Store cupboard challenge

ellemm

Pork fillet out of freezer last night ready to cook today, will split into 2, half stuffed with fresh herbs & breadcrumbs and baked and the rest pork & celery Greek style stew.

Some bananas out too ready for banana loaf (still 6 in there ) and planning a carrot cake and another batch of the low fat choc brownies made last week. That should help to reduce the baking ingredients a bit.

However freezer now filling up again with the 16 Makro sirloin steaks :rotfl:but since only OH (and my grand daughters aged 8 & 10 who come to stay regularly at weekends) eat them they will last a while.

OH away bowling all day today (bliss, house to myself, no sport blaring out of the tv) so might even venture out to the shops later for a browse - not for food though but have some survey earned vouchers to spend on clothes.


Update:

Done all the cooking, house smells great. Bit of a disaster with the brownies-stuck to the baking tray - however they still taste good so plan is to put some into dessert dishes, top with home preserved pears and a dollop of Greek yoghurt and that's pudding for tonight!

misscousinitt

Fish Pie didn't get made again!!! But have got the stuff out of the freezer this morning to make it later...

Was tired last night so we had pizza and wedges from the freezer.

Friends arn't coming round now, so my plan it get rid of bits and pieces has been scuppered! But I did remember to get the stewed fruit out for the crumble for tomorrow's pudding at OH's mum's.

Bought a piece of beef from the butchers today and I know its going to be too big for the meal I'm going to cook - so going to cut in half and....(you guessed it) its going in the freezer. Bought two chicken breasts too and they are so big I'm going to have to freeze one of them as 1 will be sufficent for a meal.

Was doing so well, but now putting stuff back in the freezer!

jtb2412

I've been to Cash and Carry :eek: :eek: BUT I was very good and didn't buy hardly anything for meeeeeeeee lol. Purcahses were baking ingredients as DH is batch cooking cakes this pm for the cake stall at our Guide Fair in a couple of weeks and chutney ingredients. However I could have spent a fortune and stocked up but I've nowhere to put anything so that scuppered that idea .

Lunch (albeit a late one!) is chicken soup from freezer, part baked rolls and cheese and chutney. Dinner tonight is lime and mango marinated chicken thighs/legs, potato wedges and sweetcorn (last of the first ice cream tub we filled when all our sweetcorn at the allotment ripened at once :rolleyes:).

I think I'm going to have to go and buy some mince so I can do a lasagne tomorrow but I have pasta flour in the cupboard and a home-made passata in the freezer so no extras are going to be bought !

Right off to don the trackie bottoms, old t-shirt and apron ...... time to get cooking !

Have a great weekend everyone xx :beer:

zippychick

Need to read and catch up. Last night i took out my Carcass box - about 3 carcasses, and I couldnt help but chuckle when I remembered screaming as I crunched the bones down to get them in the box to fit the freezer! I remember telling myself to "man up" as i did it. Think about the stock! I had pre roasted them, so straight in the SC today to make stock. Mine is 6L and is brimming with chicken bones so now should have a good supply of stock. (making soups later - leek and potato, butterbean and carrot and Blue peter soup ), all to go back in the freezer!

I also took out 6 chicken thighs which I need to make two different meals from and will do that later tonight. I have my Madhur jaffrey book to hand and would like to do something from the curry bible.

Put in freezer - loaf of whoopsied bread for emergencies, whoopsied Nan bread & wheaten, Chorizo for pizza corner, 2x watery mozerella (first time freezing).

Going shopping if the rain ever lets off (hate cycling in the rain), and am hoping to get

Bag of chopped frozen peppers, onions, sweetcorn & peas - good staples for straight away cooking and saves having to always buy frsh ingredients.

Butcher trip - 2 FR chickens , 2 ham hocks, and a beef barbequeue things I dont know what you call it, but it's nice on pizza. WIll cook the two chickens tomorrow, treating myself to a roast, then probably get the rest of the chicken in the freezer and make up some more stock! Im guessing I will use all todays stock with 3 batches of soup, so tomorrows lot will be for the freezer. Will put the ham and beef stuff in the freezer too so that will be me sorted for meat for quite some time!

I will probably get some tinned tomatoes (down to 7 tins). I agree, I do it to feel safe. WHen my freezer was (is now) nearly empty, I can't explain the panic I felt! But it's good to get it cleared and better organised too.

Well this is todays plan, im sittting here in my dressing gown and there is a duvet on the sofa frmo last night, one with a "me shaped hole" i could squish back into very easily......

