Egg rolls

Egg Rolls I made egg rolls last night for dinner out of the Pillsbury crescent rolls. They were lacking something, either they needed more garlic salt or some ginger or soy sauce, I don't know. I'm not gonna lie, they were a little weird. But in a, "I am so going to make them again" kind of way.
My daughter liked them. I liked them. I don't think the male folk in the family did. Here's what I did:

I sauteed off a bag of cabbage and carrot cole slaw in butter and olive oil, sprinkled with Lawry's garlic salt and added some sliced scallions and shallot. I would have used some bean sprouts but couldn't find any fresh in the grocery store. For one tube of crescent rolls, you will probably only need a half of a package of slaw. Less if you're using bean sprouts. When soft I then let the cabbage cool completely. On the second try at this, I put some uncooked sliced scallions on before bakingI unrolled the crescent rolls and separated them into the rectangle shape and pressed the other perforations together. I put some chopped cooked shrimp on the rectange, then the cooked cabbage and rolled them up lengthwise and sealed the edges and the ends with my fingers. I baked them according to the crescent roll baking instructions. Made a nice side to our basil Tilapia and ham fried rice.

When I make them next time I will season the shrimp, or whatever protein I use, and the cabbage more with salt or soy sauce or ginger. The crescent roll is so bland and thicker than a normal egg roll wrap that the flavor of the egg roll needs to come from within.

Apple sausage bread dressing

Apple Sausage bread dressing or stuffing

1 lb. of breakfast sausage or italian sweet sausage, cooked and crumbled
2-3 shallots or a half onion, finely diced
2-3 ribs of celery, diced
2-3 apples, peeled, cored and diced
1 stick butter
Aproximately 2 cans of vegetable or chicken broth
Sage, if desired
Aproximately 2 boxes of Mrs. Cubbinson's seasoned breadcrumbs or cubes
salt and pepper
melted butter or olive oil

Put the bread cubes in a bowl. You decide by how many people you are having if you use one or two boxes. We like it leftover so I use two boxes. Put the butter or margerine in a skillet and sautee the celery, onion and apple until soft. Pour the vegetables on top on the bread cubes. Add a can of broth and let it sit for a few minutes. Stir to absorb the liquid into the dried bread cubes. Add more broth or water for desired consistency. Put into a greased casserole dish. Top with a little melted butter or some olive oil. Bake, uncovered aproximately 30 minutes at 350 until golden on top.

NOTE: This year, 2010, I was lazy and didn't peel, core and dice apples so I took my kitchen shears and cut up my dried food storage apples, then rehydrated them with hot water for 15 minutes. No one knew the difference in the stuffing.

My family likes it this way, however you could add:
sauteed mushrooms
dried cranberries
cooked diced giblets, ew
wild rice mix, like Uncle Ben's or Rice A Roni
diced cooked bacon or panceta
raisins or other dried fruit like apricots
egg, as a binder
turkey stock from cooking the neck and giblets instead of canned broth

Twice-Baked Maple-Pecan Sweet Potatoes

Twice-Baked Maple-Pecan Sweet Potatoes
from Soozy

Ingredients
6 medium sweet potatoes (4 lb0, scrubbed
3 Tbsp butter
2 Tbsp pure maple syrup or pancake syrup
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
2 slices bacon, cooked crisp, crumbled
3 Tbsp pecans, toasted and chopped
Garnish: snipped chives or slice scallions

Preparation
1. Heat oven to 400 degrees F. Prick each potato once with a fork. Bake on a rimmed baking sheet 45-55 minutes until soft. 2. When cool enough to handle, cut potatoes in half lengthwise. Scoop insides into a medium bowl. Mash with next 4 ingredients until smooth. Spoon back into skin. 3. To serve: Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Line baking sheet with foil or parchment: coat foil with nonstick spray. Place stuffed potatoes on sheet; sprinkle with bacon and pecans. Bake uncovered 15 minutes or until hot. Garnish. Planning Tip: Pecans can be toasted and chopped up to 1 week ahead. Bag; store at room temperature. Prepare potatoes through Step 2 up to 2 days ahead. Refrigerate covered. Bring to room temperature before reheating (Step 3).

Corn Pudding

Corn Pudding
from Soozy

1 box Jiffy cornbread mix
1 can whole kernal corn
1 can creamstyle corn
2 eggs beaten
1 cup cream
1 stick butter, melted
salt and pepper to taste

Mix together (including corn liquid). Put in an 8x8 pan and bake for 1 hr. at 350 degrees F.

