Cupboards bursting-new meal ideas please

mum_2_1_boy

Hello all, After realising that I couldn't even fit any more items in my cupboard, I decided it's about time I started using what I have. I have a huge list of items from my cupboard/fridge/freezer and wondered what ideas people have for wholesome, healthy meals please. Of course I ould come up with ideas myself but just wanted some new ideas as i'm bored of my current recipes. This would be to feed 2 adults, a toddler and a baby.

Cupboard:
Finn crisps
Cracker bread
Herbs
Spices
Stock
Blue dragon sauces
Snack a jacks
Rice
Noodles
Pasta
Cous cous
Quinoa
Lasagna sheets
Flour
Sugar
Semolina
Pudding rice
Dried chick peas
Packet soups
Peanut butter
Custard powder
Sweet pickle
Sweetened coconut
Almonds
Walnuts
Tins:
Beansprouts x 2
Mackerel x 2
Pink salmon
Pinto beans
Kidney beans x 2
Ravioli x 2
Rice pudding
New potatoes
Chopped tomatoes
Stir fry veg
Sweetcorn x 3
Spaghetti x 3
Butter beans
Black eye beans
Gungo peas
Adzuki beans
Baked beans
Thai chicken style soup
Tuscan bean soup
Vegetable soup x 3
Vegetable broth
Chicken broth
Heinz chunky veg big soup
Heinz beef and veg big soup

Fridge:
Jam
Yogurts
Natural yogurt
Tomato puree
Margarine
Mixed peppers
Onions
Potatoes
Carrots
Butter nut squash ½
Cucumber
Parsnip
Mayonnaise
Ketchup
Low fat cheese spreads
Salad cream
Butter
Milk
Sweet potatoes
Lettuce
Tomatoes
Green chillies
Mustard
Avocado
Tangerines
Soy sauce
Harissa paste

Freezer:
Green beans
2 frozen chicken breasts
½ bag mixed veg
½ bag blueberries
1.25 bag prawns
Handful garden peas
16 fish fingers
Quorn chicken style pieces
2 pink salmon portions
Filo pastry
¾ bag summer fruits
4 frankfurters
Handful sweetcorn
Carrots
Broccoli and cauliflower florets
4 wholemeal pitta breads
¼ bag oven chips
1 portion fish in parsley sauce
¾ bag cabbage
4 cod portions
1 bag corn on the cob
½ pack waffles
5 portions white fish


I also forgot to add the cereal cupboard items. Off the top of my head we have: porridge oats, special k, rice crispies, branflakes, ready brek.

I really appreciate anyones input.
Thanks in advance.
Mum_2_1_boy

mum_2_1_boy

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crawley_girl

Cupboard:
Finn crisps
Cracker bread
Herbs
Spices - use with oil to roast the veggie
Stock
Blue dragon sauces
Snack a jacks
Rice
Noodles
Pasta
Cous cous
Quinoa
Lasagna sheets
Flour
Sugar
Semolina
Pudding rice
Dried chick peas -humous?
Packet soups
Peanut butter
Custard powder
Sweet pickle
Sweetened coconut
Almonds
Walnuts
Tins:
Beansprouts x 2
Mackerel x 2
Pink salmon
Pinto beans
Kidney beans x 2
Ravioli x 2
Rice pudding
New potatoes
Chopped tomatoes
Stir fry veg - a stir fry? use the quorn bits
Sweetcorn x 3
Spaghetti x 3
Butter beans - bean chiili? there is a receipe floating about
Black eye beans
Gungo peas
Adzuki beans -
Baked beans - Stick in a shephereds pie to bulk it out
Thai chicken style soup
Tuscan bean soup
Vegetable soup x 3
Vegetable broth
Chicken broth
Heinz chunky veg big soup
Heinz beef and veg big soup

