Recipies for Foodbank

RAS

Does you list include any of

Tinned potatoes?
Tinned kidney beans
Tinned beans (other)
Tinned chick peas?
Pancake miix?
Instant whip?
marg or butter?
Vinegar or lemon juice?

A couple of basic my basics

One portion 3 minute noodles
Half a packet cuppa soup - I like chicken and mushroom or mushroom.
A dollop of marg (or butter)

Pour hotwater over the noodles amd make up half the cuppasoup with only one quarter the water.

Once the noodles are just done, drain, pour over the cuppasoup and leave for one minute, covered. Add the marg, stir and eat.

One tin beans, lentils or chickpeas
One small tin fish in oil.
Ideally a small amount of finely chopped onion (raw) or some other herbs.
Either one fresh tomato, some lemon juice or vinegar (catering sachets are fine).

Mix the drained beans, the drained fish and the acid (tom/lemon/vinegar) and taste. Add more oil if needed. Add onion or herbs.

Is even nicer with black pepper, chopped boiled egg, olives, a green salad added.

chumbasmum

There does seem to be a more detailed list that I can find sent to me by a commity member which is much more useful I think and does help a bit with a more useful list of items but still people's suggestions and points here show that it could be more detailed ie. tinned veg and pots, instant noodles, cous cous, raisins.
[FONT=&quot]Milk (UHT or powdered)[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Sugar (500g)[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Fruit juice (carton)[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Soup[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Pasta sauces[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Sponge pudding (tinned)[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Tomatoes (tinned)[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Cereals[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Rice pudding (tinned)[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Teabags/instant coffee[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Instant mash potato[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Rice/pasta[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Tinned meat/fish[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Tinned fruit[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Jam[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Biscuits or snack bars[/FONT]

Please keep your comments coming. We do want to get it right and really provide people with something useful but also to share tips on making food last longer by being imaginative.

I also think things like stock cubes and crackers was a brill idea. All being noted and will be bending people's ears to let me detail them on the donor form.

thank you thank you thank you

RAS

You may find this thread useful https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3881783

I think you need to have two basic types of pack; one for those who are in bed-sits or have no cooking equipment or fuel to cook and one for those who have the facilities to cook.

One lot needs tinned fish andf beans to make the tonno &faglio mock-up or the instant noodles.

The other can turn tinned fish and mashed potato into fishcakes and fry them.

or make a rough bulky minestrone soup from some cooked pasta, a tin of mixed veg and half a tin of tomatoes.

The other half tin of toms could go with a tin of beans to make another main course soup

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

It would be cheaper to provide basics angel delights than steamed puddings. Make them up with a bit of milk, they go much further and children are likely to eat them.

And personally, I would far rather have individual goblin puddings (steak and kidney or minced beef) than any number of sweet things.

Instant mash wouldn't be used. You need about a pound of butter to try and make it vaguely palatable. I really would go hungry rather than use it.

Small tins of beans would also be useful.

carlislelass

one has started in our area..neighbour received a bag containing 2x french sticks, a loaf, box of porridge, tin chicken soup, box tea bags, 2 apples, 3 large potatoes,jar mayonnaise,jam, tin beans, tin peas and box cereal.

Owain_Moneysaver

chumbasmum wrote: »

We won't be giving fresh produce as we don't have the storage but this seems a real downfall on the system. And bread making ingredients also are missing - again an issue.

"part baked" bread (baguettes etc) is available and has quite a long shelf life, but it's expensive and needs an oven (and thus fuel).

There are various griddle scones/breads that can be made without an oven. eg Drop Scones (Scotch pancakes)
http://www.be-ro.co.uk/recipe/showrec9.html
You could provide a bag with the flour/salt/sugar (and possibly dried egg) measured out so the recipient just has to add milk/water/1egg

Snowy_Owl

My ideas:- (may overlap other suggestions so far)

- cereal
- milk (UHT)
- bread
- butter / marg
- beans plenty options for sandwiches,
- cheese after school snacks or supper
- eggs here
- pasta / macaroni
- tin tomatoes
- rice
- tin tune
- sausages (if funds allow)
- tinned meat
- rice pudding / custard
- teabags
- orange juice (longlife)

Did like the idea of multivitamins.

Have thought about this before - what about other essentials such as washing up liquid, toothpaste, shampoo, washing powder? These are some of the things that can eat into household budgets but are fairly necessary. Youi coukld tell the REALLY poor kids at school due to dirty smelly clothes and didn't really eat.

Don't know how that fits with "food" bank idea.

Snowy

PhGage

There is a canned food recipe website with some recipes that could be modified.

Looking at the recipes, a lot of them assume that there will be store cupboard items such as fresh onions and cooking oil available. Some foodbanks include cooking oil in their bags but not fresh food. Would it be practical to request dried onion for the bags as so many recipes are all the better for the savoury flavour that onions contribute?

(As a big aside, if anyone is following FODMAPs and having to exclude onion from favourite family dishes, if you set aside a portion from the 'plain' cooked version, dehydrated onion can be added to the remainder of the casserole/stew/sauce/gravy and will be ready within 5 mins to be served to the rest of the family.)

Popperwell

Thank you for a link to such a great site.

PhGage

prepareathome wrote: »

me and some others had to come up with food out of our store cupboard to ensure people didn't starve until they could even get a chitty to the food bank

PAH, I think what you and Lydia (?) did was admirable. I'm particularly interested in how you managed to set up the food distribution and the paypoint system for paying urgent bills and topping up meter cards. Now you've got an online diary would it be practical to write it up so that other people can learn from what was done and replicate as much of it as fits other people's circumstances?