Emergency Cupboard Food Recipes

Rummer

I was just thinking, with all the planning and prepping for winter that I am often left looking at my emergency cupboard food supplies and wondering what I can make from them that would be tasty and interesting. So I thought I would start a thread where we can share our best emergency cupboard food recipes

One of the ones I have most often is tuna and pasta or in-fact pasta with any type of sauce but new ideas would be great. I know peoples cupboard food varies but I am thinking of the key basics that many people would have.

RevolvingDoor

Chickpea stew and rice with tinned sweetcorn and tomatoes and spiced up with some seasonings.:)

You could make the leftovers into a tagine with some different spices and dried fruit and have it with couscous.

Eternal_Sunshine_2

Tuna, condensed mushroom soup, sweet corn pasta bake thingy, tinned stewing steak, potatoes, carrots, peas etc for poor mans lobby, tinned sweet corn fritters, tinned toms with chilli flakes and seasoning to go with pasta, tinned ratatouille nice with rice x

FopMistress

Try A Girl Called Jack's blog. There's some excellent meal ideas. I recommend her chickpea and tinned apricot curry and her lentil dahl :money:

got-it-spend-it

Red lentils, tinned tomatoes, stock and a potato/and or carrot makes a nice winter soup. A tin of baked beans, a tin of kidney beans, a tin of tomatoes plus any veg you have in, with chilli powder and paprika makes a yummy mixed bean chilli that can be served with jacket potatoes or rice.

Downsizing__for_sanity

Linguine -or any type of pasta you have knocking around - with a few tinned anchovies, heated through with a sprinkle of chilli flakes and maybe some black olives. You could add passata or tinned tomatoes as well if you like. Spaghetti - 19p I think, anchovies - 32p (won't need all of them), olives - about 47p a jar? - and passata 29p a carton. All from Ald!. Lovely and warming. I think it's a quick version of pasta alla puttanesca but I could be wrong. Don't be put off by the anchovies - by the time you heat them gently in some of their oil, they break down wonderfully and don't really taste fishy, just savoury.

Ellie

DFS

kittendothroar

I recently discovered pancakes made with water and chickpea (gram/besan) flour - so cheap and easy to make, I filled them last time with a mixture of leftover passatta, veggies and spices.

MOGGYMALONE

i picked up a bag of veg in the supermarket which was for a 3 bean casserole it had kidney beans, butter beans and cannelini beans in it plus carrot, leeks and onions just add stock and thicken with a little cornflower. very nice idea - thought it could be a good way to use up tinned stuff you might have in cupboards. I put some thyme and majoram into mine and a little curry powder. U cud probably add sausages and it would be even nicer moggy

sweetilemon

I always have a pack of cous cous in the cupboard, can make homous from garlic chick peas, olive oil and lemon(cut and frozen when you have extra) serve with salad from fridge & toasted pitta( usually on woops or value is cheap)

lovefullshelves

Packet chow mein sauce(50p on special), jar of beansprouts(65p aldi), tin of mushrooms(can't remember how much! but aldi's are good) and a pack of super cheap instant noodles(14p asda) per person..chinese take in:D and some chicken bits from the freezer but you don't need many.
Black bean sauce is good too...frozen peppers, an onion (who doesn't have an onion in the house) frozen chicken with plain boiled rice or flavoured if you wanna push the boat out!
Chilli and rice (mince in the freezer, beans, chilli powder and tomatoes on the shelves) with plain rice..or chips..or baked pots or in a tortilla(from the freezer) rolled up..yum.
Always mince in the freezer:D shepherds pie with baked beans in to stretch, or with tvp to stretch further..or rolled oats( texture of mince..flavoured by mince..no one notices it and I have devoted carnivores I feed!!)
HM hummus - tin of chickpeas, oil, garlic paste, tahini( I like cumin too) and pittas from freezer with any veg chopped up thats about as salad (I keep bags of shredded red and white cabbage, onion and carrot in freezer as freezer slaw, thaw and go)
I do have a big freezer and alot of shelves so storecupboard cooking might be different for me sorry!

VJsmum

Mixed bean goulash

Tins of butter, kidney and, well any bean really. I usually use 3 tins
Tin tomatoes
Paprika and cayenne pepper
Heated though
Serve with rice / couscous

Corned beef "thing"

Tin corned beef, peas, sweetcorn, tin pots - chopped
Some thin gravy. Or use baked beans for liquid