My challenge

FiftyPents

Hello,

I'm running a bit low on cash until payday, and i've noticed there are quite a few things lying around my cupboard that are yet to be used. So i'm trying to use as much of it as I can without the need for a food shop. Obviously I may need to spend a bit on veg/meat etc but I was hoping people might be able to help me put together a list of main meals I could produce this week with the following (lunches are taken care of)

If I post up the list of items I have, can anyone offer me some ideas on meals? Any help appreciated.

Linda32

I'm sure there are plenty of people on here who can help. Post away, maybe we will all get some ideas as well

krlyr

Post away Another idea for you though - try https://www.allrecipes.co.uk as you can put in a list of the ingredients you have and search for recipes. It doesn't limit it to *only* those ingredients so you may get recipes that require extra bits, but you can pick and choose to suit (e.g. if you have to buy some fresh salad, plan a meal the next day that uses up the rest of that salad - we'll often get salad for fajitas for example and finish the salad the next day with a lasagne)

FiftyPents

Well, aside from the basic household items like flour, salt, pepper, spices etc -

Cupboard items -

Canneloni beans x 3 tins
baked beans x 1 tin
jar of pesto
lloyd grossman tomato and wild mushroom pasta sauce jar
1 pack of microwave rice
lasagne sheets
4 eggs
pitta bread
tagliatelle
macaroni
a fajita seasoning/sauce jar
BBQ marinade sauce
various stocks - fish, beef, chicken, veg
a sachet of coconut milk
1 sweet potato
2 x sweet chilli/garlic stir fry sauces
a jar of jalapenos
flour - sr and plain
3 bulbs of garlic
white wine
soy sauce

in the fridge -
1 red chilli
some double cream (that has to be used by tomorrow)

freezer -
2 salmon fillets
petit pois
some frozen bolognese from a batch I did about 2 months ago
500g casserole steak

That's about it! Think there's plenty there to get 7 meals at least, just not sure what yet although obviously stir fry/fajitas because of the jars.

kittycat204

For a start, http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1555/chicken-sweet-potato-and-coconut-curry
You wouldn't need to put lentils in it. You could add more veg and just have it as a veg curry, with rice. You seem to have most of the ingredients.

sweetilemon

You have loads! Stew with sweet potato ( you can make a gravy with stock cubes & thinken with flour. Carbonara with egg cream garlic & wine + taglatelli. Obviously bolognaise. Salmon & petit pois ( maybe with cream & garlic sauce?). Pasta (macaroni) & pesto. Toasted pitas with beans. Chilli fried rice with cannoloni beans.

sweetilemon

Omlette also! Savers rice or pasta at 40/ 24p could be a good buy and maybe an onion & mushroom pack. The rice/ pasta can be used with your pasta sauce jars.

katieowl_2

Got a food processor? Blitz the cream and turn it into butter, then you won't have to buy any and you can portion it out and store it in the freezer. Lots of instructions on 'how to' on the site.

You can use the left over buttermilk with the flour, and an egg to make some drop scones for breakfast.

Kate

wik

with the cream, whip it and freeze it, you can then add it to sauces when needed...

make a pizza with the pitta bread with some of the lloyd grosman sauce... and then freeze leftover sauce for another day..

or make a chilli with the leftover grosman sauce, add one of the chilli sauces to it, some of the canneloni beans and the sweet potato

wik x

FiftyPents

Wow thanks guys, some imaginative people on here, I don't think i'd have thought of these! The salmon with a creamy garlic sauce sounds good :T

Butterfly_Brain

FiftyPents wrote: »

Well, aside from the basic household items like flour, salt, pepper, spices etc -

Cupboard items -

Canneloni beans x 3 tins, Soup, risotto or lasagne or add to casserole
baked beans x 1 tin add to casserole or lasagne
jar of pesto add to tagliatelle for a pesto pasta
lloyd grossman tomato and wild mushroom pasta sauce jar
1 pack of microwave rice use for sweet potato curry
lasagne sheets canneloni and baked bean lasagne use one of the stir fry sauces or the LG sauce and make your own white sauce
4 eggs Quiche, omelette, use to make cake, pancakes or yorkshire puddings
pitta bread pitta bread pizza
tagliatelle
macaroni
a fajita seasoning/sauce jar
BBQ marinade sauce
various stocks - fish, beef, chicken, veg
a sachet of coconut milk sweet potato curry
1 sweet potato
2 x sweet chilli/garlic stir fry sauces
a jar of jalapenos
flour - sr and plain pancakes, pastry, cakes, scones, soda bread
3 bulbs of garlic
white wine
soy sauce

in the fridge -
1 red chilli
some double cream (that has to be used by tomorrow)
Make butter, I made lots last week using YS cream and now have 4lbs sitting in my freezer. It is so easy to do and I have made scones with the buttermilk and still have a few left that I have frozen for lunch boxes.

freezer -
2 salmon fillets......... Salmon en croute, salmon risotto, herbed salmon, salmon pate,
some frozen bolognese from a batch I did about 2 months ago....... Spag Bol, Lasagne, Calzone or Pasties
500g casserole steak ..........Casserole

That's about it! Think there's plenty there to get 7 meals at least, just not sure what yet although obviously stir fry/fajitas because of the jars.

I hope this gives a few ideas x