Store cupboard challenge

Patchwork_Quilt

I have our meal plans written down the side of my (family) diary page for this week. It's amazing to me that anyone else is interested but my DS told me off a week ago for swapping two of the desserts around!

Angelraesunshine

Hi have several odd ingredients about the place that i am not sure what i could make with them. By the way we or me are very fussy eaters lol.

150g pot of greek strained yoghurt?

is there a dessert i could make with 300g of after 8 mints?

1kg of glutenfree bread flour (was given to me tried to make a small loaf with it ugh)

20 packs of cheese and onion ryvita limbos ( past there bbe) did not like that much bought a box of 24 lol

any sugestions would be appreciated

Chris25

well the limbos - I gave mine away, didn't like them either! - you could crumble on top of cauliflower or macaroni cheese or a pasta bake.

The mints you could melt into custard and either have warm or chilled as a kind of syllabub type dessert.

Yoghurt - creme brulee type pudding? would it work if you beat in an egg or yolks and top with brown sugar? Or just mix with stewed fruit (excellent with rhubarb). Or you could use some as an ingredient in a cake.

Don't know about the flour

Angelraesunshine

Chris25 wrote: »

The mints you could melt into custard and either have warm or chilled as a kind of syllabub type dessert.

oh like that idea just checked got both a custard in a carton and a jar of birds just add water too perfect mmmmmm

mummysaver

For the yoghurt, mix with cream and serve as a very rich dessert, or be healthier and add some fruit as well! Or strain, put a cloth in a sieve and leave over a bowl overnight, then flavour with garlic and herbs as a cream cheese. I don't bother with the cloth as my yoghurt is so thick that it doesn't drip through the sieve!

The flour could be used for biscuits, doesn't matter if they have a crumbly texture!

Just eat the after eights, or melt and mix with syrup and cornflakes as cornflake cakes.

Sorry, not sure what limbos are, but perhaps a savoury base for a tart, or a thickener for soups or stews, or as chris25 suggested use them as a crumble topping instead of breadcrumbs, nice if you mix through some grated cheese as well.

hayley11

I would happily take those After Eight mints off your hands?

Angelraesunshine

normally i love after eight but i bought 2 boxes in october and we only finished the 1st box last night. Just think i over bought chocies last year (says the chocoholic lmao) still have 2 toblerrones and 2 boxes of mtchmakers adn a chocolate orange too, i melted my caburys chocolate angel wednesday night to make a malteser cake yummy.


i might give the flour ago with biscuits then fo you think a shortcake might turn out ok?

and i might see if the kids want to try the yoghurt for breakfast tommorow with weetabix and raisins

Buddingblonde

Guess that will just be soup followed by trifle!

freyasmum

trifle-flavoured soup?

hannamint

leiela wrote: »

I dunno i just keep doing nut's things...

the other day i spent ages baking cakes for the kids, great you say.

Then i spent ages making some flap jacks ... wonderful.

But its not wonderfull when i have 3 full tubs of Cadbury cake bites in the cuboard leftover from christmas GAH!!! i know i should use them first but i keep seeing cool recipes so i run out buy the ingredients and make them instead.

meal plan's don't work in this house, i plan things perfectly then on the day i sit there and think "UGH i don't fancy that" or something happens and i have to make something quick.

I dunno part of me thinks i might be better sorting though the cuboards and dedicate "one" cuboard to "things that must be used" and force myself to use something from that cuboard every day.

Seems alittle silly though ...

are you sure you're not me? we sound very very simillar. quick fixes, try doing meal plans for the week so you could say, have seven ideas, so long as you do all the ideas that week, you can choose what meal to have which day so you don't feel as bored about what you have to cook if you specify each day.

even if the only thing you do in a day is just pick something out of the cupboard and think... gosh i didn't know i had this... i'll chuck it in a soup or something... it all helps. :cool: