy1984

Fab thanks so much for all the replies, I will be referring to this thread when I go shopping and gradually stocking up on the essentials

Wizzbang

Chopped tomatoes, passata, tubes of tomato puree, rice pudding, tinned custard, various tinned fruits, jam, marmalade, tea, hot choc or cocoa, blancmange sachets, pudding rice, powdered dried milk, pasta, various rices - usually brown, white and basmati mixed with wild rice, rice noodles, egg noodles, corned beef, tins tuna, baked beans, Heinz tomato soup, Coop lentil & bacon soup (the only 2 worth having from tins IMHO!), dried lentils, dried split yellow peas, Marigold vegetable bullion powder, cornflour, plain flour, SR flour, massive bag of granulated sugar (from which I can make all other kinds in my Kenwood), all kinds of brown sugar, cherries, oats, raisins, mixed dried fruit with peel, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, vanilla extract, bag of white potatoes, mixed dried herbs as a minimum.

Fridge - salted and unsalted butter, cheese and milk preferably, but can use dried.

Freezer - fish fingers, petits pois, mixed veg, green beans, fish pie mix, some kind of white fish fillets, loaf of bread as backup. Usually have portions of meals I've frozen - like spag bol, lamb casserole, tuna pasta bake, slices of pies etc.

I use this recipe for corned beef hash - use low salt beans, corned beef and unsalted butter and don't add salt to your potatoes otherwise it can be a very salty meal!

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/304609/corned-beef-hash-cheap-meal

Oh, I think I'm going to have to cook it this week now - love it, the ultimate store cupboard comfort food!

pigpen

I always have:

cupboard

beans,
tinned spaghetti
twisty pasta and spaghetti and lasagne sheets
tomato soup
red pasta sauce
mayo
white lasagne sauce
gravy granules
jam
coffee
teabags
sugar

freezer

loads of frozen veg.. so much quicker than fresh and time is as precious as money some days and I need to save.
mince
pork steaks
huge hunks of meat.. I can stretch one to 4 or 5 meals so if they cost £10 they still work out pretty cheap when feeding an army.

fridge

margarine
ham
cheese
milk
carrots
mushrooms
beetroot

side
apples
bananas
oranges
pears
eggs
bread

stuff we have that is gross and I will never use..

pate.. that stuff is foul
green pesto.. what is it even for?
5 jars pickled onions
1 jar pickled cabbage.

Poppy1984

oooh green pesto is delicious!!! Top a chicken breast or some white fish with it and a slice of tomato and mozzarella wrap in tinfoil and bake in the oven yummmmmm! Or stir it through freshly cooked past or spaghetti and top with a sprinkling of parmesan or cheddar
I love pate on toast hehe