Clearing the decks

happybunny86

As part of the eating from the cupboards thread I'm going to clear out all my cupboards this Friday and Saturday and make a lit of everything that is in them. It will also be a good excuse to give the a. Good wash down.
I thought it might be fun if anyone wanted to join me? Also quite hilarious to see what is lurking in the backs of the cupboards and to share our inventory!! I know I have some passionfruit curd (!!) I was bought as a present a few months ago that I should really find out what to do with!!!!

browneyedbazzi

Sounds like a good plan! I'm not doing the eating out of the cupboards challenge but mine need to be emptied and reorganised. When we moved in before Christmas everything was just shoved wherever there was a space to get it done. It's a bit of a pain trying to find things now! Everything needs to come out and be put back in a way that makes it easier to find.

This weekend is my first free one so I've decided it's time to try to get things organised and to do a big clean.

Passionfruit curd mixed in with some whipped cream would make a lovely filling for a cake!

Chris25

happybunny86 wrote: »

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I know I have some passionfruit curd (!!) I was bought as a present a few months ago that I should really find out what to do with!!!!

use it in a pavlova, top a sponge pudding with it, use it in a trifle, or mix it into some fruit under a crumble topping?

happybunny86

Chris25 wrote: »

use it in a pavlova, top a sponge pudding with it, use it in a trifle, or mix it into some fruit under a crumble topping?

Thanks for the ideas - really inspiring I was struggling before. I think I'm going to go with a pavlova this weekend as I have a carton of egg white on the shopping list to make some pancakes and didn't know what to use it up on and that will be perfect!

browneyedbazzi wrote: »

This weekend is my first free one so I've decided it's time to try to get things organised and to do a big clean.

Passionfruit curd mixed in with some whipped cream would make a lovely filling for a cake!

I'm going to post my cupboard contents on the thread when I'm done - perhaps for more inspiration on meals and also because will be interesting to see how much of the screen it takes up yet i'm convinced I can never make a meal!! Would love to see yours too!

hilstep2000

I've done this already, it's amazing what you find!
I discovered things that I had and didn't know about. Out of date stuff went in the bin, and I felt very virtuous afterwards!

anamenottaken

Sadly I won't be able to include a Pricerite branded small tub of dried herbs. That container (minus the remaining contents used in conserved carrots) went into the recycling bin last week. (I dread to think when Pricerite ceased trading in the UK.)

Soworried

You have motivated me to do mine :T

We have been using ours up since the start of November an I thought I had very little in them

4x creme caramelle mixes
An egg custard mix
16 lemon pie fillings, these are all left over from when Sain sburys paid you to take them away We were using up 1 a week but just stopped. We'll start again from today :cool:
3kg of oats
1kg red lentils
125g popping kernels
Ground rice
Cornflour
Brown sugar
Dried skimmed milk
White bread mix
Wholemeal bread mix
1.5kg plain flour
3/4kg Sr flour
2kg bread flour
250g Rye flakes
700g Wheatgerm
1 box of rock salt
Tablesalt
500g pasta
500g spaghetti
1 box of stuffing
Beef gravy granules
Chicken gravy granules
Chopped tomatoes
12 sachets of yeast
Enough curry sauce paste to make 76 curries
3 tikka massala sauces
7 pkts noodles
2 cans of egg spray
1 bar of dark cooking chocolate
Icing
Condensed milk
Muffin cases x 75
Sugar pearls
Baking powder
Various food colourings/flavourings, now all stood neatly with a bobble round them
tomato cup of soup
1 spicy cup of soup
400g coscous
Desicatted coconut
Honey
2 tins of custard
1 tub of custard powder
1 mug shot
1 unopened bottle of hot sauce- I keep them in the fridge once opened
Coco powder
1 yoghurt base
Sugar
1000 teabags :eek:
Coffee
Horlicks
Hot chocolate
Muesli
Cornflakes
Chinese rice wine vinegar
Every herb and spice under the sun almost :cool:
Mint tea
Green tea
Ham, beef, chicken stock cubes
8x wraps
1kg rice
Meringue nests

I really thought we were running low so this has been a real eye opener for me. I'm going to start using it all up properly starting today :A

Soworried

1 creme caramel used

poppycracker

I've just done a stocktake of my cupboard. Nothing that embarrassing apart from a tin of Pea and Ham soup with a best before date of 2011! The last time I did a sweep, I found a jar of ground ginger that was bought at Safeway......

happybunny86

I've started mine today but will post when done. A lot of my herbs are best the best before date but they seem ok when I've used them. Do you think they need chucking or will they be ok?

dlusman

happybunny86 wrote: »

I've started mine today but will post when done. A lot of my herbs are best the best before date but they seem ok when I've used them. Do you think they need chucking or will they be ok?

Dried herbs and spices last for years. I have used stuff at least 3 years beyond its best before date