Store cupboard challenge

Roz_V

I think I need your help...



My inventory of my fridge, freezer and store cupboard took up 4 pages in my notebook :eek: The only thing I don't have is milk :rolleyes:

Off for a cup of cinnamon tea (found at the back of the cupboard :rotfl: ) and to plan my meals for the next 365 days :rotfl: I will be back...

edited to add: if anyone sees an obvious meal jumping out at them from that lot, please let me know!!!!

Roz_V

I'm baaaaack

Have managed to make a meal from most things, but there are just a few bits and pieces that need using up... Anyone have any ideas for recipes involving any or all of:

• wholegrain mustard
• seafood sauce
• red currant jelly
• pickled red cabbage
• lettuce
• feta cheese
• wensleydale cheese
• extra thick brandy cream
• sundried chillis
• half a bottle of flat champagne

Moll

im in this month ..cos ive got to be ,,,,,,,,broke isnt the word for it .
BUT i always enjoy a good store cupboard challenge, Luckily i still have a few "fancy" bits and bobs left over from christmas, so we can still have a few treats. My lot will eat anything i put in front of them ,which is helpful :rotfl: ive done an inventory of the frige/ freezer. and also the small chest freezer. plus i have about 6 loaves of reduced price bread,which i bunged in my Mums freezer. so a bit to go at there/ theyll come in handy for toasties.,,,,,,,,,,i put allsorts in toasted sandwiches, . cheese/ beans/ tuna /bacon / sausages etc etc.
I have a half a sack of potatoes, so i can work wonders with that, for instance. yesterday i did a dinner ( normal stuff pots. veg. yorkshire pud / meat etc) i deliberatley cooked a big pan of potatoes so i had plenty left.with the leftovers , i made 4 other freezer meals . 2 of a tin of corned beef. mashed with cooked onions,,topped with mashed potatoes and cheese
( Have these with baked beans ) . also saved some of the potatoes not mashed,and had some leeks in the freezer ( from garden produce earlier in the year) so i made 2 lots of leek & potatoe soup to put in the freezer for later . ( i use those small salt & pepper satchets you get in mc donalds etc) ideal amount to put is soups . also use the containers we get our chinese meals delivered in to put the soup in ) i dont really plan some days meals .
i work on what needs using up first. Like if i have milk that needs using,i make either pancakes, or a rice pudding ,
Give me your ideas please everyone ,something that you take for granted,might be a new thing for someone else to try. Like someone in an earlier post , said about making the potatoe skins,i havent done those for years and had forgotten about them , so was pleased of the reminder, Good luck everyone

KatrinaC_2

Hi Guys,

I've reached the end of the month with stuff to spare in my cupboards, but not a lot to spare in my bank account!

I've had a full trawl and found that I have 215 (!!!) foodstuffs in my cupboards, some of which I have ideas for, but I'm lost for inspiration as to what to do with the following:

Ryvitas (were on 3 for 2 and when I got them home I remembered how dull they are)

Suet (again, another 3 for 2 and I've made so many dumplings that my stomach looks like one...)

Dried haricot beans, red lentils and green lentils (about 300g of each)

Tinned meats (ham, turkey roll - was given them by my Mum from her hamper... yuck)

Tinned fish - red salmon, tuna, mackrel...

Tinned fruit - 5 (!) tins of peaches, tinned pineapple, mandarins, fruit cocktail...

Tinned condensed soups (chicken, mushroom and veg)

Dried exotic fruits

Mead (Don't ask me how it got there)

Wine and sherry vinegars

Celeriac

11 green and red peppers

Marzipan

Frozen mixed Italian veg

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In addition to all of this I have most of the basic stuff like flour, stock cubes, pasta, rice etc. and a rack full of dried herbs and spices. I just can't think of what to do with it all. Any advice welcome!

Kat

lynzpower

katrina
I used to use the campells soups ( either the chicken or mushroom ones) as a sauce with chopped peppers, courgettes, onions mushrooms etc * chicken if you have it, as a "chicken & mushroom lasagne" served with garlic bread
that should clear some of those peppers too.

if the peppers are "going off" roast them off & freeze them you can stick them in dsandwiches, on pizza etc later.

with the suet, have you thought of doing steak & kidney pudding instead of dumplings? Less dense?

MushyPeas

Roz_V wrote:

I think I need your help...



My inventory of my fridge, freezer and store cupboard took up 4 pages in my notebook :eek: The only thing I don't have is milk :rolleyes:

Off for a cup of cinnamon tea (found at the back of the cupboard :rotfl: ) and to plan my meals for the next 365 days :rotfl: I will be back...

edited to add: if anyone sees an obvious meal jumping out at them from that lot, please let me know!!!!

Oh dear, Roz, that made me laugh so much!! :rotfl: :rotfl: Sorry!! I hope your store cuboard challege is going well. I'm on the 'out of date' food challenge! Most of it is dried so I recon it is all ok to eat.

KatrinaC_2

lynzpower wrote:

with the suet, have you thought of doing steak & kidney pudding instead of dumplings? Less dense?

I had thought of it, but I don't like offal. Now that you've put the pasta bake idea in my head I think I might do some inventing and try a chicken, mushroom and bacon pudding with Campbells soup sauce.

It'll probably come out like lumpy glue, but at least it'll have got rid of some of the suet! :rotfl:

Kat

EagerLearner

Hi all,

I have 300ml bags of mung beans, aduki beans, Toor Dal and 'soup mix' (looks like green and red lentils).

Help?

pigpen

any idea for bulgar wheat (5 bags) other than copious amounts of taboulleh??? there is only so much of it you can eat after all!!

KatrinaC_2

EagerLearner wrote:

Hi all,

I have 300ml bags of mung beans, aduki beans, Toor Dal and 'soup mix' (looks like green and red lentils).

Help?

Does your soup mix contain white barley and green peas? If so it's mix for making scotch broth. All you need to do is put in a couple of handfulls of that, a couple of chunky chopped potatoes, leeks, carrots, yellow swede, maybe some raw chicken or ham and a lot of water. Simmer until the veg and pulses are soft and you've got something that would put Enid Baxter to shame.

Kat