NualaBuala

Confuzzled wrote: »

you'll be dead scared for me then... i have NO that's ZERO ZILCH NADA tinned tomatoes in the house :eek: haven't done for ages either...

i like fresh tomatoes but really i don't care much for cooked tomato based recipes and since i finally ditched my husband (YAY!) i don't have to eat that stuff anymore :T i do have baked beans and some meatballs in tomato sauce but that's as close as it gets... though i figure i can still stay in the club cuz i have no less than 30 pkgs of savoury rice and almost as many of various flavoured cous cous (blame it on approved foods, dan made me do it )

i understand your panic for pasta though mine is for toilet paper... if i have less than a dozen rolls i start to worry a bit, heaven forbid we get down to just 4 rolls, the world would end :rotfl:

:rotfl:It's funny, since I split with my ex I've started using tinned toms again. He always wanted the jars of chilli/bolognaise sauce!:D So I'm very happy to to indulge my tinned tomato addiction now! Hurray for eating what we want. :j I used to have the toilet roll thing too but since the summer I decided to challenge myself to make what I had last till Christmas - and it will prob last into 2010.
Wish we had Approved Foods over here - sounds like a magical wonderland of bargains.

lynzpower wrote: »

I dont know if I do. My haphazard shopping trips are my mothers hand-me-down.

She buys bargains though- she hardly ever uses (eg clothes) whereas Im more of a food & cooking shopper.

I dont have a car, so when I can use mywork van to bring home the bargains in one swoop then I will, I hurt my hand quite badly not long ago so I cant carry weight. Yet the 3 litres of Coke zero were only a quid in Netto, so I got a few, I drink a lot of diet coke ( i dont want to thinik about it, I stopped for ages but Im an addict :eek: ) Passata was half the sainsburys price so again goit a few.

Where we live in london our local supermarkets are astronomical :eek::eek::eek::eek: so when I get to pass cheapie areas i try to bag what I can ! :T:T

Ah, that sounds like a rational approach to stockpiling!

zippychick wrote: »

Need to read and catch up. Last night i took out my Carcass box - about 3 carcasses, and I couldnt help but chuckle when I remembered screaming as I crunched the bones down to get them in the box to fit the freezer! I remember telling myself to "man up" as i did it. Think about the stock!

:rotfl:

Well this is todays plan, im sittting here in my dressing gown and there is a duvet on the sofa frmo last night, one with a "me shaped hole" i could squish back into very easily......

I like the sound of your plan! Hope you and everyone else have a lovely day whatever you end up doing.



I've accumulated €10.04 as I didn't need any groceries last week. So I'll probably nip down to Tesco later and blow the lot! Woohoo!:j Not sure what to have for dinner tonight - probably the other trout fillet I took out of the freezer.

Penelope_Penguin

zippychick wrote: »

making soups later - leek and potato, butterbean and carrot and Blue peter soup

Please tell me that this isn't made from sticky-back-plastic :eek: :rotfl:

Penny. x

purpleivy

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

Please tell me that this isn't made from sticky-back-plastic :eek: :rotfl:

Penny. x

eeeeuuuuuuuuwwwww! LOL!

zippychick

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

Please tell me that this isn't made from sticky-back-plastic :eek: :rotfl:

Penny. x

Ha ha ha Mrs funny pants. Yes , I'm also using egg boxes and an empty washing up liquid bottle. What of it?!

It's this one. Probably not a revulationary recipe, but exceptionally tasty for all it is.

Nuala, what are you going to blow your yo yos on?!

CCP

Well, my meat delivery has arrived and I'm pleased to say I didn't need a shoehorn to get it in the freezer after all (although one of the packs of sausages is rather precariously balanced and will probably attack me next time I open the freezer door).

As it's another miserable day in Portsmouth I'm taking the opportunity to update my list of freezer and cupboard contents - it's a bit half-hearted, though, as you can probably tell by the fact I'm on here rather than doing the list!

My next task will be to think of uses for some of the odder items on my list:

• pork ribs that are mostly bone, with very little meat (I thought I might try and do a meat-based soup with them, but I'm not quite sure what)
• five slices of rye bread (for sandwiches, possibly, although it's in the freezer because I didn't like it much)
• pack of curry-flavour supernoodles (they were a freebie - I didn't buy them - honest!)
• box sugar crystals (bought for a cake topping originally, I think)
• half a pack of ground almonds (that might have gone off by now - does anyone know how you tell?)
• three quarters of a pack of raisin Country Crisp cereal (bought because I wanted the free rosemary plant they were giving away, and I then discovered I don't really like the cereal :rolleyes:)
• packet of bulgar wheat
• tin of mackerel fillets
• bottle of curried brown sauce (which is so spicy it took the skin off the inside of my mouth when I tried some)

Any ideas, anyone? Please?!

zippychick

CCP im sure the almonds would perk up after a quick bake/ dry fry for a few mins? That's what I would try.

Rye bread is nice toasted so maybe brekkies? I wouldn't eat it in a sandwich!

Pork ribs - could you use that as a base for lentil soup? This is where i get pork and ham confused..... Or could you roast them and make a cheap curry with the meat and some veg? Pork stock

Could you use the country crisp in flapjacks? Or with melted butter as a cheesecake kind of base with other biccies thrown in to dilute the taste?

Curry cuper noodles - leave them at work for an emergency lunch? :eek::rotfl:

Bulgar wheat

Mackerel fillets (smoked but same applies)

xxx