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  • sp1987
    sp1987 Posts: 907 Forumite
    My ideal clear out hope is some sort of salmon penne tomato puree and pineapple extravaganza. ..but not going to taste too good lol
  • sp1987
    sp1987 Posts: 907 Forumite
    JackieO wrote: »
    I too have a dozen or so tinned mushy peas left over from the Great Tinned Mushy Peas War between the supermarkets back in the spring.I snaffled them for 3p a tin ??? I must have been having a daft moment.

    Sadly mine arent even mushy. Just standard peas! Not even on offer...lol
  • queengoth
    queengoth Posts: 135 Forumite
    edited 23 December 2013 at 9:42AM
    Instant mash and the salmon and an egg to make fish cakes
    Ratatouille and tomato paste in with the meatballs and a bit of chilli spice
    served with pasta
    Tuna pasta bake
    Noodles with a stock cube slim bits of chicken, chicken noodle soup
    Shady pines ma, shady pines
  • Sorry didn't read the don't like chilli bit , how about a corned beef and. Ratatouille lasagne?
    Shady pines ma, shady pines
  • queengoth
    queengoth Posts: 135 Forumite
    edited 23 December 2013 at 9:55AM
    Kidney beans butter beans packet of stuffing and an egg, veggie burgers.
    Just put the tinned potatoes in a curry sauce and serve as a side.
    Hot dogs in with the tinned spaghetti on toast
    Upside peach or pineapple pud
    Sorry no idea about the soup we have about 20tins as well don't know why as it's all veggie type stuff and we only ever eat tomato, this may go to the food bank in the very near future and lastly
    all the different tins of veg a tin of corned beef and a tin of spuds stock cube and some water and that's corned beef hash as I was brought up use the dried stuff to make dumplings or pancakes to go with it
    Shady pines ma, shady pines
  • Floozie
    Floozie Posts: 271 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    The ratatouille I would mixed with cooked pasta shapes, bang in an overnproof dish and sprinkle over lots of grated cheddar cheese and bake in oven for a lunch on a cold day with some bread and butter.
    The peaches I would use in a crumble which would use up your plain flour and caster sugar. If you had any frozen raspberries you can add them and make a raspberry and peach crumble.
  • Nicki
    Nicki Posts: 8,166 Forumite
    A friends mum used to put a can of salmon in her macaroni cheese when I was young and it was my favourite meal ever! Definitely worth a try. Otherwise you could mix a can of salmon with a tub of philadelphia cheese and have it as a kind of fish pate on toast?

    Tuna with tinned tomatoes, tomato puree and black olives if you have them to make puttanesca sauce to go with your tagliatelle.

    Corned beef and potatoes to make a hash.

    Hot dogs could be sliced into the passata with some herbs and served with pasta.

    Use your pineapples with your sweet and sour sauce and a meat of your choice to make a sweet and sour. I personally like gammon done this way, but obviously chicken and pork work well too.

    Your peas and your sweetcorn could be used with rice and an egg plus a little bit of meat (ham, bacon or prawns if you have them) to make a fried rice.

    If you have a slow cooker, your various cook in sauces and possibly also your soups could all be used with whatever meat you pick up cheaply and whatever veg is lingering at the bottom of your fridge at the end of each week to make a casserole. You could also use them with left over meat from a meal and your lasagne sheets to make a kind of lasagne.

    Could you use the tinned ratatouille and beans to make a pasta sauce? It wouldn't be my favourite but I don't like the taste of tinned ratatouille at all so I would struggle to use this one up.

    Your peaches are easy. Put them in a dish, top with a sweet yorkshire pudding batter, bake until puffy and serve with the custard. Yum! Or make an upside down peach sponge cake and serve with the custard. Or a flan.

