Store cupboard challenge

sp1987

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

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

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

queengoth

Sorry didn't read the don't like chilli bit , how about a corned beef and. Ratatouille lasagne?

queengoth

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

Floozie

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

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

icontinuetodream

Welcome my new challenge!!

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

Hard_Up_Hester

Good Luck, hubby grows all our veg & it tastes better than shop bought.
Hester

icontinuetodream

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