Help!! What can I make for dinner?!

Ok DS is asleep (strange cos he doesn't usually have a day nap) so I might get a chance to prepare dinner for a change.

What should I cook? We don't have any meat, and our fridge is pretty bare - we have a few vegetables, carrot, a little bit of pumpkin, sweet potato, normal potato, shallots - thats it.

Cupboard is a tin of salmon, tuna, a pasta sachet thing, pasta and rice. Thats about it (oh except for tins of spaghetti!)

I was planning on doing salmon patties, but I don't have any corn, or capsicum - which I always put in. Can I substitute pumpkin and sweet potato instead?

Ahhh I HATE cooking...

Can you make a combined mash and then have salmon and vege patties to go with it?

pasta with the tuna and some tomato sauce stirred through? Put carrots & shallots in the pasta sauce ...

Mel, do a search for the cooking by numbers website. You can select ingredients that you have in the fridge/pantry, and they give you some recipes. :)

Nic

Lol, that cooking by numbers one is amusing!

OOooooOOOOoh thats an idea.. thanks Nic..

Thanks Kaz - I might try that tomorrow.. we'll be home late from work, and it sounds nice and easy.. (even for me!!)

Mel - I buy the flavoured tuna and often just stir a tin of flavoured tuna & frozen mixed veg through pasta or rice for tea, very easy and yummy and nutricious!

OOOH thats an IDEA.. shanks mate

Do you have milk & cheese? You could make tuna mornay :) I always make that when the rations get a little low!

Ummm stew.... and if those dogs of yours are still being annoying you could .... haha only kidding

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Ok DS is asleep (strange cos he doesn't usually have a day nap) so I might get a chance to prepare dinner for a change.

What should I cook? We don't have any meat, and our fridge is pretty bare - we have a few vegetables, carrot, a little bit of pumpkin, sweet potato, normal potato, shallots - thats it.

Cupboard is a tin of salmon, tuna, a pasta sachet thing, pasta and rice. Thats about it (oh except for tins of spaghetti!)

I was planning on doing salmon patties, but I don't have any corn, or capsicum - which I always put in. Can I substitute pumpkin and sweet potato instead?

Ahhh I HATE cooking...

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I don't know how to make tuna mornay :redface:

Candice - honey you have no idea.. they have been barking all afternoon - nearly killed them ;)

Steam the veggies, or in the case of the pumkin/sweet potato, boil or roast (which ever takes your fancy)
Make a white sauce...

60g butter melted in a pot, at 1/2 cup of flour, stir til you get a thick paste...
Add milk slowly til you get it fairly runny
Add in all your boiled/steamed/roasted veg, Stir in and break up (i hid veggies this way)
add a tin of Tuna/Salmon

Serve over pasta or rice or potato

Not sure how this goes with non dairy milk, but should be ok