Prepping: the new world...

DigForVictory

Ramadan is coming! Very roughly Wed 18 Feb - Fri 20 March, and my Muslim colleagues will be fasting while the sun is up - not even drinking water. Sundown, the feasting, the magnificent meal, 'iftar', the shared joy. Every night, so it's no break from the kitchen & by no means a time of weight loss.
Your supermarkets may not have obvious promotions but you should see a wider range of dates available (it is traditional to break the fast with dates & water), and rice, dates, figs, nuts, chickpeas, lentils & oil may be discounted.
Me, I'm always interested in cheap chopped tomato as I tend to cook with it a lot, but I like to snack on nuts & have a big sack of rice & another of lentils handy so I can feed any itinerant vegetarian or bulk out my omnivore meals. Chickpeas and assorted beans will be added to the stores & then I can start eyeing the spice racks to 'hop continents'. I may attempt a jollof that is barely worthy of the name (as I am an utter wimp on heat) [a recipe here] or try a mujadarrah (still plenty of cinnamon in the cupboard after Christmas, after all) [a recipe here]. No religious assumptions please, I just followed where rice took me…

Cherryfudge

I took the hint, thanks @DigForVictory : our L1dl currently has Indian spices, pulses and tins of vegetarian curries so I've topped up some supplies. I thought the tinned curries/dhal would be really useful in a prep cupboard, though I've not tried them for taste.

DigForVictory

I can't see how you can go wrong with dhal ready in case of emergencies, although I'd have a Dishoom dhal as a treat. (It takes over 5 hours, & a big cooking pot, but everyone who has partaken has agreed it was worth every minute.) I'll suggest sis checks Lidl for mum's emergency tin stash, as I would bet a fiver it hasn't anything Indian & warming. (Yet.)