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Inventive meals from storecupboard ingredients?!
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sp1987
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Hello all
Excuse my formatting and lower/upper case typos etc as im using my phone and the screen makes accuracy in typing at 11pm a pipe dream haha.
I have been buying more food than we need for ages, so have amassed tins jars and packets that, short of a money crisis or being snowed in, wont get used anytime soon. Obviously ive deliberately stockpiled this slowly so there's always a buffer but there comes a point where I feel like im awaiting nuclear winter not just having a bit of stock in case.
The problem with me is that I am uninventive with food. I can cook fine but cannot ever dream up something from some ingredients. I will buy the ingredients for a lasagne and make one...the ingredients for a chicken sauce and make it etc. There's no "what could this become". I did start using the supercook site where you key in ingredients but it is quite an effort when you want a quick dinner which ruins the appeal.
How do you guys dream up inventive uses for the stocks you've buily up? Id love to see how many days we could go buying minimal items bar meat and fresh items etc and put the saved food budget into a savings account. Foodwise we are far from short but to use it I end up buying the default match items rather than using whats there to make something that doesn't feel like im using up random bits.
Excuse my formatting and lower/upper case typos etc as im using my phone and the screen makes accuracy in typing at 11pm a pipe dream haha.
I have been buying more food than we need for ages, so have amassed tins jars and packets that, short of a money crisis or being snowed in, wont get used anytime soon. Obviously ive deliberately stockpiled this slowly so there's always a buffer but there comes a point where I feel like im awaiting nuclear winter not just having a bit of stock in case.
The problem with me is that I am uninventive with food. I can cook fine but cannot ever dream up something from some ingredients. I will buy the ingredients for a lasagne and make one...the ingredients for a chicken sauce and make it etc. There's no "what could this become". I did start using the supercook site where you key in ingredients but it is quite an effort when you want a quick dinner which ruins the appeal.
How do you guys dream up inventive uses for the stocks you've buily up? Id love to see how many days we could go buying minimal items bar meat and fresh items etc and put the saved food budget into a savings account. Foodwise we are far from short but to use it I end up buying the default match items rather than using whats there to make something that doesn't feel like im using up random bits.
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