Help with meals please?

faye1978

Hi everyone,

I have some bits in my store cupboard that I want to try and use this mont to cut down on the food bill. I am hoping you are able to help:

What to do with Puff Pastry once I have defrosted and used enough for 2 small pie lids? Apart from Vol Au Vents - I would like to do something not too sweet as we are trying to lose weight too. I have tinned fruit I suppose I could do something with that and the puff pastry?

I also have cheese straws, taco shells (we don't particularly like tacos) Quinoa, and a whole pack of ground rice.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated - if it has to be asweet stuff - I suppose I could always take it to work

Thanks

OddjobKIA

puff pastry

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billieboy_2

If you've any sausages/sausagemeat you could make some sausage rolls, cook them and freeze them for when you're not trying to lose weight!! I don't think puff pastry and losing weight go together:D !

THIRZAH

You could cut out some more pie lids, bake them and freeze them until you want to make pies again.Or make a flan with puff pastry base and tinned fruit on top-you could thicken the fruit syrup with cornflour or arrowroot to make a glaze.

Bongedone

Recipe's for quinoa: -

http://www.quinoa.net/181.html

Pink.

Hi faye,

These older threads should give you some ideas:

puff pastry.. what can i make?

Broken Tacos

Taco Soup. but it's not a soup!

Quinoa

Ground rice?

I've no idea what to do with cheese straws other than eat them.

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faye1978

Thanks - I knew I could rely on you lot