15 must haves in your pantry?

[Sarasvati]

What's an essential item in your pantry? Do you have things you just can't do without? List the 15 most essential ingredients in your pantry.

Mine would be:

1. Coconut oil
2. Rice
3. Lentils
4. Honey
5. Wholemeal flour
6. Cacao
7. Crackers
8. Nut butter of some description
9. Spices (salt, pepper, cumin, cinnamon and paprika get the most use, but I have lots)
10. Bicarb
11. Baking powder
12. Potatoes, onions
13. Garlic
14. Chickpeas
15. Pasta

[Ayla]

Oh, I love threads like these :) I'll have to ponder my list a bit more but it would include tins of tomatoes, lentils, rice, coconut cream, sugar, honey, flour...

[Kris]

Tins! - beans, toms, fruit, coconut milk. Curry paste, sugar(s), flour(s), rice(s), lentil(s), noodles - buckwheat and rice vermicelli in particular; vanilla, cocoa, cereal, dried fruit, potatoes, onions, garlic.

Um, I think that's more than 15 and I haven't added spices, herbs, milo, ....

I need a BIG pantry.

[Beatrice]

1. Onions
2. Can I count my entire spice drawer as one thing? ;)
3. Red and brown lentils
4. Balsamic vinegar
5. Extra virgin olive oil
6. Tinned tomatoes
7. Coconut cream
8. Rice noodles
9. Pasta
10. Tinned corn
11. Various rices (Arborio, white, brown etc)
12. Bicarb
13. Flour
14. Baking powder
15. Sugar

[Sarasvati]

I missed tinned tomatoes and coconut cream :lol. I also deleted chickpeas and chai as I was running out of room. Maybe I should have made it 20? :lol

[Ceres]

1. Vanilla rooibos tea
2. Dried pasta
3. Pasta sauce
4. Olive oil
5. Porridge
6. Tin of lentils for emergency use in pasta sauce
7. Tin of chick peas for emergency hommous drought
8. Spices - lots and lots
9. Butter beans for korma (mmmmmmm)
10. Coconut milk for korma (mmmmmmm)
11. Dried lentils
12. Flour (plain, self raising, wholemeal, wholemeal self raising)
13. Crackers
14. Corn thins
15. Brown sugar

[Hush]

These are really interesting! :lol at hommous drought Ceres

1. Drink things (tea and hot choc)
2. Flours
3. Olive oil
4. Tin tomatoes
5. Tin chickpeas
6. Pasta sauce
7. Spices (goodness me I think we have more than 40)
8. Pasta (incl mac'n'cheese, what can I say, I married an American)
9. Rice (arborio, wild & white mixed, brown)
10. Lentils
11. Tuna, salmon
12. Stock
13. Spreads (vegemite, peanut butter, honey)
14. Dried fruit
15. Onions, garlic, taters

[Beatrice]

I would have to add dried fruit and rolled oats, too.

[GreenGully]

1.coffee/tea
2.dried pasta
3.dried beans
4.red lentils
5.rice
6.tinned tomatoes
7.crackers
8.flour
9.oats
10.cereal (usually puffed rice)
11. spices
12. sugar
13. nuts
14. driedfruit
15. pasta sauce

[Echo]

1. Rice
2. Tinned tuna
3. Olive oil
4. Tea
5. Pasta sauce
6. Flour
7. Sugar
8. Cocoa
9. Vanilla essence/vanilla beans
10. Pasta
11. Cashews
12. Popcorn kernels
13. Onions
14. Quick and/or rolled oats
15. Vinegar

[Janet]

Mine are all covered. :lol

[Auset]

1) Chickpea's
2) Tins of tomato's
3) Cacao
4) Agave Syrup
5) Nuts
6) Oils
7) Oats
8) Cereal
9) Vinegar
10) Bicarb
11) Rice
12) Dried Fruit
13) Vanilla
14) Cinnamon
15) Tea