Meal Plans

Its going to be hit hot hot this week here .

Meal plans are a tool that makes life easier and saves time and money.

• Pizza , green salad 
•  Breakfast for dinner 
• Skinny creamy chicken enchaladas (BC) 
• Hamburgers/hotdogs, parmesean fries , 
• Pork chops, apple, craisens dressing , green beans 
• Peppercorn salmon, seasoned rice  salad 
• Pork stew, sourdough bread 

Notes

1. Pizza is a favorite here.  Its a good averager—when you are going for a 2.00 average protein, you need some really cheap meals to offset the more expensive ones.   , The cost of pizza is a dollar a cheese pizza.  Saving bits of meat and veggies from other meals adds toppings for almost free. 
2. Breakfast for dinner can also be a good dinner for an average. 
3. Hamburgers uses buns from Winco at .75.  It always pays to know your prices and where things are the cheapest  .  The bread store is good for bagels, English muffins and loaves of low carb bread, but buns are more expensive than Winco.   This time, they had no bread sticks that were low priced.   You just have to “roll with the lunches, so to speak and adapt to what is a good price.   I plan to have french toast for breakfast for dinner because Texas toast was on the 4/5 racks  
4. Pork chops and stuffing is easy and you can put it in the oven and leave the kitchen when the kitchen is hot  
5. Salmon is from Winco and its really good, not too spicy    We make seasoned rice mix ourselves, rice, chicken or vegetable stock and herbs. 
6. Pork stew takes minutes in the insta pot.  Again, you can set it and leave the room. 
7. Skinner chicken enchiladas is a Betty Crocker recipe and is easily adapted to be scratch,   Find it online,   

  Pricing is sooo important,   With the procuring of food at a RBP, you can eat well on a limited budget.  I have heard so many horror stories, that I work hard to teach people how to eat a reasonable balanced meal on a low budget and buy good food.   We have salmon, tilipa is dirty food,  Buying real food instead if fake is always good,   Buying local chicken is always good.   Learning safe food handling procedures  is good,   Buying produce in season is good.   Buying in bulk when it makes sense is good, using coupons when it makes sense is good.   Anything can be bad if it’s over the top,

Thursday: Grocery Hauls this week

Saturday

Franz bread store has military and senior discount of ten percent on Sunday and Wednesday .

White bread .99

Four for  five dollars 

Bagels 

English muffins -2

9 carb bread 

Sour dough loaf 

Total. 7.88

 

Kitchen Hacks

...Tips and tricks to make life easier.

• Having a basic food pantry /freezer reduces your stress because you have the peace of mind knowing that there is always a meal in the house. 
• buying basic food at the lowest possible price and in bulk when it makes sense saves money and time.   
• 70-80 percent of all grocery purchases are impulse buys.   Avoiding impulse buys save money.  Stick to a list or at least get a good idea of what you need before you shop.   Studying the ads for produce in season and a rotation protein on a 'real' sale.  
• Meal Plans just make life easier.  
• The internet is full of ideas for new recipes or variations of old ones.  Switching up recipes helps to keep things fresh.  
• That being said, the average household has 7-10 dinners that almost everyone likes to eat.   rotating the same 10 meals makes you only eat the same things 3 times a month,. 
• Celery and Carrots are cheap and versatile.   
• On a four dollar a day budget, you need to average your protein at 2.00 a pound.   This is believable by having a couple of vegetarian meals a week and buying versatile meats that are low in price when bought on sale.   Chicken breast can be as low as .88-1.00 here at times.   Stock 4-6 weeks.  Pork Loin can be as low as .99.  Again, buy bulk and butcher it yourself.   
• Stick to basic meals.  We like Italian  and Tex mex.  I surmise that others do as well.   Many ethnic food has many inexpensive meals.  Rice and beans, bubble and squeak, fried rice, spaghetti and sauce ....
• Waste not, want not......with a little attention, many bits that may be thrown out can be recycled.  Anything that can be put on a pizza can be frozen and gathered for the next time you make pizza.   Ditto. Bits of veggies for vegetable soup.    Even good, but somewhat wilted greens can be used for fish packets.   (Layer spinach or wilted romaine, cooked rice, white fish, a green veggie on parchment. Wrap it up and bake,   
• Portion control.  Its good for your waistline and your pocketbook.   Buying bulk meat and portion controlling meal sized packets saves a lot of waste...or waist!   
• Taking a bulk package of hamburger or ground meat and frying it up until it’s no longer pink, then draining it and de-fatting it is the best and easiest way to store hamburger.   No thawing, low fat, and dinner can be made into any number of entries faster.   Tacos in 10 minutes.   

