Something you cook when you have no food in?

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Random things you throw together when you don't have much food in?

tonight i put half a squash in the oven with the intention of making soup, changed my mind and will have a couple of bits in a salad tomorrow, and have added the rest to half a tin of kidney beans, tin toms, mixed peppers, smoked paprika, with brown rice,
dh will ask where the meat is but i cooked so, bad luck!

Tomato rice with cheese on top
Macaroni cheese and peas
White beans and greens
Bean chilli chick pea curry
Soup and bread

Veg and cheese omelette
Pasta and whatever sauce I can find/make
Cheese on toast
Satay noodles (peanut butter mixed with garlic, ginger, soy, chilli, chinkiang vinegar, omg)

Potato, pea and sweetcorn curry with flatbread and mango chutney! All store cupboard ingredients we always have in and delicious.

Dirty fries

Marmite pasta

I always have a dirrty hungover breakfast on a Sunday, it's whatever I can get my hands on. This week it was toasted pitta bread with halloumi and frankfurters with a dash of mayo and mustard.

Oh man, did that bad boy hit the spot 🥳

Noodle soup with any vegetables available.

Cous-cous with things like olives, capers, spring onions and diced cheese, I usually have feta to hand.

Bean salad or bean soup depending how lazy I am.

Lentils with onions, diced ham/bacon, tinned fish,

Potato salad with leftover ham/sausage, any vegetables.

Pasta with sardines or tuna or tomatoes or Primavera with any green vegetables.

Soup with what is available, often onions, or beans, or potato & leek.

Anything on toast, especially sardines.

tuna pasta

if there are any tinned tomatoes or ketchup or peas, they go in at the end.

or basic risotto, preferably with an onion. If there is a tin of ham or chicken, it it goes, shredded. Or chunky cut bockwurst.

Arroz a la cubana (white rice with fried tomato sauce and a sunny side up egg on top)

always have a bit of veg in fridge ie onions etc, cook some rice, stir fry veg, mix together, add some peanut butter, chilli flakes, soy. very tasty.

Some of these are very elaborate!

Obviously beige oven food like chicken dippers and waffles for DS. For me, plain pasta with beans and cheese. 10 mins.

I can remember as a student one night just couldn't be arsed to cook anything so I just heated up a whole frozen garlic baguette and ate it as it required so little effort I must have stunk the following day!

Pasta with garlic, chilli flakes, salt, pepper & EVO, toasted breadcrumbs on top if I have any

Fish finger sandwich
Tuna pasta bake
Pasta and some sort of made up sauce

Pancakes
Egg in a basket with maple syrup
Beans on toast
Cheese on toast
Scrambled egg on toast
Chips

Depends on what I’ve got and what I fancy

Beans on toast

Poached, fried or scrambled egg on toast
Eggs bread

Pasta with butter, sweetcorn salt and pepper

Chicken noodles (the 20p ones from morrisons)

One meal I did with bits and bats that I had in my fridge and freezer. It was basically new potatoes, cabbage, leeks, and bacon that I fried together together to soften and then I placed it in a casserole dish and stuck it in the oven to crisp it up. Once it was almost done I made little wells inside and cracked a couple of eggs into them and put it back in the oven. Had it with burger sauce on top and it was lovely, really tasty

Heinz baked beans with grated cheese...amazing!

@planningaheadtoday and other chick pea and coconut milk advocates .....can you tell me more ?
Is this dried chickpeas cooked in coconut milk or tinned ,rinsed and heated in coconut milk ?

I have the “Emergency Knorr Packet Risotto/Soup“ for just these moments.
Cheap and not tasty enough for a regular meal, that way I don’t touch it.

I’ve also used them for:
First/last meal on a self catering holiday. Bung it in the suitcase, it’s light and non liquid.
First night moving house. They can be made in a kettle or microwave.
A quick meal if we were working on the new (old!) house.

The current one might be there for a long time as I can’t see any of those^ things happening soon....

If I’m cooking for myself, before low carb it was Marmite and butter pasta, now it’s microwaved scrambled eggs.

I've nearly always got some basic frozen veg and random tins of pulses (vege household) and some rice so I tend to make either a curry or 'savoury rice' (which is basically anything I have to hand cooked up with rice and a stock cube plus a bit of cheese at the end if we have any in).

Mushroom risotto (dried porcini mushrooms are always at the back of the cupboard somewhere!)

Boil potatoes and carrots together to make mash, fry some onion, bacon And cabbage, mix with the mash. Add the nobby end of a loaf of bread that you have made into breadcrumbs and some Grated cheese.

Bake in the oven for 20 mins. You can throw in what ever you have as long as you have potatoes.

Chilli - well kind of

I cook it in one pan, with rice, dried lentils, beans if I have them (baked/kidney or whatever in) something tomato based (coped/puree/soup/ketchup) anything else I've got kicking around that needs using up. Then enough spice that you don't notice the other flavours aren't quite right. You need to balance the amount of rice to liquid, so you end up with the right consistency when it's absorbed.

Years ago when I was skinter, and had less well established 'store cupboard basics' it was rice with ketchup. When I was really skint the ketchup came in little sachets I stole from a canteen style 'food court' in the shopping centre.

Nasi goreng- pretty much a store cupboard meal

Spaghetti with clams (tinned clams)

Chinese stir fry with tinned bean sprouts, tinned prawns, etc

Pesto rossa pasta with bacon lardons

Pasta with lemon and cheese

Chorizo potatoes

All of these are meals using mostly store cupboard ingredients rather than fresh, and ingredients I would normally have in the house (tinned, dried, jarred, or long life in fridge), along with a few onions and some garlic as I a,ways have those in the cupboard.

And dried mushroom risotto or tinned seafood risotto