Packets and tins - fallback meal

Bogof_Babe

Do these suggestions have to be old style? I mean for emergency fall-back what's wrong with a Fray Bentos tinned pie, instant mash or tinned spuds, and tinned veg of your choice?

We always have packets of Beanfeast in, as OH is veggie, and can make a veggie shepherds pie using that instead of the tinned mince suggested above.


Edit: Blimey where did those medals come from? :eek:

lil_me

Lurkio wrote: »

hmmmmmmm

may have to ban pasta/rice from this in order for you to REALLY get your thinking caps on.....

**passes can of beans and you can eat them cold you fuss pot!!!!**

Tinned pies, those ones you cook in half of the tin, tinned peas, tinned carrots and tinned potatoes (or smash)

There is loads of tinned meals available so it's never hard to make something from a storecupboard with nothing fresh, even all the dried/microwave packets now, just not something I'd really choose to eat.

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alocin

1. Pour boiling water over a handful of cous cous with a bit of stock powder/stock cube. Cover and let itself steam cooked.

2. Drain tin of tuna and tin of sweetcorn.

3. Mix all together! Add bit of hot sauce or more seasoning if you're feeling daring.

Bingo - dinner in about five minutes flat and almost no effort! Plus if you eat it from the same pot you cooked the cous cous in; almost no washing up either...

redballoon_2

one tin of stewing beef + one packet of froozen pastry = tasty beef pie. with mash potato and any veg.

bibbly

Fab thread - my children actually like PLAIN pasta - just boiled, with butter on, so that's simple!!!

However, it's great to get some new ideas.

Bibbly
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soappie

My standbye is my 'upmarket' fish n chips. The chips are actually potatoes peeled, cut into wedges (or really fat chips if you want) then roasted in the oven in oil - like roast potatoes. After half an hour add one of those frozen battered haddock or cod pieces you can get from the frozen section on the supermarket until cooked. Serve with frozen peas or, if you've some fresh salad stuff in, some lettuce, cherry tomatoes etc.

It's not particularly quick, but it is easy and there are gaps in between being at the stove when you can be flying.

Another good standby is jacket potatoes (I always have potatoes in) with anything to hand - cheese, tuna etc.. The potatoes can be baking in the oven whilst you're flying elsewhere

Dioritt

As somebody who can't stand around cooking for too long, some of these ideas are going to come in very handy. Thanks all

Lurkio

lil_me wrote: »

**passes can of beans and you can eat them cold you fuss pot!!!!**

no need for rudies, lil_me! ETA : I know they do meals in tins, I just wondered if anyone had any good ideas/combos outside of that and look - THEY DO!! :rotfl:

This is great! Getting some real good ideas from this, mainly involving tins of tuna, which is great as I have lots!

Bogof_babe - Doesn't HAVE to be OS at all, just stuff that you can keep until needed, hence 'tins and packets'

Stephen Leak - doing well chap, keep 'em coming (I did say no eggs in OP , but spanish omelette is a winner Chez Lurks )

lil_me

spam/pork luncheon meat and peas rissotto, make it with any sort of rice really, adapting from kaz's bacon and peas risotto. Fry an onion first if you have one, add chopped spam/other meat, add a stock cube, rice and water. Cook until rice is tender but with a bit of bite, then throw in the peas and cook for a few more minutes.

Oh that's rice again. Erm breakfast? tin of beans and sausages, with some pan fried tinned potatoes sliced up, add some bacon grill/whatever meat you have tinned. Voila, brekkie, sort of..

Popcorn makes a great cupboard snack/treat, sprinkle with a little sugar for extra mmm (we're having some now)

scotnan

We always have a packet of long life bacon brunch in the cupboard .
Sainsburys do one and Aldi's is the cheapest @ 79p (think theirs is called pan fried potatoes) and it's contains potato slices, onion and ham and you can mix this with whatever else you have in your cupboard, tin of corn beef for corn beef hash of sorts, tin of tuna, or put a tin of peas or sweetcorn or tin of beans in to eek it out, anything really. It's quite filling and works out a cheap meal for end of the month