Store cupboard challenge

suzybloo

I would tend to buy some potatoes to start with probably about £1.50, along with cheese and eggs, which would add another £2.50 0r so, plus more bread (reduced preferrably!!) and more milk, along with supermarkets own rice crispies etc for breakfast, which would use up about £7-8 of your ten pounds.
That would increase your options to :
Sausage casserole with mashed potatoes and tinned carrots (use half of the sausages that would be plenty)( Casserole would be made with onions and oxo cube too)
Tuna Baked potaotes or
Baked Potatoes with Beans
Baked potatoes with cheese
Tuna Pasta Bake : Pasta Boiled, mix in tuna and any ends of cheese can be added too
Sausage and Noodles : cook remainder of sausages slice and add to noodles - could add pinch of herbs,
Omolette : add cheese, onion, tuna, herbs
Cheesy pasta/Macaroni type pasta using the fusilli - crunch up packs of crisps and put over top and grill - lovely crispy topping,
Potatoes au gratin with sausages. : Slice your potatoes thinly layer them with seasoning and add some milk, wee bit cheese on top and serve with your sausages
Cheese pudding : Breadcrumbs mixed with egg and milk with seasoning and some cheese and grated onion mixed in and put cheeseover top - bake in oven for 25-30 mins
Some of the above could be used for hubbys lunches or
Your options for sandwiches for lunches would include, cheese, cheese and onion, egg, tuna, jam!
bananas and frubes for treats/snacks
for desserts you could have banana in jelly, angel delight,bread and butter pudding, sweet omolette miss out seasoning and sprinkle with sugar or spread with jam,

hope these ideas help,
good luck!.

kezlou

I would buy -
2 x tins of tomatoes / passata
bag of potatoes
1 x bag of plain flour (its 42p for 1.5kg out of sainsburys)
1 x pack 7g yeast
cheese
eggs

The yeast and flour you make bread, foccaia bread,cheese sauce for pasta, omellte and egg fillings for sandwiches.

pasta / tuna bake - use 500g of pasta, while boiling. Fry 1/2 one small onion, add 1/2 tin of carrots and 1 tin of tomatoes, 1 beef stock cube and 1/2 - 1 tin of tuna. Add salt/pepper, herbs to your liking. Heat it up till thickens then serve.
I have served the above when its cold as a pasta salad.

sauasage casserole - Lightly fry 1/2 onion and four of the 8 sausges. Place in dish, chop up the cooked sausages. Add 1/2 tin of carrots, tomatoes, 2 x oxo cubes,seasoning. Place in oven till cooked. If you have potatoes, chop them and fry with the sausges and onions. We eat this served with bread. Or you could use the handful of rice to the casserole to thicken it up, the juices from the tomatoes would cook the rice.
The mince pie (i'm assuming thats a mince round) could be served with mash and carrots or chips and beans

Sasuage and bean bake - fry 1/2 onion,4 sausages (chopped), place in dish cover with two tins of baked beans with juices. Add finely sliced potatoes over top, cook till done.

Deserts
1)Make a trifle using jelly and one of the angel delights.
2)Mix the other angel delight with mashed up banana.
3) break up briscuits and spread jam over the top
4)same as above with banana.

Lunches
tuna sandwiches
cheese sandwiches
egg sandwiches or omellette wrapped up pack lunches.
Add some crisps to this as fillers.

I'll have another think and post some more ideas up for you.

mlz1413

with what you have:
M: pasta & tuna bake

Tu: mince/onions/beans/herbs served with tortilla

W: rice/onions/herbs/stock to make risotto with sausages served sliced into approx 6 bits (any veg would help bulk out)

milk & angel d makes a dessert
jelly or frubes for dessert

With small purchases:
Th: sausages & beans (need to buy potatoes or packet mash)

F: pasta & (cheese sauce) made with milk

Sat: noodles (with veg stir fry approx £1 for big pack) doyou have regge regge style sauce or relish to flavour?

Sun: pasta/sausages/can of tomatoes & herbs (or can you go to family?)

Lunches will need more bread & cheap meats like haslett or tounge look on the deli counters / cheese / jam / banana&crisps.
If you are at home beans on toast, cheese on toast
bananas, frubes & crisps would pack out lunches

Good luck

redfraggle_2

Hope you guys can help me. I need to move out of my house and so I want to use up all the old jars and bits and pieces in my store cupboard. Can anyone provide any inspiration as to what I can do with...

tahini (sesame seed paste) - I make houmous with it already
olive tapenade
harissa paste
white/ red wine vinegar
peanut butter
crystallized stem ginger

Thanks in adavance for your help and please feel free to join in if you want!!!

valentina

Use the stem ginger for some biscuits or cookies?

2009ismyyear

Stem ginger - use for cookies or cakes
Harissa - tagine, use in chilli instead of tom puree

MrsBartolozzi

I'm sure I've seen tapenade used instead of cheese in a cheese straws type recipe. Or in any bread recipe really this is just to show you, use your own fave bread recipe -
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/oct/03/tapenade-dinner-rolls-how-to-bake-dan-lepard

Some other ideas here:
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/365190

The peanut butter and ginger could be used in cookies, or if you are making marmalade adding chopped crystalised ginger makes it lovely and warm and tangy.

the vinegars - do you have any veggies you could pickle?

littlenicki

Hi there,

Personally I would buy some potatoes, bread, eggs, chopped tomatoes and stir fry.

Having had a quick look on asda website you can get 2x2.5kg bags of potatoes for £2. 15xeggs (smartprice but much cheaper than the others) for £1.45. Tins of chopped tomatoes for 33p. and Bags of stir fry for 50p. Smart Price bread is 30p for a 800g loaf too.

All this comes to about £4.60 I would suggest spending this is the first half of the week and saving the rest until later so you know you have an option to buy more if things dont work out as expected.

Ill have a think about cheap meals and post again later if i think of anything

Pink.

Hi redfraggle,

The tapenade, I would just eat spread onto crusty bread, can you tell how much I love it? :drool: and the harissa paste makes a great rub for chicken breasts if you're cooking them in the oven.

These threads may help with the other things:

Tahini!

Ideas for red and white wine vinegar?

Peanut Butter recipes?

Stem ginger

Stem ginger cake?

I'll add your thread into the Store cupboard challenge once you've had more replies.

Pink

redfraggle_2

Thanks so much for the ideas!!!!

I'd run out of tomato puree and am making chilli this weekend so that's two birds killed with one stone!
The ideas for olive tapenade were really interesting; apparently it goes well with egg salad sandwiches, an alternative to tomato pizza sauce or mixing with cream cheese for sandwich spread!