Store cupboard challenge

halia

ceridwen wrote: »

Hi

- passata
- edamame beans
- lumpfish caviar (I know, I know - a teensy part of the reason I am in debt is having "expensive tastes"). Mea culpa. I console myself with thought that most of my financial problems are because I had a paycut, when I expected a payrise - so not my fault)
- pickled lemons
- canned artichokes
- gungo peas (aka pigeon peas)
- black turtle peas.

Everything else in larder and freezer is more everyday stuff - so know what to do with that. Ideas welcome for abovementioned tho?

Thanks everyone in advance.

passata goes well added into most tomatoe based sauces (tom sauce, spag bol etc) you can also use it as a quick alternative to tomatoe sauce on the base of a pizza (use up old muffins for pizza bases)

pickled lemons go well in tangine's, casseroles, anything with pulses or lamb, harrisa goes very well with it and any dish served with couscous.
(the peas/pulses coudl be cooked into that casserole/tangine)

chuck out the canned artichokes they're horrid!

Sarahsaver

Artichokes are nice, and chucking them away is not in the moneysaving spirit !
Marinate them in a little olive oil, garlic, lemon juice and salt and pepper and eat a day later, or use on top of a pizza.
Have a celeb style facial with the caviar ??? I have had some suchi coated with fish eggs, I suppose you could use caviar for this!
Make a bean casserole with the beans, or a mized bean salad. Edamame beans is just a posh name for fresh soya beans.

thriftlady_2

Canned atrichokes are yummy on pizza

thriftlady_2

I'm on a mission to use up all the contents of my freezer and storecupboards. I will replenish the things we regularly run out of like milk, cheese, butter, juice, tea, coffee, fruit and veg but apart from those we're 'eating the cupboards' this month (and beyond probably).

I've come up with this list of main meals that should see us through January

January meals

Meat meals
Goose liver pilaff
Lasagne
Chilli con carne x 2
Roast chicken
Chicken slices in cheese and bacon sauce
Chicken risotto
Spanish rice with chorizo
Chinese rice with pork
Sausage pasta
Sausage cassoulet
Roast coley, peas/broad bean puree, mash
Corned beef hash

Vegetarian meals
Pizza
Chickpea curry
Chickpea stew and couscous
Pasta with lentil Bolognese
Leftovers –cowboy beans + rice for kids/ pheasant ragu and pasta
Bean stew and bulghar pilaff
Pasta with tomato-veg sauce and cheese
Egg and chips (baked beans for K)
Vegetable risotto
Bulghar and lentil pilaff –Kusherie
Falafel
Bean burgers
Vegetable gratin
Baked potatoes + tuna & sweetcorn/ baked beans/cheese/egg

Soups + lunches
Bean and tomato
Minestrone
Chicken and veg
Lentil
Vegetable pancake
Pasta and cheese

I also have a huge amount of soft fruit from the Summer and Autumn harvest to use up. Trouble with this is it needs to be made into something as none of it is sweet enough to eat as is. I have;

blackcurrants
redcurrants
whitecurrant
gooseberries
blackberries
damson puree
quince -stewed

easiest thing is to add sweetened purees to hm yogurt, or add to muffins.

Sarahsaver

none of it is sweet enough to eat as is...


unless you are me! I love cooked gooseberries or black currants and could eat bowls full. Also cranberry sauce (hm only one handfull of sugar in a bag of fresh cranberries) that is nice too just eaten as it is or in a toasted cheese sandwich.


I'll just get my coat. :rotfl:

catswhiskers_3

Hi, Just registered so a bit unsure!!!

The cupboard challenge sounds good 2 me, lots of things lurking in my cupboard so will get cooking soon!!

Sarahsaver

Welcome catswhiskers! You have made the best moneysaving move ever by joining us;)

thriftlady_2

Sarahsaver wrote: »

none of it is sweet enough to eat as is...


unless you are me! I love cooked gooseberries or black currants and could eat bowls full. Also cranberry sauce (hm only one handfull of sugar in a bag of fresh cranberries) that is nice too just eaten as it is or in a toasted cheese sandwich.


I'll just get my coat. :rotfl:

Ooh, my mouth is puckering up just thinking about this. One of the best things I've done with blackcurrants was to make a Bavarois au Cassis from the Marmiton site which you posted a link too ages ago Sarahsaver. It's become one of my favourite sources of recips and is improving my French no end. So, merci mille fois for that

halia

Sarahsaver wrote: »

none of it is sweet enough to eat as is...


unless you are me! I love cooked gooseberries or black currants and could eat bowls full. Also cranberry sauce (hm only one handfull of sugar in a bag of fresh cranberries) that is nice too just eaten as it is or in a toasted cheese sandwich.


I'll just get my coat. :rotfl:

or me! I love fruit - especially the tarter tasting ones!

Pink_Fairy_2

crockpot wrote: »

Count me in on this too, already on the Jan grocery challange.

Trying to start the new year as I mean to go on in proper money saving mode.

Me too! Only joined last month, but really working at it already. Just made a big pan of soup with some slightly scraggy carrots, (usually given to the dogs or the compost), parsnips and onions, only one small tin of chopped tomatoes :eek:, and a couple of veg stock cubes. Up here for thinking with this one - warm in the kitchen while cooking, and the soup will warm us up in this cold, frosty weather. There was steam coming off the river this morning when I went on a 3 mile trek with my dogs - but, hey it's beautiful day, coz I found this site and got some new friends, the sun is shining even if it's cold, and we're all off to a good new year! ooops, think I've been at the happy pills. :rotfl:(Anyone else found Cooking By Numbers?)