Need to spend as little as possible so what can i do with this????

dollydaydream07

i am after some inspiration, i used to be so good at meal planning, spending as little amount of money on food as i could, stretching meals etc but now i just can't do it!
last week we spent over £200 - about £80 went on xmas pressies and on the cc and the rest pretty much went on food! i used to spend £100 a MONTH on food

DH loves meat, not so keen on fish but will eat it, DD(5) will try most things and she knows that we expect her to try them and i will try practically anything!!

i need to try to and spend no more than £20 a week on fresh bits - bread, milk, fruit and veg, meat, fish


Cupboard
13 tins baked beans
3 chopped tomatoes
1 meatballs in tomato sauce
2 mushy peas
1 marrowfat peas
1 garden peas
2 hot dogs(8 per tin)
2 tomato soup
2 cream of chicken soup
3 veg soup
4 tuna chunks
1 corned beef
onion gravy granules
cheese sauce granules
1 packet dumpling mix
8 batter mix
lots of different oxo cubes
jar of sweet and sour sauce
jar of sweet thai chilli sauce
jar of lemon chicken sauce
spaghetti
pasta shapes
long grain rice
red lentils
lots of pack of angel delight
sr flour
p flour
caster sugar
marshmellows
chocolate
big jar mincemeat
4 kg spuds
peanut butter
chocolate spread

Freezer
2.2kg chicken
whole seabass(cut into 2 fillets)
4 blocks puff pastry
2 small cheese and tomato pizza
pack of piri piri sausages(8)
battered onion rings
potato waffles
20 fish fingers
quorn sausages(4)
2 loaves bread
prawns
200g beef mince
sweetcorn
sprouts
homade veg soup(5 large portions)
leftover chicken curry
leftover sausage chilli

Fridge
red leicester cheese(think it's 300g)
mature cheddar(300g)
12 eggs
1 green pepper
1/2 head broccoli
1kg carrots
8 red onions
2 packs frubes
garlic
1/2 pack ham
10 pints milk
leek and potato soup(about 6 portions)
8 apples
6 pears
various condiments - french mustard, english mustard, apple sauce, mint sauce, jam, chutney, mayo, salad cream, tomato ketchup, regae sauce
small bit of chicken

so waht can i do with this lot????

dollydaydream07

tonight i am planning on using the chicken and mixing it with some mayo and the mango chutney and having it with jacket spuds - DD will have spud and cheese

i was thinking of making some sausage pasties with half the piri piri sausages as i can make enough enough pasties to last us 3-4 meals, with the other sauages making a sausage and pasta bake using the green pepper, an onion, bit of garlic and the brocolli

the leek and pot soup that's in the fridge i will be having for luch this week and what ever is left at the end of the week i will freeze, DD will have a portion of the soup from the freezer on friday night and myslef and DH will have something else as he gets in from work late!

after that i am stumped, so any suggestions anyone can come with with i will be very grateful

thank you

adelight

Those are good ideas so far, you're on the right track
I'd eat as normal (well, still bulk meals with lentils etc, keep expensive meat/cheese to a minimum so it lasts) until you get down to the odd bits that don't really go together. You can make a delicious potato bake by layering slices of potato and onion topped with a tin of tomato soup(or chopped tomatoes) and sprinkle of cheese.
Is that batter mix the kind you add milk to that could make yorkshire puddings? You could fill yorkies with mince, lentils and gravy, served with veg. Or do veg in the hole

Check out the recipe threads and other threads similar to yours as they'll have lots of great ideas for using up odd bits of food. Google recipes with a few of your ingredients ie "recipe red onions batter" returns recipes for onion rings, toad in the hole and sweetcorn and red onion pancakes w/chilli dip! You might not have the ingredients to follow a recipe exactly but you can get inspired by it, say make just the pancake recipe and use your own jar of chilli sauce.

dollydaydream07

adelight wrote: »

Those are good ideas so far, you're on the right track
I'd eat as normal (well, still bulk meals with lentils etc, keep expensive meat/cheese to a minimum so it lasts) until you get down to the odd bits that don't really go together. You can make a delicious potato bake by layering slices of potato and onion topped with a tin of tomato soup(or chopped tomatoes) and sprinkle of cheese.
Is that batter mix the kind you add milk to that could make yorkshire puddings? You could fill yorkies with mince, lentils and gravy, served with veg. Or do veg in the hole

Check out the recipe threads and other threads similar to yours as they'll have lots of great ideas for using up odd bits of food. Google recipes with a few of your ingredients ie "recipe red onions batter" returns recipes for onion rings, toad in the hole and sweetcorn and red onion pancakes w/chilli dip! You might not have the ingredients to follow a recipe exactly but you can get inspired by it, say make just the pancake recipe and use your own jar of chilli sauce.

thank you!
i like the idea of a potato bake with a tin of soup - DH probably wouldn't but now isn't the time to be fussy!!

the batter mix is the type to make yorkie puds! we always just have them with a roast dinner but i might have to try something different - off to google a few ingredients now!

thanks again