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Just wondering how much stuff is in the cupboard?
I have just sorted my cupboard out and I've hardly any!!!
Just baked beans tuna rice pudding tin tomatoes
3 tins fruit never buy tin veg
But if loads of packet rice and stuff that I buy and never use
But my freezer is full that I keep full
I must buy more tins

All I’ve got in the way of tins are two tins of chicken soup (which have been there since before last Winter), two tins of chopped tomatoes and a tin of tuna.

Ho I'm normal then jo
I was feeling guilty

Nah, it’s not just you Saundra….and our freezer’s full too

Just to add that I’ve really struggled with having a full freezer while shopping for my parents. I can’t always get the shopping around to them straight away and our freezer isn’t very big so it’s been a problem fitting their frozen stuff in as well as ours, until I can get it to them.

A full freezer and tins upon tins of soups. salmon and mackerel, ham, chicken, beans of many types. Then there's the dried milk, mashed potato, flour, cous cous, peas, lentils, casserole mix. There's no food shortage hereabouts!

Jo I can't get a chocolate button in mine at times it really needs a defrost ing
But then I buy more
Can you do an order for your mum separate to be delivered there I know some people can and a Iceland order can be as low as £25-00 I love Iceland Ho God Frank do you live in a supermarket? We all know where to come if there is a food shortage

I couldn't begin to list the tins we have in our cupboard, because Kaz would accuse me of totally using up the site's monthly bandwidth , but I guess what I would say is that we haven't got the amount of "siege rations" that we had a year ago during the first wave of the pandemic when nobody knew whether supplies would still be available and food shops would remain open. Nothing like, in fact.

We've been steadily working our way through the backlog, and we've now gone back to the "one open in the fridge, one spare in the cupboard " level when it comes to jars, and basically I don't buy tins these days unless they're on special offer (which is about the only way you can shop regularly at our local supermarket which is a Waitrose and financially survive ). So, if Heinz soups are on a 4 for £3 for a period, then I'll get 4. Similarly ground coffee (Mrs O needs her daily caffeine ) I now wait until they're 75p off a bag before replenishing. I know it's not rocket science, but you do have to be careful at Waitrose and keep a look-out, especially when you're only going food shopping once a week -10 days.

The only tinned goods we do use so much we keep a good supply in is chopped tomatoes. The freezer is always full, but as we only have a half-freezer that's no surprise. We did consider buying a second freezer at the start of the virus but decided against it because we haven't really got anywhere to put it ....

Ossie you are doing well not to have the usual garage full
My son has extra freezer in the garage
Keeps getting reduced stuff from Morrison's on his way home from work
I must try harder to stock up

I've got a pull-out larder, with racks, that's build into my kitchen units. It's pretty full - top rack has a large Tupperware cereal dispenser full of bran flakes, a packet of oats for Mick's porridge, rice and pasta. The second rack has flour, sugar, soup packets, dried stuff, the third one has cooking oils, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, salt, spices, and the last one has tins! Tinned baked beans, fruit, tomatoes, pulses, and unopened jars of pickles.

Both of my freezers are rammed!