Making the food budget stretch is becoming more and more of a magical art form. Grocery shopping is a true horror at checkout. The years of endless dinners are wearing me out. But we need to eat well or we’re all an unstable mess.
I’m pretty excited about how many meals I got out of these six chicken breasts and a few fresh ingredients. First thing is cooking all of the chicken that night. I baked it, covered, with oil and seasoning. One was so large it wouldn’t fit with the others, so I let it cook with cream of chicken soup in the crockpot.
First dinner was rotini pasta with an oil and herb dressing, roasted Brussels sprouts, and chicken. The pasta was a little sweet. The veggies garlicky. And the chicken spicy.
Next night was chicken with roasted potatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, and carrots. The kids love their broccoli.
I made chicken salad for lunch and a couple after school snacks. Apple slices, hard boiled egg, and crackers were the perfect beast tamer.
Lastly, I reheated the leftover pasta with some chicken from the crockpot (which had been stored properly after cooling) and added broccoli and cauliflower with cream soup and some spices. A sleepy meal.
I made a few other meals with some of these ingredients, like egg and broccoli potato hash, and egg and tomato potato hash. I’m feeling pretty accomplished at the moment.
List: 6 chicken breasts, small bag Brussels sprouts, small bag red potatoes, bag small carrots, head cauliflower, small broccoli bunch, box rotini pasta, two cans cream of chicken. Eggs and apples, too. That’s basically it. I still have a lot of cauliflower. I think I might rice it and make a beans and rice with corn and tomatoes.
The Accidental Domestic Goddess 