Ideas for what to make please- Lots of food, no ideas!

WantToBeSE

Hi

I am trying to eat everything i already have in the kitchen cupboards, before i do a shopping trip.

Could someone please give me ideas what i can make? I have:

-Lots of beans (black, black eye, kidney, butter, baked).

-Tinned pineapple, lots of dried fruit

-Lots of lots of lentils. Yellow, red and green.

-Tonnes of pasta, quinoa, rice, noodles, polenta.

-A cupboard full of spices and oils, some herbs, flours.

- Some bacon, beef mince and chorizo in the freezer.


I am a vegan and my children are both meat/dairy eaters, and will eat anything as long as its not mushrooms, tomatoes (but will eat tomato based sauces, in cooking etc) or stir fry dishes.

Please help, i need to save money and am useless at looking in the cupboards/freezer and coming up with ideas

purpleshoes_2

Lentil soup, lentil curry, pasta carbonara, quinoa salad, quinoa and avocado fritters, pasta with meatballs, chilli con carni.

The site supercook can give you ideas if you put in what you have and it will give you recipes even if you have a couple of items missing.

pavlovs_dog

beans - a veggie chilli. can also be used as veggie filling for enchilladas

lentils - a dahl curry? sweet potato and spinach will add interest and vitamins. How about a lentil bolognaise style ragu to go with some of the pasta?

Spendless

2 Pasta dishes where 1 is vegan for you and the other contains meat. Have a look on-line for an Italian restaurants menu and from there look up the recipe of any dishes that appeal.

Pineapple upside down cake for dessert.

happy35

What about a sheperdess pie using the lentils, made it recently and we all thought it was nice . i also used yo make stuffed mushrooms filling was onion and garlic fried with a few herbs mashed into butter beans, then bake in the oven.also used discs of polenta as a type of cobbler topping to a veggie casserole. I should use a greatrr variety of pulses tend to stick to lentils and chickpead

Soworried

Spicy dahl meatballs :drool:

Bean burgers

HM granola with the dried fruit

Cowboy casserole, add bacon in chunks for the kids

WantToBeSE

Thanks everyone SoWorried, do you have a recipe for the dahl meatballs?

fleur38

chilli and rice
pasta and bean soup - I use hot dogs in mine but you can use chopped bacon or chorizo - just use a chicken stock or you can make a tomatoey sauce. it's a whole meal, not just a soup
Chinese style fried rice.
carmalised pineapple pieces.


Sorry not too good on the vegan part.