Do you have a lot of food in cupboards?

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Inspired by another thread (that some people think is possibly not genuine, although I dont have an opinion on that), Im wondering what people have in their cupboards to eat (not fresh foods)

I have rice, lentils, barley, freekeh, sauces, pickled onions, tinned toms, soups, beans, other beans, more beans, packets of ready cooked beans and lentils, dried lentils, jars of things, stock cubes, dried fruit (many varieties), flours, sugars, eggs, chutneys, tinned veg, olives, nuts of god knows how many types, I cant even remember what else, gravies, other condiments

Thats not including OH having biscuits, crisps, other snacks

Is this normal? (notwithstanding if someone has no money, I get that)

Im surprised the cupboards dont collapse when I think about it

Forgot about tinned fish.

And various nut butters and packets of seeds

And oats

Perhaps I need an inventory or something

Beans and pulses yes, but since having weevils I don’t keep much flour in

Not much at all. I batch cook so I only buy tins when I’m about to do a cooking session.

I have a huge amount, ridiculous. Stems from
not having lots of food when I was a kud. My cupboards are always bulging.

Sounds a bit like mine, maybe you keep a bit more in stock than I do - don’t like tinned soup or veg but sounds like a larder cupcakes to me

I have a lot of food in the cupboards. I think it comes from not having a lot of food in the house when I was a kid.

We're the same, except I have most of those things in a larder; I have a separate cupboard for herbs, spices, and anything else that I might need to grab with one hard while stirring on the hob, like Lea and Perrins or soy sauce.

Ive got a load of tapenades too

Yes, a range of good. Just mentally thinking about what’s in the cupboards.

Different shelves contain :
savoury tins - soups, beans, tomatoes etc
Gravy, oils, stuffing mix etc
sweet tins - tinned fruit, custard, treacle
baking stuff - sugar, icing sugar, mixed fruit
flours and pasta
cereals
herbs and spices
coffee, tea etc
cakes and biscuits
etc

Very interesting topic, I have a lot of food in the fridge

We could live for about four months if necessary on the food I have in my kitchen, pantry and freezers. Longer during the summer months when the chickens are laying and the garden is productive.

I havent mentioned the herb and oil cupboard! Also contains L+P, Worcester sauces, soy sauces, hoisin sauces, vinegars, blah blah blah

Pasta
rice
cous cous
tinned toms
beans
mixed beans
kidney beans
sweetcorn
tuna
spaghetti hoops
anchovies
miso soup
cashews
Pistachios
dried herbs
dried mango
So many crackers and other snacks…

We have a lot of dried and canned pulses and beans, canned tomatoes, pasta, rice, couscous, polenta, noodles etc, and baking basics like flour, sugars, yeast, baking powder, cornflour, dried fruit, and a few essences — a few jars of things that came in hampers. Lots of spices. When we lived in the country we used to have a big freezer of stuff because we occasionally got cut off. Wine, there’s always wine.

Yes quite a lot

Lots of porridge pots..the ones where you just add water

3/4 large boxes of different cereals

Dozens of jars of spices

Tins

Baking ingredients

Noodles, pastas, various types of rice, cous cous

Many multipacks of crisps

Various packets of biscuits

Chocolate bars

Yes I have loads. A big double pantry full and a chest freezer. It's partly because we live 20 minutes from a supermarket and we've got into the habit of being well stocked. It's all stuff we actually eat and I make sure we don't have stuff lingering in there for months - so we use a tin of spaghetti, I buy another one next time I shop and put it at the back of the row.

Yes, I cook and bake from scratch, so it makes sense to have a stock of basics, we have a pantry now since kitchen renovations and I love it, I can't list the contents it would take too long. DH says we'll be fine when the apocalypse comes and can feed the street.

I think being a bit deeper about it we were quite poor growing up and the cupboards were never full and often empty. It gives me pleasure to feed people, even on a whim, we're very much an oh stay for dinner house, and there's always plenty to go around

Normal if my cupboards are anything to go by. They just creep up on you, don't they?

I can add: umpteen baking necessities, bicarbonate of soda, sprinkles of every kind, vanilla pods, whole nutmegs, lavender sugar, mandarin jelly. Many, many jars & packets of just about any herb, spice, seed or marinade you can think of. Mushroom ketchup, about 5 different sorts of olive oil, table salt, rock salt, Himalayan pink salt, Danish smoked salt (try that, it's great), pasta shapes - well I could go on...😂

Not to mention all the cat food.

Yours sounds similar to my cupboards - there’s always oats, muesli, granola and at least one other breakfast cereal. Always have flour and sugar and enough stuff to bake a sponge cake and a selection of nuts, seeds and dried fruit. There’s a shelf of tinned stuff - usually tuna, tomatoes, kidney beans, baked beans, sweetcorn, cannellini beans and chickpeas. Peanut butter, honeh and jam, tea, coffee and hot chocolate. Pasta, a couple of types of rice and some microwave rice and lentils. There’s chicken, beef and veg stock, a shelf of dried herbs and spices, 3 or 4 types of vinegar, soy sauce. The fridge has ketchup, brown sauce, lazy ginger and garlic, tomato puree, a couple of types of mustard, salad dressing……

Sounds normal to me OP.

Sounds normal to me.

We always have several types of rice, flour, oil & pasta, red & green lentils, barley, popping corn, couscous, quinoa, nuts, seeds, dried fruit, sugar, syrup, honey, jam, tinned beans, chickpeas, tomatoes, passata, coconut milk, oat/coconut drinking milk, tuna, loads herbs and spices, pesto, curry paste, eggs, bread, potatoes, onions, snacks, other various baking ingredients and spare miso/soy/bbq sauce and similar.

we typically have a load of garlic & ginger, soup, sweetcorn, peas, pastries, veggie sausages and chicken in the freezer too.

If you have the space it’s easier to just keep lots in so you always have what you need

We live rurally and only shop once a week from a town quite some distance. Popping out to purchase something we've run out of or need is quite an inconvenience. So we keep a spare of everything and I mean everything. Spices, cans, preserves, pulses, rice, condiments, baking products, oils, vinegars, sauces, foil, grease proof and cling film, detergents and cleaning materials. We have a large and cool larder. When we finish something in the kitchen we retrieve the spare from the larder and its replenishment goes on the shopping list.

And me.

I think people who don't keep much in either hate cooking or live very near shops.

I have tins, jars, pasta, rice, dried pulses, flour, herbs, spices, oils, vinegars, cereals - basically traditional "store cupboard" ingredients.