    Rather than trying to use them all up at once, which might make you sick and tired of tinned food very quickly, why not set yourself a goal of using a certain number of tins a week to run them down over the course of a few months? They aren't going to go off :)
  • Welcome my new challenge!! :D

    As part of an attempt to make 2014 my year of real frugality, I have decided to set myself up a challenge to spend no more than £15pw on groceries for the next 15 weeks!!!!:eek:

    I started the challenge at Solstice as I had realised a few days before that I have an extraordinary amount of food and household products in my house, yet I spend a minimum of £60pw on shopping!:o

    This year I want to use up absolutely every food and household product that I have in my home before I go out and purchase anything else......the only things that will be needed regularly as far as I can tell will be fresh fruit and veg, milk, cereal, coffee, sugar and eggs. The occasional packet of foil or cling film may be needed too but other than that, I think I am covered for the next three months!! ;)

    As I said, this is the year that I want to become fully committed to living a frugal life.....In April, when my15 week challenge finishes, I intend to keep spending as little as possible - I have purchased seed potatoes and seeds for salad leaves, broad beans, purple climbing beans, rainbow chard and courgettes. I will also plant out my globe artichokes, rhubarb and strawberries and try to source a couple of tomato plants in the spring. This will have a real impact when they are ready... I am going to do a lot more foraging this year....elderberries, blackberries, sloes etc along with sourcing cooking apples and surplus fruits and veg from local suppliers - I can dehydrate whatever I don't have room to freeze and it should help with additional meals throughout the winter of next year!;)

    I will post my absolutely enormous food inventory in the next post - I will not be adding to this at all between now and April!

    Feel free to join me....even if you can't or don't want to start until after your christmas celebrations or the new year!!!:D
    Mortgage 12.12.12 £55842 12.12.13 £42716 14.12.14 £28837 13.12.15 £25913
    Mortgage OP £50/£600 House Fund £420/£5000
  • Good Luck, hubby grows all our veg & it tastes better than shop bought.
    Hester
    Chin up, Titus out.
  • icontinuetodream
    icontinuetodream Posts: 992 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    edited 23 December 2013 at 4:41PM
    Here it is....the food inventory!!! :eek:


    FREEZER

    Ready made

    1 pk hm vegan mince casserole
    2 pks hm chick pea & coconut curry
    1 tub hm chicken soup
    1 tub hm asparagus soup
    1 tub hm beetroot soup
    1 tub hm chicken stock
    1 pk hm tomato based sauce
    2 pk hm salmon fish pies
    24 mini veg spring rolls
    2 pks chicken bites
    2 pks mozzarella sticks
    1 pks sausage rolls
    2 pks onion rings
    2 pks mexican bites
    2 pks cocktail sausages
    4 part baked baguettes
    1 pk cinnamon bagels
    Meat
    1 leg lamb
    1 joint pork
    2 whole chickens
    1 pk pork loin steaks
    4 pks salmon steaks
    3 pks bacon
    Vegan
    2 haggis
    2 vegan chicken roasts
    Veg, Pulses & Fruit
    2 bags runner beans
    2 pks chopped onions
    1 pk chopped green peppers
    ½ bag chips
    1 pk cannellini beans
    1 pk chick peas
    2 pks blackberries
    1 pk elderberries

    FRIDGE
    Half a cooked chicken
    Half a cooked joint pork
    Half a cooked joint gammon
    1 joint venison
    1 large joint beef
    1 ham hock
    Salamis
    Cheeses
    Olives
    Capers
    Opened jars of sauces and condiments
    Cooked broccoli, mashed potatoes, carrots, roasted parsnips and roasted potatoes

