Store cupboard challenge

XSpender

I have had some successes and some failures with the challenge this weekend. I have used up::A

1 lonely cumberland sausage
2 lamb chops
2 bags quorn mince
Most of the frozen peppers
Most of the frozen onions
1 quorn fillet
Golden syrup
Black treacle
Cooking marg
Butter
3/4 jar of sundried toms in oil from who knows when
Pack of grated parmesan
Marigold stock powder
7 eggs
White bread flour
1/2 pack choc chips
Last of the bag of spuds
Last 2 carrots
Last 2 parnsips
Mushroom soup

However, I now need to replace the white bread flour, syrup, marg and stock powder and get some more sugar or I won't be able to turn the rest of my stores into anything useful. I will get these delivered on Tuesday.

The plan this week is to use up:

Red lentils and tinned toms - lentil and tom soup for lunches
Walnuts - Coffee and walnut cake (gift for mum as staying weekend)
HM Shepherds pie - with frozen veg
Bag quorn pieces - provencale bake
Garlic baguette - with below
Pasta Bake sauce - what it says on the tin:p
Last bit of parmesan - on the top of the above
Chicken soup -DH lunch
and hopefully much more:D

We were a bit naughty last night and spent a fiver on a takeaway. This is probably because I had planned all my other meals for the week but hadn't decided what to eat on Saturday so fell off the wagon:o

XS

415SanFran

patchwork_cat wrote: »

San Fran how are you with goats milk or lactose free milk? (am I right in thinking that you are vegan due to allergies?)
I thought that you could buy everything in the US!


NO, you can buy anything that contains meat! Being veggie alone is still classed as being a bit weird, and fussy, eating out is a non-starter unless all you want is fries.
It probably is easier in some states but if you mentioned not eating meat in say Texas they would have a straight jacket waiting for you:rotfl: I think it is better in the East or West coast, but middle America is still very much steak land!

Never tried the goats milk to tell the truth. Lactose free can't have just the milk with the added enzyme. Even then only small amounts.

Anyway having a nice Pumpkin risotto tonight, I am making it with barley rather than rice, that way I do not have to stand over it.
All the ingredients are already in for that.

missychrissy

It's a pity you don't live closer to me cos I have in excess of 50 galls of homemade wine brewing and umpteen galls already bottled. I am just missing someone to drink it with at times.

Sorry, didn't mean that to sound like I'm lonely, I'm not, but a glass of wine is always better with good company.

patchwork_cat

Ah just with your user name I thought San Francisco would be a bit more vege friendly. Yes would have thought that about Texas! BIG meat eaters! So not even the Lactose free milk that is everywhere?

nopot2pin

415SanFran wrote: »

Anyway having a nice Pumpkin risotto tonight, I am making it with barley rather than rice, that way I do not have to stand over it.
All the ingredients are already in for that.

Mmmmmmm :drool:
Pumpkin risotto :drool:

Do you have a recipe for that SanFran ?
I have never tried to make it, but I think I would put in onions... and maybe a little sage .... but I am just curious, as to what your recipe uses :D

Ta
Potty

Edit: I bought 2 pumpkins the other day, from Asda... £1 each, to make soup, as I luuuuurvvve Pumpkin soup. But this would be a nice wee change, and would use up my risotto rice

GreenandThrifty

Hi all

I've been reading for a while now and would love to join in.
My kitchen cupboard and freezers are bulging and I have little money in the budget next month for food
Also DH has just told me chicken is making him ill (he already can't eat any other meat!!!) so all my meal plans have gone out the window.


I'd love the recipe for the pumkin / barley rissoto too please

candygirl

Omg I need to rip up my £5 off a £30 spend Morrisons vouchers I got yesterday:eek::eek:I don't really need much this week, but they are burning a hole in my purse:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

jazzyman01

I am sure you are all waaay ahead of me but thought I would post this anyway.
I thought I had been really good in sorting out my cupboards and then doing a massive cook/bake off to fully utilise my cooker. I even managed to keep little fingers (and not so little fingers) off all of the cooking. Once cooled, I managed to get it frozen.
Here is the issue. Yesterday I went out for the afternoon (sports). On my return I found take-away wrappers. Apparently they did not realise that all my efforts last week was to try and reduce our food bills and did not think to just heat something from the freezer.
My point (at last) is always ensure your family members know what you are doing in your thrift kick and what they need to do to contribute!

zippychick

415SanFran wrote: »

Zippychick, this was fabulous I will probably do this again,
Couldn't find pine nuts but I KNOW I have some somewhere, anyway used a few walnuts instead.
The wizzy thing complained when I forgot to pit the olives :rolleyes: it gets kinda antsy like that, and of course in keeping with this thread I also used about three pringy-sprouty cloves of garlic.

I made quiet a lot and put some in the fridge for the boys to take to school, but heard them argueing this morning because one of them had polished of BOTH lots for supper.

YAY! I love it when a plan comes together! Sounds yummy! Pine nuts would surely increase the cost so i wouldn't worry!

Nuala, don't buy buttermilk! make your own by curdling with vinegar or lemon juice. There is a thread I can find you if you need it

Edit - ah!

taplady

GreenandThrifty wrote: »

I'd love the recipe for the pumkin / barley rissoto too please

and me too please!

I have a bag of pearl barley to use up - if thats what you used in the recipe if not any suggestions to use it up would be appreciated.

I'm making the mushroom risotto again tonight to go with an odd veggie burger that I found in the freezer, DH is having normal burgers with his(sounds funny - an odd veggie burger and normal ones:D)

Yesterday I made a small apple crumble with a bag of apple chunks from the freezer - they were from a bag of freebie apples my sister gave me!