Store cupboard challenge

trulymadlydeeply_indebt!

How about this:-

Take the sausage meat out of the pastry.
Chop/dice the 1 apple, onions, mushrooms and 2 carrots.
Add some dried sage/thyme/mixed herbs. Perhaps crumble an oxo?
Mix it all together. If it's too dry, chop the tomatoes and add them.

Make fresh pastry from your storecupboard (apologies if I'm assuming you have flour, butter and salt in). If you don't have these in, could you use it as a topping to a potato perhaps?

Make individual pasties/one pie.

Get the Bisto and a tin of peas out and have pie, peas and gravy

Yum yum.

I did this once with some lonely veg lurking in the fridge and a tin of corned beef and managed to get 9 pasties into the freezer for other nights and it was really easy to put together.

Still leaves you 3 apples for stewed apples/HM apple sauce for the freezer, or you could even dollop some stewed apples into your porridge/muesli in the morning.

HTH

TMD xx

Need2bthrifty

I would....

Use the tomatoes, an onion, the mushrooms and a grated carrot to make a sauce to go with pasta or the Sausage Rolls or freeze.

Stew the apples (add spices if you have/like eg cinnamon, ginger or mixed spice) – great with custard for pudding or on top of yoghurt/porridge for breakfast or freeze.

Chop up and freeze the remaining onions and carrots for soup/chilli/bolognaise at a later date.

Cucumber – not sure I rarely use them.

winniepooh

Thanks there great idea's really appreciated

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Cucumber – not sure I rarely use them.

If you don't fancy eating it then a couple of slices on top of your closed eyelids for half an hour is a far cheaper alternative to Optrex.refreshes you no end :)

winniepooh

That's not a bad idea jackie

flutterbyuk25

winniepooh wrote: »

This is what I have left in my fridge, can you give me some suggestions on what to do with it all.
4 gala apples - eat or turn into crumble, or stew and freeze
Plum tomatoes looking a bit sorry - turn into a pasta sauce maybe using the onions, mushrooms and carrots?
4 sausage rolls that need eating - eat/freeze
Cucumber - eat/use in salad with toms/onions/carrots/shrooms
3 onions looking sorry - if not making pasta sauce you can chop and freeze these
Sorry looking mushrooms - pasta sauce?
4 carrots - make a soup - carrot and lentil, or coriander, or a veg soup?

here's some suggestions

Monsternextdoor

Well the title says it all I am in the process of running down my store cupboard because I am moving, Does anyone have any tried and tested recipes, there is everything that you can think of in my cupboards, I don't particularly want to shop before Christmas as I will be packing up and moving very soon after.

So can anyone help ? Im sure a fair few of you can !

kittycat204

I would need to know what you have in stock to give recipe ideas.

Kuuj

I agree, it would be more useful to know what you have in there, but if it's anything like my cupboard...

I like to make soups with any vegetables I can find. Today I am making chili in an attempt to lower the bean content of my cupboard!

Tins of tuna, chicken, or ham can be made into salads or melts (tuna on bread topped with cheese in the oven for 5 min.)

Pasta can be used for casseroles, soups, cold salads, goulash, or even just seasoned with salt and pepper!

I rarely use recipes as I don't usually have all the ingredients on hand when I decide to cook. If you have odds and sods that don't appeal to you but are not ood, donate them to a food bank or to college students.

K

Monsternextdoor

Ok off the top of my head there is

Tinned tuna
Tinned salmon
Baked beans
Kidney beans
Pasta
Flour
lentils
Stock cubes (Beef, Ham, Chicken, Veg)
Passata
Noodles
Rice
Dried Mushrooms
Oils
Too many herbs and spices to list
Dried fruits (raisins, currants, sultanas, apricots, mango, pear)
Custards
chocolate (alot of chocolate lol)
Seeds and nuts
Marg
Oat bran
Rice flour
Normal oats
Packets of different soup mixes
Crackers

Thats all I can think of off the top of my head

Ive just done a big sausage pasta bake with some bratties that were leftovers, pepparoni that needed using, pepper that was going a bit soft, and a smoked sausage, tomato's, big glug of red wine, herbs and garlic and some nice gooey cheese to go over the top with some and some nice cheese and onion bread to dip in, thats in the oven now, will feed us all and some leftover for lunch tomorrow.

I have quite a lot of veg in as well and I am a pretty good (if I do say lol) but I'm after some new ideas for using the stuff up I can.

Im going to make some quiche's this week as my little one loves cheese and onion quiche and salad and some pizza bases as she loves pizza, and some for naan breads we all like curries.

Im just stuck when it comes after that !!