meal suggestions with these things!

frugalmumof4

hi,
we have all been eating lots of fresh produce for the last month, and money is a bit tight tight this week, so im relying on a lot of 'bargains' that i have picked up over the months to put on the freezer for one of those tired cant be bothered days. i have rather a lot prepacked things that i hate having to resort to, but maybe someone can think of something exciting i can do with them!

freezer
6 pitta breads
8 pack tortilla wraps
10 vegetable spoons
part bag potato wedges
5 portions homemade mash potato
6 vege sausage rolls
4 quorn sausages
6 cheese and onion sausages
cheese and vegetable lattice
2 vegetables pies
1/3 bag frozen veg
prawns
11 fish fingers
3/4 bag oven chips
4 cheese and onion rolls
5 hot dog sausages
6 frys vegetarian burgers

fridge
yogurts
soya milk
olives
no eggs!
onion
cucumber

cupboard

flour
sugar
sage and onion stuffing
vege gravy
1 tin tuna
red lentils
bag pasta
textured soya protein
new potatoes
7 baking potatoes
sweet and sour sauce
tomato pasta sauce
porridge oats


as you can see plenty of terrible quick fix meals, but not a lot of veg to go with it. Any ideas springing out at you? I have about £10 to spend. I dont need to buy milk,as we make soya milk. Maybe i should just keep it simple and chuck potatoes with all of it! I really dont like eating ready made stuff and the thought of eating solidely for a week, fills me with dread! All of this stuff has been in the freezer for months, i didnt realise i had filled it up so much, as we have been having veg box scheme! and living off that!

many thanks

frugalmumof4

oh, im ok for cakes, as i have frozen loads of home made! and i have a fruit bowl with apples and pears left!

claireabelle_2

sausage and mash with sweetcorn/peas if you have any frozen? fancy that myself now!!

blue_ashleigh

You could do a sweet and sour sausage pasta thing?
Or if you can get hold of any cheese you could try this receipe which I found:

par boil some potatoes
cook the lentils with onions and garlic..you can add chopped tomatoes (or not)
layer potato/ cooked lentils in liquid/grated cheese...medium heat 35 minutes-ish

champys

You can make a delicious and healthier mash by cooking some potatoes, sliced onions and apples together in the same pan before mashing it.

Bronnie

Reading between the lines, I think if you spent some of your allowance on some fresh veg... tomatoes, fresh greens of some sort.... you'd be feeling happier about eating the convenience foods. Most of them will make meals as they are, with the addition of a side salad or a couple of portions of veggies and adding the veg will stretch what you've already got further anyway.

MrsBartolozzi

I was intrigued by the "10 vegetable spoons".

What is a vegetable spoon please??

angelavdavis

Tuna pasta bake - Tuna, white sauce, pasta
Chilli wraps - soya, tinned toms, tortilla wraps, frozen mixed veg
Prawns with pasta in a white sauce
Hot dog sausages in a tomato sauce with baked potato
Sausages, chips and gravy
Veg pies/Veg sausage rolls with new potatoes and gravy

MrsBartolozzi wrote: »

I was intrigued by the "10 vegetable spoons".

What is a vegetable spoon please??

Me too!!!

frugalmumof4

MrsBartolozzi wrote: »

I was intrigued by the "10 vegetable spoons".

What is a vegetable spoon please??

omg, what on earth must have been going through my mind when i wrote that????:rotfl:

i meant vegetable fingers! That made me chuckle, how great it is to laugh at your own mistakes!!!

Thankyou for suggestions, and yep i think you are probably right, keep it simple and just buy some good old simple vegetables to put alongside it all! Then back to good old fashioned cooking from scratch in a week! maybe i will enjoy a week of not cooking very much!

firesidemaid

frozen pittas make great pizza bases.

use from frozen, add tomato base/paste grated cheese plus whatever toppings you have.

put under grill and everything is cooked to perfection in about 10 mins! yumster x