    CUPBOARDS

    JARS, PACKETS, SAUCES & BOTTLES
    1 sweet & sour sauce
    2 korma sauce
    1 bolognese sauce
    1 carbonara pasta bake
    2 white sauce for pasta
    1 beef in ale sauce
    1 buffalo wings sauce
    1 jar salsa
    1 pk tomato, herb & onion pasta & sauce
    1 pk stirfry lemon sauce
    5 pks enchilada sauce
    1 pk taco spice
    2 pk enchilada spice
    1 pk fajita spice
    1 pk crispy chick fajita spice
    1 pk tuna pasta bake mix
    1 pk chicken & bacon pasta bake
    3 pk cheddar cheese sauce mix
    3 pks four cheese sauce mix
    1 pk shepherds pie mix
    5 pks spaghetti Bolognese mix
    1 pk bread sauce mix
    1 pk season & shake (s&s) rustic chicken
    1 pk s&s southern style chicken nuggets
    1 pk s&s Cajun chicken
    1 pk s&s Mediterranean chicken
    1 pk s&s bbq chicken
    1 pk s&s garlic & herb roasted chicken
    1 pk s&s sausage & herb casserole
    1 pk dumpling mix
    4 pks batter mix
    1 pk sosmix
    16 flour tortillas
    2 pk cool herb topping
    1 mini red peppers
    1 vine leaves
    2 cherry & berry jam
    2 redcurrant jelly
    3 cranberry sauce
    3 apple sauce
    1 date syrup
    1 maple syrup
    1 peanut butter
    2 chilli sauce
    1 tomato ketchup
    1 mayo
    2 branston pickle
    1 bbq sauce
    4 chutney
    1 picalilli
    3 tomato puree
    1 pk sage & onion stuffing
    1 24 oxo cubes beef
    17 oxo cubes chicken
    12 oxo cubes lamb
    1 tub lamb gravy powder
    1 tub onion gravy powder
    1 tub chicken gravy powder
    1 tub beef gravy powder
    0.5 tub vegan boullion
    1 tub nutritional yeast
    English, French, Wholegrain, Dijon mustards
    1 tub breadcrumbs
    1.5 pks tvp mince
    1 pk kombu
    1 pk nori
    2 pks miso soup
    1 pk bicarbonate soda
    2 pks baking powder
    1 box suet
    1 bottle golden syrup
    1 jar honey
    3 bags bread flour
    1 bag gf self raising flour
    2 pks self raising flour
    1 pk cornflour
    1 pk plain flour
    0.5 bag wholewheat spelt flour
    4.5 bags pasta flour
    3 tins yeast
    0.75 bag popcorn
    1 bag Demerara sugar
    1 bag soft muscovado sugar
    Pomegranate molasses
    Lemon extract
    Vanilla extract
    Sun dried tomatoes
    Porcini mushrooms
    HERBS, SPICES & OILS
    Kaffir lime leaves
    Somac
    Chipotle chilli
    Tandoori
    Korma
    Tikka
    Chiili
    Cumin
    Chinese 5 spice
    Cumin seeds
    Paprika
    Turmeric
    Ground ginger
    Ground coriander
    Ground cinnamon
    Ground mace
    Mustard seeds
    Garlic granules
    Italian style herbs
    Mixed herbs
    Sage
    Thyme
    Tarragon
    Basil
    Dill
    Bay leaves
    Mint
    Vanilla pod
    Vanilla sugar
    Lemon oil
    Olive oil
    Corn oil
    Veg oil
    TINS
    1 broken grapefruit segments
    1 small tin garden peas
    4 corned beef
    1 baby tomatoes
    7 chopped tomatoes
    4 chick peas
    1 kidney beans
    1 bamboo shoots
    1 water chestnuts
    1 baked beans
    8 tuna
    3 custard
    1 creamed rice
    DRIED FRUITS, NUTS, PULSES, GRAINS & PASTAS
    Papaya
    Dates
    Figs
    Cranberries
    Raisins
    Sultanas
    Almonds
    Brazils
    Walnuts
    Kidney beans
    Cannellini beans
    Chick peas
    Dried beetroot
    Dried peas
    Red lentils
    Puy lentils
    Flax seeds
    Polenta
    Millet
    Quinoa
    Arborio rice
    Short grain brown rice
    Basmati rice
    Sushi rice
    Wild rice
    Spelt
    Pearl barley
    Noodles (brown rice & plain)
    3 pks gluten free pasta spirals
    0.5 pk gf spaghetti
    2.5 boxes gf lasagne sheets
    1 pk wholewheat spaghetti
    3.5 bags wholewheat pasta
    2 pks spaghetti
    1 pk tagliatelle

    Enough to feed an army really!!!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    ETA - forgot some fridge stuff!!:o
    Mortgage 12.12.12 £55842 12.12.13 £42716 14.12.14 £28837 13.12.15 £25913
    Mortgage OP £50/£600 House Fund £420/£5000
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