Store cupboard challenge

sophistica

Hi
This is the sort of food that I like and I hope you will too. It does involve some preparation which you may enjoy (?). Please be kind about my suggestions as I am not a die hard old styler yet.
Breakfasts
1. Porridge
2. French Toast
3. Poached Eggs with Tomatoes and Thyme on Toast
4. Cereal and fruit
Buy Porridge Oats, 12 Eggs, Cream (double or single) Bread (Pinch some brown sugar sachets from a cafe)
Approx £4-5
Lunches
1, Salad nicoise (Tuna, Tomatoes, Olives, New Potatoes,Eggs)
2. Baked Potatoes with Baked Beans and Cheese
3. Celery soup with toast
4. Baked figs with sugar or honey or syrup with melted cheese
Buy Tin tuna, Baked beans, Tomatoes, Potatoes, Figs, Cheese, Plain yogurt

Approx £3-4
Evening Meals
Plan a few meals around a chicken
1. Roast chicken, roast potatoes, stuffing, carrots, sprouts/green vegetable
2. Chicken waldorf with celery, grapes, yogurt dressing, walnuts
3. Chicken (boil carcass) and vegetable soup (mushrooms, peas, noodles, onion, celery
4. Mushroom rissotto (Buy a large Value pack of mushrooms)
5&6 Lasagne (Use mince onions, carrots, celery, tinned tomatoes/tomato puree and stock)
7 Provencal vegetables with baked eggs (courgettes, tinned tomatoes, onions and peppers)

Buy: Value mushrooms, Roast chicken, carrots, broccolli, walnuts, tinned tomatoes, peppers, celery, onions, peppers, courgettes

Buy: Approx £10

A good site (which I have just found) is this one. It will guide you as to what food is in season. In fact if you were to go to a market or a road with many vegetable stalls I htink you could beat the prices shown above and eat healthily.

http://www.eattheseasons.co.uk/

UK seasonal food information, tips and recipe ideas, updated every Wednesday.

FOODS FOR OCTOBER
SEASONAL FOOD OF THE WEEK
kale (click to view)
FOODS IN SEASON NOW
VEGETABLES
artichoke | aubergine | beetroot | broccoli | butternut squash | carrots | celeriac | celery | courgettes | fennel | garlic | kale | kohlrabi | leeks | marrow | onions | peppers | potatoes (maincrop) | pumpkin | radishes | rocket | sweetcorn | turnips | watercress | wild mushrooms
FRUIT & NUTS
apples | blackberries | chestnuts | elderberries | figs | grapes | pears | quince | tomatoes | walnuts

You can search the internet for recipes to make the above or use your intuition.

Guapa1

Sounds like you have loads! What cupboard food have you got? Any tins of tuna lurking back there? All you need is some extra veg if you don't mind being simple with your meals. If you don't have a market near by, try and get some whoopsies.

Are you making brekkie and lunch too?

I love the phrase trinity of wonder Frugalswan, I'm going to 'borrow' it!

Anyway dinner ideas from what you've shared...
Chicken and rice with cauliflower
Mince and pasta (tinned peas would be nice in this if you have them)
Stew and rice
Chicken mixed in pasta with diced cauliflower.
Stew and dumplings (the flour)
Mince and Rice
Chicken fried rice

mardatha

ok thank you all very much. I need to buy only potatoes, bit of cheese, maybe bit of bacon, onions, and eggs. Yessssss !

Penelope_Penguin

Hi there! Great advice :A Now that this has fallen from the front page of OS, I'll add it to the existing Storecupboard Challenge thread

Penny. x

LoopyLinz

Hi Folks

Having a bit of a tough month for various reasons and have found things really tight money wise. Have just been diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis and hubby has been doing the shopping so we have ended up with all sorts of things. Basically we need to make 16 dinners, for two adults and lunches, for just me with a minimal spend!

Have made a list of everything we have (which please bare in mind hubby has been doing the shopping!) cant seem to put things together to make meals if you are with me?

