What do you keep in your food cupboards?

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What do you consider a well stocked food cupboard?
What types of foods, how much of it, and what do you use it for?

I find that whenever I buy tins, they never get used, so I stopped buying them.
So, on average, my cupboards seem to only stock pasta, rice, pasta sauce jars, cereal, peanut butter, crackers, gravy, crisps and some toddler 'organix' snacks. Sometimes croissants/scones but they'll be gone in a day so they don't exactly fill up the cupboard.

We obviously have a lot of fresh and frozen food, I'm just wondering how people have such well stocked cupboards when mine seem empty in comparison?

Tins tuna I mean

Nuts, merchant gourmet stuff. Ryvita bites. Cereal, carrs water biscuits, dark chocolate. Bit of heroin and cocaine spare. (That’s a joke btw!)

Olive oil, balsamic vinegar, soy sauce. Old El Paso kits

Beans, lentils. Cannelloni beans.

Tea and coffee in different cupboard.

I tend to buy a few on offer of things we use a lot like chopped tomatoes, pasatta, sweetcorn and beans or chickpeas. We will have cereal, pasta, rice, and baked beans in ours pretty much all the time. Then things I wouldn't use all the time like lasagna sheets, crackers and lots of toddler snacks for when we're out on the go. Oil and some pasta bake sauces. I tend to keep some pot noodles as well because if I'm having a busy day wfh they're handy for lunch or if I'm peckish after dinner I might have one the odd night. Other than that I make most things from scratch and batch cook so my freezer is always full of frozen fruit and veg and prepped meals and I work out of my fridge a lot. There's just the two of us so I find using frozen veg instead of fresh tends to see it last longer and get fully used.

Pasta (spaghetti, rigatoni, lasagne sheets)
rice (basmati, jasmine, paella)
Dry noodles for stir fry
Flour (plain and SR)
Other baking goods like cocoa, baking powder, bicarb
stock cubes
loads of herbs/spices
Lentils
Tins of baked beans, tomatoes, chickpeas, butter beans, black beans, tuna, sardines)
variety of Asian condiments like soy sauce, rice vinegar etc for cooking
Peanut butter, jam, marmalade, marmite, honey, pickles, sauces (ketchup, mayo, worcester sauce etc)
vinegars (malt for chips, red wine, white wine and cider vinegar for dressings)
Oils - extra virgin, light olive oil, veg oil
Oats, granola
crackers, wraps, part baked baguettes
Pastes - harissa, curry paste, various chilli pastes, tomato purée, ginger purée, miso all for recipes, plus cartons of pasatta
Sugars (white, caster, dark and light brown)
teabags, coffee
crisps, cereal bars for lunchboxes
Dark chocolate for snacking

Pasta, noodles, rice, bulghur, barley

Red & brown lentils, various dried beans, popcorn kernels

Seeds, nuts, dates, ground flaxseed etc.

Flours, sugars, cocoa powder, oats, maple syrup, baking ingredients

Extra stock of olive oil (current bottle stays next to the stove)

Vinegars, soy sauce, etc.

Baked beans, tinned tomatoes, tinned coconut milk

Marmite, peanut butter, tahini, almond butter

Large stash of oat milk and almond milk

Bulk bags of spices, salt, etc. (Separate spice drawer full of jars of spices).

Same here, and if something spills you only have to remove the tub instead of clearing the whole shelf.