Store cupboard challenge

Rebob

Since seeing this thread the other week I have been trying to do this challenge. I have not yet made a dent in the stuff! Doing well though. Made a blue jelly (where did that come from?) with a tin of peach slices in for sons packed lunch in a couple of tupperware tubs, christmas pudding and custard for desert the other day, pork loin steak (from freezer) and a couple of packets of savoury rice for tea today........ Just got to keep going! The aim is to save enough to pay mil some money back asap.

nicki_2

kit wrote:

I have LOADS of tomato soup that I inherited when my partner moved in with me about a year ago. I have no clue what to do with it!

I have a recipe for "Hamburger Casserole" which I got from another site I'm on and uses a tin of tomato soup. It is here or http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=600165&postcount=180 if that link doesn't work.

It's always a big hit with my family, now if I could just stop them eating the soup before I've managed to make the dish :rotfl:

jordylass

Help with challenge, I can't afford to buy much this week, although I will get some bread, milk, eggs and fruit.
I have a load of rapidly sprouting old potatoes and a bag of new (I don't know why we have so many). I have onions, a small tin of tuna, corned beef, some mature cheese couple tins of toms and really want to use the going bad stuff up.
I'd appreciate inspiration.

Galtizz

I can spot a very nice corned beef hash with the corned beef, the potatoes and the onion, have a look in the collections then the recipe index in my signature for a recipe.

Have you got any pasta? there should be a recipe on there for tuna pasta bake too using tuna, tomatoes, cheese and I think the onions, if not let me know and I'l find it for you

r.mac_2

hmm, what about a potato salad, if you have some mayo and hard boiled eggs and cheese to make up a salad.

Or what about boiling some of the potatos letting them cool, slicing adding onion and placing in a pan or casserole dish and then making an egg milk mixture for over them. Can't remember the right name for this (spanish omlette maybe?) But it tastes good with cheese on top.

Potato, onion and tomato soup might work?

Adrift

Hi
used up 6 eggs that were 4 days out of date, some soya milk that also needed using up as it was open in the fridge, some muesli I bought and didn't like (it's been sitting around for ages) and a pack of blueberries I bought fresh for 20p and froze yonks ago, also used up some dried prunes, dried apricots, sunflower, pumpkin and flaxseed, as well as ww flour that had been open for a while. Here's how...

In the morning I made drop scones using some of the flour, ground a dessert spoon of flaxseed, used 2 eggs, the blueberries and some of the soya milk + other usual ingredients. Everyone raved about these so I'm going to try them using other fruit.

In the afternoon I made a muesli cake using the flour, 3 eggs, muesli, I lightly ground some sunflower, pumpkin and flaxseed to add, soya milk, also added the prunes and apricots which I chopped up small+other ingredients

In the evening I hardboiled the final egg, put it in the fridge and mashed it up next day with salad cream and we had egg and lettuce sarnies for lunch.

Feel quite good about not having to chuck anything away.

BWs Adrift

squeaky

Wow. Yep. A great feeling.

nabowla

I've been doing a mini 'Storecupboard Challenge' over the weekend to see if I could get to Monday without going to the supermarket (I've been buying way too much convenience food lately). It started off so well. I made a really yummy pasta sauce on Thursday evening and a different variation on Friday. I dug the smoked salmon out of the freezer & had a v. decadent starter on Thurs with enough left over to do lunch on Sat. Sadly things didn't go quite so well yesterday evening. I thought I'd do a stuffed pepper with a rather wrinkled pepper that I found at the back of the fridge (I'd forgotten it was there). I preheated the oven, assembled all the ingredients, opened the oven door and......................whoosh. Clouds of smoke billowed out of the oven and smoked out the entire flat. Why on earth didn't anyone warn me that I needed to clean the oven BEFORE starting the storecupboard challenge ? :-)

squeaky

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Adrift

I'm quite enjoying this challenge.Today I used some of the crushed wheat I bought months ago to try as a bulghur or rice substitute. It came out too mushy for me to use that way so it's stayed in the cupboard ever since.

Also have a jar of tahini just sitting there, I bet there are LOADS of veggies out there with an old jar of tahini in the cupboard. Apart from making hummus I have found it hard to use up.

Found a recipe for bulghur burgers today that also called for tahini yay! :j I substituted the crushed wheat for the bulghur. Made a batch of those up today,they can be cooked in the oven another bonus.

Also made some flapjacks using up some more of the pumpkin seeds (only I will eat them) sunflower seeds and flaxseed ground up as an addition to the oats. Chopped up some more of the prunes and apricots that I still have. Also added a good handful of cranberries that have been sitting in the freezer since before xmas! I defrosted them quickly first by dunking them in some water. I cut back on the amount of sugar because of the dried fruit and cut back the fat because of the high oil content of flaxseed.

All the food turned out fine. The bulghur/crushed wheat burgers were a hit. I've still got tahini and crushed wheat left so will make a big batch up at some point and freeze. The flapjacks were nice but even though I cut back on the sugar they were very very sweet so will be able to save some wonga by cutting some more sugar from the recipe. :T

I am so pleased I found this thread. It's gee'd me up to use all those dry goods that have been taking up space in the kitchen and also all the frozen bits of fruit and things I may have ended up throwing out eventually. Thankyou :T

BWs Adrift :j