storecupboard recipe challenge

[dementedma]

trying to hold out until payday to go food shopping and have decided to concoct as many meals as I can with what is in cupboard, fridge and freezer, including stuff that might have been binned otherwise. (Disclaimer, this is not making light of people who have nothing to eat at all until payday. Been ther, done that!) Love to hear what meals you could come up with for the next few days with what you have in.
Last night we had a pasta bake with 3 different types of pasta, all opened bags - looking at you DS - a nub of rubbery chorizo from the back of the fridge, and some veggies. Topped with grated rock hard cheddar. Bloody delicious.
today have made soup with ham hough from freezer, 4 rubbery carrots and half a bag of lentils. Dinner was haggis (also from freezer bought for pennies after burns night) with mashed potatoes and the end of a bag of frozen leeks.
Running out of ideas already - what to do with tinned tuna, eggs, sweetcorn, one jar of curry sauce and two tubs of peanut butter??
Share your ideas and culinary concoctions

If you have any of the pasta left I would mix it with the tuna and sweetcorn and a blob of mayo.
Otherwise make little egg muffins with tuna and sweetcorn in them. Don't think tuna and curry sauce go together!

no pasta left but have rice!
like the idea of muffins with the eggs, was thinking maybe a frittata with the eggs and any veggies left, but muffins sound good.
to re-iterate, I have other bits and pieces in and am not starving, just trying to see how creative I can be and what others could do with what they have to hand.

Some sort of satay sauce with the peanut butter, depending on what other veg you've got left or anything in the freezer. With the tuna and/or sweetcorn, what about fried rice (Chinese style)?

Using the eggs, I mean. Also for the eggs and curry sauce: egg curry!

Have you got any pulses, potatoes, cauliflower or other veg (even tinned or frozen?) to make a curry?

We could literally go for months from our stocks, we have so much stuff. I'm really trying to use it up at the moment because there's stuff that's been there for years, it's totally ridiculous.

Have you got any tinned chickpeas or similar? Peanut butter is good in place of tahini in homemade hummus. Or with lemon juice, fresh garlic and thinned with a little water it makes a great sauce for salad or roasted veg

I love sweetcorn fritters...will happily eat them by themselves for dinner. I mix sweetcorn with an egg, flour, milk...optional extras are chilli flakes, grated cheese, coriander, spring onions. Fry in little patties. Serve with ketchup/chilli sauce.

yes, could make a curry using frozen veg - is egg curry actually a thing?
Tell me more about the peanut butter sauce more

What could you all make from your odds and ends?

further investigation has turned up sausages, frozen rhubarb, baked beans and a tin of frankfurters! A veritable treasure trove!!

sweetcorn fritters! Get in!!!
will serve with the sausages. another meal sorted.

I like frankfurters in a tomato pasta dish or mixed in with instant noodles .

Or you could have frankfurters beans and toast.

Cowboy stew with the beans and sausages

hedgecombers.com/campfire-cooking-cowboy-stew/

you could do this (or a version thereof) from Nigella with the frankfurters
www.nigella.com/recipes/yellow-split-pea-and-frankfurter-soup

One version of an egg curry (with more lentils) www.olivemagazine.com/recipes/vegetarian/spiced-crispy-egg-and-lentil-curry/

Or Nigella's egg currywww.bbc.com/food/recipes/golden_egg_curry_00708

www.mydarlingvegan.com/thai-peanut-sauce/

This is my favourite peanut butter satay sauce...

www.mydarlingvegan.com/thai-peanut-sauce/

You can adapt if for what you have in

would you have the stuff to do this to use up the rhubarb?

www.waitrose.com/home/recipes/recipe_directory/r/rhubarb-custard-traybake.html

proper link for the nigella egg curry
www.bbc.com/food/recipes/golden_egg_curry_00708

great ideas. don't have custard powder or custard but could do a rhubarb crumble. We don't usually do puddings - which is why it is still languishing in the freezer. maybe I could do a cake of some sort...

Can definitely attempt a peanut sauce of some kind - have soy sauce and brown sugar but no limes. will give it a go.

this is all great stuff. I'm amazed at all the ideas.

The peanut sauce is meant to be tahini really-it’s an ottolenghi one to go with oven roasted onion and butternut squash (seriously so bloody delicious with so few ingredients and also tasty cold). I don’t check the recipe anymore but it’s roughly 2 tablespoons of tahini/peanut butter, juice of half a lemon, salt and pepper, crushed 1/2 clove of garlic (to taste really) mix it up and then add cold water til it’s the consistency of runny honey. It will initially sort of clump and seem like it won’t combine but persevere!

Hummus is just chick peas, a little water from the can, fresh garlic (about half a clove) a tablespoon or two of tahini/peanut butter, and then any flavour you like - I juice half to a whole lemon. In the blender and then drizzle in olive oil while it’s running until you get a good consistency. If you want to limit oil you can add more chick pea water.

ok, we have: vegetable curry and rice
egg muffins
sweetcorn fritters and frankfurters
sausage and bean casserole
and something with peanut sauce followed by rhubarb crumble!

Sorted!!!

Sounds amazing! Google satay sauce for some peanut sauce recipes. One of my favourite foods!

Rhubarb can be savoury too naturallyella.com/ingredient/rhubarb/

Toad in the hole with the sausages if you have flour and milk to go with the eggs

If you have any potatoes left you could do baked potato with tuna and sweetcorn or a potato curry with rice

Nothing wrong with a simple poached egg or beans on toast for dinner.
Not sure what baking ingredients you have but if you've got oats and syrup you could make granola bars with the peanut butter minimalistbaker.com/3-ingredient-peanut-butter-granola-bars/