Family of 5 'shop from home'food storage challenge...

D&DD

Thanks Sammy thats a great link!
As promised here's a list of current stocks in the freezers and fridge..not looking too dire just yet!Then of course there's the cupboards....:eek:

FREEZERS
3 sliced loaves
2 x garlic baguettes
2 x gf garlic baguettes
2 x gf french sticks
1 x bag of bagels
4 x gf pitta breads
6 x hm lamb burgers
2 x gammon steaks
6 packets smoked bacon
1 x bag steak and kidney
1 x bag of diced steak
1 x bag of chicken breasts
12 x chicken drumsticks
14 x chicken thighs
2 x oxtail
1 x bag of turkey breasts
1 x minced beef (large cheapo bag)
4 x cocktail sausages
2 x bags of 24 large sausages
16 x applechilli sausages (butchers)
1 x braising beef joint
2 x stewing steak packs
1 x breast of lamb
1 x leg of lamb
4 x pork chops
1 x pork ribs
1 x pork strips
6 x cod portions
2 x boxes gf fish fingers
1 x bag gf nuggets
3 x hm chicken burgers
1 x bag chicken dippers
1 x southern fries
Peas
Sweetcorn
Corn on the cob
French beans
Beetroot
Parsnips
Loganberries (loads!)
Raspberries (loads!)
Blackberries (loads!)
Apples 4 x huge tubs prepped ready for cooking.

FRIDGE
2 x Elmlea Cream
6 pints ss milk
4 and a bit pints full cream milk
2 pints soya milk
6 tubs pure (Dairy free marg)
4 tubs stork
7 tubs utterly butterly
6 packets seriously strong cheddar
8 x yoghurts assorted
1 x nat yoghurt (for yog maker)
9 x fruit corners
4 x lard
8 x butter
2 x tesco spread cheese and chives
1 x pepperoni
1 x grated mozzerella
1 x grated red leicester
1 x brussels pate
2 x smoked ham
1 x sliced chicken
2 x swedes
1 x cabbage
Bag carrots
2 x celery
4 x leeks
7 sp.onions
47 onions (from garden)
3 x red pepper
1/2 cuke
lettuce
tomatoes
6 x limes
Salad cream
Mayo
Cranb + blackcurrant
Cranb + rasp juice
42 eggs!!
9 x lemons
few grapes
14 gala apples
10 braeburns
6 x cookers
4 pears
2 x plums

Does anything leap out mealwise I can do??? Thanks again

newlywed

HM pizza (pepperoni) with garlic bread. Could just eat that now!!!

Cazzdevil

Blimey, that's more than I usually have in AFTER I've been shopping

sammy_kaye18

Lol - Your welcome D&DD. Kethry is awesome and i love reading her site.Oh hey how about a spanish omelette - you could use up some eggs, onion, sausage, ham maybe a bit of red pepper and you could maybe serve it with either some hm potato wedges or how about some roasted veg??? CAZZ - thats like a months shop for me!!!! and 42 eggs well id be........well.......ill. BTW IS IT JUST ME.................BUT I NEVER KNEW LAMBS HAD BREASTS???????? you learn something new everyday.

kittyscarlett

D&DD wrote: »

Does anything leap out mealwise I can do??? Thanks again

Feed the whole street for a week springs to mind

I'm just too gobstruck by your well stocked freezers :T to come up with a suggestion at present but I'll put my thinking cap on !

D&DD

kittyscarlett wrote: »

Feed the whole street for a week springs to mind

:rotfl: :rotfl: :T

D&DD

Bit of a weird day today nothing really went as expected,lots of interruptions :mad: and OH is under my feet tomorrow!

Breakfast was porridge ds1 and wheatabix for ds2,ds 3's was..yep :coffee: and toast..

Lunch packups were baguettes with ham or chicken,apples and crisps, ds 3 had assorted plums,grapes,sandwich and the roaring 'ump at having no strawberries!!
Reinforcements arrived this afternoon thankfully with 3 punnets :T
They also brought dinner for boys so they had southern fried chicken and chips,ds3 had most of the strawberries plus a bit of chicken then demolished half a loaf of gf bread so thats on my to do list too now..

Me and OH had a chilli with rice (I have quite a few dinners/pies etc cooked up in the freezer didn't put them in my list as I just wanted a list of raw supplies not finished bits)
Boys had some fruit and icecream and went to bed quite early tonight think they are looking forward to a rest next week

TOTAL SPENDS SO FAR £ 3.96p still :j

kethry

D&DD - can i move in for a month? i LOVE the sound of your freezer/storecupboards. I'm one of these people who gets panicky if the freezer/storecupboards run down .. i have to have my stores in!!

anyway. ahem. Ideas for meals:

french sticks, bagels, pitta breads: you can use all these as the base for a "pizza" type dish. very easy to do, very cheap.

pitta breads: you can do with your lamb burgers (or any burgers/sausages/bacon/steaks) - toast so they puff up a bit, cut across the top to seperate the two sides and put meats/salads inside.

just about all the meat: various pies/casseroles. If you have an Aldi near you then you can buy a jar of their pesto (i think its the nicest but any pesto will do) to marinade the chicken (breast or thigh) cut into cubes overnight. when ready to cook, fry off the chicken so its sealed, then remove them from the pan.. saute onions, courgettes, peppers, aubergines, mushrooms and garlic, add chopped tomatoes, tomato puree, mixed herbs, seasoning and boullion (for extra oooomph), just like you'd make a spag bol sauce (without the minced beef part) then when its all bubbling away nicely, add the chicken again. once its returned to the boil, cook some shell or twirly pasta. What happens is the chicken tastes tomatoey up to the point where you bite into it, and then you get a burst of pesto flavour in your mouth, which is absolutely gorgeous.

