Today i received an email from a concerned reader who was afraid of my financial circumstances with two children.But also from another reader who asked what kind of things do i have in my store cupboard.
So i thought to make it easier i would just post pictures up.
Top of the pantry
Middle and bottom
The floor of the pantry
As you can see i have tons of spices, tins, pasta, dried noodles, flour, bag full of potatoes.
So don't worry my children will have protein, vitamin, iron filled tummies.
My basic essentials i try to always have in are:
Non-Fresh
Baked beans
Tinned tomatoes
Chick peas
Tuna
Tinned Fruit
Kidney Beans
Dried Noodles
Pepper
Salt
Chilli Powder
Pasta
Oats
Lentils
Rice
Bread Flour
Plain Flour
Self Raising Flour
Yeast
Jam
Sugar
Stock cubes
Diluted Juice
Tea Bags
Coffee
Vegetable Oil
Fresh
Carrots
Onions
Milk
Garlic
Cheese
Eggs
Butter
Pets
Cat food dry and tinned
Cat Litter
I find if i have these basics in, i can make anything from soups to curries, from flapjacks,porridge to pancakes.
Its hard to start off a store cupboard of any kind, its expensive to buy everything in one go.
So instead i buy say an extra item every week.
For instance today i saw 4 tins of chopped tomatoes for £1 so splashed the extra £1 and bought them. Now i already had four tins in the cupboard but thought its good deal, works out 25p a tin instead of 37p.
Its little things like that really help you out in the long run.
I must admit most of the non-perishable items we eat are the supermarket basics.there is nothing wrong with this as generally the food has less in than brand names.
Hope that gives you some ideas :)
Hi all
Been a another cold and blustery day.
Spent the day at my sisters drinking tea, cofee and chatting about life, kids basically anything and evrything.
Another recipe for you to try, i'm sorry i don't have pictures daft phone decided to run out of battery.
Sausage and stuffing plait.
1 large onion (thinly sliced and diced) (10p)
4 cloves of crushed garlic (optional) (20p)
1 pack of basic sausage meat (494grams) (£1.45)
1 pack of puff pastry (£1.00)
1 pack of basic sage and onion stuffing (15p)
Fry onion and garlic till cooked and place into a bowl.
Mix the dried stuffing with the onions
Mix the above with the sausage meat.
Roll out pastry into a rectangle shape.
Fill the middle of the pastry with the meat mix, then fold pastry over into a sausage roll shape.
Place onto a greased baking tray and cook till pastry is brown, about 25 mins.
Serve hot or cold.
The above did us two meals with extras for the boys.
The first meal we had it had it with was veg, mash and gravy for one meal.
The second meals was sausage plait with chips and beans.
The plait can also be frozen and eaten cold, so very flexible meal.
Till tomorrow
Kez x
Hello everyone,
Just had to share this lovely recipe which all my children enjoy.
Now i made this with the cheapest possible ingredients and everyone loves it.
I stopped buying arborio rice as it is just too expensive. It works well and can be served as a main dish or as a side.But best thing of all its less than a £1 :)
25g (cooking bacon sainsburys 950g basic value)
300g Tesco Long Grain Rice (40p per kilo)
2 chicken stock cubes ( 8 cubes for 10p sainsburys basics)
water (paid for courtesy of northumbrian water)
2 garlic cloves (from 20p head of garlic)
black pepper (1p)
mushrooms ( from a pack priced at 95p)
cheese (about 35p)
onion (from a bag of 10kg priced at £2.50)
Bacon and mushroom risotto
one large onion chopped and finely sliced.
2 rashers of smoked bacon (chopped into slices)
2 garlic cloves (crushed)
1/4 pack of mushrooms sliced
300g of long grain rice
1litre of stock (i used chicken)
1 tbsp of black pepper
30 grams of strong cheddar cheese
Fry onions and garlic till soft
Add bacon and mushrooms and fry till cooked
Place the above mixture into a bowl.
With the remaining oil in the pan add the rice and stir till fully coated in oil
Then add the stock bit by bit till fully absorbed.
If the rice isn't cooked just add more water till it it.
Add the cheese and fully stir into the risotto.
Add the onion mixture to the risotto and stir till fully warmed.
Once cooked and heated serve straight away.
I sometimes serve this salad and homemade bread.
This time we just had it warmed up home made bread.
I think in total the risotto and loaf cost about 98p in total. It made enough for 2 grown men and 2 bottomless pits and me and they went back for thirds.
Hope you all like it x
