What are your essential groceries?

[LadyInDecline]

What foods do you always have in the fridge / cupboards that you never run out of?
Mine are

Eggs
Cheese
Butter
milk
Pasta
potatoes
onions
bread
cereal
Flour (for bread pizza pastry)
tinned tomatoes, Baked beans. Lentils, tuna
Tea coffee sugar
Frozen veg and chicken breast

I have a larder full of condiments, herbs ingredients.

Eggs
Cheese
Yogurt
Sometimes bread though I try to avoid (carbs)
Milk
Worcester sauce
Veg spread
Tinned tomatoes
Pasta sauce
Microwave rice (usually egg fried rice for when I come home late)
Buying more frozen veg as it keeps unlike fresh!
Pasta (occasionally)
Avocado
some fruit
frozen veg sausages
quorn slices (fake ham/chicken etc)
tinned fish
baked beans

Bread
Butter
Yoghurt
Almond milk
Pasta
Rice
Jarred pasta sauce (Lloyd Grossman always)
Tinned tomatoes
Chickpeas
Butter beans
Baked beans
Lentils
Quorn mince
Spaghetti hoops
Potatoes
Onions
Mushrooms
Garlic
Apples
Bananas
Berries
Granola

Coffee
Milk
Fake milk
Cornflakes
Chocolate spread
Marmite
Fake butter
Morrisons pizza
More coffee
All the making for allergy friendly homemade pizza
Sausages of a specific type
Fuck tons of ketchup
Bread, different for each person
Corned beef
More coffee than is totally safe
Fruit
Mugshots pasta

My kids have very restricted diets!

Wholemeal pasta and couscous.
Brown rice
Risotto rice
Tinned tomatoes
Bottled olives
Capers
Frozen mussels
Frozen haddock fillet
Oven chips
Puy lentils
Eggs
Cheddar
Onions
Tinned cannellini beans
Tinned tuna
Fresh Garlic
Coffee
Milk
Bread

Meadowfinch I didn’t know frozen mussels were a thing! Presumably you defrost before cooking? How’s the flavour?

Rice (Basmati, jasmine, risotto, paella, short grain)
Lentils
Pasta
Noodles
Eggs
Tea
Coffee
Butter
Fresh coriander
Tomato puree
Plain flour
Self-raising flour
Chicken stock pots
Beef stock pots
Onions
Garlic
Ginger
Chillies
Vegetable oil
Olive oil
Dried pinto beans
Dried chickpeas
Many, many spices

Pasta
Rice
Chicken
Chorizo
Cheese
Natural yogurt
Eggs
Onions
Peppers
Garlic
Tinned tomatoes
Tin of mixed beans
Tuna
Mayo
Tea
Pittas
Bread