Store cupboard challenge

maman

Barneysmom wrote: »

What a brilliant idea! :cool:
I've just bought another pile of meat from Asda, as they are doing
'5 packs for £10' plus the rump steak is £4 a kilo at the moment, so I got 3 packs of it. I hope I can do something like this too, and save as much as possible.

The only thing I'm not sure I can do it for a fiver, it doesn't leave me enough for the bread, milk and fresh fruit/veg? Maybe I'll try for a tenner........

All the best in your quest,

I just got back from Asda and I bought exactly the same meat as you Barneysmom!! I considered trying to manage without but decided that it was a good price and would help give us some cheap meals and variety. What I'm hoping to learn from this thread (great idea NualaBuala) is how to devise meals around all the tins of tuna, bags of pasta etc etc that I have stored.

NualaBuala

meanmarie wrote: »

Good luck with the fiver a week Nuala...I am sure that you will be fine, even in our over priced capital. I'm sure that you will have some interesting meals

Marie

Thanks Marie! Over-priced is right. I find myself wishing for Asda, Sainsbury's basics etc. Mind you, I could probably open my own small grocery store with what I have at the moment!:D

NualaBuala

maman wrote: »

I just got back from Asda and I bought exactly the same meat as you Barneysmom!! I considered trying to manage without but decided that it was a good price and would help give us some cheap meals and variety. What I'm hoping to learn from this thread (great idea NualaBuala) is how to devise meals around all the tins of tuna, bags of pasta etc etc that I have stored.

Thanks Maman, I'm glad I'm not alone. Like you I have loads of tins of tuna and pasta. But I feel sure that you OSers will help me turn them into healthy and deliciious meals!

got-it-spend-it

What a brilliant thread! I will watch with great interest.

ChocClare

This sounds like what I'm doing, but as there's four of us I'm not brave enough to do it so drastically, so just making it that one dinner a week needs to come out of the freezer and one out of the storecupboard . My DH starts hyperventilating if we haven't got at least 3 of everything in the cupboard, but it still needs to be rotated!

You'll have to do a couple of posts with "what can I do with a tin of pate, 3 sardines, a tomato and half a packet of raisins" type of thing and let the collected wisdom of the other OSers fill you with astonishment!

Best of luck with it anyway. You go, girl!

Edinburghlass_2

Here you go for the Store Cupboard Challenge...

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=20967&page=42

I read it periodically to remind me to check what lurks in my store cupboard as its usually way out of date

mummysaver

Well done! Sounds like you have a plan, you could also make a cheese and onion quiche if you fancied? Easy to bung in the oven whilst the chicken is roasting.

You could save a bit of time by making the mash for the chicken in white sauce and the cottage pie at the same time, not much more effort to mash twice the amount.

The mince is fairly quick to make up into lots of dishes, just have some plastic storage containers or freezer bags at the ready - nothing like having it all done so that you don't have to worry.

Worth a look in Asda for whoopsies, don't forget about looking in the veg aisle as well as the chillers, any veg that you buy can always be frozen if it won't keep till the end of your plan.

NualaBuala

Edinburghlass wrote: »

Here you go for the Store Cupboard Challenge...

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=20967&page=42

I read it periodically to remind me to check what lurks in my store cupboard as its usually way out of date

Ooh, thanks, that's going to come in very handy. :T In fact I've already seen a risotto recipe I can modify.

NualaBuala

ChocClare wrote: »

This sounds like what I'm doing, but as there's four of us I'm not brave enough to do it so drastically, so just making it that one dinner a week needs to come out of the freezer and one out of the storecupboard . My DH starts hyperventilating if we haven't got at least 3 of everything in the cupboard, but it still needs to be rotated!

You'll have to do a couple of posts with "what can I do with a tin of pate, 3 sardines, a tomato and half a packet of raisins" type of thing and let the collected wisdom of the other OSers fill you with astonishment!

Best of luck with it anyway. You go, girl!

I think I must be like your husband - I have at least three of everything! I think I have a famine complex. I have so much stuff for 'just in case'. That's well and good but not when you have so much that you don't even know what's lurking at the back of the cupboard. And you don't know how near to the mark you are with sardines, raisins combo.:D

NualaBuala

got-it-spend-it wrote: »

What a brilliant thread! I will watch with great interest.

Thanks a million for the encouragement - I'll read back over this thread if I feel myself falling off the wagon!