Pick up meals ......

We have all been there.  The day has gotten away from us and suddenly its dinner time.   The enemy of any food budget is take out or worse going out for dinner.   At the cost of one dinner out for one p reason , you can feed two people for a week!   Thats probably why I could count on one hand the amount of times during my childhood that I waste fast food or food in a restraunt.  

Having a few quick and easy meals that aren’t premade food gets you beyond the  ‘crisis’.  

• Spaghetti and meatballs 
• Nachos 
• Sloppy joes 
• Salmon, baked potatoes, frozen or canned veggie 
• Tomato soup and toasted cheese 
• Egg sandwiches with English. Muffins. Fruit 
• Chilli
• Impossible pie 

All of these take minutes to prep and a lot of them are a step away from the freezer or pantry.   Keeping a pantry or freezer with some basics helps.   

Thursday hauls

This month’s weekly total average is 56.24.




Winco

26.23

Grapes 4.06
Blueberries 2.98
Nectarines 2.07
Lettuce .98
Buns 2 1,50
Steak fries 1.06
Salmon 4.98
Pickles 1.98
Milk 1.98
Bacon 2.38

Grocery Outlet
Salsa 1.49


Dollar Tree
Cookies 2–2.00
Pasta Barilla 2-2.00

Total 4.00

Safeways

4 Nalleys chili  .99
2 Coffee 5.99
Taco shells 2-2.00

4 frozen dinners. 1.88 ea
eggs .99

cod fish 1 lb 5.00

cherries 1.77 lb
2 cucumbers -.88ea
total 37.84

Chain store ads

QFC
Tomatoes on the vine.   .99
Milk .99


Buy 5, save 5
Cheese 2 lbs 4.99
Ice cream 2.49


Alberways

Red cherries 1.77
Blueberries 2 lbs 4.99
Cucumbers/  bell peppers .88

Mi8x or match 4 or more
Cheerios 1.69
Old El Paso taco shells .99
Maxwell house coffee 5.99
Nalleys chilli .99
Sliced cheese 1.99






Bread .89@@
Eggs .99@@

How did she do that...

Putting up hamburger. 

Precooking a batch of hamburger is a good way to make dinner easy and it can be done when the kitchen is cool to save time and money in the kitchen. 

Pictured is a meat loaf in a meat loaf pan that has holes in an inner pan to reduce the fat and not cook the meat sitting to re-absorb  the fat. 

Hamburger crumbles can be added to pasta sauce or you can make taco meat. Cook the hamburger until no pink remains.   Drain in a colander with a pan to catch the fat.   Remove the pan and pour boiling water through the meat in the colander.   This can reduce fat by as much as 17 percent.  Bag the meat in portion controlled batches. 

Meat balls can be made in the oven .   Use a portion scoop to make the meatballs consistent in size.  Place on baking rack over a sheet pan.  Fat will drain and you can bake a large batch saving energy and time.   Portion control meatballs in a zip lock bag.   

This cuts a lot of time out of meal prep at dinner time.   Tacos can be from freezer to table in as little as 10 minutes.    

