Help planning some meals

xjoannexxx

Hi could someone help me plan some meals please we have hardly any food in and are soooooooo skint and i have run out of ideas of what to make

Hardup_Hester

Do you have any food in your freezer/cupboards?
How many are you feeding?
This is what we're eating this week, I spent £4.97 on Saturday, I'm using up stuff from the freezer.
Hot dogs inna bun
Cottage pie
Lamb chops
HM Fish & chips
Ribs & rice
Sausage & mash
Lamb casserole

Pasta in Cheese sauce is cheap, liver & onions, sausage & mash.
Hester

PasturesNew

You need to give a clue as to what you have .... or nobody can start to play.


I have a loaf of bread, 4 potatoes, some cheese and a tin of beans, so I'll be eating cheese sandwiches, cheesy mash, cheesy mash with beans and beans on toast.

xjoannexxx

i have made a list of everything we have in to give me inspiration so here goes

fridge
1 egg, seafood sauce, marg, 3 baking potatos, white cabbage, 6 large onions and garlic.

Freezer
2 steak and kidney puddings, bag of quorn chicken style pieces, 3 small smoked coley fillets, 1 small unsmoked coley fillet, few chips, pack og diced pork, half bag prawns, 8 pork sausages, 2 lamb burgers, small turkey thigh joint, 12 cumberland sausages, 2 small hadock fillets, 6 quorn sausages, 1 pork chop and 2 duck legs

xjoannexxx

Cupboard
tin of curry cook in sauce, pkt garlic an herb potato wedge seasoning,box dried peas, 2 piza bases, pkt green giant red soup, tin cannellini beans, 2 tins chick peas, tin chopped tomatos, worcester sauce, beef chicken veg stock cubes,various tins soup, tin ravioli, half jar reggae suace, gravy, jar oriental cooking sauce, dried bay leaves, sp sausage casserole sauce, sp curry sauce, veg oil, tabasco sauce,wholegrain mustard, salt pepper, few pickled onions, red cabbage sliced betroot,drk soy sauce, bit of tomato puree,
1/4 bag of rice, pkt instant cheese sauce, pkt bourguignoff sauce, pkt stroganoff sauce, pkt tikka sauce, 1/4 bg cous cous, stir fry sauce, lasange sheets, pearl barley, red lentals, sp bolognese sauce, mixed herbs various spices

Its for 2 of us and needs feed us for nearly 2 weeks oh wrks shifts aswell so we dnt always eat together

xjoannexxx

anyone any ideas??

pink_numbers

you have so much food!

get a big bag of generic basic pasta, and you can make an endless list of sauces to go with it. You can turn all your tins of soup into sauces by adding bits (stuff from your freezer like prawns, and stuff from cupboard like the peas) and pieces to it.

SunnyGirl

Just quickly as I'm getting thrown off the computer soon by the kids ;)but I can see about 16 meals at least.

1. Steak & kidney puddings & mash (use 2 of the baking potatoes)

2. Pork casserole made with stock cube, onion, tin of toms, some reggae reggae and tobasco with a handful of lentils & pearl barley - should easily give you 2 meals each. Serve with couscous a la tangine style if you have no potatoes.

3. Sausage casserole with 6 of the cumberland sausages.

4. Sausage pasta with the other 6.

5. Chicken tikka using the Quorn pieces & tikka sauce. Serve with rice.

6. Fish pie/stew with the coley fillets & prawns. Should do you both 2 meals each easily. If you make stew use tinned toms & have with bread. If you can get some more potatoes then make a mash topping and a white sauce for the base of the fish pie.

7. Turkey thigh - do a casserole/stroganoff in a slow cooker or a low oven and strip off all the meat when its cooked. Added to veggies it'll stretch to 2 meals.

8. Same with the duck legs.

9. Same with the pork chop or cut it thinly and do a stir fry with the soy sauces & spices.

10. Lamb burgers - have as a meal on their own either in a bun with chips or with rice/potatoes/pasta.

11. Pork & quorn sausages - do as a casserole or sausage pasta or cook up with eggs & beans for a fry up style meal. 2 meals worth there definitely though.

12. Haddock fillets - cut into strips (goujons), coat in egg & seasoned flour & fry gently. Serve with chips, new potatoes or similar with veg.

13. Soup - have with cheese on toast or pitta breads/naans either for lunch or as a main meal with a pudding (simple cake?) to fill you up.

14. A vegetarian lasagne made with the chick peas, lentils, cannellini beans and any other added veg. Use jar of sauce & cheese sauce mix. Should easily do 2 meals each so you can freeze any remains for another day.

15. Use the tinned ravioli as a quick meal.

16. If you get desperate I've made pizza bases into bread before today. I've made it as normal then shaped it into rolls and baked it. Not ideal but good in a pinch.

I've only really concentrated on main meals. I'm sure that others will be along with many more ideas soon. If you could buy some potatoes, veggies (frozen are good as you only use what you need), cheese & bread it would be ok for a couple of weeks.

Don't worry you've got loads of food there it just sometimes takes fresh eyes looking at it to get inspired

Skint_Catt

quorn curry - should do a good couple of meals!
bubble & squeak style mash burgers with onion & cabbage, mustard & herbs
pizza topped with tomato puree, tabasco and sliced sausage (and some value cheese is you have a few pennies to spend)
sausage casserole - bulk out with any veggies you have and that should do a good few meals - really stock it out with those sausages!
Fish n chips/mash
sausages & potato wedges
if you buy some quorn mince you could make lasagne (quorn is cheaper than meat!)

C xx

SunnyGirl

Also have a look at this thread Feed a Family of 4 on £20 for a Month its got some great ideas on. Let us know how you get on.