Store cupboard challenge

mama67

our school dinners last week had chicken and broccoli lasagne with a white sauce,

mama67

Breakfast - boys - fried egg toasted sandwiches(hm bread) and fruit juice

lunch - boys - school canteen
- dh - egg mayo sandwiches (hm bread), hm cake, apple
- me - hm carrot and pumpkin soup with hm bread

dinner - haggis, tatties and neeps - haggis from freezer, tatties and neeps from veg box.

misscousinitt

Made the Chicken in tarragon sauce last night and used up the last of my pasta!!!

Mince out of the freezer for tonights tea - not sure if I'm going to make the Chilli or not as OH isn't feeling too good - but we will have something with mince!

Taking one piece of beef out the freezer tomorrow for red cooked beef - remains of my noodles from the cupboard will be served with this and some stir fry pak choi had in the veg bag last week. If OH is feeling better tomorrow will do a starter of filo wrapped prawns from the freezer, salad from the fridge and sweet chilli sauce from the cupboard.

Still planning the massive chutney making session on Thurs....going shopping for sugar and vinegar later.

Big shop due on Friday - but will keep to a minimum so I can continue to use what we have.

XSpender

HM Shepherds Pie for tea tonight. May mix some of the frozen sweet potato that's never been opened in with the mash topping. Will serve with 2 HM frozen yorkies and some frozen veg.

Need to make room for the 6 portions of tom and lentil soup that need to go in the freezer.

We are doing most of the Christmas food shop on Friday, except the fresh stuff that has to wait, so I need to make room in the freezer.

Plan is sausage casserole, fish and chips and chilli between now and Friday, all out of freezer except sausage casserole but have loads of leeks in fridge, hope they are still edible.

ETA: Just checked the fridge and DH has chucked the leeks!!!!!!!

zippychick

Xspender, what recipe do you use for lentil and tomato or is it a chuck it all in affair? It does sound nice actually.! Never tried lentils with tomato.x

nopot2pin

nicki wrote: »

Anyone any ideas of how I could use up some dried lasagne sheets? DD has suddenly decided she doesn't like lasagne anymore and these have been in my cupboard since last Christmas (I've used up 2 other YS ones since then ). Its the bolonaise part she doesn't like :rolleyes: I was wondering if I could make one using fish in some sort of sauce? Creativity in the kitchen is lacking ATM so any ideas would be welcomed.

I made a fish lasagne ages ago. It was nice.. but I dont have a recipe sorry.
I made up the fish, as I would for a fish pie, but made sure there was a little more sauce than normal.
Then, I layered, one layer of fish, one layer of lasagne. The top was cheeeeeese
I must admit though, it didn't freeze too well. It was a bit too stodgy.

zippychick wrote: »

CCP - your thought process does make me laugh! Good to read about your cider cake antics, the visions of you eating cidery crumbs.

:eek::eek::eek:

Twice I had to read that
My eyes read cidery, my brain registered spidery


I have just been to Lidl
I just had to buy some tinned tomatoes
I used the last tin last night for the quiche.
But I didn't sleep a wink as a result :rolleyes:
Only joking, I did, but I don't really want to take any chances now eh

I have lots to make this afternoon. Wine, red onion marmalade, and chickpea and garlic soup.
The wine making will use up quite a bit of fruit from the freezer :T
So, all going well, my freezer may have a wee space in it soooon

nopot2pin

zippychick wrote: »

Xspender, what recipe do you use for lentil and tomato or is it a chuck it all in affair? It does sound nice actually.! Never tried lentils with tomato.x

I made this the other day too.
Mine was a chuck it in kind of thing...
But it went along the lines of ..
2 onions - chopped
3 carrots - very bendy but chopped
6 handfuls of lentils
1 tin of tomatos.
Stock

Cook then whizz. Simples :cool:

Long_tall_sally

My carrot & coriander soup was fine, not too runny at all after I had blended it. Just had it with HM bread (from bread maker machine) and have to say when I finished it I felt rather smug & proud of my healthy HM lunch! Who cares, I thought, if my millionaire shortbread was disgusting and had to be thrown in the bin, it would only have made me fat, (or fatter) but my HM soup & bread made me feel that "Yes, I can still be a bit of a Domestic Goddess! He,he!"
Also used up my left over lamb last nite with onion, garlic, mushrooms, tin of tomatoes and spices and although tbh it wasn't as nice as I had hoped it would be, it certainly wasn't inedible and at least it served its purpose and made another meal.
Just really have the salmon to go now for things that need using up fairly quickly.

CCP

nopot2pin wrote: »

Twice I had to read that
My eyes read cidery, my brain registered spidery

These might make spidery crumbs. I certainly didn't - it's four legs good, eight legs very bad when it comes to cooking, as far as I'm concerned!

NualaBuala

zippychick wrote: »

I'm being made redundant and we have very little to do, so I just sit and clock watch (and MSE watch) and think about food all day. It's the only thing that breaks the day up!

Nuala - everyone deserves a takeaway, don't worry about it!

Oh Zippy, I didn't know you were being made redundant - hope you're ok, big hugs. I think you should write a recipe book - with a nice big soup section! You can be the new Nigella.

The takeaway did dinner, lunch and will do part of dinner tonight - might need to add something to fill me up, maybe just a small sambo. So I'm not feeling so guilty now!:D

It's wild wet and windy here today (again) but there haven't been floods in my part of the country. Hope you're all ok where you are.