Store cupboard challenge

turkolina

I have to say any odds and sods and boxes of pasta sauce i have pulled out and taken into the kitchen and will try and eat this in the next few days as some things have got serious cases of freezer burn.. If they are inedible then i will give myself a serious slap and eat it anyway.. ha ha no i will chuck it.

Hubby is currently in the kitchen making a Turkish liver recipe with liver thats date was in 2005 (god i can't beleive i admitted that!! - i'm gonna need therapy!) He just came in whilst i was feeding DD and gave me some he had put in some crusty bread and it was flippin DELISH!! argh argh argh help pain call an ambulance ha ha.. only joking.. Some of these dates are a load of baloney once in a freezer.. Luckily it was sealed well so no freezer burn.

hmmmmm Going to be writing about 100 lists of what i can do with this lot.. and as it goes will cross it all off..

Turks x

glendam

How do you stop bread in the freezer getting freezer burn my family hate it. I bought two toasty loaves a couple of weeks ago double wrapped and then in a pillow case. It was better but down to last bit and it is still got it.

Glenda

queen_of_string

I have been using a list of my freezer contents stuck to the front of my fridge for a couple of months now. Sadly it doesnt seem to be getting any shorter, because I keep finding too good to miss whoopsies or getting something out, cooking it then it goes back in often twice as much .

I have divided my list into sections, I find it helps when I am trying to decide what to eat. I am also getting pretty good as adding and crossing things off as appropriate and just print a new list when the old one gets too messy. I am thinking that I will probably only have to go and do a complete relist once a yr just to pick up the odd bits that sneaked in and never made it onto the list.

Oh and I have just posted a recipe for steamed buns on page 50 of the grocery challenge, these are great for using up tiny bits of things as fillings.

HTH

Patchwork_Quilt

That list was amazing!

queen_of_string

Great way to use up that half jar thats lurking in the fridge. Made one today and is nice now and will prolly be nice in a couple of days with butter on.

4oz soft margarine creamed with 4oz caster sugar till light and fluffy. Beat in 2 eggs then sift in 6oz SR flour and 1 tsp cinnamon. Stir in 8oz mincemeat and 2oz chopped glace cherries ( I left these out).

place the mixture in a greased and lined 7 inch sandwich tin and bake at 170c 325f mark 3 for 1hr 30 mins,


you can brush the top with 1tbsp warmed marmalade if liked.

From a recipe sellotaped in the back of a cookbook I got when my Nan died, made me very happy to be making something she probably did.

Olliebeak

queen_of_string wrote: »

I have been using a list of my freezer contents stuck to the front of my fridge for a couple of months now. Sadly it doesnt seem to be getting any shorter, because I keep finding too good to miss whoopsies or getting something out, cooking it then it goes back in often twice as much .

Thank you, queen of string! - love the idea of keeping a list stuck to the front of the freezer - now why didn't I think of that before :doh:!

I'm another who keeps seeing fabulous whoopsies. I'm also a bit of a fiend for taking something raw out of the freezer, cooking it, eating a meal from it and then freezing leftovers that take up far more space than what was in there originally:mad: !!!!!

No.1 son brought me 2 ham shanks/hocks last night. While I was trying to find space for them, I came accross 2 x 1kg tubs of 'shank stew' from the last shank that I cooked . These have now been taken out of the freezer and will be used for tomorrow night's evening meal and supper. (Not quite sure when I'll get around to using the 2 x 1kg tubs of pea and ham soup that also came from that self-same shank :o!)

hannamint

i just had a thought... what if we get rid of all our stock cupboard rubbish and get so good at it that we use everything up, and train ourselves so well not to hoard woopsies etc, that eventually we have no food at all in our cupboards.. then have to start from scratch,

and run up a massive shopping bill???:eek:

Bargain_Rzl

hannamint wrote: »

i just had a thought... what if we get rid of all our stock cupboard rubbish and get so good at it that we use everything up, and train ourselves so well not to hoard woopsies etc, that eventually we have no food at all in our cupboards.. then have to start from scratch,

and run up a massive shopping bill???:eek:

It's doubtful that you'd ever be starting completely from scratch - you'd be bound to have a few jars of herbs and spices, stock cubes etc, which you've had to keep buying along the way just to be able to do things with the main ingredients.

Maybe the best way to look at it is that when you are almost down to nothing, put together a meal plan for the next 2 weeks, and go shopping specifically for that meal plan. Then over the course of those 2 weeks, keep a look out for good "whoopsies" again, and build up a stash.

hannamint

well I was just being daft.. because i'm not really that silly to use all my food like that.. but i suppose that can be a back-up plan for anyone who gets stuck in the situation..?

hannamint

There's a slow cooker in asda smart price for about a tenner. What do people reckon to this? I'm not buying it yet because i only have a small kitchen and want to make room for it before i buy it.