Sunday, August 7, 2011
Trying to offset rising grocery prices, week 1: Recap
So it has been a week since my grocery shopping trip. I am pleased to say that I came very close to sticking to the $125 grocery budget. More importantly, we used just about everything, so there was very little waste. It felt so good to go through the refrigerator tonight and see that pretty much everything was eaten up. All I had to throw away was a little bit of leftover coleslaw and a pork chop.
52 Treats: Banana Bread
So I know banana bread recipes come a dime a dozen...so why bother posting this one? The problem is that between my cookbooks, recipe clippings and websites, I've probably made at least ten variations of the recipe, each slightly different. Some are good and some not so good. The problem is that each time I go to find the "good" recipe, I can't remember which one is the right one. This one has got to be one of the best, so I want to make sure I post it so I'll know next time which recipe is the best one.
Mia was great help making this, and she ate a big piece after dinner.
Banana Bread
Ingredients
Taste: 8/10
Effort vs. Payoff: 4/5
Kid-friendliness: 3/3
Overall Rating: 4 out of 4 stars ****
Mia was great help making this, and she ate a big piece after dinner.
Banana Bread
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup butter
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 2 1/3 cups mashed overripe bananas
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan.
- In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl, cream together butter and brown sugar. Stir in eggs and mashed bananas until well blended. Stir banana mixture into flour mixture; stir just to moisten. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan.
- Bake in preheated oven for 60 to 65 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of the loaf comes out clean. Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack.
Taste: 8/10
Effort vs. Payoff: 4/5
Kid-friendliness: 3/3
Overall Rating: 4 out of 4 stars ****
Recipe: Pork Chops with Pineapple Salsa and Spicy Sweet Potatoes
Pork Chops with Pineapple Salsa and Spicy and Sweet Potatoes
Okay, I know this isn't the greatest picture. But it looked much better in person and it tasted great.
Thanks to www.brokeandhealthy.com for the recipe idea.
A link to the recipe here.
4 thin boneless pork chops (the ones I got were about an inch thick so I sliced them in half)
1.5 cups chopped pineapple (I used fresh because it was on sale...but you could use canned.)
1/2 jalapeno pepper, seeded and finely diced
1 inch piece of ginger, finely chopped or grated
2 cloves of garlic
juice of 1 lime
Olive Oil
Heat about two teaspoons olive oil in small pan over medium-high heat. Add pepper, garlic and ginger. Saute until soft and fragrant...about three minutes or so?? Toss in the pineapple and lime juice. Heat until boiling. Then reduce heat and simmer for 10-15 minutes.
Brush pork chops with oil and season with salt and pepper. Cook in grill pan over high heat until cooked through. I'm not good gauging cook times...maybe about 4-5 minutes per side, depending on thickness.
Spicy Sweet Potatoes -- I LOVED this recipe.
2 sweet potatoes
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 teaspoons brown sugar
1.5 tablespoons paprika
1 teaspoon garlic powder
little bit of salt and pepper.
Preheat oven to 425. Toss potato cubes with olive oil and seasonings. Spread in baking pan. Bake for 30 minutes, stirring halfway through cook time.
I served this with an arugula salad. It was AWESOME!
Cost breakdown:
1/2 a pineapple: $1.25
Pork Chops: $2.88
Lime: .34
Arugula: 1.10
Sweet Potatoes: $2.00
Olive Oil: .30
Spices, Jalapeno, Garlic, Ginger: .25 estimated
Total cost: $8.12
Cost per serving: $2.03
Rating:
Taste: 7/10
Effort v. Payoff: 5/5
kid-friendliness: 2/3
Health bonus points: 2/3
Star rating: Four Stars ****
Okay, I know this isn't the greatest picture. But it looked much better in person and it tasted great.
Thanks to www.brokeandhealthy.com for the recipe idea.
A link to the recipe here.
4 thin boneless pork chops (the ones I got were about an inch thick so I sliced them in half)
1.5 cups chopped pineapple (I used fresh because it was on sale...but you could use canned.)