Anyway......we have -

Crispy chicken dippers x 15
Oven chicken chargrills x 4
Fish fingers x 10
Beef burgers x 12
Mince beef (500g x3, 730g x 1)
Half bag frozen broccoli
Bacon x 4 slices
1 bag lightly spice potato wedges
Quarter bag curly fries
Garlic bread x 3
Half bag roasted parsnips
1 pack sausages (8)
Garlic chicken kiev x 4
1 tub frozen cabbage
1 packet beef pieces
1 tub frozen stewed apple
1 pepperoni pizza
Quarter bag frozen mash potato
2 servings frozen stuffing
1 serving frozen turnip
1 serving frozen carrot & parsnip
Half bag frozen bread crumbs
1 frozen loaf of bread
2 frozen chicken fillets
8 frozen meatballs with sauce
500g butter
Half packet gratted cheese
1 carton pure orange juice
1 bottle diluted apple and black currant
1 bottle diluted orange juice
2 peppers
Yoghurts x 7 (various flavours)
6 carrots
Cooking Oil
1 packet pasta and sauce (mild cheese & broccoli)
1 tin sweetcorn
2 tins beans & sausages
2 jars ragu original sauce
1 tub squeezy honey
Vinegar
Sugar
1 bag crumble topping
1 and quarter bags pasta
1 packet spagetti
1 packet tortilla wraps (8)
3 packets super noodles (chicken, mild curry, southern fried chicken)
2 lasagne sheets
Ground black pepper
Ground mixed spice
Mixed herbs
Garlic granules
Half box rice
Chicken gravy granules
Beef gravy granules
1 packet ready made satay sauce
1 tin pineapple chunks
1 bag potatoes
4 small onions
1 box cornflakes
1 bowl rice krispies
Poridge oats
3 packets lightly salted tortilla crisps

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
Linz xoxox

Butterfly_Brain

Have you got any flour, eggs and sugar?

LoopyLinz

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Have you got any flour, eggs and sugar?

Hi Butterfly

I have flour and sugar, no eggs but could always buy some!

L xoxox

Butterfly_Brain

Minced Beef could make:
Spaghetti Bolognaise, Mincemeat Cobbler,Mincemeat Crumble,Mincemeat Pie Tortillas or a Shepherds Pie.
You could serve the Meatballs with Pasta
Make a Stew with the Beef pieces
With the sausages you could make a sausage toad or a sausage casserole just use 4 sausages in each and slice them or you could add them to pasta with the ragu and some broccoli
Beefburgers with mash and a veg, or a Beefburger Casserole
Beans and sausages with Mash and a fried egg
One chicken fillet could be sliced and added to rice or again make a casserole with plenty of veg to bulk it out.
Bacon Fritters
You could make an apple crumble or apple sponge
Plus the obvious kievs, fishfingers, and dippers
Thats all I can think of for now hope this helps God Bless

LoopyLinz

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Minced Beef could make:
Spaghetti Bolognaise, Mincemeat Cobbler,Mincemeat Crumble,Mincemeat Pie Tortillas or a Shepherds Pie.
You could serve the Meatballs with Pasta
Make a Stew with the Beef pieces
With the sausages you could make a sausage toad or a sausage casserole just use 4 sausages in each and slice them or you could add them to pasta with the ragu and some broccoli
Beefburgers with mash and a veg, or a Beefburger Casserole
Beans and sausages with Mash and a fried egg
One chicken fillet could be sliced and added to rice or again make a casserole with plenty of veg to bulk it out.
Bacon Fritters
You could make an apple crumble or apple sponge
Plus the obvious kievs, fishfingers, and dippers
Thats all I can think of for now hope this helps God Bless

Awww thank you so much for this, just couldnt seem to put anything together! lol

Butterfly_Brain

I have Osteoarthritis in both knees and I understand the pain you are going through x
Aldi are doing chickens for £2.26 at the mo that could make a Sunday roast and a soup or something the next day.
Try and give hubby a list for shopping and work out a weekly meal plan it really does stop you spending on uneccessary's