March 2008 Storecupboard Challenge anyone?

squeaky

Hiya

We just started a new challenge for living from your store cupboard this in March, so I'll move your post across to it.

I'm sure you'll find plenty of help and support.

Good luck

mumzyof2

Oh no i wanted to start a new thread with them on
i didnt mean to post in here i meant to start my old thread..can u move it to my own thread?

angie_loves_veg

Hi DawnW :hello:

I will have to try to join in here too..... The cupboards are full, the freezer is full to bursting, I have drawers of staples (rice, pasta lentils you name it) yet the feeling of 'we have nothing in' is driving me crazy...

I will put my best foot forward for 2 weeks at which point we are going away (without DD age 5) but my parents are coming here to look after her. I have already batch cooked all their meals for the week (they loathe cooking, and I want them all to eat well!), but want to get the unnecessary stock levels down a bit so they can find what they need

And when it is all a bit emptier, I will be able to clean the fridge and cupboards prior to their arrival :eek:

Tonight we are having salmon/prawn pies (all ingredients from freezer), with chips (Freezer-and I want rid of them, they do nothing for the waistline), peas (F) followed by apple/blackberry crumble (F and cupboards) and cream (leftover from this week).

Milk is delivered, I make my own bread - so really, I hope we will be able to avoid the shops completely for the two weeks - if not more!

I have a feeling I will find this really hard (even though it should be really easy), but I need to stop the 'buying food' habit.....

mumzyof2

I give in...i just wrote my 2nd posta nd it was dead long and i clicked post and it transferred me to here..but lost my post!!!

whatatwit

mumzyof2 wrote: »

I give in...i just wrote my 2nd posta nd it was dead long and i clicked post and it transferred me to here..but lost my post!!!

It's a pain when that happens....with your chicken soup...could you not cook some pasta and then put some leftover chicken into the soup and combine with the pasta.
It could be finished off in the oven...possibly you could try only part cooking the pasta and then it might absorb some of the soup.

Same with the tuna....pasta bake..depending upon how chickeny the soup is, you could use that as a cream sauce for the bake.;) (don't let on, they'll never know)

mumzyof2

I will try that out thankyou.

DawnW

Wow! Loads of you joining in - brilliant. Got home from work late (again), did sausages, potatoes, with leeks and kale from the garden, just the two of us tonight. Trout tomorrow, one of OH's friends keeps catching really big ones, and some of them end up in our freezer! In this month's Sainsburys mag there is a recipe for a fish bake using trout fillets from Jamie Oliver, so have to get the filleting knife out and try that for dinner tomorrow evening; probably my daughter and her boyfriend will turn up too. Eggs for breakfast, and HM soup from the freezer for lunch. And it is shopping day. I wonder how much I will have to spend? Not much hopefully.

mumzyof2

I dont like fish but i give my kids fish cakes n fish fingers..lol

lil_me

I should join in, March for me started on Monday. Since Monday I have spent £8.50 on fresh stuff mainly inc veg etc in the hope of using up some of the stocks this month to save on grocery spending. I also must get a freezer defrosted at some point so need to empty one to do that. Is a lot of breads etc in there so not all 'meals food'. I have a sort of meal plan which I need to rejig slightly. Only thing I will need for over the weekend is ham which I forgot to check.

Baking cupboard is going to get lots of use this weekend, I have a cupboard full of stuff so will be making something. Have been getting requests from the family so on the requests list is maderia cake with cherries, spiced fruit cake (no idea of a recipe for this so will be in my books unless someone has one?) chcolate brownies, cookies, sultana scones.........so plenty to keep me busy (if I get them all done another matter as have coursework to do)

iRememberSleep

mumzyof2
You could make chicken pies out of that soup if it is not noodle soup.
add a little butter pie dough and tada... a tasty pasty LOL
Chicken soup - I dont like this soup but what could i make out of it as a meal for kids except just soup?