Store cupboard challenge

quintwins

wendywitch wrote: »

Frugal, Make bread??!! :eek:

Don't have the time or the desire to, I am sorry

Don't worry I can be a good girl and just buy milk and bread :A

no-one ever just buys bread and milk i'm well stocked up on bread lidl had 2 brown loafs for £1 so i bought 6 lol def no running out here


tomorrow we're having either duck or pheasant (oh was shooting yesterday so depends on wat he 'sorts' out tonight)

kittiej

I like the idea of this challenge but I've only just found this thread.

I hate having to go to the s-market mid-week, once I finish work I just like to drive straight home.

Frugal I'm sure if you have a look at the indexed collections there's a recipe for eggless cakes.

roosterpotatoes

I really need to save money as well.

I'm already taking part in the no supermarkets for a month challenge, but id really like to join this one too as i need to save for my car insurance, due at the end of Feb.



P.S I haven't been out today.

P.P.S I would make around a £70 saving

Penelope_Penguin

Frugal wrote: »

PenPen - Sorry, I didn't think of that! Please can we go on Storecupboard Challenge Thanks

Good choice

YourLittlePony

I did this for 2 weeks solid in the run up to Christmas ... we decided to have a gammon roast that had been in the freezer for xmas dinner, we had roast potatoes in there too, along with peas and sweetcorn - used a pack of dehydrated stuffing mix that was left over from last year (still in date tho , and used the last of our gravy powder and some tinned tomatoes to make a sauce - AMAZING CHRIMBO DINNER and couldn't have been nicer if we'd splashed out on all manner of expensive grub.

As for what we ate the rest of the time - rationing out veg from the freezer, also a few months ago we saw a lot of meat reduced to 10p or 20p in Scotmid so bought all of it and froze it - maybe not advisable but it didn't kill us so oh well.

Once the roasters ran out we just had rice with everything, still very yummy, and we started using up odds and ends of sauces etc for example OH made frozen chicken thighs with a glaze containing: honey, paprika, mint sauce, reggae reggae sauce and curry powder - I honestly asked him if he had cheated and bought the glaze - it was NICE.

We also discovered that we had 9 - yes 9! - half used packets of spaghetti - so we consolidated them and tried to use them up by defrosting value burgers and mushing up the burgers to make it resemble mince, then more tinned toms, paprika, garlic which has been in our fruit bowl (?!) since June and voila! spag bol!

We don't use a lot of bread cos it tends to bloat me and we had quite a lot of milk because good ol' Scotmid was selling long life stuff off a while ago - i don't like the taste of it to be honest but OH likes it for cereal and tea/coffee. We never even had to start on the stacks of soup we still have ... I also had fruit juice and decided to use it a bit like diluting juice, watering it down to make it last longer.

You guys are going to get on great and the satisfying feeling of having gotten along fine on what you already have is great! I've prolly missed this week but I think I will use my usual £35/week grocery budget to get some good offers and cheap meat and start the challenge again next week!

Hippeechiq

Personally, I would use it.

I think we all worry to much about use by dates - of course, they're important on some items, like fish for example, but before the introduction of use by and best before dates, we all just used to use our common sense and our noses - didn't we?

I can't see that there would be anything to harm you in pastry, but that is just mho. It could possibly be related to the butter in the pastry, but I would imagine all that would affect (maybe) is the flavour of the end cooked product, as old or out of date butter can have a sightly "off" taste, IYKWIM

salski

I agree - its only pastry and you will be cooking with it...although this is again just my opinion too hun. x

MrsRogers

You have all convinced me to do an inventory of my cupboards, freezer etc ... I'll see you over the other side when Ive completed it :eek:

Hippeechiq

Frugal wrote: »

I only have 1 egg left for the next 6 days... That is not good but I will have to manage

If worst comes to the worst I have some VERY out of date eggs which I could do the sink or swim test, then the sniff test :rotfl:

Frugal, If you have any Lemons and wanted to make a cake, the one below is eggless, courtesy of Sunflower1227

Sunflower1227 wrote: »

Egg-free Lemon Sponge

Ingredients:

• 200g self-raising flour
• 2tsp baking powder
• 75g caster sugar
• 125g margarine
• 150ml lemon juice
• Zest of half a lemon
• 175 ml cold water

Preheat the oven to 190 degrees C. Beat the margarine and sugar until pale and fluffy. Sift in the flour and baking powder, holding the sieve high over the bowl. Gently fold in the water, lemon juice and zest. Divide the mixture between two greased and lined sandwich cake tins and bake for 30 minutes or until golden and springy. Turn out of the tins and cool before sandwiching together.

Hope your Dad is improving, and that you've managed to get shot of your virus/cold/flu thingy and have seen him x

youngoldlady

Hippeechiq wrote: »

Personally, I would use it.

I think we all worry to much about use by dates - of course, they're important on some items, like fish for example, but before the introduction of use by and best before dates, we all just used to use our common sense and our noses - didn't we?

I can't see that there would be anything to harm you in pastry, but that is just mho. It could possibly be related to the butter in the pastry, but I would imagine all that would affect (maybe) is the flavour of the end cooked product, as old or out of date butter can have a sightly "off" taste, IYKWIM

Thank you for your advice Hippeechiq. That's the way I usually do things too, so I only really follow use by dates on raw meat and fish etc. I did a Basic Food Hygiene Cert about 10 years ago when I was still at school so I'm relatively confident on testing whether food has gone off or not The filo pastry got me thinking though. Why would it have a use by date on? What gremilns were lurking in it? So far as I know it doesn't have much butter in it anyway so hopefully there won't be a stale butter taste.

salski wrote: »

I agree - its only pastry and you will be cooking with it...although this is again just my opinion too hun. x

Thank you Salski Now I feel better ....and I have to figure out what to make with it!:rotfl:OH keeps banging on about a Delia recipe he saw on a Waitrose advert that he wants me to make - I haven't a clue what he's on about!

MrsRogers wrote: »

You have all convinced me to do an inventory of my cupboards, freezer etc ... I'll see you over the other side when Ive completed it :eek:

I did mine on Friday, thinking it would take about 20 mins. An hour and 4 A4 pages later I surfaced for a cuppa. Serves me right for bulk buying! Most of the stuff we had was UHT juices, bottles of pop, rice, pasta, baking ingredients, oil, vinegar, herbs and spices. :rotfl: