Store cupboard challenge

money_maker_mummy

I'm gunna have a go at this challange (may need to buy the odd few bits though as not got some things) :-)

Any ideas for me? I didnt realise how much we had until I've just looked!! This is what I've got in:
Theres 2adulta and 1 child :-)
CUPBOARD
Basil, garlic, tin sliced pineapple, 2 tins tropical fruit, 1 tin mandarins, 3 tins short cut spaghetti, 1 baked beans, 2 tins chopped tomatoes, 1 tin rice pudding, 1 tin mushy peas, 1 blackcurrent jelly, 2strawberry whips, 4 instant custard, 3 tins custard, 1 tub custard powder (loadsa custard???) , 1 pizza base mix, 2 boil in the bag rice, dried spaghetti, bag of pasta, porridge oats, cream crackers, honey hoops (like honey cheerios but no one likes as cereal ), golden syrup, 9 packets yeast, 2 out of date strong white bread flour

FRIDGE
Bit mozerella, cheese spread, jam, eggs, 5 cheese slices

FREEZER
6 sausages, 2 chicken breasts wrapped in bacon with cheese, 9 garlic bagueette slices, 1 small cheese and tomato pizza, 1 cheese and garlic flatbread, 6 rashers bacon, 2 chicken breasts, 2 loafs bread, 6 white baps, 3 tiger rolls, 4 dumplings, half bag mini sausage rolls, smiley faces, 6 peti pains and 2 thin ga,nmmon steaks(which i didnt like - maybe chop up into a dish?)

Thats everthing! I know its loads im so ashamed!!

money_maker_mummy

Right 8've planned a weeks worth of teas from that list... plus lunches. Plus still gunna have a few meals next week :-) BONUS! :-)

Jelly_Biactol

Good recipe finder website with lots of recipe suggestions here
http://www.foodinaminute.co.nz/
Specify the ingredients you have, in the Recipe Finder panel, for specific ideas.

LuckyPenny

It's 2 weeks until pay day and I seriously have no money. So I am going to do this challenge for the next 2 weeks. I am still going to buy some essentials like milk and bread but I am going to get my thinking cap on and see how many tins, frozen foods and other bits I can use.

I am starting tonight by using a tin of stewed steak throwing in frozen peas and a carrot I have found in the fridge and topping with potatoe also found in the fridge.

A good website is love food hate waste

zaxdog

All of today's meals came from the store cupboard:

Brunch - jalapeno French toast

Dinner - soya mince cottage pie

Pudding: cheesecake (from a packet someone gave us)

Snack - savoury rice

415SanFran

I think I may join you two if you want some company for the next couple of weeks.
I really only need to buy fresh stuff for at least a month or two.

Today had Veg biriani with everything from the stores, but that was using up the last of the ill veg at the bottom of the frigde.
Still got some to use but chopped it all up today and will use it tomorrow to add to cous cous.

LuckyPenny

Blimey, I have just cleared out my kitchen cupboards and I'm amazed at how much pasta I have! I think it will be pasta for breakfast, dinner and tea! Only joking!

Well tomorrow I am going to make pasta shapes with a tin of tuna and sweetcorn that I have found in the cupboard.

I think I can probably keep going for another two weeks on the stuff I found :T

415SanFran

Ha, It's rice in my house, I could feed a village for about a month, certainly will not need any for the rest of this year, and that's at a ratio of about twice a week!

415SanFran

Bean chilly today.....with RICE..

[Deleted User]

Hi, can i join you. I have a ton of stuff, being a regular Approved Food etc user for ages. I noticed i have made a shopping list with loads of tinned potatoes on and kidney beans, etc, WHY, i have a stack of cous cous, rice pasta and loads of dried beans pulses that i could be making use of. Im gonna rack my brains and try and come up with some nice meals.