The worlds worst meal planner!

troll35

Hi, at first glance you look to have quite a lot of food already. So between us we should be able to come up with a lot of suggestions which don't involve spending much on additional ingredients.
When you have put mince x 7 and beef flank x 3 does this mean the number of portions or the number of packs (and what size)?

All I tend to put in a stew is beef stewing steak, onions, carrots, swede/turnip, potatoes and seasoning. I will often make it stretch further by either adding a good handful of lentils or a good handful of porridge oats. Your dumpling mix could be used to make both dumplings or pastry.

The mince could be used to make bolognese, lasagna, moussaka, pies (couldn't see flour on your list for pastry), all of which are good for batch cooking.

You have a tin of corned beef which makes an excellent hash/pie. I cook potatoes, chopped onion, and carrots in as little water as possible, add the chopped up corned beef and about a tablespoon of gravy powder, mix gently the put it in a dish and top with pastry, then cook in the oven for about 30 mins at 180C.....serve with veg .....yum yum.

Hope this helps

Irisheyes648

carlih1 wrote: »

Right here goes


Cupboard food

Bottom cupboard

Enchiladas kit
Long grain brown rice
Brown rice
Minced beef and onion pie
Smash
Spaghetti x2
Couscous
Egg noodles
Stock cubes
Riveta
Beef and veg BIG SOUP (DD loves these, would like to make a batch myself and freeze if anyone has any ideas?)

Top cupboard

Herbs – Ground cumin, chilli powder (x2), whole cardamon, ground turmeric, oregano, dried mixed herbs (x2), garam masalla, chargrilled chicken flavouring, ground ginger, paprika, mixed peppercorns, ground coriander, cajan spice, crushed chillis, dried basil, dried thyme, rice vinegar, soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, red wine vinegar, sherry vinegar, balsamic vinegar, Italian seasoning, bay leaves
Corned beef
Mustard powder
Tin Creamed sweetcorn
Korma sauce
Red wine and onion sauce
Bisto gravy, chicken, beef
Saxa salt
Veg Boullion powder
Chicken stock granules
Tin Three bean salad
Tin Red kidney beans
Parmesan
Tomato puree –tube
Ketchup
Tin Tuna
Jacket Potatoes x4

Middle cupboard

Mixed nuts
Sunflower oil
Squash
Sesame seeds
Dried figs
Dried blueberries
Linseed
Raisins
Tin Sliced mango
Tin pineapple slices
Sponge syrup pudding
Tin apricots
YAWYE seed packets
Sunflower seeds
Dried tropical fruit mix
Dried prunes
Dried Apricots

Breakfast cupboard

Dumpling mix
Tea, (herbal and normal)
Hot chocolate
Cornflour x2
Food colourings
Ground nutmeg
Ground cinnamon
Ground mixed spice
Light brown soft sugar
Granulated sugar
Marmite x2
Chocolate ice cream sauce
Peanut butter
Marmalade
Blackcurrant jelly
Tassimo coffees
Chocolate milkshake
Short grain pudding rice
Sugar
Oatibix
Porridge

Fridge

HP sauce
Lemon sauce
Mayonnaise
Eggs
Carrots
Butter
Peppers – Need using up
Mushrooms – Need using up
Onions
Squeezy basil
Black olives
Capers
Mustard
Grated mozzarella
Shallots
Baby potatoes
Block cheddar cheese
Lemons

Freezer

Red berry smoothie mix
Tropical fruit smoothie mix
Strawberry and bananna smoothie mix
Tuna Steaks x2
1 small piece steak
Frozen Yorkshire puddings x6
Minced beef x 7
Quorn sausages x6
Frozen blueberries
Minced beef and veg pie x2
Frozen casserole veg mix
Small lamb leg joint
6 wholemeal rolls
Vegetarian mince
Garlic bread slices
Swede and carrot mix
Cheese and red onion sausages x2
Steam veg (Carrots Cauliflower, Green fine beans)
Beef flank x3



Doing this has actually given me the opportunity of chucking out a few bits that were out of date and cleaning the drawers in the freezer, feeling very proud of myself today and hope i can do a meal plan and get to tesco before the kiddies return later on. Thanks once again for all your help!!




Carls xxxx

Wow you have a lot of food!!

