Help with snacks in the fridge / quick meals

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Hi everyone

I was hoping for some help from some experienced people. I've never really done a weekly shop before. I only got into cooking a few years ago, and since then I have fallen into the habit of just deciding what to make for dinner that day and then going to Tesco express on the way home and picking up all the ingredients needed. This obviously results in a lot of waste and means that if I ever want a snack, or lunch and haven't bought anything that day, I have nothing.

I grew up in a house where the fridge was always full and ifni was every peckish my mum would always be able to whip something up. I'm a mother now and although my baby is too young for this to be an issue I would like to be in the habit of always having things in the fridge for when we need a quick snack or whip up a quick lunch.

What things do you guys pick up on your weekly shop for lunch, snacks etc etc

Sorry if this sounds dumb!

It's just me and me and my one year at the minute as DH and DS are working in Holland so I'll do it as though they were here.
ham,
cheese

some sort of salad in for a sandwich,
Bread
Usually there's crumpets or toasting muffins
Beans
Spaghetti hoops
Tin of corned beef
Soup
Yoghurts
Baby bels
Frozen chips
Peas
Frozen pizza
Some sort of frozen chicken usually a Birds Eye one, tempura fillet, chicken grills etc for my DS to do if we're not in and he's hungry.
Noodles
Cereal (lots of it!)
Micro rice
I get a multi pack of crisps and full the tub jl with what I call pack up biscuits. Clubs, wagon
Ice lollies
Wheels time outs etc. when they are gone no more till I go shopping the next week. (17 year old with bottomless stomach! )
There's usually a couple of packs of chicken breast, stewing beef, mince etc from
When I've done a meal plan and we've deviated for it so the meat for that night has gone jn the freezer.

So I'll check the levels of all of the abive before I go shopping and get what needs topping up. The rest I do a meal plan for the next seven ans buy the ingredients accordingly.

This is so helpful thank you!!

2 adults and 3 year old here. We don’t tend to buy pre packaged individual snacks tbh.

things that always are in house:
Fruit: 3-4 kinds. At the moment it’s banana, apples, satsumas and grapes.
Raw veg: Ds likes peppers, cucumbers
Cheese
Bread
Homemade soups (spicey lentil/ minestrone). I batch make and so always have some in freezer for lunch if needed
Eggs
Pasta, tin tomatoes, onions, garlic - basic pasta and sauce can be made anytime
Greek yogurt
granola
cream cheese

For my three year old he has to take raw veg and fruit and 1/2 sandwich to nursery every morning as mid morning snack. At home he usually has banana or bowl chopped other fruit or toast for snack. Sometimes Greek yogurt with sprinkle granola and honey if he hasn’t eaten meals well.

That's a really nice idea OP you sound like a lovely mum.

So my ideas:

Ham
Cheese
Eggs (you can always make a nice omelette really quickly)
Sliced bread
Some tinned stuff, spaghetti hoops, beans, tinned ravioli to go on toast
Tinned fish - sardines, tuna
Lots of cereal
Micro rice
Cooked chicken portions if you can afford it
Cereal
Porridge sachets
Steamfresh veg packs (freezer)
Potatoes to make jacket potatoes
Fruit, whatever is cheap/in season. Bananas are cheap and filling and nice. Buy a tin of custard and bingo you have banana custard.
Tinned rice pudding
Dried pasta
Passata (tomato pasta sauce, but the nice healthy Italian kind, not the Dolmio kind)

Eggs! If you have eggs you can always whip up a quick lunch!
Have them on toast, in a salad, make an omelette or pancakes, or carbonara.

Cheese is always handy too, toasties, with crackers in the above omelette, on a jacket, quaesidilla, on pasta.

If you always have onions, garlic and chopped tomatoes and some basic herbs in you have the basis to so many pasta sauces.

Not exactly what you were asking, but to whip up quick easy healthy snacks, also invest in a big pair of kitchen scissors. No need to find and then clean a sharp knife and chopping board, when it comes to chopping raw meat, sausages into bits, or cutting up raw chicken breasts. Just snip snip snip

Guys these are all so helpful thank you :)