Snowbound Frugalness

It's amazing how being snowbound with no end in sight can focus your mind on not being wasteful with food.  Although at the moment we should be good with food until the middle of next week, this weather is really making me think hard about what to use, what to eke out for another meal and what to use up creatively.

Tonight for tea I'm cooking a new recipe - Tuna Pasta Bake.  It was a recipe I found on a Channel 4 website before Christmas but as both P and I were unwell then I didn't get round to cooking it.  I dug out several lots of suspicious looking foil-wrapped bits of cheese from the fridge to make the cheese sauce with.  One of them was so mouldy it was beyond saving but the other two only had little bits of mould on them so I chopped those bits off (and threw them out for the poor birds in the garden) and grated up the rest.  I wouldn't have chosen to make the cheese sauce mainly with Red Leicester cheese - it's ended up a bit 'orange' for my liking - but I sure as heck wasn't going to waste it.

The rest of the ingredients were store-cupboard items - tinned tuna (natch), half a tin of sweetcorn (the other half was used yesterday to make sweet potato and sweetcorn soup) and dried pasta.   I had bought some spring onions on Tuesday so I used those as the recipe suggested, although I'm sure a small ordinary onion would have sufficed.  It all looks quite tasty in the dish but the proof of the pudding etc etc.  If it is OK then I've got enough ingredients to make another lot next week - which will put off having to venture out into the snowy wilderness for another day.   If it's totally rank we'll still have to eat it up as I don't like wasting food at the best of times and this is definitely not the best of times weather- and grocery shopping-wise.

Comments

[Shoestring]

I just made us two days worth of lunches by using pasta, tuna and mayo from the storecupboard and then using up our last carrot, the end of a cucumber and the rest of a bag of spinach. I chucked a bit of soft cheese in the mix too - it was quite nice! Hope you liked yours - it sounds good!

[Jennifer]

Hope you like it, could be a good meal for your roster if you do, plus not having to go out in bad weather is always a good thing.

[Ilona]

I love made up recipes, chuck anything in, it will be ok, ha ha. I don't throw food away either, I would eat it even it didn't taste nice.