My Secret Store Of Food...
Well, not so secret really...I've tried rearranging the images into a different order(but that's been complicated by another browser trying to hijack my computer and access to my blog! So I'll quit whilst I'm ahead...
The pantry that has not been used in decades now has lots of spare items and "Stuff" that is not used as often as some foodstuffs. It's also where items that are not so much of a worry temperature wise. So it's mainly tinned, packeted or in containers. It's misleading in that some items are hidden behind others.
Now my luxury...Pringles...If you look on their website, it is amazing how companies do research and often market items that are available in one country and not another. I have found the USA has quite a few variety of Pringles that are not on the shelves here and vice versa...and the three items below are so new...I could not find them on the website dedicated to the UK but the local supermarket was promoting them at a special price so...Equally, I found three or four items in the Pringles range that are on sale in the UK and until I looked at the website my local supermarket has never ever had them on sale so even where they are supposed to be available, it's not necessarily so...
Ah, yes another cupboard below where I have stored mainly soups and quick snacks and tea/coffee and things for spreading on toast and bread etc... and once again some things are hidden behind other items...so I have quite a store of foods to choose from and I have not even got to the fridge/freezer or where the cereals, bread, biscuits and cakes are(and the little store of sweets)
Thankfully, this means less work for me and more choice at mealtimes. And with such a stock of food to fall back on, I think cost wise after the initial outlay it will also mean it is less expensive.
posted by The Great Gildersleeve | 1:55 am
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re pictures, maybe a problem with the uploader or with picaso?...all looks OK now though.
Those pictures look great...sounds an odd comment but it reminds me of my Art 'O' level! ...yes 'O' level hehehe. Drew a corner of the kitchen and of course it contained a Heinz ketchup (classic shape) bottle plus other bit's and bobs plus an electric kettle - difficult if you imagine the shiny chrome needing reflections etc...but I was bloody good at art! ...also reminds me that i'm bloody fussy re resentation of foodstuffs (in the fridge, in the cupboards...wherever...maybe that's a reason I'm divorced: I'm a fucking loon! ;-)
What's that next to the squeezy ketchup in the first image - 2 bottles of sauce type stuff on the left?
Baxters soup - are you their official taster?
Gildy...are you posting at the same time as me? Your post has appeared again...??? Anyway, a P.S. Pringles...Venezuela...Jalapeño falour...BEST EVER (in a tube)
Looking at my horde of food reminds me that there could be in total somewhere in the region of £300's worth but it doesn't look that much! Or that it should be worth anywhere near as much.
My good friend North Star asks/mentions that when he was over in the UK from the States, he saw and enjoyed Pringles that were available here and not necessarily back home. And was surprised to see the one's I feature in my images in bags/packets.
In America they are normally in tubes...I can confirm that is the same here and I was surprised when I saw these products on the shelves. But they must be being promoted as being something special, as I say though on the Pringles website I have seen some flavours in tubes that I have never seen here even though the information suggests otherwise.
Remember from an earlier post my looking for Black Tea? and it was nowhere to be found locally. Green Tea yes, Black Tea...no!
On my last shopping trip a few days ago where items are reduced in price because of the economic squeeze, I found a box containing 169 tea bags for £1.69. I put it back as I can buy 100 decafinated for 99 at another shop(and it's a well known brand)but I took another look...
And bought them...Why?
They are 100% Black Tea, I guess I must have been meant to do some shopping after all.
Update...you can always learn...Black Tea...I read an old article today that says that most blends of tea that we purchase contain Black Tea.
So in theory I've always been buying it! Its just a case of whether the blend is totally Black or combined with another.
On the coffee front the same area had some decafinated that I had not seen elsewhere in the store and yet days earlier I had purchased the same product on the usual shelves that did contain caffine.
But the way I make our coffee, we get so much taste from such a small amount and as we do not drink it black I doubt it makes much difference which one we use or which brand.
Still experiencing problems with my blog...the text is there when you and I read it, when I go in to edit the entry and try and add text, all that shows up is the images and no text.
I hope the following entries work correctly.(I think the new entries will but the text is still missing on this one)
There I was correcting spelling errors in my comment and you post at the same time Span so you answer my comment before it appears :-)
The first image is already different because I have moved items into the cupboard shown in image two as food is eaten(the best part)
If I have understood your question correctly about the tomato ketchup, there are two new squeezy bottles of Heinz Ketchup with the tag line of "having a twist of" One has garlic added and the other (there are more in the range)is sweet onion.
Also,difficult to see are two jars of a range of Heinz Mayonnaise(one has garlic added again)
Remember you mentioned eating raw garlic...I managed to eat some the other day!
I started using the pantry again to store some items was ease of access(avoiding needing step ladders to reach the top shelf)being short and Mum has this thing about worrying that the cupboard may fall down with the extra items in it being too heavy :-)
In the second image it looks like there are two tins of Smash Mashed Potato but one is actually used as a tea caddy and is full of teabags...
Baxters Soup...yes. it looks like there are quite a few cans of that brand...but the last few days it's been mainly Heinz soup and quite plain, the old favourites like Chicken, Mushroom etc...nothing too fancy. And I've noticed certain brands and varieties disappearing from the shelves of the local supermarket which as we come into the Winter months seems strange.
Unless they are using up all the old stock and then will revamp what's on sale...
You mention about presentation, I was re-arranging the items around only a few hours ago...
Actually, long gone are the days where I'd always choose known brands over supermarket brands...it happens but often the quality is so good with own brands, it's not an issue anymore.
And many products even those manufactured by the brands that are known are no longer advertised on tv or radio.
Or they have a campaign and then are not seen for months or years.
Thinking of soup, I cannot tell you the last time I saw a tin of Baxters or Heinz soup advertised but I assume that such companies know that if you want soup as only a few brands make such products, they can try and attract the customer in the section of the store dedicated to soup.
If they advertised on tv at best all they could do is implant the idea of wanting to buy soup in the first place.
Back to the question of Pringles in bags...I opened the first packet for the first time last night...If you know the traditional shape of those that are in tubes...these have a different texture and are smaller and not the same shape.
They are approx the size of a 10p piece in the UK(I guess that's the same as 10cents in the US)
You mean the the quarter (25 cents) Gildy. The ten cents (dime) is more like UK 5p (tiny) By contrast the 5cent piece (nickel) is bigger...
pringles in a bag loses all the originality: it would mean they're just like Walkers sensations and a couple of small luxury brand crisps (Kettles etc)
That sounds right Span...I'm not as keen on these new crisps and prefer the one's in the tube where they are stacked up on top of each other and have their certain shape.
I think that they are harder in texture too.
The world's economy is up the swanee and I'm talking Pringles :-)
I'm going to post some more links soon and maybe some recipes again...
I'll give credit to the source in some cases but as you tend to adapt a recipe and/or once it's out there its difficult to say who invented it, I'll just put it on my blog anyhow. Most dishes are basic and you just move ingredients around or add or take away items.
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