Store cupboard challenge

Bogof_Babe

Cooked white rice, tin of economy peas, tin of creamed mushrooms, tin of frankfurters (bogof!) sliced.  Mix all together, top with grated cheese and heat through.  Not tried this yet but I have all the ingredients and it sounds like it might be nice!

The other evening we had 3 vegetarian frankfurters left over from the previous meal, so I sliced these and put on top of a small cheese and tomato pizza (£1.20 for 2 in Sainsburys, but mine were reduced to 99p) and made a mock pepperoni pizza, which we had with oven chips and half a reduced (49p) cabbage.  It was really nice.  I do like a meat substitute that tastes like the real thing occasionally, as living with a vegetarian is a bit restrictive!  Especially one who is fed up of pasta, and won't let me stir-fry anything, because the smell gets through the house >:(.

I have another cabbage - only 16p this time as it was on its date and wilting, so looking forward to any adaptable recipes on this thread.  Good idea, by the way ;D.

Edited to remove surplus apostrophe - one of my bugbears

catznine

Tuna spaghetti: ! tin tuna, spaghetti, tin condensed mushroom or chicken soup (or 1 packet of dried mushroom or chicken soup made up with 1/2 the water) and some grated up and lurking cheese. Just cook spaghetti, drain and pop into a casserole dish add condensed soup and tuna bits mix up and top with grated cheese then pop into oven until heated through and cheese hot and bubbly and golden. You could substitute tuna with prawns.

Also a couple of days ago I made fishcakes with leftover mash and some left over salmon. Mix together with a slurp of Thai fish sauce. some parsley and salt and pepper. I didn't bother with breadcrumbs just popped into a frying pan and cooked on both sides ( a bit like bubble and squeak!) I served mine with a dollop of chilli dipping sauce. We have a market stall that sells thai sauces very cheaply in industrial quantities!

Trow

Pizza - base made using yeast, flour, sugar etc in the breadmaker, tin of tomatos, tin of mushrooms, onion, frozen sweetcorn, pepper that is still just about useable, some sausage sliced (my major cheat is that I bought a smoked sausage some days ago for pizza... but thats not for me - thats for the man and the kids anyway!) and grated cheese. Add some herbs - basil, oregano preferably.

Thats what we are having tonight...

vanoonoo

added a tin of coconut milk (dented) to the leftover curry from last night and warmed it thru. most delicious.

tomorrow will be a fillet shoulder of lamb (reduced in morrisons and I froze it before christmas) which has been defrosting today and I will bung in slow cooker in the morning. that will be served with bogof frozen roast potatoes bogof frozen petis pois and reduced price frozen baby carrots (I'm out all day so need an easy one I can do within 20mins once I get home)

lunch I am taking with me: some wholemeal rolls from the freezer (reduced price) with tinned corned beef (bogof) and the end of a jar of branston

Caterina

Pasta e piselli:

Fry 1 onion in whatever leftover oil you got in the cupboard, add peas and sautee.

Add boiling water, pasta (broken spaghetti or any leftover mix of bits and bobs, ends of packets etc) and then add stock powder/cubes - we buy the marigold bouillon powder in bulk and it lasts us ages.

Serve with leftover bits of grated cheese on top of soup

This is the great standby for my kids when they come home famished from school.

Another favourite standby in our family is Chinese soup, which is just about anything left over like sweetcorn, peas, mushrooms, any vegs chopped in bits, all boiled up, add stock cube or powder, dash of soy and if you are as hippy as we are you can add a chopped block of tofu (of which we always have some in the fridge) and a pinch of dried seaweed (we do!) to make it even more chinesey!

Enjoy

Caterina

vanoonoo

ok here's the rest of my cupboard and freezer menu

monday lunch is gonna be dented tinned soup and wholemeal rolls probably with laughing cow light spread on the rolls

for the evening we will have chicken mince (reduced in chiller cabinet and the frozen) a sprouty onion and wrinkly pepper and a jar of fajita sauce (bogof?) which I will try out in the slocooker and serve in pittas which are currently frozen but I will toast 'em

tuesday lunch will be noodles (probably the 8p chicken noodles although i do have some fancy thai chilli ones too) for the evening it will be a tin of chicken curry, I have no idea who how where what when or why this is in my cupboard, but that with a healthy living chicken korma (reduced and then frozen) pilau rice (reduced and then frozen) with a gobi sag aloo (I think thats what it is) made from a tin of dented potatoes and a tin of dented spinach and some garlic and some onion

wednesday lunch will be a tin of ratatouille (arrived in the same way the curry did?) supplemented with more tinned toms, paprika, garlic, random veg from freezer served on a bed of cous cous which has ben in the cupboard for ages and I didnt know what to do with it

wednesday evening will be home made spag bol which I made ages ago and froze a few portions of the sauce which is loaded with veggie like mushroom peppers onion and carrot and hardly any mince (all of which would have been reduced or on some sort of offer at the time) and I'll serve it with wholewheat spag yum.

thursday lunch will be more of the cous cous with some sort of bean bake that I havent quite worked out yet but will involve garlic, onion and butter beans, canellini beans and black eye beans with maybe tom puree. still devising that one so all ideas welcome, for the evening i've got some healthly living chicken breasts reduced from the chiller in marscapone and something tomatoey which I'll serve with pasta

that leaves me with quite a lot in the freezer and cupboard still so towards the middle of the week I'll look again and see what ideas I can come up with and attempt to avoid a shop if at all possible.

breakfasts each day will be cereal/toast/yog/fruit

all the above are compatible with slimming world, any lowish fat and a type II diabetic diet

juno

I made carrot omellete last term! And Corned Beef Supreme (that was really nice and I had 3 people fighting over it)

vanoonoo

thanks - but the marcapone is in with the ready meal already. I usually cook pretty much from scratch but if a ready meal is really ultra cheap and can be frozen then I buy it and plonk it in the freezer for a lazy day

I love the sound of that dish though - might have to add some marscapone to my enventual shopping list when I let myself stock up again.

is it marscapone that gets used in tiramisu or a I jsut making stuff up?

mink35

Don't know - can't stand Tiramisu :P ;D

You can make cheesecake from it tho

vanoonoo

I made carrot omellete last term! And Corned Beef Supreme (that was really nice and I had 3 people fighting over it)

come on then - share the delights of the store cupboard that contributed to these masterpieces