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?

Tuna and anchovy pasta - literally mash the 2 tins of fish together (including the anchovy oil) and stir through cooked pasta. Absolutely delicious. I can't claim credit as it is in Patricia Lousada's book for Sainsbury's

Fish finger sarnie and if im lucky enough to have a tin of mushy peas then it turns it into fish finger sarnie from the gods

perdito, I've been there more than once, when my husband was actively drinking and using. I used to send the kids to visit granny because I knew she would feed the. For 2 weeks after DS3 was born, I sent them to stay with her and I lived of a pack of ryvita, a tub of Marge and some potatoes that had randomly grown in the garden. "D"H had cleared the bank account and gone on a two week bender.

That's why I always keep an emergency stash of basic things like pasta, rice, tinned tomatoes, chick peas etc.

@Ninkanink

Another favourite is Asian packet noodles with an egg stirred in (or a boiled egg) and some spring onion. Again we pretty much always have those things to hand.

My favourite noodles and stuff option is either chopped up crab sticks or hot dogs (usually Aldi fake herta version). If you feel obliged to add vegetables, spring onions or canned sweetcorn will do you right.

One night in Lockdown, when our supermarket delivery got cancelled, we had pasta with olive oil, black olives, a jar of asparagus, and a jar of sun dried tomatoes.

The previous night we'd had a curry made of the end of all the frozen veg and rice. The kids still mock my "parsnip and pea curry" There were other vegetables in it!

Eggs on toast

Cheese on toast is my go to. Even when I have a can't be bothered with cooking day, I can still about make cheese on toast.

Baked potato, insides scooped out, mixed with tomato ketchup and lots of grated Cheddar, put filling back in skin. Heaven,

@Grumpbum123

Marmite pasta

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Cup a soup with soya chunks added.

veg that's in the fridge that needs using boiled with lentils/rice/pasta/pearl barley

@PlantAddict

Dirty fries

Marmite pasta

Please elaborate in dirty fries!

Cous cous with stock and peas

Haven’t RTFT but omg this stuff sounds delish.

Daal
Potato skins loaded with whatever is to hand (onions, tomatoes, cheese, bacon etc)
Pasta
Breaded mushrooms or chicken with rice
Fried rice with whatever is to hand (eggs or prawns or veg etc)
Halloumi saganaki (halloumi keeps for months in the fridge so is easy to keep in stock)

"No food in" may often be the case with someone who is desperately hard up.

So minimal cost would be, I think, a bag of rice (very cheap, especially if you get the value brand or a pillow-sized sack for the store cupboard). It keeps better than bread or potatoes, and greedy teens will not usually gobble it away.

and whatever else you have to hand. Perhaps tinned tomatoes. Perhaps an onion. Perhaps black pepper. Perhaps oil.

Did anyone else read the thread title and hear it as a Family Fortunes round?

Lentil dahl soup that lasts for days.I always have a stock of pasta, rice and lentils, various tinned fish and tomatoes so could always knock something together. Dc would be happy with pasta and butter.

I could probably be more creative than that or live on various cereals that are in the cupboard if it came to it.

A lot of these meals I'd cook on a normal day to day basis whether I'd have food in or not.

If I'm literally skint its cereal or toast

Cheese on toast. With tomatoes if we have any. Or pasta with tomato sauce, but I've really gone off the taste of tinned tomatoes, unless they're a minor ingredient.