easy to make good food from a convenience store

[Cloud]

Following on from the school dinners thread...

Anyone have any recommendations for nice food that's easy to make? I have the run of our convenience store to take stuff from - but, as you can imagine, we sell what sells, which is mostly tinned stuff, some vegetables and dried food. We don't have any transport here at the minute and so heading into the main town to stock up isn't an option either - so does anyone have any creative ideas?

Edit : Fresh meat wise, we get in sliced turkey, ham and bacon. Vegetable wise, we get in mushrooms, tomatoes, peppers, carrots, potatoes, onions and whatever else is available on the day of the order - which varies wildly due to living on an island. We've got a pretty wide selection of tinned stuff though, along with a lot of rice/pasta/spaghetti.

[Old Gold]

Campbells consdensed mushroom soup (or if all else fails, regular soup) is the ultimate filler for a pasta sauce. Just chuck it over the top of chopped and cooked onions and peppers.

[Scootray]

Campbells consdensed mushroom soup (or if all else fails' date=' regular soup) is the ultimate filler for a pasta sauce. Just chuck it over the top of chopped and cooked onions and peppers.[/quote']

I agree. Also, Campbells Chicken Soup as pasta sauce is delicious. Also, add in a bit of turkey ham. Mmmmmm.

[RicoAUBL]

as long as you have some kind of meat that you can cook

and some pasta/rice/noodles

and some fresh veg, sauce/soup etc.

then just chuck it all together

you can go wrong really

...well i guess you could... but anyone with half a brain can make a pasta bake

:]

[Rachie]

If you've got some basic spices like coriander and cumin at home then you can easily make a good carrot & coriander soup with the fresh veg

[Guest Neubeatz]

Use the junk food to bait gulls and rats, et voila.........

[framheim]

jar of pesto + pasta + some nice ham. one tasty meal.