Sunday, May 20, 2018

Meal plans

Meal Plans are necessary to be organized and save time and money.


  • Out -mom has a dinner meeting -chicken pot pie 
  • Pizza
  • Tacos, refried beans 
  • Hot dogs, potato salad, vegetable platter 
  • Pork stew , Bread 
  • Salmon, rice, green beans 
  • Breakfast for Dinner. 
Notes:


  1. Chicken Pot Pie is an impossible pie.   Its easy and less caloric.   (Carbs) 
  2. Pizza is a dollar family favorite.  Add your favorite toppings.   It really helps if you pull a little bit of something you are chopping for another meal and save it for pizza night.  It saves time and money.    We use the tops of the sweet peppers when slicing them for stir fry or peppers and sausage.   Saving a little cook sausage helps too.   Pepperoni is a dollar for oberto  at the DT.  Pizza sauce is a name brand and cheaper than anywhere else, even scratch at the DT.   We put the jar of pizza sauce in an ice cube tray and freeze it.   Dump the cubes into a zip lock and put it in the freezer door.    2 cubes work for a pizza at a cost of .20/   
  3. Taco kits are a dollar at the Grocery Outlet.   When  we can find them for that , I get them because that is the buy price for taco shells.   We have got them for .48 , but that is an aboration .   Refried beans are scratch in the insta pot.   This way they have NO fat.  They do have tomatoes and chillies and scratch beans.   - less salt.   
  4. We cook rice in the insta pot....no watched pot and perfect rice every time.   I add chicken stock and some herbs.   
  5. Salmon is cheapest at Winco in a bag of individual portions.   It makes for a quick and easy dinner.   Green beans were .39 a can in a case lot with a basket coupon.    It’s one of those times when you have to strike while the deal is there, but it is worth the savings.   Canned veggies are .50 at winco again.   
  6. Pork stew cooks in the insta pot and is from pork cut from the pork loin.   A case of when life gives you lemons, make lemonade or roll with the punches.   I got a pork loin for 1.29 a pound at Fred Meyers.   It had fat all through the center part of the loin.   I got beautiful chops cut, but ran into fat in a cross section.   I made cubes out of it.   I have had better luck at Costco Business for pork loins.   Whole carrots are much cheaper than the baby ones.   The best price i have found on baby carrots is a dollar a pound.   Whole carrots at winco are 5 pounds for 2.28. Or .46 a pound—less than 1/2 price.   We wash them in vinegar water and cut them for vegetable trays. 
  7. Breakfast for Dinner is a mainstay here.   It can please everyone and everyone cooks.  Its a family affair.   Eggs at winco this week were 1.15.  Buttermilk pancakes are really good.  Buying dried buttermilk is not cheap, but there is no waste and it lasts forever.   




















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