tight budget what can i make with these items i have

patchtigger

I am on a tight budget this month and would like some help with what meals i can cook with the following items i have:

a chicken
2 sausages
1 chicken pasty
1 corned beef pasty
1 butchers stuffing
1 1/4 bag frozen peas
1 pack bacon
3/4 bag frozen veg
handful chips
3x blocks shortcrust pastry
1x tuna steak
250g mince
1/2 bag chicken nuggets
2 large bags of blueberrys
1x belly pork
1x bag forest fruit
i have a good storecupboard with flour, eggs herbs etc any help appreciated

Tiglath

Toad in the hole with the sausages
Savoury mince with the mixed veg
Roast chicken, then strip the carcass for chicken & veg pie
Risotto with bacon + peas
Omelette with veg

patchtigger

thank you for the ideas what do you mean by savoury mince with mixed veg is it just mince with veg

Tiglath

Yes, basically - I'd have it with jacket potatoes or mash although it would be fine on its own or with bread and butter. Jazz it up with herbs and it could be a kind of bolognese over pasta.

patchtigger

do you have a recipe for the risotto with bacon and peas

Downsizing__for_sanity

Stuff the belly pork with the stuffing and roll up, would make it go further. Use the berries and some apples if you have them, with the pastry to make a berry pie to fill everyone up after say a light tea of chicken soup made with the chicken carcass. Use the rest of the pastry to make a mince pie and maybe a chicken pie with the pickings from the chicken after roasting it maybe.

Or instead of roasting it whole, you could joint it and use say the breasts for one meal and freeze the other portions if you don't feel like chicken all week.

cornishchick

patchtigger wrote: »

thank you for the ideas what do you mean by savoury mince with mixed veg is it just mince with veg

I make a batch of savory mince once a month, it is then eaten with rice, on jacket spuds or a cobbler, basicly a scone mix cut into rounds and cooked on top of the mince in the oven, very filling, and serve with cabbage and lashings of beef gravy.

datlex

What is in your store cupboard? Do you keep things like rice, pasta, tomato puree in it?

Gigervamp

Also, how many people are you feeding, and how long until you get paid again?

Renoir77

There is web site that the students use for just such a situation. You enter all your items of food and it comes back with suggestions to cook/create something from them. I can't remember it but I'm sure someone will.

Maitane

If you could put the details Gingervamp mentioned - how many people it's for, a rough idea what you have in your store cupboard, how long it has to last - that would be grand as it helps with suggesting ideas.

It might be a good idea to take the time to do a quick cupboard audit - list what you have and then cross it off as you use it. Makes it easier to restock and all.