1/2 jalapeno pepper, seeded and finely diced
1 inch piece of ginger, finely chopped or grated
2 cloves of garlic
juice of 1 lime
Olive Oil
Heat about two teaspoons olive oil in small pan over medium-high heat. Add pepper, garlic and ginger. Saute until soft and fragrant...about three minutes or so?? Toss in the pineapple and lime juice. Heat until boiling. Then reduce heat and simmer for 10-15 minutes.
Brush pork chops with oil and season with salt and pepper. Cook in grill pan over high heat until cooked through. I'm not good gauging cook times...maybe about 4-5 minutes per side, depending on thickness.
Spicy Sweet Potatoes -- I LOVED this recipe.
2 sweet potatoes
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 teaspoons brown sugar
1.5 tablespoons paprika
1 teaspoon garlic powder
little bit of salt and pepper.
Preheat oven to 425. Toss potato cubes with olive oil and seasonings. Spread in baking pan. Bake for 30 minutes, stirring halfway through cook time.
I served this with an arugula salad. It was AWESOME!
Cost breakdown:
1/2 a pineapple: $1.25
Pork Chops: $2.88
Lime: .34
Arugula: 1.10
Sweet Potatoes: $2.00
Olive Oil: .30
Spices, Jalapeno, Garlic, Ginger: .25 estimated
Total cost: $8.12
Cost per serving: $2.03
Rating:
Taste: 7/10
Effort v. Payoff: 5/5
kid-friendliness: 2/3
Health bonus points: 2/3
Star rating: Four Stars ****
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Field Trip Wednesdays: McCray's Farm
This week's "Field Trip" was to McCray's farm in South Hadley. We went with our friends Kim and Emma. Kim is a great friend. I don't think I would have lasted this long out here away from Maine if it weren't for her. She is always giving me great advice and tips. She is a great resource when it comes to kids activities and places to go. And Emma is just a doll and so much fun to be around. Mia adores her. McCray's farm has some farm animals...ducks, goats, cows, a horse, peacocks, pigs, rabbits. The girls had lots of fun checking out the animals and playing on the old tractor. Then we went in to have some ice cream (Banana fudge for me, Moose Tracks for the girls). After the ice cream we had another visit with the animals. We were there for at least two hours and had a blast. So nice to be able to have some "adult" conversation while the girls played.
I know there quite a few places like McCray's around New England -- ice cream shop/petting zoo. Gran-Val Scoop in Granville, MA, Smiling Hill Farm in Westbrook, ME. It's great low-cost entertainment. We got over two hours of fun for the cost of an ice cream cone.
I know there quite a few places like McCray's around New England -- ice cream shop/petting zoo. Gran-Val Scoop in Granville, MA, Smiling Hill Farm in Westbrook, ME. It's great low-cost entertainment. We got over two hours of fun for the cost of an ice cream cone.
Friday, August 5, 2011
Trying to offset rising grocery prices Week 1: Skillet Spaghetti
Friday's Dinner -- Skillet Spaghetti. Thanks to Marcia @ frugalhealthysimple.blogspot.com for this recipe. It was much better (and easier) than just plain spaghetti topped with sauce. My little girls loved it, and my picky eater ate two big plates! It's also perfect fuel for my 13 mile run tomorrow! This will definitely be going into regular rotation in our house.
Here is a link to the original recipe:
http://frugalhealthysimple.blogspot.com/2010/06/skillet-spaghetti.html
I tweaked it a little bit...I didn't have any artichokes
Skillet Spaghetti
2 teaspoons olive oil (.10)
1 onion, diced (.40)
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped (.10)
28 ounce jar spaghetti sauce (1.50)
1 pound spaghetti (1.00)
handful of chopped sun dried tomatoes (optional) (.75)
3 cups water
Served with green salad (1.25)
Heat olive oil in skillet and add onion. Cook over medium-high heat until begins to brown. Add garlic and cook about 30 seconds. Add pasta, sauce and water. Cover and bring to boil. Cover, lower heat and simmer for 20-25 minutes. Toss in sun dried tomatoes during last few minutes.
Makes six servings.
Cost per serving: $0.85!
