I am all about doing dinner with as little effort as possible. I want it to taste good, take little time, and be inexpensive.
Enter chicken dinner. No, not Rotisserie chicken and sides from the deli.....that's not little money,
The key is three ingredients and passive cooking. You can't count cooking time when the food is cooking and you are at the gym or watching tv.
Chicken : Dump a rough cut onion in the bottom of your slow cooker. Wash a whole chicken, spread it with a home-made dry rub, and put it in the slow cooker with the lid on. Cook on high for an hour a pound.
Now, grease a 9x13 pan with cooking spray. Dump sliced apples on the bottom of the pan. Dump a yellow cake mix over the top, and drizzle melted butter over the mix. ( Betty Crocker CB on line - Apple dump cake )
Instant mashed potatoes ( Idahoan makes four cheese .60 with a coupon at Winco) and a frozen veggie cooked in the microwave completes the meal.
Part of the chicken breast 1.25
Onion .25
Cake mix .88
Apples 1.25
Butter .94
Potatoes .60
Veggies .65
Total 5.80
This assumes you eat the whole pan of cake for dinner! 1/2 a pan would being ot down to 4.30.
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