Fridge:
Jam
Yogurts
Natural yogurt
Tomato puree
Margarine
Mixed peppers
Onions
Potatoes - jackets? topping for shepherds pie? or fish pie? or roast them!
Carrots - roast them!or grate into salad
Butter nut squash ½ - roast itCucumber
Parsnip - roast them
Mayonnaise - use with your roasted veg!
Ketchup
Low fat cheese spreads
Salad cream
Butter
Milk
Sweet potatoes - roast them! yummy!
Lettuce - salad
Tomatoes - salad
Green chillies
Mustard - add a dollop to mash
Avocado - salad
Tangerines
Soy sauce
Harissa paste

Freezer:
Green beans
2 frozen chicken breasts
½ bag mixed veg - make a soup?½ bag blueberries
1.25 bag prawns - salad?
Handful garden peas
16 fish fingers - fish finger sandwich? or with mash n peas?
Quorn chicken style pieces
2 pink salmon portions
Filo pastry
¾ bag summer fruits - crumble? eat with custard?
4 frankfurters - add to salad?
Handful sweetcorn
Carrots
Broccoli and cauliflower florets
4 wholemeal pitta breads
¼ bag oven chips
1 portion fish in parsley sauce
¾ bag cabbage
4 cod portions
1 bag corn on the cob
½ pack waffles
5 portions white fish


And thats just my wee thoughts for the day. I need to go rest now...

lynzpower

you & me both! have a look down the page Ive got the same problem

Lemme see

1. blu dragon sauce, quorn piece beansprouts, stir fry veg noodles/ rice, folowed by rice pud ( tinned)
2. pinto beans, butter beans other tinned beans, yep a bean chilli, chopped toms & chili powder & rice
3. loads of lunches here with the tinned & packet soups - what flavour are the packet ones, can you turn them into a sauce?
4. 2 pink salmon portions, tinned potatoes, roast butternut squash with atouch of the rose harissa
5 white fish, turn into a pie with mash on top and have with the peas, mixed veg, or tin of s/corn?

they are my 1st thoughts, but Im about as overwhelmed with your as I am with my own!

debbym

Fish cakes from tinned salmon - add equal amounts mashed potato, and a little fried onions and fresh chili, serve with new potatoes and a salad - delicious

tryhard_2

1. thai prawn curry - use the thai flavour soup and prawns, serve with homemade coconut rice
2. pizza using pitta breads
3. soups - carrot and coriander, roast parsnip, tomato, roast red pepper, mixed veg with potatoes
4. couscous with grilled salmon - use some herbs for couscous
5. rice pudding using creamed coconut
6. lasagna using roast veg
7. natural yogurt with frozen berries compote; maybe yogurt with jam for kids

mum_2_1_boy

Thanks for all of your replies. They're a big help.

freda

Cupboard:
Finn crisps
Cracker bread
Herbs use to add to everything, i.e. casseroles, roast veg etc
Spices
Stock
Blue dragon sauces
Snack a jacks
Rice stir fries, rissotto, alternative to spuds/pasta
Noodles stir fries
Pasta Loads to do with this, Pasta bakes (hm sauce), spag bol, macroni cheese. Learn to make hm pasta sauces, v.v.cheap and yummy
Cous cous Great as a salad i.e. with roast peppers in it, or look up tabbouleh, thats yummy. Also, can just add herbs and lemon juice as an accompaniement to a fish dish
Quinoa
Lasagna sheets
Flour What sort? Lots of home baking possibilities with self raising flour, also puddings etc.
Sugar
Semolina
Pudding rice Get creative with the rice puds, add things liek stewed fruit, cinnamon, chocolate powder etc as a change
Dried chick peas Add to casseroles, stews, to bulk out
Packet soups
Peanut butter
Custard powder
Sweet pickle
Sweetened coconut
Almonds Great for cakes and puds
Walnuts as with almonds
Tins:
Beansprouts x 2 stir fries
Mackerel x 2 fish cakes?
Pink salmon Def good for fish cakes, make with mashed potato, salmon, breadcrumbs and egg to bind.
Pinto beans
Kidney beans x 2 Great in casseroles, stews etc
Ravioli x 2
Rice pudding See above for things to add to rice pud
New potatoes Not sure I've every tried new pots in a tin. Buy them fresh, they'll store for ages in a cool cupboard in a paper bag.
Chopped tomatoes Make your own pasta sauces with this, delicious and costs pennies.
Stir fry veg
Sweetcorn x 3 Add to the stir fries, use on pizzas
Spaghetti x 3 Quick and easy spag hoops on toast lunch!
Butter beans
Black eye beans
Gungo peas
Adzuki beans Not sure what all these beans are but they ring some bells with that Gillian mackeith woman?
Baked beans
Thai chicken style soup
Tuscan bean soup
Vegetable soup x 3
Vegetable broth
Chicken broth
Heinz chunky veg big soup
Heinz beef and veg big soup