Here is a link to the original recipe:
http://frugalhealthysimple.blogspot.com/2010/06/skillet-spaghetti.html
I tweaked it a little bit...I didn't have any artichokes
Skillet Spaghetti
2 teaspoons olive oil (.10)
1 onion, diced (.40)
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped (.10)
28 ounce jar spaghetti sauce (1.50)
1 pound spaghetti (1.00)
handful of chopped sun dried tomatoes (optional) (.75)
3 cups water
Served with green salad (1.25)
Heat olive oil in skillet and add onion. Cook over medium-high heat until begins to brown. Add garlic and cook about 30 seconds. Add pasta, sauce and water. Cover and bring to boil. Cover, lower heat and simmer for 20-25 minutes. Toss in sun dried tomatoes during last few minutes.
Makes six servings.
Cost per serving: $0.85!
Monday, August 1, 2011
Stanley Park Mondays - Week 1: Collecting leaf specimens
Another of my goals is to incorporate some educational activities that don't require a lot of material items or money. Now that AJ is big enough to participate in this type of activities, I think it's important for us to get out and start learning lots of new things, and to really learn to appreciate the world around us.
A few weeks ago we started "Field Trip Wednesdays". Not only is it a day for the kids to get out and do something exciting, it's also a day off of housecleaning for me :-). It has been a huge success so far, so I wanted to add another specialty day to the mix.
Stanley Park is a great place and a truly wonderful resource for our community. I am so grateful to have it so close to home. The kids love the playground there, and AJ has been asking constantly to go to the playground. So I thought we would head out to the playground for a while and then head into some of the nature trails to collect nature specimens. I thought today we could start out collecting different kinds of leaves, and then later on we could use the internet to identify them and then either press them in wax paper, label them, color them, or do cutout shapes of the different leaves.
We had a wonderful time. We started out at the playground, found some kids to play with, then headed out to the trails. The girls had such fun in the woods. They were completely filthy when we were done. I am a firm believer that the amount of dirt and grime a child picks up is directly relative to the amount of fun had.
We collected quite a few leaf specimens, and we also spotted squirrel, chipmunk, and a woodpecker -- I think it was a Downy Woodpecker. We ended the walk at the duck pond where we saw frogs, goldfish, swan, ducks and geese.
After naptime, we started on identifying our specimens. We found a few really good websites to help identify the leaves. These are a couple. There are lots others, too. Just do a Google search for Leaf Identification.
http://www.oplin.org/tree/
http://www.ag.auburn.edu/hort/landscape/leafid/index.php
Now the kids started to lose interest after awhile and were more into destroying the house and making messes than in making labels for the specimens...so I finished up making the labels.
Then we arranged the leaves on one sheet of wax paper, inserted the label, and placed another sheet of wax paper on top. Place a towel or cloth diaper over the wax paper and iron with a dry iron at medium heat. This kind creates a seal...although it's not an especially tight seal. The leaves and label do wiggle around in there a bit. So we finished four of these until the kids were bouncing off the walls and it was time to start cooking dinner. We have a few remaining specimens. for those I think we will just glue them on pretty paper and label them instead of doing the wax paper. It's more hands on for the kids that way. So we'll finish off this project tomorrow.
A few weeks ago we started "Field Trip Wednesdays". Not only is it a day for the kids to get out and do something exciting, it's also a day off of housecleaning for me :-). It has been a huge success so far, so I wanted to add another specialty day to the mix.
Stanley Park is a great place and a truly wonderful resource for our community. I am so grateful to have it so close to home. The kids love the playground there, and AJ has been asking constantly to go to the playground. So I thought we would head out to the playground for a while and then head into some of the nature trails to collect nature specimens. I thought today we could start out collecting different kinds of leaves, and then later on we could use the internet to identify them and then either press them in wax paper, label them, color them, or do cutout shapes of the different leaves.
We had a wonderful time. We started out at the playground, found some kids to play with, then headed out to the trails. The girls had such fun in the woods. They were completely filthy when we were done. I am a firm believer that the amount of dirt and grime a child picks up is directly relative to the amount of fun had.
We collected quite a few leaf specimens, and we also spotted squirrel, chipmunk, and a woodpecker -- I think it was a Downy Woodpecker. We ended the walk at the duck pond where we saw frogs, goldfish, swan, ducks and geese.
