Pantry liners

Mum do all your shopping? Here is a list of what you need
in your cupboards unless you want to eat Pot Noodle all year
round:

• 2x Tins of Chopped Tomatoes – for all pasta sauces and
stews

• 2 x Tins of Tuna – Fish is healthy. Use for tuna melts,
salads, sandwiches

• 2 x Red Kidney Beans – for salads, stews, chilis

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• 1 tube Tomato paste –
gives sauces an extra thick kick

• Chicken, Beef and Vegetable Stock – Cubes are cheaper but
powder dissolves faster. Add to all soup, sauces and gravies

• Extra Virgin Olive Oil – great for sautéing pretty much
anything, and prevents your food from sticking to the pans

• Garlic – use in EVERYTHING except dessert. Adds flavours
to sauces, chilis, tacos, stirfries, marinade, soups and, uh,
garlic bread. It also wards off infections and is a great
antioxidant

• Oregano – bit of something extra for sauces, stews,
bruschetta

• Cayenne Pepper or Chili Powder–Add to soups, chilli or to
broth to break up chest congestion during a cold

• Pasta – fettucine, linguine, spaghetti, fusili, gnocchi,
macaroni, cannelloni, tortellini, penne, rigatoni,
vermicelli..take you’re pick. It’s cheap and easily
stored

• Rice – Boil in bag or Uncle Ben’s Express 5
minute rice for you lazy types. Brown rice is better for you
but we reckon you won’t have the patience to cook it

• Jam – Try buying one with more than
nought-point-two-percent fruit in it

• Soya Sauce – Necessary for all Asian-styley meals

• Ginger – This is the big daddy of Asian spices. Use it in
stirfries, especially. Buy fresh, but dried will suffice in a
pinch

• Burrito wraps – Fab for brekkie burritos, healthy lunch
wraps or Mexican dinners

• Juice – Vitamins in a box. Pure's better than from
concentrate. But let's face it, it's also more expensive

• Red wine or apple cider vinegar (or if you can afford it,
balsamic) – for salad dressings and jazzing up pasta sauces.
White vinegar to clean your floor or toilet

• Mustard – add a dash into tuna fish sandwich filler, meat
or in salad dressings

• Small package of corn flour – thickens gravies and cheese
sauces

• Ketchup and Brown Sauce – For those post-booze-athon big
English brekkies

• UHT Milk – Mmm, nuked milk. Stays on the shelf and
doesn't go off!

• Beer – Because you know you want to. Because you know you
MUST