What's In -Your- Pantry?

What must you -always- have in your fridge/freezer & pantry?

I must -always- have:

Eggs
Milk
Bacon
Chorizo
Jalepenos/Serranos
Tomatoes & Tomatillos
Sour Cream
Crisco
Onions & Garlic
Spinach
Cheese

Potatoes

Rice
Flour
Tomato Sauce
Chicken Boullion
Corn Tortillas
Dried Beans (Black & Pinto)

That's just for basic everyday stuff. I can pretty well make do with all of that for a week without buying anything else if I have enough of it all. I could throw bread onto that list, but I don't like buying it 'cuz then I'll eat the crap out of some sandwiches and that's just too many carbs for me.

Ooooh. That'll be a new challenge for me. I'll just get everything I listed up there along with some meat and that's it. No extra junk. Except alcohol. XD See how long I can stretch it all out between the 2 of us. I estimate it'll all be about $60 or less.

The only must have at any given time is Dr. Pepper Ten.

Anything else is variable depending on mood and how lazy I am.

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Originally Posted by noxious.sunshine

Eggs - But of course
Milk - But of course
Bacon - BACON. YES.
Chorizo - Chorizo? Damn that's fancy. I do definitely always have some sausage in there though
Jalepenos/Serranos - Eh. Give or take. Definitely not an everyday thing.
Tomatoes & Tomatillos - Not Tomatillos, but Tomatoes are obviously important
Sour Cream - My mum loves the stuff, so it's always in the fridge because of her.
Crisco - Don't know what this is.
Onions & Garlic - But of course for the onions. Garlic is very much a rarity.
Spinach - Eh. Not a neccessity.
Cheese - But of course

Potatoes - But of course

Rice - But of course
Flour - But of course
Tomato Sauce - But of course
Chicken Boullion - Boullion? What's that!
Corn Tortillas - I happen to love fajitas, so for me this is pretty much an everyday purchase
Dried Beans (Black & Pinto) - I'm not so keen, so perhaps not an everyday thing.

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Decent list there actually, but I've got a few additions, at least for me:

Packet Noodles - While they are unhealthy, they are great for a snack
Lettuce, cucumber etc (Salad stuff) - Always good for that health boost
Cereal - Mmmmm
Bread - How is bread NOT an everyday purchase? At the very least, baguettes are heavenly
Salsa - Mainly to go with the fajitas.
Butter - To go with bread. Handy for baking as well I suppose

I can't think of any more definite neccessities. There probably is more, but I can't be asked rummaging through my kitchen looking at food. :p

Always have:
Butter
Cheese
Pasta

Usually have:
Ground beef
Chicken
Tortilla chips
Bread
Tomato sauce
Canned corn
carrots
celery
hot chocolate
coffee
salsa
cereal
oatmeal
cream of broccoli/mushroom or chicken soup

Often have:
broccoli
bananas
apples
ice cream
grapes
cookies

The rest depends on what I'm cooking that week.

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Originally Posted by Formalhaut

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Originally Posted by noxious.sunshine

Eggs - But of course
Milk - But of course
Bacon - BACON. YES.
Chorizo - Chorizo? Damn that's fancy. I do definitely always have some sausage in there though
Jalepenos/Serranos - Eh. Give or take. Definitely not an everyday thing.
Tomatoes & Tomatillos - Not Tomatillos, but Tomatoes are obviously important
Sour Cream - My mum loves the stuff, so it's always in the fridge because of her.
Crisco - Don't know what this is.
Onions & Garlic - But of course for the onions. Garlic is very much a rarity.
Spinach - Eh. Not a neccessity.
Cheese - But of course

Potatoes - But of course

Rice - But of course
Flour - But of course
Tomato Sauce - But of course
Chicken Boullion - Boullion? What's that!
Corn Tortillas - I happen to love fajitas, so for me this is pretty much an everyday purchase
Dried Beans (Black & Pinto) - I'm not so keen, so perhaps not an everyday thing.

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Decent list there actually, but I've got a few additions, at least for me:

Packet Noodles - While they are unhealthy, they are great for a snack
Lettuce, cucumber etc (Salad stuff) - Always good for that health boost
Cereal - Mmmmm
Bread - How is bread NOT an everyday purchase? At the very least, baguettes are heavenly
Salsa - Mainly to go with the fajitas.
Butter - To go with bread. Handy for baking as well I suppose

I can't think of any more definite neccessities. There probably is more, but I can't be asked rummaging through my kitchen looking at food. :p

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The tomatillos & tomatoes & jalepenos are primarily -for- making homemade salsa. Boil up a few tomatillos with a jalepeno or two, some onion, and peeled garlic cloves, scoop it all out with a slotted spoon & put in a blender, add some cilantro & lime juice maybe, blend away. Then you add it back to a hot skillet with a little bit of oil and let it reduce a bit so that it thickens up somewhat.

Mexican Chorizo is pretty cheap. And it's kind of become a common staple in my fridge over the last 5 or 6 years. It's made with vinegar, so you can't cook it up in a patty like regular sausage, so I chop onion, garlic, & jalepeno (a trio I use in almost everything) and sautee it in with the chorizo until the chorizo is cooked. Beat up a few eggs & add them to the chorizo and scramble it all up. Heat up corn tortillas and make tacos with it.

I forgot to add lime to that list.

Crisco is hard vegetable shortening - used by Southern Folk to make biscuits and gravy XD ... That's about the only thing I use it for.

And fresh Spinach I prefer over any other kind of green - mainly for the health benefits, but it's also really versatile. It can be eaten in a salad or sauteed to make an omelette or spinach & cheese (& chicken maybe) salsa verde-sour cream enchiladas.

My daughter looooves bananas, but I absolutely refuse to buy them anymore. She's the only one that eats them and she's only with me 2 days a week, so they start browning and then those damn fruit flies start manifesting out of the blue and it drives me absolutely insane. I can't deal with it lol

Carrots
Eggs
Chicken/steak/ground beef
Spinach
Fresh garlic
fresh ginger
california mix veg (i prefer fresh veg but this is cheaper anyways).
peanut butter
manuka honey
some kind of fruit (specially berries when they're on sale).

I misread this as what are in your panties, and I was going to get defensive.

lololololol You opened that can of worms.... What's in there!? HUH!?

Sausage, but the real question is: uncut?

o.o; you would ask that.