It's March 30-two days left until Tommie gets paid and we can go grocery shopping again. We NEED to go grocery shopping.
I'm down to the wire with my meals, making the very basics work until we can do something a little fancier again. Tonight, we had Zatarain's Jambalaya with some hamburger meat saved from last night's burgers. It tasted delicious. Tomorrow night I'm planning stir-fry with a veggie mix from Trader Joe's. Finally, on Thursday, just in case we don't make it to the store that day, we'll have falafel with pitas.
These are some of my standby, freezer-type meals that can last and don't require too many ingredients to make them happen when we're in a small bind. They are yummy, but that being said, I wouldn't mind spicing things up a bit.
Do you have any suggestions for delicious meals that take your family down-to-the-wire on your grocery money?
I'm looking forward to trying one of your recipes in the next two weeks and blogging about it...
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Buy a whole chicken. You can even buy an organic one for like $9 at Publix. Tie it up with some kitchen twine, oil and season it, and throw it in the oven on 275 degrees for 4 hours. It will be melt-in-your-mouth tasty.
You'll have enough to feed all 4 of you, and have enough left over to do four servings of tacos the next day.
This is a weekly routine at the Buckmaster household.
We have a similar strategy with pork tenderloins on the grill that turn into nachos later on.
Each month Rachel Ray mag has one recipe that only takes 5 ingredients. These are usually pretty inexpensive to make due to the limited number of ingredients. There are two recipes in particular that I've saved from there over the years that I LOVE. I pretty much always keep the ingredients for these two recipes at the house so I can make them in a bind. Not only are they cost effective, but both very simple as well. The quantities in each of these recipes should feed your whole family and you might even have leftovers. The links to these recipes are below.
French Onion Soup:
http://www.rachaelraymag.com/Recipes/rachael-ray-magazine-recipes/take-five-ingredients-recipes/French-Onion-Soup
Barbecue Beef Cups (may not sound like the best idea, but they're delicious):
http://www.rachaelraymag.com/Recipes/rachael-ray-magazine-recipes/take-five-ingredients-recipes/Barbecue-Beef-Cups
1. Breakfast for dinner. Ours is usually made up of huevos rancheros with fiesta rice, black beans, cheese, salsa and sourcream.
Or you could just do eggs, bacon, and toast.
2."Super Mac". I prefer using Annie's white cheddar mac & cheese. Simply steam some broccoli heads, fix your mac as directed, add the broccoli, stir, top with breadcrumbs, garlic pwdr, and Italian seasoning. So yummy!
3.Spaghetti. But I know this dish is no stranger to your home! ;-)
If you have a slow cooker/crock pot try these two EASY and pocketbook friendly recipes:
For a German flare-
get a large pork loin and 2 jars of sauerkraut. Wash one of the jars of the kraut thoroughly and throw it in the crock pot, put the pork loin in and top it with the unwashed jar of kraut. Start it first thing in the morning and by dinner time it will be ready to go (low 6-8 hrs, or start it on high for 2 hrs then switch to low). i like it served with mashed potatoes but you can serve it with rice or whatever you have on hand.
believe me, it is VERY yummy and even better the next day, and i don't even like sauerkraut :)
Another crock pot meal with a Latin flare:
same basic idea. get either a pork loin or beef tender loin and toss it in the pot, top it with 1-2 jars of banana peppers (spice to your liking) with the juice. cook it on low for 6-8 hours, or start it on high, switching to low. i like it with black beans and rice, but again, it can pretty much go with anything. the left overs from this one make awesome nachos or tacos!
let me know if you try them and what you think :)
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