[Aliantha]

Well I always have cream in the fridge, so it's a yes to that. I do often have champagne or sparkling wine around too, but we usually have a fair few different types of wine in the wine rack, for drinking or cooking.

We also have a fairly wide range of herbs and spices in the cupboard dried or fresh in the fridge. We also keep bones and stuff for making stock in the freezer.

It's part of our efforts to have a whole food diet as much as possible without going to extremes. Once you get your pantry sorted it's easy to replenish as you go, but it's taken us quite a while to get the kitchen to the stage where we feel quite confident that we can cook just about anything from scratch.

We're not the type of family that shops each day or every other day to cook specific meals, so that's part of it too. We buy in bulk to save money and freeze what we're not eating in the next couple of days.

The gravy was very yummy. I caught Aden drinking it out of the jug when he was cleaning up the kitchen. lol