After naptime, we started on identifying our specimens. We found a few really good websites to help identify the leaves. These are a couple. There are lots others, too. Just do a Google search for Leaf Identification.
http://www.oplin.org/tree/
http://www.ag.auburn.edu/hort/landscape/leafid/index.php
Now the kids started to lose interest after awhile and were more into destroying the house and making messes than in making labels for the specimens...so I finished up making the labels.
Then we arranged the leaves on one sheet of wax paper, inserted the label, and placed another sheet of wax paper on top. Place a towel or cloth diaper over the wax paper and iron with a dry iron at medium heat. This kind creates a seal...although it's not an especially tight seal. The leaves and label do wiggle around in there a bit. So we finished four of these until the kids were bouncing off the walls and it was time to start cooking dinner. We have a few remaining specimens. for those I think we will just glue them on pretty paper and label them instead of doing the wax paper. It's more hands on for the kids that way. So we'll finish off this project tomorrow.
Trying to offset rising grocery prices: Week 1
I've become increasingly disgusted with the price of groceries and my constantly rising grocery bill. It's also disheartening to see the amount of food we throw away. I'm making an attempt this week to find healthy, low-cost recipes and to stick to a grocery budget. Our family is very lucky that we have not been affected financially by current economic problems, but I'm always looking for ways to save money and live on less. I would love to be able to save up enough money through cutting weekly spending to go to Disney again this winter.
Finding meals to suit the taste and health needs of the family is easier said than done, especially with a picky eater and a husband with high-blood pressure.
My goal for weekly groceries is $125.00. I came very close to that on my shopping trip yesteday, although I still need to stop at the farm stand for $15.00 or so worth of vegetables.
WARNING -- post under construction...I'm still trying to figure out how I want to format this stuff...just wish I had more time...
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Dinner #1:
So the first meal this week was mini pizzas, cucumbers, fresh strawberries and cherries. Okay, the pizza was definitely NOT healthy (320 calories, 14g fat, 3.5 sat fat, 700 mg sodium!), but they were on sale for 50 cents per pizza...can't beat that. Hopefully some of the un-healthy factor was offset by the fresh fruits and vegetables?
Mini pizza: .50 per serving
Cucumber .25 per serving
Strawberries: .25 per serving
Cherries: .25 per serving
Total cost: $1.25 per serving
All in all I consider the meal a success with the exception of the naughty mini pizza. The cost was low and everyone enjoyed it. I would like to try next week to do a healthier, homemade version of mini pizzas and attempt to freeze them
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Breakfast #1
The kids had strawberries lightly dusted with sugar. I know it doesn't sound like much, but I have a lot of trouble getting them to eat ANYTHING in the morning, so I was happy with them each finishing a bowl of strawberries...I guess it's better than a bowl of fruity pebbles.
Strawberries: .50 per serving
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Lunch #2
Doritos: .25
String cheese: .33
Apple: .50
Sliced turkey: .35
Leftover mini pizzas from last night: FREE!
Carrots: .10
Cost per serving: $1.53
As for me, I just gobbled up the remainder of what the kids didn't eat. So lunch for all three of us was about $3.00...that really changes the way I think about the $15.00 Mcdonalds lunch we had last week!
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Dinner #2
I got the recipe idea from www.brokeandhealthy.com. A lot of good recipes here.
Pork Chops with Pineapple Salsa and Spicy and Sweet Potatoes
4 thin boneless pork chops (the ones I got were about an inch thick so I sliced them in half)
1.5 cups chopped pineapple (I used fresh because it was on sale...but you could use canned.)
1/2 jalapeno pepper, seeded and finely diced
1 inch piece of ginger, finely chopped or grated
2 cloves of garlic
juice of 1 lime
Olive Oil
Heat about two teaspoons olive oil in small pan over medium-high heat. Add pepper, garlic and ginger. Saute until soft and fragrant...about three minutes or so?? Toss in the pineapple and lime juice. Heat until boiling. Then reduce heat and simmer for 10-15 minutes.
Brush pork chops with oil and season with salt and pepper. Cook in grill pan over high heat until cooked through. I'm not good gauging cook times...maybe about 4-5 minutes per side, depending on thickness.
Spicy Sweet Potatoes -- I LOVED this recipe.