Monday Kitchen Management

Kitchen management is taking an hour out if your bust schedule to save stress during the usually hectic dinner hour,   It saves time and money,

Freezer cooking has its place , especially if the resident cook is going to be gone or life is going to be hectic, but I don’t  do it because I dint have the stamina to work 8 hours on my feet and we don’t have enough freezer space to put  things that don’t need to be frozen in it.   Its a time vs stock issue
We are eating down the freezer now and I have  been only buying fresh produce, dairy, and just what needs to be replenished,

I digress, Kitchen Management :

1. Clean out the refrigerator and dump anything dead.  
2. Scrub the bins and shelves . 
3. Wash and disinfect counters and sinks and drains. 
4. Wash kitchen floor
5. Wax north side cabinets. 
6. Wash vegetables for dinners— potatoes and salad ingredients 
7. Thaw chicken breast 
8. Straighten the pantry. 

Meal Plans for week of 7/16/18

Meal Plans are a tool that saves money and time.   Being organized always makes life easier and reduces stress. 

• Chicken Parm, salad 
• Pizza - a family favorite 
• Minestrone , cheezy rolls 
• Beef enchaladas , lettuce, tomato 
• Beer chilli , bread sticks 
• Tuna cassarole,  peas and carrots 
• Breakfast for Dinner- another favorite, everyone cooks. 

Notes: 

1. Chicken parm is an easy, quick dinner.   Spaghetti remains to be a good price often.   It cooks i. 2 minutes in the insta pot.  Quick release.   Pasta sauce is less expensive than scratch.  Parmesean cheese is real and in a deli type container.   Watching at Winco and FM, you can find it on sale often.   If not parmesean, then a blend or Romano works. 
2. Pizza is a favorite.  A cheese pizza from scratch is a dollar.  Pepperoni is a dollar at the DT and there are 14 pieces in half a package.   Freeze pizza sauce from the DT .  One jar makes 5 pizzas.   Save veggies and meat scraps when appropriate.   Buffalo chicken pizza is an alternataive without tomato.  
3. Minestrone is meatless.   Cheezy rolls are a biscuit dough rolled out jelly roll fashio. And filled with cheese.   
4. Beef enchaladas are made with homemade enchilada sauce. Add lettuce and tomato. 
5. Beer chilli is from one of the DT cookbooks .  Cook beans in the insta pot instead of buying cans saves a lot of money.  Beans, hamburger (already cooked) Taco type seasonings, tomatoes, corn, and peppers and beer. 
6. Tuna casserole made with scratch soup base.  Frozen peas and real carrots. 
7. Breakfast for Dinner is a hit here.  Everyone cooks something.   

Groceries on the cheap takes a different approach to putting food on the table.   Purchasing groceries in bulk and when they are at their RBP saves time, money, and affords a piece of mind that cant be achieved buying your food one meal at a time.   Life happens.   Bleep happens to the best of us.  Being prepared and self sufficient is the gateway to piece of mind.  

Studies have shown that people that have to worry about where there next meal is coming from have a lower life expectancy .   Stress is not good for anyone,especially not children.   

You can eat well on four dollars a day.   We didn't set out to do that, it just happened.  I challenged myself to find every trick I could to lower food costs while maintaining a balanced diet .   It became a game.  Groceries are the most expensive thing in most peoples discretionary budget.   If one’s budget is tight, it is the most logical place to learn to economize .  

This blog is free from advertising.   I don't make money from this, I just want to help people.   Bee. There, done that.  I’m sharing.  Please share.   You never know who or when you might be helping someone.   

Dollar stores cook books

There are a few things...that we usually get at the dollar tree.   There are some name brand items that are just plain cheap and are the same quality as you can get other places for more money.

Cookbooks purchased at the Dollar Tree. 

All have really good recipes in them and use name brand ingredients.   Of course, you can always substitute scratch for the name brand ingredients or purchase the items on sale.   Scratch eliminates 

ingredients that you cant pronounce.  

It is always nice to get a different perspective on meals.   We all tend to get in a rut.   Something new is a pleasant change.   These cookbooks have many recipes that can be made efficiently and economically.   

And, who can turn down chocolate....did somebody say chocolate!