Heres what I can think of

Smoothies for breakfast with added porridge oats

Monday Frittata made with the peppers and mushrooms or spanish omlette
Tuesday home made burgers and potato wedges or bakers
Wed spag bol or meatballs and garlic bread made out of rest of mince from
Thurs sausage casserole and veggies
Fri Beef and veg pie and veggies
Sat I you can get you hands on some flour you have the makings of a HM pizza
Sunday Beef casserole and save some to wizz up into a shep pie for later on in the week or use to add to frozen casserole mix and make into a soup

Puddings
Rice pudding with added raisins
Black saturns cobbler with some of the tinned fruit
blueberry crumble
Tinned sponge pudding
Jelly and tinned fruit

Also sausage pasta
Tuns steaks with cous cous
Lamb joint with yorkies......make a curry with any left overs
Cheese potato and onion bake my brain now hurts

Irisheyes648

Also
Tuna fish cakes
Beef and pepper enchiliadas with some mozzarella melted over the top..........

carlih1

troll35 wrote: »

Hi, at first glance you look to have quite a lot of food already. So between us we should be able to come up with a lot of suggestions which don't involve spending much on additional ingredients.
When you have put mince x 7 and beef flank x 3 does this mean the number of portions or the number of packs (and what size)?

All I tend to put in a stew is beef stewing steak, onions, carrots, swede/turnip, potatoes and seasoning. I will often make it stretch further by either adding a good handful of lentils or a good handful of porridge oats. Your dumpling mix could be used to make both dumplings or pastry.

The mince could be used to make bolognese, lasagna, moussaka, pies (couldn't see flour on your list for pastry), all of which are good for batch cooking.

You have a tin of corned beef which makes an excellent hash/pie. I cook potatoes, chopped onion, and carrots in as little water as possible, add the chopped up corned beef and about a tablespoon of gravy powder, mix gently the put it in a dish and top with pastry, then cook in the oven for about 30 mins at 180C.....serve with veg .....yum yum.

Hope this helps

Hi ya,

When i put Mince x7 it means i can make seven meals with it, my mum got me a load of mince from costs and i seperated it into meal size portions for all three of us.

My menu looks like this for this week:-

Today - Beef Stew.
Tuesday - Beef and vegetable pie (from leftover beef stew)
Wednesday - Hash pie
Thursday - leftovers (don't have kiddies so it's just me)
Friday - Bolognase
Saturday - Enchiladas
Sunday - leftovers (don't have kiddies)

Ooh nearly forgot going to make a fruit cobbler a la Black saturn and also her malt loaf as DD loaves it and it costs a fortune from the shops.

Gonna go and write down my shopping list now and see which superparket is cheapest online.

Carli x

carlih1

Right got shopping list for the week!!! Wahoo, first time for everything, normally i just go in and buy stuff and hope for the best.

My shopping is going to come to £19.42 for the week (checked on mysupermarket, such a cool site)as below :-

Tesco Wholemeal sliced bread - 54p
Loose bananas 3 - 33p
Loose granny smiths 4 - 60p
White seedless grapes - 1.94
Cucmber portion - 31p
Maris piper potatoes - 62p
Swede - 39p
Turnip - 28p
Skimmed milk 4 pints - 1.36
Cheesestrings - 2.08
Activia yoghurts for moi - 1.48
Kids fromage frais 0.48
chicken breast fillets - 1.89
squeezy garlic - 2.19
pastry mix - 79p
baked beans 2 - 62p
passatta - 29p
Pease pudding - 54p
Sweetcorn - 25p
Bisto gravy powder - 80p
Custard powder - 1.64

Added in some extras for puddings and luchboxes, will try and get those cheaper next week but this week just concentrating on dinners! Oh yeah and i haven't a clue on how to make pastry so have cheated, will learn though i promise!!! Will even make jam roly poly with the leftover!!!

Thanks for all your help.

pavlovs_dog

given that money is tight, could you not buy a block of cheese instead of the cheesestrings?

the kids could have cubes of cheese, or slices.. just for this week? or to make it more exciting, add pinapple, crackers and ham into the equation - voila, homemade lunchables

Cullumpster

Have you got a homebargains near you ? if so you can get a jar of chopped garlic for about 37p a big jar as well so you can take away your squeezy garlic and save another £1.82 from your bill

overlykeensaver

squeezy garlic - 2.19

Not sure what this is but you could buy a bulb of garlic for about 30p - it doesn't take a minute to peel and chope/crush a clove.
HTH!

carlih1

Pavlovs-dgo - Yup, should be giving cheese blocks, but he doesn't seem to eat them and i like putting some calcium in his lunch box as he is only four.

Cullumpster - What is homebargains????

Overleykeensaver - I'm lazy aren't i. It's for my bolognase, i squeeze that and basil into my passatta to make my tomato sauce, along with any other med veg i can fit in it!

carls xx

Cullumpster

it's a bargain shop with everything from food to toiletries, a bit like pound stretcher i suppose but better.

there's a thread on here somewhere i think but i'm rubbish at links, do a search and you'll find it