You know things are getting near the wire in our house when it's 'scrapey stew' - a meal made of all the bits of things I've found that need using up or have been lurking in the back of the freezer for a year or three. Nearly had 'ice cream supreme' one night, but I realised just in time that the lumpy white stuff was ice cream with marshmallows, rather than chicken.....

My parents were also fond of bargains and many's the meal of unknown tins we've had. A way of sorting them is to roll them down a slope. Baked beans will roll haltingly as the semi liquid contents don't rotate. Tinned meat will roll freely as a solid lump.

LTS