Classic baked apples 

Tomato topping for bruschetta

Pulled pork with cola bbq sauce 

Chicken tortilla soup 

Mama’s beer chili 

 Heavenly Harvest Pork Roast 

Boneless Pork Roast with garlic 

From the Crock Pot slow cooker recipes 

Beef Taco Skillet 

Pork chops Florentine 

Beef and Broccoli 

Cheddar penne with sausage and peppers 

Mexican pizza 

25 minute chicken and noodles 

Country chicken casserole 

Chili land rice 

From Campbell’s great for cooking 

Simply. Special brownies 

English toffee bars 

Chocolate and peanut butter fudge cheesecake 

Nutty toffee coffee cake 

Fudge brownie pie 

Easy chocoberry cream desert

Deep dark mousse 

From Hershey’s cocoa 

Well worth a buck.   

Thursday Grocery Haul

First:
Per week expenditures
2107 55.06
1QQ 18 —51.98
2Q 18 —52.40
July 52.57

This’s includes a bulk chicken purchase , bulk pork purchase and prorated beef.

Total below 33.13


Dollar Tree
Kosher spears
Sliced pineapple
Craisens

3.00

Grocery Outlet
Pacific Tomato soup 1.99. (3.49 at FM)
Stuffing mix .99
Cheese , shredded with bacon 1 lb 2.98

Total 5.98


Fred Meyers

Tortilla chips 1.99
Taco shells 1.00
Bananas .96
Gala apples 2.09
Blue cheese 4.99
Total 12.03

Total 21.01

Wednesday,, 7/11

Mission tortilla chips .99
Tillamook ice cream 2.99
Lettuce  .99
Bananas .45


Fred Meyers

Tomatoes 1.22
Pasta 1.00

Cherries 4.48

Concept: Chicken Breast

FM has split chicken breast for .88 a pound.   Chicken breasts here can cost as much as 8.00 a pound.
Foster farms is local chicken here.

Split chicken breast is the breast with the ribs attached.

Its not hard to get your moneys worth and its a good stock up price.

• Work on a sheet pan to contain chicken cooties .   LOL 
• Cut the rib section off of the breast.   Place the rib section in a zip lock bag. 
• Place the breast in a quart bag.  Uses tongs.  We use dollar store bags for this because then we put the quart bags in a zip lock gallon bag to label and freeze. 
• Before you go to bed, place the rib sections in the slow cooker, add water up to within an inch of the top of the pot. And add some vegetable trimmings and herbs of choice.   Set to Low. 
• In the morning.  Drain the stock into a pan through a colander and place in glass jars or deli containers up to an inch or so from the top .  Chill and freeze. 
• Pick the meat off the bones and place in freezer bag. 

Chain store ads; the best of them.....

QFC - we didn’t get the ad this week....my husband went down and got one from the store.  It was on his way to the beach. 

Strawberries 2 lbs 1.99

Raspberries, blackberries 3.99 - 12 ounces 

Cherries 1.99

Buy 5 save 5 

Tillamook ice cream 2.99

Kelloggs cereal 1.79 - should be coupons

Daves killer bread 2.99

NOT A BARGAIN.  Ground beef 5.99 lb 

ALBERWAYS 

Broccolli .99 lb 

Grapes 1.99

Salsa 24 oz 1.79@@

Tillamook ice cream 2.99@@

@@ means there is an in ad coupon or you can use a digital coupon.

FRED MEYERS 

MOST OF THIS IS SPECIALTY SALES; 

BOGOS 

FRANZ BREAD 

FROZEN FRUIT OUTSHINE 

SMOKED CHICKEN SAUSAGE 

TURKEY BURGERS 

4 days only:  W, TH, F.S

Pork ribs .99

Broccolli 99

Tomatoes on the vine .99

Eggs .99

Cherries 1.99

Ground turkey 2,99

FF CHICKEN:  SPLIT CHICKEN BREAST, THIGHS, LEGS, WHOLE FRYERS .88

Digital Coupons, Friday and Saturday Only, up to 5 quanity 

Ice craeam .99

Shrimp 4.77

Buy 5, save 5 

Kelloggs cereal 1.79

Cheese 4.99 

How did she do that?

