'Waste of time' shop - advice please??

faithcecilia

I have done the most pathetic shop in Tescos this afternoon:o. I had gone armed with a carefully planned list, only to find they didn't have most of what I wanted:rolleyes:. Me being a mug, and shopping being a novelty, I fell for half the special offers:eek:. Does anyone have ideas for reasonably sensible meals from the following please?

1 swede, reduced
Dried yellow split peas
Brocolli
1 Onion
2 potatoes
Stilton
Brown bread
Crumpets
Baked beand
Tinned spagetti


I already had:

6 veggie hot dogs
2 veggie 'chicken' pieces
cheddar cheese
apples
satsumas
tinned peas


I also picked up a value cake mix but didn't get eggs. It only needs 1, is there anything I could use instead?

Thanks for any ideas!

zippychick

Hi Cecilia! Here's a thread about swede for some ideas.

I would probably make soup with it? Google for a recipe as im not sure what other ingredients - Storecupboard - you have

You could make a cheese and potato pie - some people put baked beans in too.

Spaghetti and toasted crumpets

What to do with split peas

Beans and cheese on toast

Sausages mixed with the beans served with mashed potato , sprinkled with cheese

Split pea soup

brocolli and stilton soup - substituting what you dont have.....

Sorry I am all into soups at the minute - filling and last long and warm.

kunekune

That is a slightly odd set of ingredients, but I'm sure it can be dealt with. Some ideas:

soup using swede, split peas, onions, serve with toast
tinned spaghetti on crumpets, with cheese on top (probably the cheddar)
salad using apples and stilton, to be served with the veggie chicken (some nuts would be nice with these)
bake a potato, cut the middle out, mash it with stilton and some chopped cooked broccoli then bake a bit more until it's brown on top, serve with the rest of the spaghetti or the peas
hot dog, baked potato & beans
broccoli & potato soup with cheese on toast (just add a drop of milk to the soup to make it creamier)

ChocClare

Is this all you've got in the house, faithcecilia? Do you have any pasta, for example? Or rice? Or milk? You seem a little bit short on "filler" carbs, if you see what I mean...

OK, from the top:
swede: lovely mashed with mashed potato - mix in some fried onions and top with cheese, or melt some of your stilton and you have a good meal
split yellow peas - I gave you a recipe for croquettes made from these on page one of your "would I fit in here" thread... can't find it at the mo, but it's there, honest!
Broccoli: if you've got some rice you could make risotto: fry off an onion, cook the broccoli in some stock for 3 mins; then tip rice into the frying pan and stir until coated in oily onions, gradually add broccoli and ladles of stock, keep stirring until all the stock is absorbed. You don't need to add butter but some cheese added in gives it a wonderful flavour OR make a cheese sauce - broccoli cheese is very nice - as is or topped with cheese and/or breadcrumbs and finished under the grill
Onion and potatoes: how big are these? Could one of the potatoes be baked and filled with the baked beans and/or cheese? Onion I'd tend to put in with other things as flavouring...
Brown bread and crumpets I'm assuming are for breakfast/sandwiches but don't forget breadcrumbs make a good gratin topping and make grated cheese go further on baked dishes and crumpets are a very good base for individual "pizza"
Baked beans: on baked potato or mixed in a frying pan with veggie sausages, fried onion, some cheese cubes, worcester sauce and tomato ketchup - yum...
Veggie chicken - as is, or fried off with onion, peas and white sauce, mix into cooked pasta, top with cheese and bake as pasta bake or use as pasta or rice or baked potato topping or with boiled or mashed or fried potatoes...

Ooh I've missed out tinned spaghetti. Can't think why :eek:

Apples and satsumas are great as is, but you can core and fill the cavity with sugar and butter mixed together, perhaps with a few currants or sultanas and bake in the oven.

Can I just add that I don't work for the cheese marketing board - so many of my recipes seem to have cheese in them :rotfl:

You can replace an egg with a tablespoonful of soya flour, but I don't suppose you have that lying around :rolleyes:

Hope that helps, anyway

faithcecilia

Wow, thanks for some great ideas!

Yes, there are odds and ends of 'basics' around - my friend/landlord has told me to help myself, and I intend cooking for him too at least twice a week to be nice :A

The cake mix says 1 med egg and 75mls water, I wonder if say 100ml of milk would work??

zippychick

this says a banana can work, as you are trying to replace the texture of the egg . If you add more milk it might just be too watery. Or keep it until you have the egg - that way no potential waste- as there is a chance it may not work out? The egg gives it a different consistency and - helps the buns go light and fluffy

not tried banana myself though - but I would try it out if that was my only option. Do you even have a banana?

faithcecilia

zippychick wrote: »

this says a banana can work, as you are trying to replace the texture of the egg . If you add more milk it might just be too watery. Or keep it until you have the egg - that way no potential waste- as there is a chance it may not work out?

not tried banana myself.....

I had hoped to make it as a suprise for my friend when he comes home tomorrow. I'll have a think. It was a 23p mix, so not the end of the world if it isn't perfect I suppose?

zippychick

That's true. For me it would be the principle of the waste though, when you are on such a tight budget. Up to you of course!

Maybe you could surprise him with soup or something else? Doesnt have to be cake? That's very thoughtful

Does he have any baking storecupboard? Thinking HM biscuits ?

faithcecilia

zippychick wrote: »

Does he have any baking storecupboard? Thinking HM biscuits ?

In a word??

He is a nightmare. He has lots of spices etc, (so may make a dahl with the split peas) then lots of tins of sauces etc, but nothing to put in them, and then frozen fish/sausages/chips etc. Oh and while I know beggars can't be choosers, I do draw the line at white cotton wool value bread, bleugh!!! He has pasta and rice, etc, too. But no, no flour.

Googling re egg replacers...

tandraig

try it with the milk instead of egg if he hasnt any baking powder either - which i will use a teaspoon of if i am bit short of eggs (in cakes i mean - not boiled or scrambled egg!)

sandiep

And the left overs of peas, veggies, chicken bits etc, - that's a curry in waiting.