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What's In My Fridge & Pantry
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items We are a family of 4, with 2 little boys under the age of 3 with an 18-month age gap with both having CMPA. This is everything we always keep stocked up, to keep up with our toddlers, make sure we have safe foods around, and items we always use weekl...
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Fridge essentials
Baking cupboard
Snack shelve
Freezer musts
Bulk buying
Cupboard finds
Fridge essentials
Both of our little ones have IGE CMPA, so making the transition from their prescription milk to a diary free choice was a challenge to find one. It seems oat milk is the favourite one in our house! Suitable of them both and fortified with all the nut...
Oat drinks | Signature, Barista, Organic
I fear I have passed on my love of some ketchup to my eldest...whenever we have something dippable, he has to have "dip dip." We buy the reduced sugar and salt, so it isn't absolutely terrible, but maybe not the wisest parenting move I made, haha, bu...
Heinz Tomato Ketchup 910g
This is one of the few butters that the whole household likes that's dairy free! It's also good for cooking and baking and an overall crowd pleaser. We also make sure we buy a big tub, especially if im going to be baking that week 😋
Flora Buttery
There is always at least one dish a week that has some form of mince in it. It is so versatile, and my eldest doesn't mine this meat so much, which is amazing since he is so picky! We usually do either a cottage pie, chilli, or ragu with it or someth...
British Lean Beef Steak Mince 5% Fat
Some people have Taco Tuesdays, we have breaded chicken Tuesdays 😂 its something I know everyone, including my toddlers, will love and eat! It was the first meat that my eldest actually liked and asked for more. So we always have this meal once a we...
Breaded Chicken Tenders
Baking cupboard
When baking for my little ones, this is such a good substitute for butter to help make some of my bakes diary free! It is also great to use in cooking in place of other oils as well.
Amazon.co.uk: Coconut Oil
Practically, most things i bake in some form or another uses oats! So, I always have some in my baking cupboard. I use this to make peanut biscuits, ginger biscuits, oaty cups, banana bread, etc. It's a great cheap ingredient that doesn't go off for ...
Porridge Oats
I swear every baking recipe for babies and toddlers, and are diary free, always have cinnamon in it. Im personally not the biggest fan of cinnamon, but it seems everyone else in my house loves it! So we make sure we always have plenty to satisfy ever...
Buy Cinnamon Ground UK | 50g - 25kg | BuyWholefoodsOnline
Snack shelve
My eldest calls this cookie, and the day he pronounces this correctly will be the saddest day, but this is the best vegan chocolate we've found. It has a wide variety of flavours. Comes in bars, buttons, lollipops, etc. It's smooth and seems to just ...
All Products | NOMO Plant Powered Chocolate | Vegan & Free From
This is my husbands snack of choice, which we get when we do our costco runs. I personally am not the biggest fan as he eats them in bed and leaves crumbs everywhere... but it makes the man happy! He usually picks sweet over savoury for snacks, so it...
San Francisco Sourdough Pretzels, 1.47kg
Give me a bag of popcorn, and im yours. I once Uber eats an odeon before so I could have cinema popcorn (dont judge 🫣). I prefer salted as I dont have a huge sweet touch, but sweet and salty is also good. These bags are such a bargain, just over £1 ...
Salted Popcorn - Tesco Groceries
Freezer musts
This is one of the very few guaranteed vegetables I can get my toddler to eat, so I always make sure we have enough. Its so versatile that I try and add it into any meals thay might need bulking or just missing some veg. They are super quick to cook ...
frozen peas
We can find very little vegan nuggets that the kids are actually interested in. These are so fun and quirky, and so good, especially when our eldest is in the dinosaur phase. There are 2 different dinosaur shapes, and i get it only 7 in the packet, b...
Chicken Dinosaurs 7 Pack
Bulk buying
We bulk buy this from Costco as we go through this so much. I like to add this into receipes to help make sure our family get enough fibre and protein, especially on meals where I try and reduce meat! We use it from putting it in curries, a one pan b...
KTC Chick Peas, 12 x 400g
Very little of my recipes I cook dont contain chopped tomatoes so buying it in bulk saves us so much money in the long run, and im also scattered brain sometimes so its nice to know I already have some at home instead of forgetting. We use this in go...
