Make a dinner using only corner-shop ingredients

[Hangingover]

I'm in the process of moving my stuff out of a flat above a tiny shop. I've not been here for a really long time and house mate has also moved out so there's virtually no cooking stuff except oil and salt. While the shop downstairs has some fancy beans and spices and plants milks etc. etc. there's no fresh veg beyond potatoes and onions and tomatoes and no raw chilled ingredients. I normally cook from scratch every day at home but I'm really, really enjoying a few days of corner-shop dinners

Tonight was tinned spaghetti on toast with tonnes of Jamaican hot sauce, and tinned potatos (they are so bloody nice!) with loads of butter and salt on them and a Beck's Blue. Oreos for and decaf for pudding

What would be your corner-shop dinner? Tomorrow I've got my eye on the supernoodles....

Baked potato and tuna mayo. Mmm.

I would say supernoodles with frozen peas, but I’ve just seen that there aren’t any frozen veg. Tinned sweet corn it is, then!

Pudding: those tinned sponge cakes that you microwave (if they still exist!).

Tinned sterilised cream. On anything. With anything.
Or just spoon it straight into the mouth situation.
Mmmm-mmmm.

If they have eggs I'd also have a fried egg sandwich on my list. I'd also be quite happy with a big bowl of cereal. Have they got tinned custard to go with some sort of cake for pudding?

My easy tea is fray bentos steak and kidney pudding, spaghetti hoops and if I can be bothered, frozen peas. Can you make that?!

Fish finger sandwiches
Biscuits for dessert

Pasta twists cooked and drained, then fry some chopped onion and bacon in a pan and stir them through the pasta with a few dashes of soy sauce. If you can add frozen peas then even better.

Or corned beef and chopped tinned potatoes fried until crispy, then served with a couple of eggs cracked into and fried in the pan.

Or fish finger sandwiches

Pasta with grated cheese stirred in

I find sone corner shops have mayflower chicken curry in the freezer section;if they have it;buy it;it's the nectar of gods

Tinned tomatoes on toast. Possibly with an egg or 2.

Heinz tinned ravioli. With toast for dipping.

Tinned potatoes and onions fried til crispy in an omelette/Spanish tortilla kind of affair.

Haha yes! Another uni meal / usually drunk...

Those packets of microwave rice make excellent fried rice with an egg, sweetcorn, frozen peas

I do this quite often!

I’d also do fried egg, fry the tinned spuds, tin of plum tomatoes and toast. Maybe bit of hot sauce.

Could you do nachos - bag of Doritos or equivalent, those jars of salsa, jalapeños and a load of cheese? Maybe even a tin of kidney beans.

My ultimate was fishfingers waffles and beans but I’m veggie now. Waffles and beans still isn’t a bad shout.

Tin of tomato soup with super noodles. Grate some cheese on for extra glamour.

Not to everyone's taste, but may be inspiration.

www.amazon.co.uk/Tin-Can-Cook-Store-cupboard-Recipes-ebook/dp/B07L34BL4Z/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=jack+monroe&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&qid=1611439420&sr=8-2

Recipes with tinned food. There are a few similar books on Amazon. I can't remember the one I got that suggested using picked onions instead of fresh for stuff like casseroles, but I really recommend that. It adds a zing.

A can of beans and sausages made into a cheese beano.

Smash instant mash with loads of butter and tinned spaghetti 🍝😋

I keep looking at tinned potatoes in the supermarket.. Are they really that nice?? I might try :)

Tuna melt:
Baguette or french stick, or garlic bread.
Drained tin of tuna with some chopped onion, and mayo.
Load over the bread, cover with grated cheese. Twist of pepper.
Grill until bubbling.

Just a couple packets of the spicy noodles, the more strange the packet the better. You know the ones with big red crosses, explosions and all fire related things on the front. Make them up in my giant mug, can of coke and a chocolate bar for after.

Probably something on toast. Beans and cheese probably, not exactly out there but I rarely have it and forget how good it is.

Tuna mish mash
Secret family recipe
Cook white rice , stir through drained tin tuna and lots of pepper
Top with grated cheese and microwave to melt
Amazing

3 courses;

Starter; Orange juice in a fancy glass (absolutely used to be an option at a restaurant I worked at in the 90's!)

Main course; Tinned sausages, heated tinned potatoes, sweetcorn or peas, bread & butter (or marg) on the side

Dessert; Yop milkshake and bag of maltesers

Pear drops and space invaders for evening snacks

I’d probably just have baked beans on toast. But if I was trying my hardest I’d get tinned (non baked) beans and spices and do some
sort of spicy chickpea curry. Or Spanish style butterbean stew though when I made spices butterbean stew only last week my husband did say ‘this is kinda like posh baked beans isn’t it?’

And they mock British cuisine... I'd eat, and I do eat some of this stuff as standard teatime fayre. Disclaimer I've just eaten a herb wrap doused in peanut butter and marmite, ripped up. And a vodka and tonic...Not quite your Somerset oak aged ham with a bed of blushed Devon lettuce on sourdough rye. Thought I'd so have that too...

Spaghetti cooked and, in a separate pan, chopped smoked sausage fried in a teeny bit of butter, then simmered in some cream. Toss it all together.

If you have a boujie corner shop and can add some cajun spice mix to the butter and some grated parmesan to the cream, so much the better 😁

A friend recently did super noodles (with a lot of juice) with a slice of fried spam and a soft boiled egg... It looked absolutely delicious.

Just a giant plate of fried potato hash with ketchup, maybe with a tinned chicken curry on the side (I’m a recent convert). Or tinned hot dogs. Dessert would be custard and one of those sachets of cappuccino or latte.