My top 3 Snowproof Storecupboard Ingredients!

With a well-stocked storecupboard, who needs to trek through the blizzard for groceries?

The snow is thick on the ground, you can’t get the car out of the drive and your local shop has sold out of bread and milk… what are you going to serve up for supper? It’s time to rifle through your storecupboard.

My top three storecupboard essentials all come in tins. If you’ve got tomatoes, fish and pulses in the larder, you can curl up by the fire, safe in the knowledge that your family won’t go hungry!

1) Tinned tomatoes
Snow or no snow, it is impossible to starve if you have tinned tomatoes in the house. Make soup or pasta sauce, add to curries and casseroles, throw into omelettes, spread over pizza bases… the meals are endless.

2) Tinned fish
Fish takes very well to being canned and is wonderfully versatile. Flake into cooked rice and hardboiled eggs for a kedgeree, stir into cheese sauce to serve over pasta or mix into mayo for a quick jacket topping.

3) Tinned Pulses
Lentils, chickpeas, borlotti or cannellini beans – tinned pulses have a multitude of uses. They are great for bulking out a stew, adding texture to soups, or throwing into a chilli.