How to stretch the food?
By 911Ricki
@911Ricki (13588)
Canada
October 6, 2012 6:41pm CST
I am making chicken bacon, and fried onion for supper tonight.
I have half a pack of chicken bacon, small pack of chicken chunks, a pork chunk, a big pack of pork slices, half a pack of pasta frozen (cheese filled), half a bag of fried chinese noodles, a mini pie, a pack of cookies, and 1 can or cream corn.
I just not being creative right now, and wondering how I can make it stretch at least until Thursday or longer (I get paid Thursday), but have to buy cat food, and rabbit food first.
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8 responses
@911Ricki (13588)
• Canada
7 Oct 12
I dont know where you live but here I would get rejected immediately. If you arnt on welfare or disability you can afford it (I've gone in the past and filed the paperwork). I was making enough to pay my rent, and basic bills stringing by with food, they rejected me on the spot because I did work (yet my friend who was on disability who made double what I did from the government got food from the food bank) You have to go to a long process, interview, show your wages, for example I need to take my t4 slip from my workplace last year to show my income which I was making 3x what I am now. I am still employeed, and being Thanksgiving they would be even more an*l and declining people.
@PointlessQuestions (15397)
• United States
7 Oct 12
I worked as a volunteer in a food ministry. Everyone was given food. I went to a food bank and I had to fill out papers with all my info o. It. I live in GA.
@wilsongoddard (7291)
• United States
7 Oct 12
If you have a farm stand or farmers' market nearby, go pick up a few veggies to help round that out. For a few dollars, you can get some potatoes, peppers, tomatoes and a garlic bulb or two. I just spent around $15 at an area farmers' market and walked away with enough apples for a week, peppers, garlic, and some sweets.
I would say make a big batch of soup using a few veggies and the chicken. That is easily a few meals (2-3) right there.
The pasta and bacon could be another meal.
You could turn the pork chunk into stew. Follow a beef stew recipe and simply substitute that. Add in a few veggies, and you're set. Again, that should be 2-3 meals.
Then, the pork slices could be cooked up, covered in some sort of homemade sauce or gravy, and served up with the creamed corn. If you do hit the market and buy a few potatoes and some garlic, you can also add a small garlic smashed potato to the meal. Likely, you would even have some leftovers from this. These leftovers could be served up with some homemade biscuits, which take very little work and very few ingredients.
@wilsongoddard (7291)
• United States
7 Oct 12
Actually, I got more than just those few things. I'd forgotten a couple of things. At any rate, I walked away with enough veggies and fruit to last for several days. However, for just a few "emergency" provisions, you should easily be able to get what you need for $5 or less, and that will help get you through a week or more.
@911Ricki (13588)
• Canada
8 Oct 12
Veggies at a food stand are about $5 - $10 more each. With the economy they ask ridiculous prices, and the grocery store charges ridiculous anyways for veggies that are half rotten. I may go for frozen veggies, or I have to buy the aniimals their food so I can buy bockchoy and have some spinach.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
9 Oct 12
Honestly for one person that really does sound like plenty of food to last until Thursday. With the pasta if you don't have sauce, then the best suggestion that I could make would be to fry those. Yum, fried ravioli is one of my favorites. As far as the other stuff, it all sounds wonderful, but I don't know if you have any other kinds of vegetables or sides that can go with it, but if you do, you should have no kind of a problem at all with fixing some dinners and lunches with the food that you have. If you don't have vegetables, that might be what you need to get because a person cannot really live off of meat and starch alone.
@AgentGulaman (3546)
• Philippines
7 Oct 12
Try putting in some extenders when you cook. Getting extenders will help minimize utilization of your main ingredients making some amount good for another different cooking.
@PointlessQuestions (15397)
• United States
7 Oct 12
Do you have potatoes and maybe rice? You can make it stretch with those. I use Banquet dinners and nuke a big baking potatoes. Then I split the meal in half and the potato in half too. I make two meals out of one.
@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
7 Oct 12
hi ricki sit down and sort of plan out y our menu so y ou can stretch what you have the frozen pasta will combine with something on your list for one meal.chinese noodles will lead you ino another g reat meal.creamed corn with chinese noodles?If you have some tomato sauce on hand y ou can do all sorts of theings,
@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
7 Oct 12
It is difficult for me to imagine what to do with those ingredients as I cook from scratch and almost never buy a can or a package of anything. I buy raw chicken (pieces or whole) and I also buy like that the rest of the meat. Can you buy some rice so that you can have something to make as side dish for the packages you have?
