'No food in the house' (snow content)

[Mobile Chicane]

Semi-hypothetical question here: how many of us moan that 'there's no food in the house' when we're stuck in the snow and perhaps out of fresh milk, or bread...

When in fact there's loads!

I have:

frozen chicken drumsticks
rice
spices
chillies
garlic
onions
potatoes
tinned tomatoes
dried mushrooms
chicken stock
frozen squid
butter beans
chick peas

I can make a massive paella out of that lot, not to mention mushroom risotto... catalan bean stew... patatas bravas...

C'mon people - get creative!

[sherman]

From that chicken in a spicy tomato, garlic and mushroom sauce with either boiled rice or roasted potatoes.

[calibrax]

I only had a fridge/freezer until a few weeks ago. Because the freezer section was a bit small, I decided to buy an extra freezer to more than double my freezer space. As a result I have a lot of choice!

whole lobster
scallops
various steaks
diced beef
diced lamb
mince
scampi
pork leg joint
ciabatta
french bread batons
haagen-dazs
various frozen veggies
chips, mash, dumplings, stuffing

Also have quite lot of tins in the cupboard, not to mention jars of pasta sauces, dried pasta, rice, couscous, curry sauces, etc etc.

So I reckon I could live pretty well on that lot for at least a few months.

Edited by calibrax on Friday 3rd December 03:46

[Piglet]

I reckon we've got three months food, lots of food in the freezers, lentils, pulses, pasta and rice in the cupboards and tinned tomatoes. There's a sack of spuds in the shed, veggies are in the freezer and then we've a couple of kilos of dehydrated peppers and a kilo of mushrooms that we dehydrated. There's loads of bread flour and baking flour, butter and my friend down the road has chickens.

We drink soya milk rather than cows milk and we've got soya beans and a machine that makes soya milk!

Plus, we've got 9 cases of beer, 30 litres of wine and a collection of bottles of gin and whisky!

No problems here in the snow!

My storecupboard favourite is tomato and lentil soup....bit of onion and garlic fried off with some bacon, add tomatoes and lentils and blizt with hand blender. Will also add dehydrated mushrooms and peppers as I've got them. Nom nom!

[spikeyhead]

I braved the cold weather, wrapped up warm and strode manfully on the 4000 inch walk to the local Lidl yesterday. No promlems for me

[V8mate]

I always wondered who bought chicken drumsticks.

Now I know.

[CommanderJameson]

I had a delicious risotto last night.

Winter vegetable (leek/carrot/parsnip), obviously.

To accompany that well known Italian delicacy, the smoked gammon steak.

Omnom, quite frankly.

[markreilly]

Mobile Chicane said:

Semi-hypothetical question here: how many of us moan that 'there's no food in the house' when we're stuck in the snow and perhaps out of fresh milk, or bread...

When in fact there's loads!

I have:

frozen chicken drumsticks
rice
spices
chillies
garlic
onions
potatoes
tinned tomatoes
dried mushrooms
chicken stock
frozen squid
butter beans
chick peas

I can make a massive paella out of that lot, not to mention mushroom risotto... catalan bean stew... patatas bravas...

C'mon people - get creative!

I have been stuck in my house for 6 days now,the dog is keeping well out of my way !

ok lets see i'd go for stuffed squid tubes myself

[Murph7355]

V8mate said:

I always wondered who bought chicken drumsticks.

Now I know.

Most flavoursome bit of the bird. Used in the right way, they're lovely.

[Frankeh]

Murph7355 said:

V8mate said:

I always wondered who bought chicken drumsticks.

Now I know.

Most flavoursome bit of the bird. Used in the right way, they're lovely.

I'm a fan of thigh too.
Cheap as chips and much more tasty than breast.

Bit more prep needed though.

[Mobile Chicane]

V8mate said:

I always wondered who bought chicken drumsticks.

Now I know.

They're great for BBQ / tandoori because you've got a little 'handle' to hold it by.

[Marf]

http://www.supercook.com/

[Mobile Chicane]

Piglet said:

I reckon we've got three months food, lots of food in the freezers, lentils, pulses, pasta and rice in the cupboards and tinned tomatoes. There's a sack of spuds in the shed, veggies are in the freezer and then we've a couple of kilos of dehydrated peppers and a kilo of mushrooms that we dehydrated. There's loads of bread flour and baking flour, butter and my friend down the road has chickens.

We drink soya milk rather than cows milk and we've got soya beans and a machine that makes soya milk!

Plus, we've got 9 cases of beer, 30 litres of wine and a collection of bottles of gin and whisky!

No problems here in the snow!

My storecupboard favourite is tomato and lentil soup....bit of onion and garlic fried off with some bacon, add tomatoes and lentils and blizt with hand blender. Will also add dehydrated mushrooms and peppers as I've got them. Nom nom!

That is a fantastic store cupboard. No doubt you've got a gun as well for making use of the 'wild larder'?

[Piglet]

Mobile Chicane said:

Piglet said:

I reckon we've got three months food, lots of food in the freezers, lentils, pulses, pasta and rice in the cupboards and tinned tomatoes. There's a sack of spuds in the shed, veggies are in the freezer and then we've a couple of kilos of dehydrated peppers and a kilo of mushrooms that we dehydrated. There's loads of bread flour and baking flour, butter and my friend down the road has chickens.

We drink soya milk rather than cows milk and we've got soya beans and a machine that makes soya milk!

Plus, we've got 9 cases of beer, 30 litres of wine and a collection of bottles of gin and whisky!

No problems here in the snow!

My storecupboard favourite is tomato and lentil soup....bit of onion and garlic fried off with some bacon, add tomatoes and lentils and blizt with hand blender. Will also add dehydrated mushrooms and peppers as I've got them. Nom nom!

That is a fantastic store cupboard. No doubt you've got a gun as well for making use of the 'wild larder'?

Nope but the bloke over the road has

[caziques]

Not really a snow story, but a girl I know came up with an inventive recipe as a student short of money.

All that was left in the house was a tin of curry sauce and half a bag of frozen brussel sprouts.

Something to remember if you're caught short

[ClintonB]

caziques said:

Not really a snow story, but a girl I know came up with an inventive recipe as a student short of money.

All that was left in the house was a tin of curry sauce and half a bag of frozen brussel sprouts.

Something to remember if you're caught short

I think you'd remember it after being caught short - not one for the IBS sufferers!

[sploosh]

plenty of food in the freezer and a couple of long pigs upstairs.

Should be ok.

[tenex]

Much the same as Piglet here but probably not as well organized.(Plenty firearms though)
It's a 100+ mile round trip to the nearest supermarket so basically live out of the freezer all year.

[pacman1]

How odd, this is PH after all, yet I see no mention of that dessert staple so often talked about on here.. custard!

[Piglet]

tenex said:

Much the same as Piglet here but probably not as well organized.(Plenty firearms though)
It's a 100+ mile round trip to the nearest supermarket so basically live out of the freezer all year.

Blimey ours is a 15 mile round trip and I thought that was bad enough! Although that's only to the pikey small supermarket, our decent supermarket trip would be more like a 60 mile round trip but still better than your trip!