Hey lovely cooking types. I'm not a brilliant cook, but I'm trying to minimise how much food I waste and this is proving tricky as I'm not the most imaginative in the kitchen.
Can I anyone suggest something for me to cook, I have the following ingredients (don't judge me, I don't plan ahead.)

A piece of frying steak.
A courgette.
A bag of chopped onion, celery and carrots.
A tin of chopped tomatoes.
A tin of peas.
Rice/pasta/couscous.
Various spices.
A bag of potatoes

Is there anything more exciting I can make other than steak and chips? As that is literally my only idea, and I don't want to buy more stuff until I've used up the stuff I have.

Help!

There's nothing wrong with steak and chips

Looking at the ingredients you have, I'd make a big pot of soup with some stock and the tomatoes, courgette, onion, celery, carrots plus some rice - if you don't have stock cubes, water would be fine. Great for lunches or dinner with some nice bread. Or you could use those ingredients (excl rice) and turn it into a ratatouille type thing.

Jut a thought, but instead of chips, you could make an alternative potato-ey accompaniment to steak - I'm thinking dauphinoise, rosti or even just plain mash! And tinned peas on the side.

Anyway, I'm not sure this is much help but I'm sure someone will be along shortly with some good ideas. Enjoy it, whatever you decide to make

Make a sort of ratatouille by frying the bag of veg with a bit of oil, add the courgette, peas and tomatoes and cook down. Don't forget to season (i.e. add salt and pepper). Mix a few of the spices together, chop the frying steak into chunks and coat in the spice mixture, then fry hot and quick (a couple of minutes probably). Any carb will go with it.

After trying this, phone for a pizza

Ratatoullie with all the veg and the cubed steak served with pasta or cous cous.

Ragu with the veg and cubed steak served with jacket spud or cubed potatoes.

I would cube the steak,, courgette and put on kebab sticks with some onion and spices.
Make the rice with a little bit of the onions as a base add peas and (cumin if you have it)
Simmer the rest of the onion, carrot and celery with a couple of potatoes and make a soup to start. Throw in the tomatoes if you fancy them as well.