Eating from the Emergency Stocks - a recipe/ideas thread

JIL

I used to make a fab pasta dish

One tin tuna
One tin of creamed mushroom or condensed mushroom soup
One small tin sweetcorn. Drained
About 4 cups dry pasta, cooked.

Mix it all together and heat through.

FrugalAndFabulous

Bean Balti

A couple of tins of mixed beans in water drained and cooked in a jar of balti sauce. You can add any veg you have hanging around too - onions, peppers, spinach etc.

Greenglockenspiel

Today I found that tinned potatoes are fine for making potato cakes (tattie scones) if you want something different for breakfast. I boiled them until very soft then mashed with flour and margarine to form a dough, rolled them out and fried in the frying pan as I don't have a griddle.



Another thing potato-related I like and can be made from stocks is vegetarian cottage pie. Tin of green/puy lentils or some cooked from dry (which doesn't take long, they don't need soaking either), gravy powder, tinned/frozen peas and maybe some chopped tinned mushrooms or carrots. Top with smash, bake in oven until top is crispy. In fact you could probably even use the microwave instead of oven in a pinch but it wouldn't be crispy then.



I reckon you could also make a decent soup using tinned potatoes and tinned onions (as a sort of leek alternative). I always have alpro soy cream in the cupboard which has a good shelf life and can go into soups and many other things.


Spinach daal is good and very nutritious. Tinned spinach, dried yellow split peas, curry spices, a bit of coconut milk and a bit of tomato puree does the trick. I always make sure to have tinned spinach on hand because it's important to eat leafy greens, and it's a good source of vitamin c among other things.

Pooky

A store cupboard lunch we often have is packet mash made up with an extra chunk of butter for flavour, mixed with tinned tuna for me and tinned corned beef for him and tinned sweet corn, topped with a bit of grated cheese and popped under the grill to brown off.

Cheap and warming.