Valfrutta Chopped Tomatoes, 12 x 400g
Me myself, nuh uh to meatballs. However, my eldest? Favourite meal ever. We bulk buy these from Costco, and he loves it so much that he literally would just eat a bowl of just the meatballs. My youngest hasn't got to that point yet (thank god). We on...
Smörgåsbord Swedish Meatballs. 1kg
So costco do a massive bag of onions for £4.99 and we dice them all and put them into freezer bags, and it lasts us months. Literally months and 85% of our cooking requires onions, and with a family of 4, we would just constantly be buying onions. Th...
Onions - White
Cupboard finds
We are a family that loves, absolutely loves, peanut butter. I introduced my eldest to peanut toast when he was around 10 months old, and he literally still has that for breakfast every day. We both also share some corn cakes with peanut butter on, a...
Pip & Nut | Peanut Butter | Deliciously Moreish Natural Nuttiness
We currently have some in our cupboard to make a peanut curry and a slow cooker chicken korma, 2 of my favourite dishes. It's such a cheap ingredient and rrally elevates the dish! Im not a fan of too much spice, so this is great for me and our little...
Tesco Coconut Milk 400Ml
I dont always make my own pasta sauces. If you do, I bow down to you! But these are so quick and easy. Just cook your pasta, then stir this in! Helps for when you need a quick lunch and only have a 30-minute nap window to cook and eat IYKYK.
STIR-IN Sauces
I swear every baby led weaning receipe has paprika in it! We buy the big jar of this as we go through so much paprika that im shocked that I haven't stained my hands at this point. It helps that I do love this seasoning though, especially on chips 😋
Paprika powder
You know never when you need a stock cube! We always keep beef and chicken stock cube handy for pasta sauces, soups, tray bakes, etc. It really elevates a dish - just make sure you buy the low salt version for your little ones!
OXO 12 Beef Stock Cubes
The key ingredient to any pasta sauce I make! Always make sure I am stocked to give my sauces just a little boost that it needs!
Italian Mixed Herbs
Ooooo now, im not an avid fan of coffee, but mix it with chocolate im your girl. This i have found is the perfect one. It doesn't overally taste of coffee, mostly a hot chocolate with a slight taste of it. Its my caffeine fuled hot Cocoa. You know, I...
Double Choc Mocha Instant Satchets 8 Pack
We are totally a pasta and rice family. My comfort food is a good pasta bake and a curry. I ensure we have at least 1 pasta and 1 rice dish a week so we can get through a packet very quickly. My eldest loves pasta and would genuinely just eat it plai...
Rice and Pasta
Toddler musts
What part of this range doesn't my kiddos love? Their favourite is the carrot and herb sticks. To the point, my eldest literally only wanted those crisps as a snack for around a year. No joke. I literally have a photo of him hugging a 4 pack of it. T...
Organix Shop - Organix Shop
So I discovered this while quickly picking up a few bits in sainsburys, and then we were going to head to the park afterwards. I want something that wasn't going to be messy since I didnt being wipes with me. Do I maybe regret it? Only because it's £...
Oaty Smooshies | Toddler Smoothies
My youngest IS OBSESSED. Is it just a universal thing? But we buy a punnet and he will demolish it in the morning if we let him. Then, of course, if my eldest sees him eating something he joins in, and he then smashes his way through it, too. If you ...
Blueberries
This has been a more recent thing since around August. All of a sudden, if we "hulked" the cucumber (broke it in half in a dramatic way in front of him), my eldest ate it! This is now our other vegetable to add either as a snack or during dinner to m...
Baby Cucumbers
My eldest goes through stages of asking for one every single day and then refuses them for 2 weeks. We keep them stocked up as my youngest is starting to eat them as well, and I also love some apple, so they dont go to waste in this house!
British Royal Gala Apples
Grapes are the equivalent of chocolate with how much my little ones crave this. Every day without a fail, my eldest will just say "grapes, grapes please, grapes, more." We buy this every week and guaranteed within a few days they are gone. I'm not su...
White Seedless Grapes