Meal Plan Form including basic food list 

Meal Plans can be done efficiently.  We all are busy with life and meal plans help save time and money.  

The meal plan form was made in an excel spread sheet.   The left side has boxes for the days of the week and the right side has. List of basic foods .  A column for what you have and a column for what you may need to purchase.   A quick glance at the fridge makes a grocery list easy and simple. 

Add the things on sale from the grocery ads that you can use to complete meals.   What rotation meat is on sale?   What do you need to stock that is on sale?   

Using the list, and a matrix of your choosing, you can write a meal plan in a few minutes.  

Our matrix is protein based.  This allows for a variety of meals.  At a four dollar a day per person budget, its no surprise  that we don't eat a lot of steak and lobster.   LOL 

Example: 

Pork loin was on sale for 4 days only at QFC (Kroger ).  We purchased 2.   One was used for pork chops and stew meat, and one for 2 pork roasts.   We made three meals out of the pork roast: Pork Roast ‘Sunday” dinner, pork sliders, and sweet and sour pork.   With a matrix of 1 beef, 1 fish, 3 pork or chicken, and 2 vegetarian, that took care of the 3 pork or chicken.   Add tacos or nachos, pizza, breakfast for dinner, and a pasta with fish and you have a variety of 7 meals.   

Your standard grocery list would include perishables in the dairy and produce departments.  Frozen vegetable are a good bet if they are on sale.   Any fruit on sales rounds out a balanced diet.  

Finding the RBP on almost everything you buy is paramount.   Stick first to the basics that you use on a regular basis.   Bulk purchases make sense if they are versatile and a part of your regular diet.  Flour, oatmeal and rice are examples.   Making best use of what is in season and on sale is a good plan as well.   

The average family has a list of 7-10 entrees  that they eat on a regular basis...tried and true family favorites.   This makes meal planning easy.   

List your favorites in columns based on the protein used.   For 5 dollar dinners or less, the rule of theumb is to make kyour protein average 2.00.  That hasn’t changed here since the 70’s.  The meats, however, have changed.   We no longer can afford a real piece of beef very often.   I always check the markdown bin for bargains.   Here, unlike some stores in the mid west, they are few and far between.  .

Save grocery shopping can make it possible for your family to eat well balanced meals on a four dollar a day budget— even with heavy eaters.   We do it and carry a stock.  Carrying a 4-6 week stock is possible with that budgetary constraints.   

Having a four to six weeks stash is a good thing to enable you to be prepared for emergencies and it makes it possible to buy food when its on sale.   Almost all staple things work on a 4-6 week cycle.   

Setting goals as to how many of each staple item keeps you from over-buying.   If you use 2 cans of diced tomatoes a week, you need 12 cans ahead.   Putting the same can in the same section off the cupboard, lets you look a a glance tho see if you need to replentish when you see a sale.   

Keeping it simple helps save time and money.   Diced tomatoes are very versitile and with the push of the food processer or blender button, you can have tomato sauce.   

Simplify, buy at the RBP, and keep a stock.   Basic concepts for a budget friendly pantry.   

Monday Kitchen Management -notes

You can make a pork roast do double or triple duty, depending on the size of your family.   

• Pork roast, mashed sweet potatoes , green beans with bacon
•  Pork sliders, corn on the cob, salad

•  Sweet and sour pork, rice green beans 

Reminder of this week’s meal plan :

1.  Pork Roast, mashed sweet potatoes, green beans w bacon 
2. Pizza 
3. Pork sliders, corn on the cob, salad 
4. Mac and cheese, peas and carrots : a blast from the past. 
5. Chicken bake, rice 
6. Tacos, Spanish rice 
7. Breakfast for Dinner. 

Notes : 

1. Wash floor 
2. Clean out the refrigerator and dump anything dead.
3. Make note of things that need to be used up soon. 
4. Wash counter tops  and sinks and drains, disinfect. 
5. Wash the carrots for peas and carrots.   Use frozen peas and fresh carrots:  buying whole carrots instead of the ‘baby ‘ ones saves a lot of money.  A farmer years ago realized that he was having a trouble selling the not so perfect carrots.   His solution was to make baby carrots and pay for a  marketing campaign.    The end result was that carrot producers are getting a dollar or more a pound for their carrots when whole carrots are 5 lbs for 2.28.   Double the price .
6. Straighten the pantry.  

