15 ingredients to keep in your cupboard for those times when you just can't decide what to cook

Some ingredients from ethnic groceries- spot the tahini and date syrup from the list!

1. Baking powder: because you never know when you may want to bake a cake...
2. Bicarbonate of soda: good with lemon juice instead of baking powder on ekadasi days
3. Tahini: very versatile; use in sweet or savoury sauces, icings, dips etc.
4. Smoked paprika: great for when you want to liven something up with a different taste
5. Miso: a good source of savoury gravy when you haven't time to make stock
6. Dried fruits: use soaked or unsoaked in baking, salads etc.
7. Smooth peanut butter: can be the basis of a savoury sauce, cookies or sweets
8. Plain Almonds or cashews: use toasted, soaked or raw, ground, chopped or whole...
9. Desiccated coconut: naturally sweet for baking, but also good in curries etc.
10. Plain wholemeal flour: for baking, breads, pastry, batter- lots of stuff
11. Agave or date syrup: just in case you want to make another batch of flapjacks...
12. Gram (chickpea/ garbanzo) flour: good in pakora batter and to enrich vegeburgers/ loaves
13. Dried  beans:   red kidney, butter beans, kala channa (dark chickpeas)
14. Yeast extract: good to flavour pasty or pie fillings and as the basis of gravy
15. Soy sauce: for stir-fry sauces or satay

There are more, like bottled lemon juice, a good stock of whole and powdered dried herbs and spices, Rogan Josh masala spice mix... what do you always keep in stock?