2 sweet potatoes
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 teaspoons brown sugar
1.5 tablespoons paprika
1 teaspoon garlic powder
little bit of salt and pepper.
Preheat oven to 425. Toss potato cubes with olive oil and seasonings. Spread in baking pan. Bake for 30 minutes, stirring halfway through cook time.
I served this with an arugula salad. It was AWESOME!
Cost breakdown:
1/2 a pineapple: $1.25
Pork Chops: $2.88
Lime: .34
Arugula: 1.10
Sweet Potatoes: $2.00
Olive Oil: .30
Spices, Jalapeno, Garlic, Ginger: .25 estimated
Total cost: $8.12
Cost per serving: $2.03
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Breakfast #2
Oatmeal and Fresh Strawberries: Total cost: .65 per serving
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Lunch #3
Oops it's been a long day and I absolutely cannot remember what was on the menu for lunch today!
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Dinner #3
Pork Chops: $2.88
Arugula: $1.00
Carrots: .75
Brown Rice: $.40
Pineapple: $1.00
total cost: $6.03
Cost per serving: $1.51
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Thursday's Dinner
- A surprising success. The kids absolutely loved the cole slaw. Such an easy meal to prepare.
BBQ Chicken Sandwiches with Healthier Cole Slaw
Sandwiches
5 chicken thighs ($4.33)
1 cup BBQ sauce (.50)
4 hot dog buns (.50)
Put thighs in crockpot with a splash of water or BBQ sauce
Cook about four hours on low
Remove skin and bone from meat, cut or shred meat into medium-ish chunks.
Add desired amount of BBQ sauce, stir to combine.
Serve meat in Hot dog buns or hamburger rolls
Healthier Cole Slaw
16 Ounces cole slaw mix ($1.79)
1/2 cup Plain Greek Yogurt (low or nonfat) ($1.00)
1/4 cup Mayonnaise (.32)
1/4 cup cider vinegar (.10)
1 Tablespoon Honey (.10)
1/2 teaspoon salt
Pepper to taste
Toss everything but the cabbage into large bowl. Stir to combine. Add cole slaw mix and stir to coat. That's it!
Cost per serving for meal: $2.16
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Friday, August 4 - So I'm finding that I haven't had time keep track of every meal, particularly breakfasts and lunches...but they've all been pretty much in line with the previous days...oatmeal and fruits for breakfast, sandwiches, cheese and veggies for lunches. Except for today...I forgot that I had an appointment with my rheumatologist this morning so I didn't have a babysitter lined up. So I had to drag the kids to the doctor's office where we had to wait an HOUR for the doctor to see me. Needless to say I was frazzled by the time we left and we stopped at Wendy's for lunch: 16 dollars! and all that sodium made me swell up like you wouldn't believe.
Finding meals to suit the taste and health needs of the family is easier said than done, especially with a picky eater and a husband with high-blood pressure.
My goal for weekly groceries is $125.00. I came very close to that on my shopping trip yesteday, although I still need to stop at the farm stand for $15.00 or so worth of vegetables.
WARNING -- post under construction...I'm still trying to figure out how I want to format this stuff...just wish I had more time...
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Dinner #1:
So the first meal this week was mini pizzas, cucumbers, fresh strawberries and cherries. Okay, the pizza was definitely NOT healthy (320 calories, 14g fat, 3.5 sat fat, 700 mg sodium!), but they were on sale for 50 cents per pizza...can't beat that. Hopefully some of the un-healthy factor was offset by the fresh fruits and vegetables?
Mini pizza: .50 per serving
Cucumber .25 per serving
Strawberries: .25 per serving
Cherries: .25 per serving
Total cost: $1.25 per serving
All in all I consider the meal a success with the exception of the naughty mini pizza. The cost was low and everyone enjoyed it. I would like to try next week to do a healthier, homemade version of mini pizzas and attempt to freeze them
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Breakfast #1
The kids had strawberries lightly dusted with sugar. I know it doesn't sound like much, but I have a lot of trouble getting them to eat ANYTHING in the morning, so I was happy with them each finishing a bowl of strawberries...I guess it's better than a bowl of fruity pebbles.
