Hello Dear Reader,
I've just got home after meeting L from Cornwall One Parent Support and we spent the evening chewing over ideas for frugal food cookery workshops. We hope to send participants away with a some staples to add to their larders each week along with ideas of what to do with them. That's of course, after they've enjoyed some frugal food and budget cooking tips.
I had a think of the staples, that I always seem to have to hand. I never buy these all at once but add or replenish as and when needed.
I'll start this list and you can add to it in the comments.
What do you 'keep in store' to keep you going when times get tough?
Plain flour
SR Flour
Bread Flour
Cornflour
Granulated Sugar
Cocoa
Pasta
Tinned meats - such as corned beef (not cheap but handy to keep a couple of tins just in case)
Tinned fish - such as sardines, pilchards, tuna or mackerel
Cous Cous
Dried: kidney beans, cous cous, lentils green and red, butterbean, haricot beans
Rice/pudding rice/arborio rice
UHT milk
Tinned vegetable - I always have a few tins, again, just in case.
Tinned tomatoes
Long life Packs of passata/tomato paste
Dried mixed herbs
Paprika
Curry paste/powder
Cumin
Mixed Spice
Cinnamon
Dried corriander
Lemon/lime juice - in bottles, it lasts for ages in the fridge
Tinned fruit - such as peaches in juice
Jam - can be added to anything to jazz up a pudding
Garlic granules
Chilli powder
Salt/pepper
Parmesan cheese
Chorizo sausage
Oil - any within your budget - I buy Sunflower and Extra Virgin Olive oil - both very reasonably from Aldi
Dried yeast
Dried noodles
Vinegar - any will do, I buy balsamic and white wine - again at a very reasonable cost from Aldi
Sun dried tomatoes - Aldi - keep in fridge once opened
Honey
Stock cubes
Pesto - Aldi
Mustard
Soy Sauce
Now it's your turn. Now, no one would go out and buy all this, all at once, but we use a bit and keep the rest and soon we have a pantry of staples to create just about anything. Have I missed anything?
Until tomorrow,
Love Froogs xxxxxxxxxxxxxx