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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

All the basics as others have listed, probably the list above
Plus

Yorkshire tea
Douwe Egberts instant coffee
Olive oil
Good live yogurt
Good Cheddar cheese
Broccoli
Salad stuff
Cornflour

Minus tinned tomato soup
Minus sofrito

Marinara sauce is a basic tomato sauce from Italy. Possibly originally cooked up quickly by wives for their returning sailor husbands. The name has been adopted by Americans because of the number of Italian immigrants, just as they have zucchini instead of courgettes and talk about erbs rather than herbs,

I have made batches of tomato sauce and frozen them when we've had a glut of tomatoes.

Olive oil
Cheese - cheddar, Parmesan
Butter
Tinned tomatoes
Celery
Peppers
Chilli
Onions
Potatoes
Rice
Pasta
Eggs
Nespresso coffee pods
Green tea

I forgot frozen peas.
Must be Bird's Eye

Much the same as other Gransnetters, minus meat and fish, with a good supply of canned pulses, herbs and spices, tomato puree, veggie stock cubes, olive and sesame oils, rice vinegar, almonds and walnuts and the very essential Marmite, Gin and tonic water. Oh and a couple of bottles of plonk.

How could I forget maple syrup when I live in Canada!

Casdon

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.

Love this, I'll join you, except I'll have non gluten-free bread

Protein should be on top of the list, with vegetables, apples and pears, nuts and some carb. A dash of dairy. No alcohol for me at the moment.

Rose harissa paste
Chipotle paste
Chili sauce
Feta
Cherry tomatoes
Aubergines
Chick peas
Lentils
Olive oil
Spelt grains
Fresh herbs
Pita breads

and my weekly organic veg box

Do you have a preferred type of marmalade Tink75? I love it too, and always made my own until I discovered Frank’s Original. I couldn’t tell a difference and never looked back.

for me, top of the list is ~CAT food!
and litter, I tend to keep a good stock in,
then, whatever,,
as I don`t have as good as an appetite as I used to

it is coming here and reading what y`all get up to,
encourages me..

now I will keep buying my butter!!!

My essentials

Milk
Vegetables ( onions &garlic topping list) and lots and more.
Oats
Brown basmati rice
Yorkshire tea
Pulses
Tom purée
Tinned toms
Salt pepper paprika and herbs

Definitely cheese( variety) chocolate (85%) and champagne. Then it’s bits and bobs for DH

We always have wheat flour, potato flour and corn flour in the house, as I bake my own bread, plus yeast. Milk, cream, butter , cheese, cooking fat and oil, coffee, rice, both basmati and pudding rice, pasta, potatoes, onions and eggs. Cat food, tinned beans, and in the freezer mince, sausages, chopped leeks, carrots and root celery for making soup, meat stock, some chicken. Home made jams and marmelade, cider vinegar, likewise homemade from our own apples, lentils, garlic and plenty of different spices.

Block jersey butter which is put onto baked potatoes (salt & black pepper first). Food of the gods indeed. I was gutted when years ago I found out potatoes weren’t one of my 5-a-day!

Any left over butter (hehe! 🤣) is spread onto crumpets and eaten with 2 Burford Brown eggs. That, plus Weetabix with thick Greek (not style) yoghurt in a bowl with Scottish raspberries and milk could see me through just about forever.

Other major players are sprouts (I could eat a plateful), porridge on a winter’s morning and Horlicks.

Wine/malt whisky 🍷🥃 are occasional treats. I could live without them in my life but then again why would I?
😁

I'm very fond of food and my list would include the following "must haves"

Chopped tinned tomatoes
Brown rice
Noodles
Worcestershire Sauce
Fresh ginger
Indian spices
Marmite
Weetabix, Shredded Wheat
Blueberries
Fat free Quark, Greek Yogurt
All vegetables (I can't think of any that I don't like)
Most fish.

JackyB

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

i had never heard of marinara before reading this thread so I looked it up. Found this:

“Marinara” translates to “seafaring”—or colloquially to “sailor style” or “mariner style.” It was given the name marinara not because it was once a seafood-style sauce, but because it was the preferred meal of Italy's merchants during long expeditions at sea.

Good bread and red wine. I call it " the Jesus diet" !

Cat food
Dog food
Bread
Butter
Free range eggs
Smoked salmon
Cheese spread
Pasta
Yoghurts
Milk
Baked beans
Mince
Blueberries
Snacks for grandkids

Forgot various fruit and veg

Apples
oats
frozen berries
satsumas
bananas
prunes
kefir
nuts (walnuts, cashews, almonds and pecans)
seeds (flaxseed, sunflower, pumpkin and chia)
dark chocolate

Dog treats (for my son's dog)
Milk
Coffee
Tea
Decaff tea
Bread
Honey
Raspberry jam
Cheese
Baking potatoes
Butter
Free range eggs
Tomatoes
Oranges
Bananas
Have recently moved house and will only be staying a few months. It has a stunning aga but I don't enjoy cooking and it would cost a small fortune in oil to use. Unfortunately no cooker until builder installs new kitchen island so I am managing with a kettle, microwave, toasted sandwich maker. Do miss my homemade soup and roast dinners.

We eat a very low carb diet so our shopping list is pretty much a mix of the following:

Kerrygold butter
Almond milk
Coconut milk
Organic, free range eggs
Bacon
Gluten free sausages
Meat of some kind
Fish of some kind
Cream (double)
Yoghurt
Cream cheese
Hard cheese
Lemons/fresh or frozen berries/oranges
Ginger/black pepper
Veg - sprouts/broccoli/leeks/onions
Gluten free flour and ground almonds
Coconut/olive oil

Additionally some fresh herbs from the garden. Not a typical GN diet

Urmstongram - there are many misconceptions about (white) potatoes in relation to one’s diet. I too (being Northern European), never spent a day growing up without potatoes. Seventy-six years later I’m STILL having that love affair.

When you eat a baked (jacket?) potato make sure you consume the well-scrubbed crusty skin - that’s where all the fiber, vitamins and minerals are! I’m sure you do. Who would ever leave the best part behind?

Be not afraid - you can offset potato consumption by switching in/out other carbs and veggies daily.

I could write a whole thread about “spuds.” ❤️