Fridge:
Jam
Yogurts
Natural yogurt
Tomato puree
Margarine
Mixed peppers These will freeze well if chopped and bagged, if you don't use them up in time before they are about to go off
Onions
Potatoes As above, store in paper bags in cool dark cupboard, not the fridge. Make sure they are dry before you put them away, they'll last for weeks if not months.
Carrots As with potatoes. Add them to potatoes to make a healthy mash. Also lovely roasted
Butter nut squash ½ As with potatoes. Great roasted (chop into chunks, put in a bowl with oil, garlic, herbs and roast. )
Cucumber
Parsnip Store as potatoes. Delicious roasted, but don't give them as long as the tatties/carrots/butternut squash
Mayonnaise
Ketchup
Low fat cheese spreads
Salad cream
Butter
Milk This freezes really well, useful if you're the sort of person who goes out every week to top up the milk and comes back with bags more shopping!
Sweet potatoes Mmm, lovely roast. Also, think of soups with all these winter veggies
Lettuce
Tomatoes
Green chillies
Mustard
Avocado
Tangerines
Soy sauce
Harissa paste

Freezer:
Green beans
2 frozen chicken breasts Home made chicken kievs, stir fries, bake wrapped in bacon - endless possibilties
½ bag mixed veg
½ bag blueberries Smoothies, add to icecream as a quick pud
1.25 bag prawns
Handful garden peas
16 fish fingers
Quorn chicken style pieces
2 pink salmon portions
Filo pastry
¾ bag summer fruits As with the blueberries
4 frankfurters
Handful sweetcorn
Carrots
Broccoli and cauliflower florets
4 wholemeal pitta breads
¼ bag oven chips
1 portion fish in parsley sauce Have with all those roasted winter veg!
¾ bag cabbage
4 cod portions think fish pie (fish with cheese sauce, mash on top), fish with cheesy sauce, fish with lemon and couscous
1 bag corn on the cob
½ pack waffles
5 portions white fish See cod portions


I find the bbc website really useful for recipes, you can put in some of the ingredients you have and it will come up with recipe ideas. See https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes

mineallmine

Hi there,
This is a great thread - always find myself in a similar position - with lots of tins etc. The ideas above are fab. I saw Anthony Worrall-Thomson do a trifle on a cable channel yesterday (Saturday Kitchen - so may be on BBC). With your custard powder, frozen fruit and flaked almonds you could do a version of a trifle.
With onions and sugar (and a few stock cubes) you could do a french onion soup. Fry the onions until caramelised (add a little sugar to help this along) in oil. Then add some stock, cook for say 30 mins and blitch in a blender to thicken up.
Hope these help.

Fivenations

Hi there, I have added my ideas in blue.

