Sorry guys im stuck, need ideas please

adelight

There's already loads of good suggestions but just want to add this as it's one of my favourite filling store cupboard meals.
Minestrone pasta stew: 100g dried butter beans, 150g dried pasta, 75g dried lentils, 1/2 diced onion, crushed garlic cloves (if you like), 1/2 carton passata, stock cube, as much frozen veg as you like.
Even better with some fresh bread. If you are doubtful about the yeast or have bread making issues just knead little balls and squash them and cook as pitas. Get the oven really hot and chuck them on a rack at the very bottom of the oven. They cook really quick, give them a pat down with a spatula and wrap in a damp tea towel for authentic pita texture.

Cabbage goes very well in that too! Cabbage wedges rolled in oil/butter and oven baked are delicious too.

whiteguineapig

i was going to suggest bubble and squeak for the cabbage, but you could always add cabbage and lentil burgers to you'r repertoire lol

gailey_2

Thanks everyone for such fab ideas . lovley to see old timers too.

feel daft to be in this situation I should know better.

I also think its a seasonal blip in winter i was much better at stockpiling but since spring hit become bit more lax.

well gailey family update.

very odd

hubby came back from his work meeting surprised to see veg box but pleased by my quick thinking and resourcefulness.

At the meeting they brought too much fruit so hes come home with 2bags sainsburys basic apples and 1 pack bananas so fruit bowls fab.

I love bananas sandwiches hubby says its weird.
also love bananas and icecreams.

we had hm pizza-sdg used your pizza dough recipie.

pizzas were tasty.

cut up old towel made some hm wipes.

have milkman delivering stuff tommorow.

hubby may have spare fiver tommorow hubyy has dentist so depends how costly that is but told him would rathher spend bare min and use what we have as will be good for us.

so if do have fiver buying

value yogurts 55p
butter £1
value squash 35p.

tommorow doing cookied breekie for lunch as hubby on late.
made eldest packed lunch cheese in reduced roll
loads of fruit.

doing bacon and cheese rissotto for tea,

will do veg curry, rice and naan friday-hubbys not looking foward to that one.

still debating what to do with sausage meat.

a pasty?
could i cook it add instant gravy and make a sort of pie?

or could i bake and add mashed poato on top to make weird kind shepards pie.

i have salad stuff so friday lunch is quiche and salad.

sat pasta with bacon peices.
could also do soup and a roll.

sunday would love to do a roast of some kind

as veg box had broad beans, potatoes.

now i have eggs can make york puddings
have frozen veg
have instant gravy.

maybe its worth me on reduced hunt if do have spare fiver.

Butterfly_Brain

You could pick up a chicken in Aldi for £2.59 for a small one (I don't know what they are in Lidl) and I stretch mine to 2 meals for four adults from one bird

joedenise

Re the sausage meat - when the kids were little we used to have "cowboy pie" which was sausage meat and baked beans in a pie. It was surprisingly good. Haven't had it for years - might have to make it again. Could also do it like a shepherds pie with mash on top.

Denise

quintwins

I'd def try a whoopsie shop, tomorrow we're having lamb casarole, the lamb cost 33p, i don't really like lamb but at that price i'll eat it, also got 2 chicken breasts for 24p. my 24hr store reduces everything way down at 9.

Can you make some sausage rolls? other than that i'd go for some cowboy pie, or you could make them into little meatballs and do a sausage casarole with them if you don't fancy pasta and meatballs.

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Sausage shepherds pie is lovely, I chuck in a chopped up onion and oxo cubes with a tiny bit of water, put sliced tomatoed/tinned tomatoes on top and then mash. Really nice meal and easy too.