12 Foods Experienced Women Always Keep in the House

You can tell within four minutes of standing in her kitchen. Nothing in it is fancy. And if you told her six people were arriving tomorrow for a week, she would say all right, and mean it, and not go to a shop. I was not that woman until a winter with the power out nine days, when I opened a cupboard that looked full and found nothing in it that would feed four people. Three cereals, half a jar of olives and eleven condiments. Twelve items and what each one is doing. Rice, dried and tinned beans, oats, peanut butter, tinned tomatoes, oil, salt, stock cubes, tinned milk, tinned fish, flour, and the last one that people cut first and should not. This is not a list for the end of the world. It is for the month the money did not stretch, the flu that went through the house, the car that would not start. And the two ways it fails, which nobody mentions. When the Lights Go Out is on the channel description. What would you add that I missed?