What are Your Food Essentials?

[Jade&Evie]

A friend of mine has just started living with her boyfriend and has asked me what 'basics' she should have in her kitchen.

I cook pretty much everything fresh so I said:

Mixed Herbs
Chilli Powder
Lea and Perrins
Salt and Pepper
Sugar
Tea
Coffee
Tomato Puree
Olive Oil
Milk
Eggs
Cheese
Soured Cream
Bread
Butter
Garlic
Rice
Pasta
Oven Chips
Noodles
Chopped Tomatos
Tinned Fruit
Tuna
Sweetcorn

ETA: Buy meat and veg when you need it rather than risk it going out of date!


I an't think of anything else?

LOL, I know that in two weeks time she'll drag me to Iceland to but a load of frozen pizzas and burgers!

 

[Hazel]

Potatoes

Boiled, mashed, roast, baked, chips, sauteed.

 

[Spritzer]

PASTA!! you can always make something if you have pasta, i loved it when i was a student

cheese,
milk,
butter,
rice,
chicken,
mince,
eggs,
campbells condenced soup (makes a good pasta sauce)
bread (1 for using 1 for freezer just incase)
tuna,
majo,
yogurts
veg

thats probably mine

 

[daftscotslass]

I'm going to be lazy and use your list and edit it

Mixed Herbs
Chilli Powder
Tomato ketchup (OH is obsessed with it)
Heinz mayonnaise
Salt and Pepper
Sugar
Coffee
Olive Oil
Milk
Eggs
Cheese
Bread
Butter/margarine
Garlic
Rice
Pasta
Noodles

I make a lot of soup so I always have lentils and stock cubes around. I have some tins of soup for when I'm feeling lazy. I bake and make bread so I also have a cupboard full of different types of flour and sugar as well as other bits and bobs for baking. I usually buy a couple of weeks worth of meat and freeze it.

Definitely potatoes. I always have vegetables in our fridge. Not because we are super healthy and eat them constantly but they never go to waste because of the guinea pigs

I reeeeeally need to get back into the swing of cooking properly again because I'm only now starting to feel slightly less knackered!

 

[Xena]

pasta
minced beef
quorn mince
tomato puree
ragu bolognese sauce
cheese
cream crackers
cherry tomatoes
peppers
sweet potatoes
boil in the bag fish in butter sauce
grapes
eggs
bread
milk
kids cereal
onions
red onions
clementines
strawberries
various herbs and spices
chili flakes
bbq sauce
fry light spray
bacon
tinned mackerel in tomato sauce
tinned chopped tomatoes
tinned peas
tinned carrots
tinned sweetcorn
fresh chicken breasts

 

[widowwadman]

To general items I'd add couscous, sun-dried tomatoes and pesto to the list.

On the spice front, always have salt, pepper, cinnamon, cumin, chilli flakes, paprika, cardamoms, cloves, and turmeric in the store cupboard. And a jar of capers in the fridge. If they count as spice, never sure. And rosemary in the garden.

Always have tin of anchovies in, too. (They're great in a lamb roast. Put slits allover the meat and wedge pieces of anchovies, garlic cloves and rosemary sprigs in. It doesn't tast fishy at all but gives the roast a really nice flavour)

 

[lfc_sarah]

We have a FULL cuboard of herbs/salt/ pepper

Different sauces/dips, for example ceasar dressing

Pasta, potatoes

And general stuff like milk, tea, coffee, cheese, eggs that every house should have

 

[pilkers]

MINSTRELS!!!!!!!!!!!

oh and...
pasta
eggs
milk
cereals
rice
potatoes
butter
cheese
tuna tins
tinned tomatoes
bacon
bread
mixed herbs
chillies
pasta sauces
flour
tea
coffee
sugar
rice pudding
tinned veg (for emergencies if we run out of fresh)
soup
beans
yoghurt


i can't think of anything else at the minute

 

[nori]

Ketchup and brown sauce!!

I agree that pasta and tuna are a must and garlic bread (cant get enough of it) oh and squash, bread and eggs..together with the items already mentioned of course..

Claire x

 

[Miss.Monroe]

ohh great lists! deans moving into the new house today and ill be moving in with him shortly! so i think ill print that out to take to the supermarket with me!

 

[poppy160]

Tea
Coffee
Sugar
Milk

Different Herbs
Chopped Tomatoes
Baked Beans
OXO Cubes
Kidney Beans
Butter Beans
Lentils
Custard
Rice Pudding
Tinned Fruit
Pasta Sauce
Sweet and Sour Sauce
Pasta
Spaghetti
Rice
Cous Cous
Plain/Self Raising Flour
Yeast
Bread Flour

Yogurts
LOADS Of Fresh Fruit and Vegetables
Ketchup
Eggs
Cheese
Jam
Pickle
Coleslaw
Chicken Slices
Butter

Mincemeat
Chicken Drumsticks/Breast Strips/Thighs
Quorn Sausages
Crumpets
Teacakes
Oven Chips
Fish Fingers
FAB Ice Lollies

I cook most things fresh aswell. We occasionally have a ready meal though.

 

[Kimbo]

bread&butter