Strawberries: .50 per serving
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Lunch #2
Doritos: .25
String cheese: .33
Apple: .50
Sliced turkey: .35
Leftover mini pizzas from last night: FREE!
Carrots: .10
Cost per serving: $1.53
As for me, I just gobbled up the remainder of what the kids didn't eat. So lunch for all three of us was about $3.00...that really changes the way I think about the $15.00 Mcdonalds lunch we had last week!
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Dinner #2
I got the recipe idea from www.brokeandhealthy.com. A lot of good recipes here.
Pork Chops with Pineapple Salsa and Spicy and Sweet Potatoes
4 thin boneless pork chops (the ones I got were about an inch thick so I sliced them in half)
1.5 cups chopped pineapple (I used fresh because it was on sale...but you could use canned.)
1/2 jalapeno pepper, seeded and finely diced
1 inch piece of ginger, finely chopped or grated
2 cloves of garlic
juice of 1 lime
Olive Oil
Heat about two teaspoons olive oil in small pan over medium-high heat. Add pepper, garlic and ginger. Saute until soft and fragrant...about three minutes or so?? Toss in the pineapple and lime juice. Heat until boiling. Then reduce heat and simmer for 10-15 minutes.
Brush pork chops with oil and season with salt and pepper. Cook in grill pan over high heat until cooked through. I'm not good gauging cook times...maybe about 4-5 minutes per side, depending on thickness.
Spicy Sweet Potatoes -- I LOVED this recipe.
2 sweet potatoes
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 teaspoons brown sugar
1.5 tablespoons paprika
1 teaspoon garlic powder
little bit of salt and pepper.
Preheat oven to 425. Toss potato cubes with olive oil and seasonings. Spread in baking pan. Bake for 30 minutes, stirring halfway through cook time.
I served this with an arugula salad. It was AWESOME!
Cost breakdown:
1/2 a pineapple: $1.25
Pork Chops: $2.88
Lime: .34
Arugula: 1.10
Sweet Potatoes: $2.00
Olive Oil: .30
Spices, Jalapeno, Garlic, Ginger: .25 estimated
Total cost: $8.12
Cost per serving: $2.03
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Breakfast #2
Oatmeal and Fresh Strawberries: Total cost: .65 per serving
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Lunch #3
Oops it's been a long day and I absolutely cannot remember what was on the menu for lunch today!
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Dinner #3
Pork Chops: $2.88
Arugula: $1.00
Carrots: .75
Brown Rice: $.40
Pineapple: $1.00
total cost: $6.03
Cost per serving: $1.51
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Thursday's Dinner
- A surprising success. The kids absolutely loved the cole slaw. Such an easy meal to prepare.
BBQ Chicken Sandwiches with Healthier Cole Slaw
Sandwiches
5 chicken thighs ($4.33)
1 cup BBQ sauce (.50)
4 hot dog buns (.50)
Put thighs in crockpot with a splash of water or BBQ sauce
Cook about four hours on low
Remove skin and bone from meat, cut or shred meat into medium-ish chunks.
Add desired amount of BBQ sauce, stir to combine.
Serve meat in Hot dog buns or hamburger rolls
Healthier Cole Slaw
16 Ounces cole slaw mix ($1.79)
1/2 cup Plain Greek Yogurt (low or nonfat) ($1.00)
1/4 cup Mayonnaise (.32)
1/4 cup cider vinegar (.10)
1 Tablespoon Honey (.10)
1/2 teaspoon salt
Pepper to taste
Toss everything but the cabbage into large bowl. Stir to combine. Add cole slaw mix and stir to coat. That's it!
Cost per serving for meal: $2.16
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Friday, August 4 - So I'm finding that I haven't had time keep track of every meal, particularly breakfasts and lunches...but they've all been pretty much in line with the previous days...oatmeal and fruits for breakfast, sandwiches, cheese and veggies for lunches. Except for today...I forgot that I had an appointment with my rheumatologist this morning so I didn't have a babysitter lined up. So I had to drag the kids to the doctor's office where we had to wait an HOUR for the doctor to see me. Needless to say I was frazzled by the time we left and we stopped at Wendy's for lunch: 16 dollars! and all that sodium made me swell up like you wouldn't believe.
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