Anyone want a not very interesting food challenge?

[annandale]

I'm hoping to keep the food spend down this week. Shouldn't be too hard as I have just done an inventory of every edible thing we have and am quite at how much we have, must do this more often. It's in an unhelpful order because I've just listed it from top to bottom in the cupboards.

Of course I can see some obvious meals here but would quite like to try something different from our usual. Anyone who wants to try to make a meal from this lot, i'd be really grateful for anything a bit more interesting, I'm a dull cook usually. We're omnivores and there are 3 of us, and I'll be doing packed lunches as well.

penguin biscuit 1
ice cream cones pack
mixed pasta 2 kilos
suet 1 pack, very old but unopened
fusilli few pieces
orange squash 1 litre
popcorn half pack
nori 2 sheets
drinking choc half pot
gelatine 1 sachet, few leaves
ground coffee 1 pack
coffee beans 1 pack
instant coffee 2 pots caf, 1.5 pot decaf
miso soup paste 2 sachets
icing sugar half a shaker
black treacle half a pot
quick yeast most of a pot
spices, herbs, baking powder, bicarb, cream of tartar range
ground almonds 3 ounces?
vegetable stock powder a few spoonfuls
tinned chopped toms 6 tins
peas 1 small tin
baked beans 4 tins
kidney beans 1 tin
apricots 2 small tins
tahini 2 large spoonfuls
anchovies 1 tin
tuna 2 tins
sardines in tomato sauce 2 tins
cornflour most of a packet
custard powder most of a pot
raisins a handful
plain flour 1.5kg
caster sugar 0.5kg
soft brown sugar 1 oz
noodles 1 pack
red split peas 100g
multipurpose baking mix half a pack
lasagne most of a packet
ground rice 200grams
rice 2kg
porridge oats 800 grams
cereal half a packet
brown sliced 1.5 loaves
white sliced 1 loaf
white rolls 5
eggs 17 large
cheddar small lump
parmesan small lump
camembert whole circle
onions 3
bananas 2
eating apples 4
cooking apple 1
tangerine 1
greek yogurt half a large pot
stork for cakes 200g
leeks 2
peach yogurts 6
little gem 2
avocado 1
broccoli 1 head
carrots 500g
mushrooms 500g
bacon 14 rashers
potatoes 3 small
vanilla ice cream 400g
salmon fillets 4
frozen mince 800 g
pizzas 2
frozen peas, spinach, sweetcorn
frozen coley pieces 6
oil, vinegar, Branston, rice wine
marmite, mincemeat, teabags, spoonful of jam
milk 8 litres

Ooh fun!
Ok, I would make...
Leek, potato and bacon soup. Maybe use the suet and cheese to make dumplings if you need to bulk it up.
Marinate the salmon fillets with miso/spices/maybe a bit of treacle, serve with noodle stir fry using some of the veg you have (broccoli, peas etc).
Pasta with tomato and anchovy sauce.

Any good?

Ooh thank you re the salmon marinade, that's brilliant and that's tonight sorted!

Definitely do a quiche or two with the eggs, flour, stork to do the pastry, bacon, onion, broccoli, spinach, sweetcorn and the cheeses. I also usually put leftover mashed potato in mine.

Do an apple crisp too - like crumble but uses oats instead of just flour.

Lasagne with the mince, mushrooms and carrots.

Never thought of dumplings.

Oh, and a store cupboard staple from my mum's repertoire is cheese pudding - soak slightly stale bread in milk for 10 mins or so, then beat in eggs, seasoning and shitloads of grated cheese. Put in a greased tin and bake until cooked through and golden, then eat with lashings of ketchup. We bloody loved it as kids.

Glad the salmon will be useful...as there are 4 fillets and 3 of you, I shall pop round at about 7pm.

toffeeboffin mashed potato in quiche?! That is one I have to try!

www.robinhood.ca/Recipes/Occasions/Fall-Harvest/Apple-Crisp

Here's the apple crisp recipe

Good with ice cream or custard

I would do a noodle soup using the miso, noodles, salmon or coley and some of your veg

Yup. Just blend in with the eggs and milk before you pour into the pastry base. You can hardly taste it!

Nice with sweet potato mash too I. E Bacon, feta, sweet potato quiche.

You could also put the drained Tinned apricots in the apple crisp.

You're very welcome hanging and I notice that possibly accidentally, I left out the half bottle of in the fridge. DH isn't drinking so I could do with a hand

There are a few websites that will give you recipes based on what you have ingredients-wise :

www.supercook.com/#/recipes

www.foodwise.com.au/recipe-room/our-recipe-finder/

Sunday - marinated salmon with noodles in stock, banan custard
Monday - sardine sandwiches for lunch, lasagne in the evening, fruit for pud
Tuesday - salad with anchovies for lunch, quiche in the evening, yogurts
Weds - pizza
Thurs - tuna sandwiches for lunch, egg fried rice in the evening

that's as far as i've got

overnight oats for breakfast with the fruit, ground almonds and yogurt?
egg muffins for easy lunches/snacks with the veggies and cheese?

It's a date!