Cupboard:
Finn crisps
Cracker bread
Herbs use to add to everything, i.e. casseroles, roast veg etc
Spices
Stock
Blue dragon sauces
Snack a jacks
Rice stir fries, rissotto, alternative to spuds/pasta
Noodles stir fries
Pasta Loads to do with this, Pasta bakes (hm sauce), spag bol, macroni cheese. Learn to make hm pasta sauces, v.v.cheap and yummy
Cous cous Great as a salad i.e. with roast peppers in it, or look up tabbouleh, thats yummy. Also, can just add herbs and lemon juice as an accompaniement to a fish dish
Quinoa USe as base of bean salad, add to soups, use as stuffing
Lasagna sheets - Parboil then use as cannelloni
Flour What sort? Lots of home baking possibilities with self raising flour, also puddings etc.
Sugar
Semolina Gnocchi
Pudding rice Get creative with the rice puds, add things liek stewed fruit, cinnamon, chocolate powder etc as a change
Dried chick peas Add to casseroles, stews, to bulk out Cook then make into tagine with harissa, tomato, assorted veg and serve withcouscous
Packet soups
Peanut butter
Custard powder
Sweet pickle
Sweetened coconut
Almonds Great for cakes and puds
Walnuts as with almonds
Tins:
Beansprouts x 2 stir fries
Mackerel x 2 fish cakes?
Pink salmon Def good for fish cakes, make with mashed potato, salmon, breadcrumbs and egg to bind.
Pinto beans mexican refried beans/minestrone
Kidney beans x 2 Great in casseroles, stews etc
Ravioli x 2
Rice pudding See above for things to add to rice pud
New potatoes Not sure I've every tried new pots in a tin. Buy them fresh, they'll store for ages in a cool cupboard in a paper bag.
Chopped tomatoes Make your own pasta sauces with this, delicious and costs pennies.
Stir fry veg
Sweetcorn x 3 Add to the stir fries, use on pizzas
Spaghetti x 3 Quick and easy spag hoops on toast lunch!
Butter beans - Mix beans for a bean casserole, add to soups, reheat, mash and use as a starch. Use in a salad.
Black eye beans - Curry
Gungo peas West Indian Rice and Peas, add to curries, stews
Adzuki beans Not sure what all these beans are but they ring some bells with that Gillian mackeith woman?
Baked beans
Thai chicken style soup
Tuscan bean soup
Vegetable soup x 3
Vegetable broth
Chicken broth
Heinz chunky veg big soup
Heinz beef and veg big soup

Fridge:
Jam
Yogurts
Natural yogurt
Tomato puree
Margarine
Mixed peppers These will freeze well if chopped and bagged, if you don't use them up in time before they are about to go off
Onions
Potatoes As above, store in paper bags in cool dark cupboard, not the fridge. Make sure they are dry before you put them away, they'll last for weeks if not months.
Carrots As with potatoes. Add them to potatoes to make a healthy mash. Also lovely roasted
Butter nut squash ½ As with potatoes. Great roasted (chop into chunks, put in a bowl with oil, garlic, herbs and roast. )
Cucumber
Parsnip Store as potatoes. Delicious roasted, but don't give them as long as the tatties/carrots/butternut squash
Mayonnaise
Ketchup
Low fat cheese spreads
Salad cream
Butter
Milk This freezes really well, useful if you're the sort of person who goes out every week to top up the milk and comes back with bags more shopping!
Sweet potatoes Mmm, lovely roast. Also, think of soups with all these winter veggies
Lettuce
Tomatoes
Green chillies
Mustard
Avocado
Tangerines
Soy sauce
Harissa paste

Freezer:
Green beans
2 frozen chicken breasts Home made chicken kievs, stir fries, bake wrapped in bacon - endless possibilties
½ bag mixed veg
½ bag blueberries Smoothies, add to icecream as a quick pud
1.25 bag prawns Add to rice, peas, peppers and some chicken to make a paella
Handful garden peas
16 fish fingers
Quorn chicken style pieces
2 pink salmon portions
Filo pastry - Thai or chinese Salmon filo parcels
¾ bag summer fruits As with the blueberries
4 frankfurters
Handful sweetcorn
Carrots
Broccoli and cauliflower florets -
4 wholemeal pitta breads - eat with chick pea tagine. Use for base of quick pizza
¼ bag oven chips
1 portion fish in parsley sauce Have with all those roasted winter veg!
¾ bag cabbage - add to home made minestrone or tuscan soup to make Ribolitta s
4 cod portions think fish pie (fish with cheese sauce, mash on top), fish with cheesy sauce, fish with lemon and couscous
1 bag corn on the cob Add bean salad
½ pack waffles
5 portions white fish See cod portionsThai Fish cakes