The cost on meals for 2 people. Note this is for a reasonable dinner, we aren't feeding a 17 yo linebacker.   Cost would be more for growing childcare or very active adults. 

Pork Roast dinner 1.66-  we had sweet potatoes left over but cost the whole amount out,,  Used 1/3 of a bag of frozen veg.

1. Pizza 1.50. Used scratch pizza with 1/2 package of pepperoni.   
2. Pork sliders: 1.45  Used rolls on sale and corn on the cob on sale for the 4th 
3. Mac and cheese, peas and carrots  1.75 uses cheese from GO with bacon 
4. Chicken baked , rice, carrots - 1.24. Rice is bought in bulk, chicken in bulk was .99 a pound.   4 ounce portions. 
5. Tacos, Spanish rice 2.04
6. Breakfast for dinner :   Eggs, English muffins, yogurt parfaits. 1.91.  Uses yogurt for .38, eggs at .88 a dozen , and English muffins bought for a dollar.   

Total 11.54 for 2 people.   

Its not as much what you buy, but when and where you buy it.   

Admittedly, this if for 2 adults that are not really active.   Portion control is a must.   That being said, the total is sooo low, that even if you have big eaters, you would still be in budget .  

Meal Plans for week of 7/9/18

Meal Plans are a necessary part of Groceries on the Cheap.   They save time and money. Making best use of the bargains you found shopping is a good way to save lots.

• Pork Roast , mashed sweet potatoes, green beans with bacon 
• Pizza
• Pork sliders , salad, corn on the cob 
• Mac and cheese, peas and carrots.  
• Baked chicken with stuffing 
• Tacos or nachos 
• Breakfast for Dinner 

Notes: 

1. Pork Roast is from Pork Loin bought at .99 from qfc. 
2. Pork roast does double duty sliced thin for pork sliders using bbq sauce purchased for .50. 
3. Mac and cheese is from grated cheese with bacon purchased at GO. 
4. Baked chicken with stuffing.  Stuffing purchased in a double box at GO.  Chicken breast was a dollar a pound at Zaycon. 
5. Taco meat already cooked in the freezer.  We purchased taco shells and tortilla chips this week. Taco shells were a dollar and the chips were two.  
6. Breakfast for dinner  is a family time: everyone cooks.   Eggs were .88 this week.   
7. Pizza is a cheap meal that everyone eats.   Pizza crust from scratch is .19 as apposed to 1.50-2.00 to purchase the dough.  Pizza cheese is low fat.   Pizza sauce is from the DT and one jar makes 5 pizzas.   Freeze the sauce in ice cube tray and pop into a zip lock bag.   

Saturday concepts.

Groceries on the cheap works on the concept of not paying full price for groceries.   We want the best quality we can have, but not at what my mother used to call top dollar.

QFC has 1/2 pork loins for .99 a pound with a digital coupon for a limited time.   I got 2.   Or, rather , my husband got two while I was getting my hair cut.

Pork loin can be cut into a stew cubes, pork chops, or roasts.   At a dollar a pound, it makes the highest component of meals cheap.   I also got chicken breasts for a dollar a pound and eggs for .88 a dozen.  That goes a long ways to cut food costs. You can still add a low fat hamburger and average two dollars a pound.   We eat beef once a week.  

Fresh fruits and veggies is also a component of a balanced diet.   If you buy the fruits that are on sale and in season, you can eat well on a low priced budget.  

Starch seems to be inexpensive a lot of the time.   The price of flour has taken a hike and it means youhave to be a bit more creative muting carbs.  We are all trying to cut carbs, but our bodies need some carbs to function.  Its all about balance.  

