A Foodie Wants to Know…

The ingredients to make lentil soup

Dog food - I can’t eat until I know the dog is sorted out,
Proper coffee
Oranges
Tuna
Jacket potatoes
Gluten free bread
Crunchy peanut butter
Eggs
Cheese
Olives - preferably nocellara
Grapes
Dark chocolate
As I wrote this list I realised what a lazy (disinterested) cook I am. I could live quite happily on jacket potatoes and toast. I don’t, I make sure I eat a healthy diet, but these are the things I buy every week and feel deprived without.

Lentils
Indian spices
Potatoes
Bread
Chicken
Green/runner beans
Tomatoes
Milk
Eggs
Tea

I am always puzzled as to why Americans call tomato sauce "marinara" when it contains absolutely no seafood.

JackyB, I had to look it up, then realised that's what I make with tinned tomatoes and frozen, chopped onions!

JackyB

I am always puzzled as to why Americans call tomato sauce "marinara" when it contains absolutely no seafood.

It is not an American thing if you Google Marinara sauce it comes up with tomato sauce.

I consider these as staples
Good butter (with salt crystals)
Free range eggs
Tinned chopped tomatoes (or passata)
Dried mixed herbs
Fresh mint , parsley , basil
Brown rice
Pasta in whatever form
Onions (plus frozen chopped for convenience)
Good Cheddar - plus some ready grated frozen
Parmesan
Garlic
Fresh carrots/leeks or frozen soffrito for a quick soup or stew base
Sliced loaf in the freezer
Tinned cream of tomato soup - must be Heinz

My basic vegan list (apart from things I grow):

Porridge oats
Sultanas
Apples
White (or red) cabbage
Frozen vegetables - including those handy baked potatoes from Iceland
Nutritional yeast flakes
Tinned chickpeas, lentils, coconut cream and tomatoes
Gram flour
Rice
Pasta made from lentils and/or peas
Marmite
Peanut butter (by the tubful)
Yorkshire tea and coffee
Cacao nibs (for those peanut flapjacks)
Olive oil
Oat milk
(and all the spices, condiments etc. I enjoy)

I can always rustle up some soup, chick pea curry, broccoli mash and home made biscuits at short notice - all welcome in this chilly weather.

Dog food!
Ingredients for homemade bread
Eggs
Milk
Tea
Coffee
Cheese
Potatoes
Tomatoes
Pasta
Rice
Sardines
Carrots
Broccoli
Garlic
Yogurt
Fruit
Porridge
Honey

Vegetables
Grains eg rice lentils barley
Tomatoes fresh and tinned
Butter not spread
Bacon skinny rashers
Cheese strong
Onions and garlic
Pasta dried
Bread or crackers
Fruit fresh
Herbs and spices
Flour
Olive oil
Fish fresh or tinned tuna salmon
Dried noodles

RosiesMaw

I consider these as staples
Good butter (with salt crystals)
Free range eggs
Tinned chopped tomatoes (or passata)
Dried mixed herbs
Fresh mint , parsley , basil
Brown rice
Pasta in whatever form
Onions (plus frozen chopped for convenience)
Good Cheddar - plus some ready grated frozen
Parmesan
Garlic
Fresh carrots/leeks or frozen soffrito for a quick soup or stew base
Sliced loaf in the freezer
Tinned cream of tomato soup - must be Heinz

Mine almost exactly. Can't stand tinned tomatoes soup.

Can I add

potatoes
bacon/pancetta

Ooh and

Emmental or other stringy cheese.

Cat food
Chicken thighs
Low fat beef or turkey mince
Fish
Potatoes
Cauliflower
Onions
Leeks
Stringless/runner beans
Carrots
Tomatoes
Cheese
Eggs
Multigrain bread

Flour
Eggs ( I have an electric pasta maker)
Olive oil
Basmati rice
Onions/garlic
🍅 tomatoes fresh and tinned
Coffee , not instant , can’t drink it
Milk
Cheese
Green veg
Tea
Grain bread and last but not least
Chocolate

Can't live without Marmalade.

Rice
Yogurt
Eggs
Onions
Garlic/ginger paste
Bananas
Flour
Sugar
Coffee

Forgot!

Butter
Olive oil
Onions
Herbs
Chicken

Forgot

Chicken

Kefir
olive oil
butter
cheeses
skimmed milk
tea
carbonated water
grapes
chocolate
spinach
pasta
tomatoes
herbs/soy sauce/spices
duck legs
pasta/noodles/rice

I had to google ‘Soffrito’ and discovered it is what my mother called ‘pot herbs’.

For your clarification - In America, tomato sauce is tomato sauce. Plain and simple. Comes in a can (tin).

Marinara is spaghetti/pasta sauce - the herbed and seasoned red tomato sauce that can include meat and veggies. Comes in a jar.

Who has time to make this from scratch? So convenient and delicious!

Dark chocolate!
Milk
Greek yogurt
Blueberries
Honey
Eggs
Salmon
Broccoli
Pears
Bananas
Cheese
Pasta
Rice
Pesto
Bread
Butter
Decaff coffee
Chicken

Frozen berries
Apples, pears and satsumas
Eggs
Greek yogurt
Green vegetables
Salad veg plus avocado
Low GI bread ( Lidl)
Chicken
Cod
Smoked mackerel
Courgettes
Cheese, feta, halloumi, cheddar and emmental
Dark chocolate

How I can omit peanut 🥜 butter on my list is beyond me! I live off that stuff.

I do buy meat - chicken, beef, pork and fish - occasionally, not like I used to. I can get by without it and feel better for it, I found out. I’m cutting out as much sugar as I can too.