Food Hoarders Challenge

[BlackRose]

What about cutting into quarters and marinating in a honey soy garlic mix and then stick on the BBQ or bake in the oven? Have that with a salad and good for leftovers too!

Nice one on the menu this week. I think we might do bangers and mash this week too.

Tonight I did spaghetti on toast for the kids and I'll have a tuna toastie melt for me and DH. It's the kind of night where I CBF and DS2 had a temp from teething. The choc pudding went down a treat though!!

Just need to get through til Sunday morning when we will do a fresh veg shop. Have plenty of frozen veg, some frozen meatballs which I might cook tomorrow for dinner.

Thanks the all the ideas ladies!!

[BlackRose]

Did a shop yesterday after 2.5 weeks, all fresh stuff. So nice to have rockmelon, pineapple and watermelon! I had a lovely big salad for lunch yesterday too. Have planned meals for this week including a butter chicken (chicken breast from the freezer)with vege and rice which I'll spread over 2 nights, BBQ sausages (freezer) with salad and homemade wedges and I might try making falafel with a can of chickpeas.
This lot of groceries should last me a couple of weeks if I plan well :-)

[trishalishous]

Weekly Spend of $170 (including $16 on a massive pack of icecreams, naughty naughty and $20 worth of Tuna for my breakfasts) but the fridge is full of fresh stuff for this week.

Wednesday: Choritzo pasta (2 choritzos, tomatos from the garden, onions, carrots, frozen veg, pasta and cheese)
Thursday: Choritzo pasta (I was fed at work)
Friday: Sausage Curry (I was fed at work) (sausages, chickpeas, coconut milk powder, curry paste, beans, chickpeas, potatos (were given 4 kg) broccoli, celery, carrots)
Saturday: Fried Rice (left over rice, ham and vegies
Sunday: Hamburger patties and veggies
Monday: Chicken nibbles, rice and veg
Tuesday: Roast chook, mash, carrots,corn

I scored the corn for 30c an ear, carrots were $2 a kg, apples and bananas were both $2 a kg, water melon was 70c/kg.
Bartered for chicken and potatoes, given loads of tomatoes. We buy the rich bulk so its under 13c/100g. Sausages were $2.5/kg the other week, so went into the freezer in packs of 6. Splurged on grapes, strawberries (had pikelets with fresh strawberries for arvo tea)

[~Kim~]

Help.
Have 3 tins of beetroot and I can't stand the stuff. What can I do with it besides donating it to a food bank?

[LimeSlice]

Help.
Have 3 tins of beetroot and I can't stand the stuff. What can I do with it besides donating it to a food bank?

Dip - just blend it with some cream cheese.
Whizz it up so it still has some texture and put it with goats cheese, walnut, shredded chard - works well on pumpernickel.

And of course, hamburgers! ;P

[Joeve]

You could juice it and add to carrot and celery?
Bit messy with canned beetroot but still good for you

[nothing2lose]

Help.
Have 3 tins of beetroot and I can't stand the stuff. What can I do with it besides donating it to a food bank?

Do you have any enemies you could give it to??

Signed, fellow tinned beetroot hater xx

[BlackRose]

Beetroot muffins or cake?

[~Kim~]

Do you have any enemies you could give it to??

Signed, fellow tinned beetroot hater xx

No-one else I know within 2500km likes it either except DD1 lol.

Will do the dip. She might take it for lunch.

Would it be OK in sweet stuff? Wouldn't the vinegar be a bit much?

[Rouge]

Definitely use in cake!

Sending you link...

[Astrid]

Love tinned beetroot! Hard not to scoff half of it after opening.

[~Kim~]

yeah...no. Gross. Smells like dirt.

Dip was a hit.
Rouge's cake after I go and buy eggs.

[Rouge]

You had me craving beetroot so I'm steaming some with my veg to have with barramundi and rice. My fave soul food kids too! We're freaks. Hot beetroot with garlic, pumpkin and broccoli. Noms.

[Amity]

Salad with roast veggies and beetroot with aged balsamic and fetta.

Omg.

Much better than hospital food

[trishalishous]

Pesto Pasta and Spinach salad!

Bow tie pasta, cooked and cooled
Basil Pesto
Cherry tomatos
Beetroot
Boccacini
Baby spinach

yum yum yum

[~Kim~]

Righto, rice bubbles.
Have half a tonne since they were on special and now DS has decided he 'doesn't like them'.....

My kids are not fans of the LCM type slices and bars you can make.

[Mother Goose]

Can you crush them and use as an alternate to breadcrumbs to coat chicken Kim? I've done that with cornflakes before.

[Tinks]

Mars bar slice, muesli bars or chocolate crackles? That's all I've got lol