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I need to stock my storecupboard. What do you have in yours??

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fadingaway · 13/02/2009 14:15

I have £100.00 to spend and I would love to be able to actually cook a meal from things in my storecupboard, but I never seem to have any ingredients in it .

Am planning an online shop this evening. Please let me know what you keep in your storecupboard so I can shamelessly pinch your ideas .

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Iklboo · 13/02/2009 14:19

Mustard powder
English mustard
Balsamic vinegar
Small bottles red & white wine
Stock cubes (various)
Gravy powders (various)
Tomato puree
Garlic
Olive oil
Flavoured olive oils
Various herns & spices
Pepper grinder
Salt grinder
Sesame oil

Under sink:

Potatoes
New potatoes
Sweet potatoes
Butternut squash
Pasta
Rice
Onions
Red onions
Seasonal veg

littleducks · 13/02/2009 14:23

pasta
noodles
tinned tomatoes
dried mixd herbs/your fav herb
stock (i have bouillon powder and knorr gel pot things)
flour
honey

Iklboo · 13/02/2009 14:25

Oh yes - forgot we also have tinned tomatoes, noodles, flour, honey, also Worcestershire sauce

AliBean · 13/02/2009 14:28

Do you need EVERYTHING or just some good standbys for making meals from?

Lizzylou · 13/02/2009 14:32

Fairly similar to others but also:
Mushroom ketchup
Lots of dried herbs/spices
Dried fruit
Red Lentils
Passatta
Cous cous
Arborio rice (so easy to knock up a risotto)
Brown rice
Lots of different dried pastas

fadingaway · 13/02/2009 14:35

honestly? Everything I am hopeless. I need to start getting my house in order.

I don't need to get it all at once but I would so like to be organised. I am sick of relying on takeaways and rubbish....

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ABetaDad · 13/02/2009 14:37

I live in two houses so having a storecupboard in each is rather esential or my family will starve as we often transit between the two at odd time of day.

In fact what you need is store cupboard and a freezer.

In the freezer we have:

Beef mince, chicken breasts, frozen chips, semi skimmed milk, Pizza Express Pizza (Sainsbury do them), fish fingers, various lamb and beef joints and cuts), Aunt Bessie Yorkshire puds ( the shame of it as I am from Yoorkshire), bread of all types, inocent smoothees, apple/orange juice, frozen peas, frozen fruits, ice cream.

In the cupboard I have:

Basmati Rice, Arborio Rice, pasta of all types, tins of tomato and beans of all kind, eggs, corned beef in tins, bag of potatoes, dry herbs of all kind, custard powder, white/brown/caster sugar, cornflour, balsamic/malt/wine vinegars, mustards of all types, 3 pickles, 3 cheeses, sweet biscuits,cheese biscuits, lemon juice in a bottle, tomato puree in atube, garlic puree in a tube, salt, black pepper, coffee ground and instant, tea bags of al kinds, 25 bottles of wine, spirits of all kinds, mixers of all kinds, packet fruit of all kinds, meringues.

Basically, I aim to have enough to make a meal by only adding a packet of cooked meat or perhaps some fresh vegetables and fruit from the local farm shop. I try not to keep too much in the fridge as I frequently move between houses.

I also make sure that when I make a beef stroganoff, spag bol, beef chilli, stews, etc I always make plenty for the freezer as an instant meal. I also save every bit of mixed veg and gravy from meals which can always be hashed up or used in a stew.

ABetaDad · 13/02/2009 14:38

Forgot Worcester sauce, Soy sauce and ketchup.

AliBean · 13/02/2009 14:46

Low salt marigold stock powder
Knorr Chicken stock pots

Olive oil
Sunflower/veg oil

White wine vinegar

Seasalt - Maldon
Black Pepper

Chopped chilli
Soy sauce
Fish Sauce
Rice wine vinegar
Miso paste - keeps FOREVER!

Dried noodles - egg and rice
Spaghetti
Brown or white long grain rice
Arborio rice
Lasagne sheets

Plain Flour
SR Flour

Caster sugar
Icing Sugar
Demerera Sugar

Baking Powder
Bicarb

Dark Chocolate 70%
Golden Syrup
Honey
Jam (strawberry or apricot - for cakes)

Tinned tomatoes
Tinned Chickpeas
Olives
Red peppers (Lidl do a massive jar of peeled peppers for less than £2)

Tuna in brine
Anchovies (in a jar - so you can use a few at a time)
Tinned crab meat (easy to turn into thai fishcakes)

From that lot you will be able to make various pastas and risottos, cakes, biscuits, cookies, fishcakes (just add potato/breadcrumbs), sauces for meat and fish, stirfrys and noodly things (with additional fresh ingredients), flavour soups and generally be a domestic goddess...hope it doesn't blow the budget!!

fadingaway · 13/02/2009 14:51

wow how fantastic are you lot?

Am printing this out now and will get it all ordered when I get home.

Am so glad I asked now!

Thanks again

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yesmynameisigglepiggle · 13/02/2009 15:06

Jamie Oliver book minisrty of food has a useful list at the begining to this effest

Salleroo · 13/02/2009 15:22

Pasta (various)
Noodles
Rice - brown and white

Lentils (dried)
split peas
chickpeas tinned
tomatoes tinned
berlotti beans tinned
kidney beans tinned
bean cuisine (mix) tinned)

Flour plain/self raising
Icing sugar
Caster sugar
Brown sugar
White sugar
baking powder
bicarb of soda
cornflower
raisins
sultanas
currants

all sorts of nuts

browning
tabasco various types
fish sauce
soy light and dark
groundnut oil
sesame oil
olive oil
sunflower oil
stockcubes various
Worscester sauce
Various super hot spicy sauces
Tomato puree
salt - pepper
Way too much herbs and spices
For starters get
Tumeric
Cumin
Paprika (Barts smoked is fab)
Chilli powder
Mixed herbs
Basil
Tarragon
Sage
Parsley

Garlic
Ginger
Tinned tuna
honey
english mustard
mustard powder
dijon mustard
wholegrain mustard
tomato ketchup
cider vinegar
balsamic
malt vinegar
popcorn
Parmesan
jams
gherkins
pickled onions
tuc
water biscuits

Freezer
berries
fish
prawns
frozen veg

As long as you have some veg in the house you can russle up something anytime

Lizzylou · 13/02/2009 15:24

Cor, looking at those lists, loads I forgot.
Forgot all the baking stuff.
Porridge oats (for flapjacks)

fadingaway · 13/02/2009 16:04

I cannot believe how organised some people are, and how obviously disorganised I am.....

Hats off to you.

I fear I may exceed my budget tonight!

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ABetaDad · 13/02/2009 19:56

I'm looking at the lists thinking - I forgotten how much other stuff I also had lurking in the cupboard that I never use.

I need to rotate my cupboards more often.

Salleroo · 15/02/2009 10:11

The car is in the garage at the mo so mine are getting really low, but at least I'm getting to use up all the stuff that really should have been eaten 2 years ago!!! Big veggy noodle curry coming on to get rid of the bloody noodles soon

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