Stocking the cupboards
Stuff happens, and sometimes your parents won’t be able to get out to the shops as often as they’d like. Here are a few ideas of items worth keeping stocked up in their cupboards and freezers for the difficult days.
In the cupboards
- Tins and tins of soup
- Long-life ready meals (better in an emergency than nothing)
- Back-up tea and coffee
- Hot chocolate, Horlicks or a cosy drink of choice
- Porridge oats (if they don’t attract wildlife in)
- Shortbread, chocolate and other indulgences
- Long-life milk
- Long-life juice drinks
- Olive and/or sunflower oil
- Foil
- Clingfilm
- Washing up liquid
- Washing powder
- Soap
In the freezer
- Small plastic bottles of milk (even if it doesn’t taste quite the same – it’s better than nothing)
- Ready meals (even if they are all awful and enough for two)
- Bread and crumpets
In the fridge
- Butter or spread of choice
- Eggs (obviously not too long term)
Elsewhere
- Cash
- Stamps
- Crossword or Sudoku compilation book, Word Searches are also good
- Plasters
- Antiseptic cream or rinse
- Painkillers as allowed
- Flu and cold remedy as allowed
- Diarrhoea relief, to be balanced with …
- Constipation relief
Any other useful ideas? Tell us what you keep stocked up in your parents’ cupboards. If you found this article helpful, why not join the family?
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