Good store cupboard foods
If you find it difficult to get out and go shopping regularly, then it would be a good idea to keep some non-perishable or frozen foods in storage.
Dairy products:
- Long life (UHT) milk
- Evaporated milk
- Frozen fresh milk
- Condensed milk
- Powdered milk
- Cheese
- Frozen yoghurt
Meat products:
- Tinned meats, e.g. corned beef, ham, meatballs, stews, hotdog sausages
- Tinned fish, e.g. mackerel, tuna
- Frozen meat, chicken
- Frozen ready meals, e.g. Chicken nuggets, fish cakes, cottage pie
- Frozen pies, pasties
Starches and cereals:
- Tinned and dry pasta
- Frozen chips, croquettes
- Tinned potato
- Instant mash potato
- Rice, frozen or plain
- Cereals, e.g. Weetabix, cornflakes
- Part-baked or long-life bread rolls
Fruit and vegetables:
- Tinned fruit, e.g. peaches, fruit salad
- Tinned vegetables, e.g. carrots
- Long life pure fruit juice
- Frozen fruit and vegetables
- Dried fruit, e.g. Apricots
Other suitable foods:
- Tinned or powdered soup
- Crisps and nuts
- Chocolate, sweets
- Jam, marmalade, honey, syrup
- Sweet and savoury biscuits, cake
- Malted milk, cocoa, hot chocolate