I was getting Barilla pasta for a dollar at the dollar tree and orowheat bread.  That source has all but dried up.   I will continue. To check, but lately we haven’t seen much.  I did stop at the Franz bread outlet and get some bread at a discount.  Wednesday is discount seniors and military day.   Since my husband is both, we took advantage of the discount.   Any discounts that you can find is a good thing.  Also, any free products that seem to be happening not only at Fred Meyers and QFC, but now sometimes at safeways.   Please dont take things just because they are free.  But, consider taking anything that they are offering that can be appropriate for the food bank or a friend.   I always take the cat treats for my grand cat.   We dont eat cold cereal , but it is more than approptiate for the food bank.  

This blog is about eating well for less and saving time in the kitchen.   This is especially appropriate during the summer months when kitchens can be hot for a lot of us, budget challenged or not.  

Ideas for food groups

Protein
Eggs, beans, cheese, pork loin, hamburger, chicken breast

Fruits annd veggies
Carrots
Celery
Lettuce
Radishes
Cucumbers
Tomato
Apple
Bananas
Nectarines
Strawberries
Blues

Starches
Bread, whole wheat
Pasta
Rice, in bulk
Stuffing
Potatoes

Recipe Friday

This blog is supposed to be about efficiently.   Its about buying your food in the most efficient manner in order to reduce your food costs.   Its also about cooking  efficiently to maximize your time in the kitchen.   “ I want to spend my entire day in the kitchen”. Said no one ever.!

Making mixes ahead of time saves time when life can be more hectic.  

A batch of 12 muffins costs five dollars at the store.   The cost of baking them at home is .94. and thats a gourmet recipe, not a basic one.   Silicone baking cups were 5.00 on amazon.   Considering a small package of paper liners cost a dollar even at the dollar store, it doesn’t take long to recoup your money and you arent adding to the landfill.   However, the paper is degradable and the silicone isn’t.

Mix : Makes 4 batches
8 cups flour
3 cups sugar
3T baking powder
2 t salt
2 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp nutmeg

Mix and store in air tight container in a cool place.

To make muffins

Mix wet ingredients together:
1 egg
1 cup milk
1/2 cup melted butter.  
Note:  do this in exact order, you dont want to cook the egg.

Measure 2-3/4 cups of the mix .  Add wet ingredients into dry ingredients.   Do not overmix or your muffins will be tough.  

Fill muffin cups ( greased, or lined with silicone or paper liners 3/4 full.

Bake at 400 degrees 18-21 minutes or until top springs back when touched or cake tester comes out clean.

Additional mix ins options

1/2 cup shredded apples and 1/2 cup cheese

Chocolate chips and 2 tsp instant coffee powder

3/4 cup shredded carrots.. 1/3 cup raisins


Muffins are a good breakfast or afternoon pick me up .


Find the recipe on line .

Thursday : hauls

Winco Haul

Salmon 1 lb 4.98

Large salad 2.68

Bananas .66

Corn .96

Roma tomatoes .91

Cherry tomatoes 2.28

Bacon (3) 1.98-5.94

2 strawberries 2.96

Total 21.25

Thursday 7/5/18

Safeways
Coffee 5.99
Eggs, 2 doz 1.76


Winco 7/5

Corn .20 - 1.00


Strawberries 3.36

Salmon 4.98
Blueberries 2.98
Nectarines 2.04

Total 14.24

QFC

2 butter
1 pork loin
Total 11.66

Total for 2 weeks is 54.90

Weekly store ads—chains

QFC
DIGITAL COUPON GOOD THURSDAY THRU SUNDAY
YOU CAN PURCHASE UP TO 5 OF EACH ITEM

DORITOS 1.99
BUTTER 1.99
PORK HALF LOIN .99

——-strawberries 2.49.


ALBERWAYS

90/10 GROUND SIROIN 3.77

FOURTH OF JULY ONLY
CORN 5/1

JUST FOR YOU
COUPONS- DIGITAL

CHEESE LIMIT 1 -3.99

ENGLISH MUFFINS .99
EGGS .88


APPARENTLY, FRED MEYERS WEEKLY AD ONLINE WAS CANCELLED FOR LACK OF INTEREST.