Store cupboard challenge

crockpot

Hi

can I bring this challange back to life?

Got cupboards and a freezer x 2 full of food.

Need to keep away from the supermarket!! But see bargins and am tempted!!

Will have to go to Lidl this friday as have to take MIL, but I will take a list and buy milk and bread, plus yougarts and fruit and veg only. Will only take £15 with me.

EmptyPurse

I'd like to join in too as I need to spend as little money as possible between now and the 15th. I'll do an inventory tonight and then work out how to use up the different ingredients.

crockpot

Just had a look in cupboard and found a tin of chicken in white sauce.tin mushroom condensed soup and some tagliatelli- mix it all together? and bung in oven?

Children will not eat that, but found some fish fingers, so can pop them in oven as well

MrsBartolozzi

I think I will be in for this too. I have been following the grocery challenge but as we are going away on holiday for 4 weeks on the 25th June I want to spend as little money on food in June as possible (more for holiday spends)while using up my stores. I have quite a bit of meat in the freezer as well as a pasta, flour and rice mountain too!!
My only problem is not spending money on bargains! I tried to empty my freezer last month, but it is just as full now!!
Off to make an inventory of the freezer and cupboards....

MrsB.

tinkerbelluk

I would love this challenge to be brought back to life as whilst we're financially OK the amount of money we spend a month on food can only be classed as obscene. I’ve joined the grocery challenge as well but I’m keen to start using up what we’ve bought previously without thinking and tends to stay in the back of the cupboard / freezer / fridge until the end of time or until it sprouts it’s own limbs and marches out of it’s own accord :eek:

Will go through the cupboards and make a list so I shall expect to be highly embarrassed when I post it later

LearningToSave.

tinkerbell......im thinking of doing this again....and dee's thread on shopping from home is also amazing.......although i think it may be a good idea to start a brand new thread if others are interested to as both this thread and dee's are massive!!!

shelley1977

i would be interested in doing this,agree that a new thread would be good.

ilovecakes

Please help me! I normally just lurk on this board but i am having a small crisis due to an unexpected huge gas bill and I've been a bit rubbish at sticking to my budget this month. Sooo I have £60 to last til payday (2 weeks) and below is a list of everything i have left in my cupboard. Can you help me work out what I can make from the ingredients below? Or suggest some cheap additions that will stretch what I have? I am feeling wholly uninspired. Be warned...I have some odd things in my cupboards and virtually nothing fresh in. Any help will be greatly apprecieated,

ilovecakes x


large tub homemade granola
500g porridge oats
Apple and Sultana porridge oats
small tin apricot halves
small tin grapefruit segments
1 tin sweet chilli mean beans
tiny tin of crabmeat
2 cartons passata
tube tomato puree
packet ready made polenta
lasagne sheets
canneloni tubes
gravy granules
caramelised onion relish
150g basmati rice
small packet red lentils
small packet yellow split peas
200g Goji Berries (?)
popping corn
sugar
brown sugar
plain and self raising flour
cous cous
organic cocoa nibs
small packet brazil nuts
pomegranite seeds
sultanas
100g coconut
2 onions
spices, stock cubes, worcester sauce, wine vinegar etc
buckwheat noodles
salted almonds
mayonaise
garlic
chilli
buckwheat
packet flying saucers

oliveoyl

You've got flying saucers... what else do you need?!!

ilovecakes

good point!