Recipies for Foodbank

chumbasmum

Thank you again.
I have the OK to change the donations list and will be taking your ideas (especially about the tins of meals, potatoes etc). I might also try and get flour on the list but suggest that it is bagged in a plastic bag to protect it splitting and attracting things like beetles/vermin (?)

I will take all of the recipies and try and put together a simple list.
It's amazing what people can do when they put their minds to it...love it! It makes me feel empowered that people can make a difference...thank you all!

Owain_Moneysaver

bearcub wrote: »

UHT milk is THE item that is most in demand, especially where there are children, because, once opened, it starts to go off, so recipes that use any leftover milk that has to be used up are useful.

Powdered cheese sauce mix then, uses up ½ pint milk, gives protein and calcium, and turns any combination of pasta, cauli, broccolli, tinned tuna, etc into a meal.

Single people in hostels without fridges might find the individual 'sticks' or 'jiggers' of UHT milk handy for tea/coffee.

Stephen_Leak

I would have thought that anything in a tin would be potentially useful. As my Mum says, "They don't go off or cost anything to feed".

Even a few tins of the more weird and wonderful stuff you can get in supermarkets these days might be useful one day if you ever get an Asian customer.

I'd rather a food bank threw a tin out, after giving someone the opportunity of using it, than the supermarket, just because it had exceeded an arbitrary date.

PS. Putting rice into a plastic bag won't prevent rice weevils. They're in the rice already as eggs. Putting it in a freezer for an hour or so should kill any eggs that may be in it.

Owain_Moneysaver

Some recipes for using potato, instant mash could be used:

Potato cakes
Potato cakes
Gnocci

Suggestions includes bulking out meatballs, and coating fish or chicken for frying

annie123

Pasta alla funghi..........on the cheap.

100g tesco value pasta 6p, add 1/2 tin cambells condensed soup, (31p per 1/2 tin or 62p per tin Asda ) undiluted, mushroom in my case as I'm a veggie and that's dinner for 37p per person.
1 tin can stretch to 3 adults or 2 and 2 small children.

For those in a bed sit with a kettle only, pasta can be cooked by pouring boiling over it and waiting 'til it's al dente or softer.

kitschkitty

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

But they are not very nice, I have tried them

Well I haven't personally eaten tinned chilli but I regularly eat tinned value veg curry as a quick lunch when I want something different from soup etc, and actually I am quite fussy about my food, but in the past I have had less choice about what I could afford to buy & cook.

BTW Tesco tinned curry & Morrisons is less spicy (and my preference) over Asda!

It's all personal taste - I wouldn't eat tinned meatballs now, but did as a kid.

And another fave when tinned meat was cheaper was chicken in white sauce served on rice, or tinned steak used in a stew (with all fresh veg) and corned beef hash - which is now a treat as corned beef is about 100 to 150% more expensive these days.

PhGage

Via MSE's amazing tomato soup thread I came across these sites that might be useful:

Campbell's Soups which has many recipes for using their products (including a scary-sounding Spiced Tomato Soup Cancake which uses their own tins for baking if there aren't any muffin tins available). I've looked through a few recipes and it seems practical to simplify a few of them to reduce the number of fresh ingredients if necessary.

Soupsong - soup enthusiasts with a recipe for every occasion. Again, quite a lot of these recipes need to be simplified but I've made a version of the peanut soup with just peanut butter, dried milk powder and vegetable stock cubes.

PhGage

US recipes for Food Pantries (similar to UK Foodbanks): Food Pantry Cookbook (written by Mary Catherine Muniz for a Girl Scout project).

la_farfallina

I have just found out that there is a food bank in my area.

I want to donate some food and have taken on board what has been posted by the lovely people here.

I want to add some treats for the children and am stuck for ideas.
Also, my budget is very tight so I am thinking cheap and cheerful.

I was thinking bottles of squash, those jellies that you make up with hot water and, er.......?

I would welcome any suggestions.

Farf x

Butterfly_Brain

There are instant savoury sauces all you need is hot water, then you can add them to rice or pasta with a tin of mixed veg plus tuna, mackerel or tinned ham