It’s five o clock and I’m staring into the fridge willing it to tell me what awesome supper I’m going to cook up. I’m drawing a blank. My daughter’s getting ‘hangry’ and I’m not far off. So I ring the real chef aka @typographic and plead: ‘we’ve got nothing for dinner, can you pop to the shop on your way home.’ It’s rarely the actual case, its usually my general lack of planning and inability to ‘pull a dish together’.
So it was with some trepidation that I agreed to a challenge; how long can our family of three live off the food we already have? One glimpse in our cupboards and it was clear we could feed an army for a week.
We all know how easy it is to ignore the store cupboard and buy ingredients, the well known ‘top up shop’, which let’s be honest is often costly and the lazy option when you can’t be bothered to work with ingredients you already have.
Having emptied the cupboards onto our kitchen table, we took it all in: 246 items, most of which we’d forgotten we had. I got busy doing an inventory and before we knew it, we were all excited working out meal combinations. Let’s see how long we can sustain it without getting bored!
First up Beef Bibimbap with beansprouts, sugarsnap peas, pickled carrots and a side of kimchi. Watch this space for updates on what weird and (not so) wonderful combinations we come up with.
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