sausages: sausage casserole - brown the sausages (they'll go in the oven later so don't worry about them being cooked completely) then chop into chucks. Add to a casserole dish with a tin of beans, some very small cubes (or grated) cheddar. stir through some worcestershire sauce/tomato ketchup and some fried onions. Top with mash and cook in a medium (180*C-GM5) oven for half an hour or so - till the mash is brown, anyway. Gorgeous served with caramelised onions. If you've ever had jacket potato with cheese and baked beans - this is very similar, but with the sausage as an extra component. 4 sausages fed 2 people this way easily.

turkey/chicken: just about any curry from indian style curries to thai green curry

peas/sweetcorn - i nearly always chuck at least one of these into any casserole dish i make.. easy way to have one of the five a day and to ratchet up the veg.

beetroot: chocolate beetroot cake.. it sounds nuts i know but.. recipe here.

the berries: summer pudding is great. other than that.. jams. yum.

some of this stuff can be preserved. Get over to the library and see if you can lay your hands on a copy of Oded Schwartz's "Preserving" book (better still, if you see a copy at a market or something for 50p, grab it.. if you see two - give me one! - they're going for about £35 on amazon, second hand.. its out of print but a really.. really good book) because that will give you loads of hints for preserving foods, like the 47 onions from the garden.. (!) 42 eggs - pickled eggs?

lemons: limoncello. makes great christmas presents.

plums: plum crumble.. chop 3/4 plums into smallish chunks, scatter over a spoonful of dark brown sugar (if you can, if not, normal sugar will do) and about a teaspoon of cinnamon. cut an ounce of butter, if not less, cut into chunks and scatter throughout the plum chucks. pour over couple tablespoons of port, just enough to cover the base of the casserole dish you're using (oh yeah, put all this into a casserole dish. LOL.) then put that to one side for a mo. In another bowl put 2oz soft butter and rub through 4 oz selfraising flour. chuck in teaspoon or so of mixed spice, then stir through 2 oz demerara sugar (if you can, if not, granulated will do). add couple tablespoons of porridge oats and stir together well. dump ontop of the plums, squidge out so its all level, and if you've got demarara sugar, scatter a lil bit more ontop (gran's trick: gives extra crunch). put the whole thing in a 180*C/GM5 oven for about half an hour or so (or do my trick, settle down in front of the telly and remember in half an hour when you think.. "ooh something smellsniceohmygodiforgotthecrumble...") and serve with custard. Will work with other fruits but in this combo.. gorgeous. only bettered by apple and blackberries (and yes i see you have blackberries. Just invite me for pudding, you hear?). We have plum crumble at least once a week. Sometimes twice. Gorgeous cold too. (I had it for breakfast this morning. shh.)

apples: apart from a crumble as described above.. you can also make pies, obviously, or you can use an apple, cut up small, to make a sort of apply microwaveable sponge. The full recipe is on MSE somewhere, i don't remember where but from memory it goes something like.. 2oz butter/marg creamed with 2 oz sugar (I usually use dark soft brown cos i like the extra flavour) till its pale and then an egg/few drops vanilla essence/sludge of milk slowly beaten into it, bit at a time (with a spoon or so of self-raising flour to help stop it curdling). Once the egg's all in, i dump in the rest of the flour - 4oz btw - with a little bit of spice - in this case, cinnamon, cos apple and cinnamon are divine, but you can use what you like. Stir that through till the flour is all mixed in. Then add very finely chopped apple and some sultanas and stir well - put the whole thing in the microwave for about 4 minutes - i'm sure someone will give you the proper link at some point. gorgeous served with custard (and that will use up some of your milk too). You'll need to cook this in a pudding basin by the way.

apart from that, plums, apples and pears can be chopped and cooked in the microwave for 5 minutes or so to make a sort of stewed fruit mess - that's lovely with some mixed spice. Either use ontop of porridge in the morning, stirred cold through natural or greek yoghurt (yumyumyum) or make up a microwave sponge, but don't stir it through that, just put the plum/apple/pear mix at the base of a pudding basin and put your sponge mix ontop.

only other thing that leaps out is limes/tomatoes/lettuce/chicken - do tortilla pancakes with BBQ'd chicken (chicken strips dredged in flour/BBQ seasoning, put on a greased baking tray, sprayed with frylight and cooked on a medium oven till cooked (i just check every 5 minutes or so after 15 minutes), serve with the pancakes, salsa (chop onion/tomatoes/pepper/coriander really finely, squeeze lime juice ontop), grated cheese and sour cream.

oh and Sammy? ... *blush*. thankyou.

HTH

keth
xx

D&DD

:T Wow Kethry thankyou so much for taking the time to post all those ideas for me :T
You are more than welcome to move in as long as you promise to help cook :rotfl:
I'm going to print your post out and stick it on the freezer I'm sure the boys will eat almost all of those things and will be glad of some different things to try! Thankyou so much its been really helpful

jcr16

wow i can't believe how much u have in your fridge. it must be huge. my fridge would prob be filled just with the 43 onion's.

the only thing that really springs to mind is omelletes , or maybe onion soup( never tried it tho)

cheese and salad cream sandwiches( gorgeous)

or how about pizza. even somthing simple like 3 cheese and onion as u have different cheese's.