A Foodie Wants to Know…

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

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!!!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I forgot frozen peas.
Must be Bird's Eye

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

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

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,

kittylester

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

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

Forgot

Chicken

Forgot!

Butter
Olive oil
Onions
Herbs
Chicken

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

Can't live without Marmalade.

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

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