My storecupboard nds to last me pls help...

jet77

Hi,

I would like to make my storecupboard as long as poss, these are the contents (I have no milk, butter or eggs :eek: )

tins: peach slices, potatoes, ravioli, chopped tomatos, tuna
cupboards: 3 x oat so simple sachets, 3 servings of conflakes, honey, peanut butter, korma sauce, plain and s/r flour, 2 x chicken noodles, spagghetti (sp?), garlic powder, cheese and curry sauce grannules
Fruit bowl: 11 apples, 1 kiwi, 1 satsuma
Fridge/freezer: HM apple crumble, 6 onions, mature cheese, potato waffles x 12, burgers x 10, roast potatoes, chicken nuggets x 6, sausages x 4, spinach, 24 x fishfingers, rice, cabbage.

Please help as I would like to spend my food budget this week and next on new socks vest and pyjamas for my DDs.

I don't want to be making waffles and fishfingers/burgers every day if poss!!

All ideas/suggestions appreciated!!

Luv Jxx

nabowla

How many people do you need to feed with these ingredients?

smitty2702

Hi

what is the most you can spend on top up ingredients to enable you to last. I cant see much in the way of meals unless we can add a few bits like tinned toms, milk, eggs etc.. but for a limited amount you can make your food stretch further.

also how many meals do you need planned for and for how many?

Claire

jet77

I can spend as little as poss!!

I need to feed me and 2 DD's.

Luv Jx

lynzpower

jet77 wrote: »

Hi,

I would like to make my storecupboard as long as poss, these are the contents (I have no milk, butter or eggs :eek: )

tins: peach slices, potatoes, ravioli, chopped tomatos, tuna
cupboards: 3 x oat so simple sachets, 3 servings of conflakes, honey, peanut butter, korma sauce, plain and s/r flour, 2 x chicken noodles, spagghetti (sp?), garlic powder, cheese and curry sauce grannules
Fruit bowl: 11 apples, 1 kiwi, 1 satsuma
Fridge/freezer: HM apple crumble, 6 onions, mature cheese, potato waffles x 12, burgers x 10, roast potatoes, chicken nuggets x 6, sausages x 4, spinach, 24 x fishfingers, rice, cabbage.

Please help as I would like to spend my food budget this week and next on new socks vest and pyjamas for my DDs.

I don't want to be making waffles and fishfingers/burgers every day if poss!!

All ideas/suggestions appreciated!!

Luv Jxx

OK , it isnt great, but my first bit of advice is , dont buy the PJs right now. they can kip in a t shirt for what difference it makes, much more important to have decent food in the belly than new PJs Id have thought.

Queenie

You have a difficult "storecupboard" to work with as there are few raw ingredients

If you can purchase some eggs and milk (or even milk powder!) you could make up a batch of pancakes and make a pancake cheese and onion lasagne using the pancakes instead of lasagne, layered with lightly fried onions and using the cheese sauce granuals and topped with a smidgen of grated cheese.

Tuna Spaghetti - fry an onion, add the tin of chopped tomatoes and tuna; serve with boiled spaghetti

Sausage curry n rice - use just two of the sausages, browned and added to your curry sauce, serve with rice.

Sausage stir fry - use the other two sausages, chopped, an onion, the spinach and some grated cabbage, add a packet of chicken noodles at the end of cooking.

Toad in the hole doesn't have to be made with just sausages, if you buy some eggs to make the batter, you could easily cut some burgers into strips and use those in place of sausages to make the toad.

Using the batter principle, you could make a peach toad in the hole as a filling dessert too.

Use some of your rice and some milk and make a rice pudding.

As the only potatoes you have are tinned, you couldn't make a traditional cheese, onion and potato pie, but you could slice up your tinned potatoes, layer them with sliced onions, cover in cheese sauce, bake until heated through.

Intersperse those ideas with your nuggets/burgers n waffles and it may carry your further through the week. But it won't carry you through the two weeks of food budget money that you're hoping for.

I see from your signature that you have a budget of £30 for food; two weeks budget would equal £60. I am sure that you would not need to spend £60 to buy some vests, socks and pj's for your 2 dd's. If you have a Matalan near to you, it would be the cheapest option.

Also, I notice £10 "unecessary" written into your weekly budget = £20 in two weeks - that would cover much of the cost of the socks/vests/pj's i fyou get them somewhere like Primark/matalan without eating into your food budget too heavily.

Best of British!

lil_me

Primarks also cheap for clothes, socks are about 50p for 2 pairs in Tescos aswell so worth looking there too. My kids manage fine with 2 sets of PJs, one to wash and one to wear. Vests they don't wear in this weather but last ones I got were from Primark and were a couple of quid a pack tops.

I've had a look and like the rest it's hard to make meals with what you have in without at least buying some basics. I have known people to remove the coatings from fish fingers and nuggets to make the meat that is in them into other things, which is always a possibility.

jet77

I know that 2 wks food money + my unnecessary money for 2 wks would buy plenty of pj's!!!

DD2 has DD1's hand me down - DD1 however keeps growing!! She needs lots of new things - trainers, vests (I know summers coming but it's unpredicatable), they both need lots of white socks for school, they both go to dancing lessons and I had to pay 20 pounds for this months fees plus 12 pounds competition fees plus buy the costumes plus pay 2 pounds to watch them (which I think is ridiculous as I'm a chaperone!!) last week and this week. Their Dad (******d) floats in to their life and makes them promises which I then feel obliged to keep. The latest one is football!! They have both been on about going to football lessons for a while now and he has said that they can. We are not on speaking terms and even if he offered me money I wouldn't accept it because it would get thrown back in my face at some point down the line. Going to the CSA would not be worth my while - I have already had to move house once because of him and am settled where I am now - it's a long story.

Basically I'm skint like the majority!!

cats_whiskers

Hi

I have dug out one of my recipes from my student days which may help you.

Sausage and Rice ( although I'm sure cooked and cut up burgers would also work)
1lb sausages cooked and chopped, 1 onion chopped and fried, 6oz long grain rice cooked and drained, 1 pint cheese sauce.

Put a layer of rice in the bottom of a large greased oven proof dish, then spoon over half the sausage and onion mixture, cover with half the sauce. Repeat, ending with a covering of sauce. Sprinkle with some grated cheese and bake in the oven at 200c, 400f, gas 6, for 25 to 30 minutes.


Good Luck with your quest.

redsquirrel80

lil_me wrote: »

I have known people to remove the coatings from fish fingers and nuggets to make the meat that is in them into other things, which is always a possibility.

Maybe break some of the burgers up into smaller pieces and have them in a basic tomato sauce (just add some onion and maybe a bit of the garlic powder), like meatballs... served with spaghetti or rice.

And good luck!

Melissa177

Main courses you could make:

Potato & spinach curry with rice

Cheesy potato waffles

Sausages with roast potatoes & cabbage

Sausage casserole made with the tomatoes, garlic powder, onions. Potatoes on the side?

Obvious things like chicken nuggets/fishfingers & waffles

Baked apples & honey for dessert

If you make a plan, then you can work out your meals to maximise the number of things you can make. Try and buy some milk - kids need the calcium. Eggs will also help.

Good luck!