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Sunday, January 23, 2005

Cleared out my food cupboards

Found an awful lot of stuff.

Now I need to plan on how to use this lot up. Over the last couple of months we've moved to eating far more fresh food, for me much more of it raw or barely cooked. But the time has come to spend less cash and eat the cupboards. Well - maybe not that literally :-)

So here comes the list, basically in the order they were found. Some parts of my cupboards are organised, others not so (although all these re in trays and boxes bottoms). I'm seeking ideas for recipes for any of these. Recipes may well end up on the Reading and Recipes blog (see 'Other Blogs' to the right)

Soya Beans (dried), Harricot beans (dried), Great Northern Beans (dried), Chick peas (dried), Green Lentils (dried) Green Split Peas (dried), Yellos Split Peas (dried), Puy Lentils (dried).
Jar Pickled Onions, 3L tonic (2 with lime), Cloudy Apple Juice (6 L), 1L Multivit juice, 1L Red Grape juice, 1L clear Apple, 1L Orange juice, 1L Rice Milk, 1 carton Alpro 'custard', Lots of popcorn kernals, 1 Plum Pudding, 1Kg Semolina, 1Kg Polenta, 1Kg Spelt flour, 1 bag Bread Flour, 2 bags Plain flour, 2 bags Self-raising Flour.

3 bottles of wine (1 red, 1 white, 1 rose).

Jar ginger perserve, greengage jam, jar gerkins, 2 gingerbread house kits, 1 sage and onion stuffing mix, jar sun dried tomato antipasto, 1 jar whole tahini, jarred peppers, 1 packet mint thins (plain choc :-) Tamarind and Lime stirfry sauce, ginger and lemongrass stirfry sauce, 500g Arborio Rice, 2 jars Confit de Vin, Jarred Raspberries, 2 bags Habas Fritas, 10 licorice bars (small), rice crackers with soya, 1 packet burger mix, 1 packet sosmix, carton soya dream, tin tomato puree, jar tomato puree, 2 tins peach slices, jarred blackcurrants, tin pineapple cubes, tin prunes, tin coconut milk, Bag Sweet Chilli Kettle Chips, Huge bag ready salted Kettle chips, Ble, Egg replacer, tin tomato and butterbean soup, Mustard, tomato ketchup, Box matzos, Veg suet, 3 boxes blackcurrant fruit bars, 2 boxes strawberry fruit bars, 1kg porridge oats, jar green olives, jar sundried tomatos, 1L Rocks Lemon Squash, Butterbeans (dried), 500ml Lingonberry Squash, 500ml Elderflower Cordial, bottle tamari, 2 bottles Pepperdew ketchup, 1 bottle brown sauce, 1 jar Rogan Josh sauce, 2 jars pickled baby beets, 1 jar piccalli, 1 jar silverskin onions, 2 jars Brinjii pickle (aubergine), 1L sieved tomato, soya chunks (dried) Tamarind chutney, mango chutney, maya gold chocolate, jar ginger pate, Hemp oil, salsa, chilli dipping sauce, beetroot pickle, red wine vinegar, 1 summerfruits malt lof, packet rich tea biscuits.
Various packets of dried seaweed.

About 4-ish kg dried fruits - some mixed fruit, some sultanas, some currants.

(oh and 3 tins of fish, but they belong to DP so I have nothin to do with those)



Gosh - rather lot of stuff. Sorry about the lack of order. I've yet to look in the freezer or fridge fully (although we tend to empty those regularly so I'm not worrying about any of that going uneaten for more than a few weeks - hee hee). I have another cupboard to go through - its where we keep all the tea, coffee, and other things.....