Using up food in house - please help

Tam_Lin

I want to spend as little on food as poss between now and the 25th. Just listed stuff we have in cupboards and freezers (took me hours) and it's a lot, so looking to devise scrummy veggie meals - any help appreciated. Breakfast and lunch is sorted, and will be buying staples like milk, butter, cheese, fruit, fresh veg etc. Just got to decide what to do with this little lot:

FREEZER

Quorn fillets
Quorn chunks
Quorn sausages
Quorn mince
Veg fingers
Broccoli
Broccoli & cauliflower
Mixed veg
Broads beans
Peas
Swede
Parsnips
Sweetcorn
Roast potatoes
Oven chips
Green beans
Ice cream
Blackberries
Bread
Pittas
Hamburger buns
Hot cross buns
Crumpets
Muffins
Viennetta

CUPBOARD (TINS - SWEET)

Coconut milk
Peach slices
Raspberries
Fruit cocktail
Custard
Prunes
Evaporated milk

CUPBOARD (TINS - SAVOURY)

Chopped tomatoes
Baked beans
Black Eyed beans
Macaroni cheese
Chilli con carne sauce
Mushroom tortellini
Cream of tomato soup
Cream of mushroom soup
Tomato & pepper pasta sauce

CUPBOARD (STAPLES)

Easycook rice
Basmati rice
Pudding rice
Paella rice
Ground rice
Tapioca
Lasagne verde
Quick cook spaghetti
Macaroni
Fusilli
Mini fusilli
Chow mein noodles
Rice noodles
Amoy Straight to Wok noodles
Chestnut & cranberry stuffing
Sage & onion stuffing
Dried porcini
Polenta
SR flour
Plain flour
Yeast
Red lentils
Puy lentils
TVP/soya chunks
Vegetable oil
Olive oil
Red wine vinegar
Sarsons
Distilled vinegar
Milk powder
Beetroot concentrate
Soya sauce
Salad dressing
Lemon juice
Honey
White sugar
Brown sugar
Icing sugar
Stem ginger cookies
Herby dumpling mix
Creamed coconut
Cornflour
Marmite
Maple syrup
Sultanas
Strawberry jam
Raspberry jam
Marmalade
Lemon curd
Tomato chutney
Custard powder
Mustard powder
Banana nesquik
Angel Delight (various flavours)
Rice cakes
Corn cakes
Cheese biscuits
Cornish wafers
Dried cranberries
American mustard
Stocks/packet mixes
Cupasoup
Cheese sauce
Lemon and sesame sachet
Hoisin and garlic sachet
Multitude of herbs and spices (just about everything)

FRIDGE

Eggs
Feta
Parmesan
Mayonnaise
Apple sauce
Garlic pickles
Lemon grass
Dijon mustard
Meaux mustard
Mango chutney
Sandwich pickle
Tartare sauce
Cranberry jelly
Mint sauce
Fresh ginger
Sweet chilli sauce
Ketchup
1000 Island dressing
Salad cream
Tomato puree
Baking things - cream of tartar, flavourings etc

Once this is used up, I want to reduce the amount I have stored and shop weekly.

rosieben

I've no suggestions but watching with interest as I'm slowly becoming veggie and looking for nice recipes

Tiger_greeneyes

And I thought I was bad

Try this website, it's great fun!

spendthrift66

Blimey! That's enough to feed the five thousand!
Tiger - what website are you referring to?

Tam_Lin

I know - most of those things are multiples as well; I just didn't bother to specify how many, nor the out-of-date really unusable stuff I threw out. We've only got a small kitchen but I seem to have crammed stuff everywhere. At least it all now fits in the cupboards and I have work surfaces again!

poodlehorse

quorn curry with the chunks
quorn chilli or bolognese with the mince (leftovers can be served on hamburger buns as "sloppy joes" and serve with the chips
red lentil and tomato bolognese is yummy and bung in any veg you fancy
brocolli and cauliflower cheese
roasted root veg served on rice, maybe use some soy sauce over
Buy some jelly and cream and make a trifle from all that tinned fruit and the custard. That is all I can think of for now but you have heaps you should easily make it to the 25th. I do this kind of challenge occasionally and it is a great money spinner and clears the decks but I alwasy end up stocking up again every time I see a BOGOF

edited to add in veggie lasagne.

tinselfairy

There is a recipe in this month's free ASDA mag to make muffins using a tin of fruit cocktail.

The tinned raspberries could be used in a smoothie.

Use the condensed m/room soup as a sauce for a cottage pie with the quorn mince and mixed veg.

Make up the cheese sauce and use for cauliflower/broccoli cheese and add cut up quorn sausages, my DS loves that!

Use the red lentils and chopped tomatoes and make into a bolognese to have with the spaghetti. I did have a recipe but can't find it at the mo.

Use the pitta breads as bases for pizzas and serve with chips.

Tam_Lin

Ooh I love the idea of pitta pizzas - thank you

One of the mushroom soups has gone to quorn supreme tonight with onions, leeks, peas and mushrooms (jazzed up with mustard powder but calmed down with some cheese sauce).

lynzpower

youve got the makings of a roast dinner there with the q fillets, and snips, roast pots, sweetcorn swede etc - followed by the vienetta YUM

Tiger_greeneyes

Apologies, I got carried away with playing on the website and forgot to post the link

http://www.cookingbynumbers.com/frames.html