Recipe ideas for tinned food/store cupboard essentials

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If we do get put in lockdown, does anyone have any recipes to share to make boring food exciting? I have basics in, but tbh without fresh food like chicken breasts I’d struggle. Any inspiration?

Spaghetti with marmite & butter, pasta primavera (with small amounts of any green veg), spaghetti carbonara, will bring a bit of variety to store cupboard pasta.

When I was very poor I used to have spaghetti with olive oil & grated cheese, or olive oil and lemon juice.

Not marmite! I think I’d rather starve!! 😂

I have started buying tinned ham and corned beef and also tins of wrestlers hamburgers in onion gravy which looked nice on the tin in the package.

I never thought I would as I don't buy tinned meat I buy the fresh chilled from the fridge.

But as the supermarkets no longer have it as it's now sold out and chilled won't last long through a lockdown as it goes past the expiry date. I though the sensible thing to do is to get a few tins of ham so the ones in my fridge run out I have got some.

The food problem is getting worse every day as I go into Tesco and Sainsburys and they have nothing and even less than what they had the other day.

How the hell do families such a mothers with 3 kids manage if they cannot get food because the shops have got none?
One mom I talked to in the queue in Tescos today said she needed nappys and baby milk for the bay and they had none at all.

It's hard enough for me having to run out to all different shops every day trying to find the basic foods such as pototes, rice and pasta(which they have not got) so I can eat.

So what must it be like for a family with kids?

We live in England not a third world country yet we cannot buy potatoes and bread from the supermarkets because they have got nothing on the shelves is ridicules.

I need potatoes but I cannot get them because there is none in the shops. And there is no frozen food or tinned food but you should be able to buy those things in a big supermarket like Tesco.

I know people are panic buy but even before this crisis I would see families with 2 or 3 trolleys full of stuff and the supermarket shelves were never empty.

So why are they now?

The shop assistants tell me it's because of too many people buying but they did this before the crisis. So it does seem strange that every single Teso, Asda, and other supermarket has nothing on the shelves.

Maybe there is something going on that they are not telling us.
Maybe the supermarket staff are with holding food back on purpose?

@missyjane2 I think it depends on the shop and the area. Yes toilet rolls have vanished Along with hand wash here, but most tinned food is available and no shortage of fresh meat or veg yet (this may change)

@MissyJane2 - this is a thread for recipes. Suggest you start a new thread in the C-topic for your musings/questions.

@Whiffenpoofs it’s my thread and I choose to answer because I’m not pedantic. @MissyJane2 feel free to post anything food related here, shortages or recipes. It doesn’t effect me somehow if anyone posts slightly outside some weird set boundaries

Lock down doesn’t mean you can’t go food shopping !

Fair enough!

I hadn't thought about that before - I wonder if supermarkets are indeed holding back or rationing supplies to ensure we all get something, rather than a few people bulk buying.

Open a tin of sweetcorn, drain and mash half mix with an egg and a healthy scattering of flour a few jalopeno and make fritters.

I think it depends on the shop and the area. Yes toilet rolls have vanished Along with hand wash here, but most tinned food is available and no shortage of fresh meat or veg yet (this may change)

So what am I going to do when my supply of toilet roll runs out?

@missyjane2 I did expand this thread to any food related issues but it is ultimately a food post. I’m not a big fan of toilet roll for lunch so I’ll be ok, I much prefer a nice piece of tin foil ;)

@InfiniteSheldon that sounds yum! I Do love sweetcorn but only normally use it in tuna pasta dishes

I think this shopping madness will end soon enough as people run out of money!
My family elsewhere in Europe are reporting that after two weeks or so of panic buying supermarket shelves there are full again.

Last night we had old fashioned corned beef hash mashed tatties mixed with baked beans and fried onions topped with tomatoes (drained tinned works if you don't have fresh)

Sweetcorn fritters.

Make a pancake batter, add drained tinned sweetcorn, or frozen and fry.

I use tortillas as a wrapper, a bit like pastry. So I'd made chili and rice a couple of days ago. The left overs I mixed together, put in a tortilla with cheese or soured cream and then fold the tortilla so you have a type of pillon, but the join side on the bottom of a baking sheet and oven bake for 20 mins.

You could use other things like tinned curry or baked beans.

Mixed bean chilli - as long as you've got spices and tomato puree or similar.

Just one thing I want to ask.
If you eat only tinned foods such as tinned veg and meat what about the nutrients?
I mean do you still get all of your vitamins that you get from eating fresh or frozen fruit and veg a meat?

@MissyJane2

well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/27/really-the-claim-fresh-produce-has-more-nutrients-than-canned/

Fried rice using frozen peas corn and carrot
Jacket potatoes with Mexican chilli bean topping
Caramelised onion lentil and coconut curry from the happy vege kitchen website. This site has lots of great vege ideas

@ArriettyJones Thanks for the link.
Good to know this. because food is so hard to get now and fresh foods don't keep long unless you buy frozen.
If you need to stock up tinned is better.
I am thinking of getting tinned fuit since there is no fresh in Tescos or ASDA. My corner shops got plenty of tinned fruit. And I noticed the fruit is packed in it's real fruit juice not in syrup as they used to do in the 1970s.

Tinned fruit is a good shout. Especially tinned pineapple to make pineapple upside down.

If you have an international shop near you they will have tinned veggie curry dishes which are actually ok - things like creamy curried lentils, curried potato and spinach etc - and also things like tinned stuffed vine leaves and jars of stuffed peppers. Saves you even cooking.

Well you can get any tinned fruit, tinned strawberrys, tinned peaches.
I can't eat curry or spicy or greasy foods because I have a sensitive tummy.

Real fruit makes me run poop to the toilet,so does fruit juice, and it has upset my tummy.
Could be because you don't know if it's fresh or not as it does off very quickly.
So i am not getting the Vitamin C I should have since I avoid eating all fruit except for bananas the only one that does not make you run to the loo.

So maybe if I tried tinned fruit I would not have that problem.