I usually double this and put in a 13x9 pan. You can also add diced green chilies if you'd like.

Roasted Butternut squash

Roasted Butternut squash
Turn oven on to 400 Degrees FCut in half carefully, don't lose a digit. Cut off the stem end and the bottom end so that you have a steady squash for peeling and slicing. You really do need to be careful here, the squash is quite hard to cut and peel, and you could quite easily lose control. Don't have any small children at the counter when you do this.Peel carefully, I use a Chef's knife. The big intimidating one. You could try using a peeler, but I'm not that patient.DicePut on a sheet pan and drizzle with Olive oil, then add salt and pepper. Don't look at my gross/grody baking sheet. That's why I usually do fuzzy close-ups. Gorgeous color. Toss the dices around so that all are coated in the Olive Oil and are seasoned nicely. Roast at 400 degrees for about 20-30 minutes.

It comes out all carmelly, sweet and delish. Yum. My favorite new thing to do.

Onion Strings

Onion Strings
From Pioneer Woman Cooks, pg. 92-93
Ree Drummond

1 large onion
2 cups buttermilk (if you don't have any buttermilk, add 1 tablespoon distilled white vinegar to just under 1 cup of low fat milk)
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 scant tablespoon salt (I found this too salty for my taste)
Plenty of black pepper
1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
Canola oil for frying

Begin by peeling the onion and slicing very thinly. Separate the onion slices and place them in a shallow dish. Pour buttermilk over the top. Press the onions down so they're submerged as much as possible and let them soak on the counter for at least an hour. If necessary, stir them around a bit halfway through the soaking process. In a bowl, combine the flour, salt, black pepper, and cayenne. Pour 1 to 2 quarts canola oil in a pot or Dutch oven. Heat to 375 degrees or until a pinch of flour sizzles when sprinkled over the pan. Using tongs, remove a handful of onions from the buttermilk and immediately dunk into the flour mixture. Coat the onions in the flour mixture, then tap them on the inside of the bowl to shake off the excess. Plunge the onions into the hot oil. With a spoon, fiddle with them a bit just to break them up. And watch them! They'll be ready to remove from the oil in no time flat. When they're golden brown (this should take under a minut), remove them from the oil and place on a paper towel lined plate. Repeat with the remaining onion slices and serve immediately. Pile these on top of a juicy grilled hamburger--to die for!

Menu with what's on sale for week of Apr. 21-Apr. 26 and more on the Fry's give away

Don't forget to go two posts down and leave your name and email for the Fry's Gift Card give away.

At first glance it doesn't look like a killer sales week but I put a lot of extras in the menu this week and didn't have to revamp it once after the first rough copy. So add a package of lunch meat or shave off some money by removing the soda, pudding cups, ice cream and fruit snacks to save money this week. Or switch out some of the fruit and buy another Suddenly Salad mix for a pasta salad lunch instead of sandwiches one day. I did forget a few items so started out a little cheaper than this final total, but I still decided to keep the luxury items like the fruit snacks, juice, pop, pudding cups. You can cut them out if you want to save lots of money this week.

$78.77
if you add .88 for the Hamburger Helper total is
$79.65

Breakfast
1-Pancakes
2-Cold cereal, milk and juice
3-Bagels and cream cheese
4-Cold cereal, milk and juice
5-Pancakes, juice
6-French toast
7-Cold cereal, milk

Lunch
1-Tuna sandwich, banana, fruit snack
2-PB&J sandwich, orange, pudding cup
3-Tuna sandwich, fruit snack, grapes
4-Egg salad sandwich, strawberries
5-Tuna sandwich, grapes, tortilla chips
6-Hot dog, bun, orange, soda
7-Hamburgers, pineapple/strawberry fruit salad, soda

Dinner
1-Beef and broccoli, brown rice, green salad. I was going to post a recipe from a recipe website for Beef and Broccoli but see below for how I make it. Or google Beef and Broccoli

2-Spinach Strawberry salad with sweet vinaigrette and grilled chicken strips or slices. See below for vinaigrette recipe

3-Hamburgers, buns, Suddenly salad pasta salad. If the ground round is too dry or lean, add a little olive oil to the meat before shaping into patties. Or and egg?????? Would that work????

4-Chicken Enchilada Casserole, chips and salsa, green salad. See side bar for recipe but see below for explanation.

5-Grilled cheese sandwich

6-Stuffed green peppers, roasted cauliflower, jello. See below for link to recipe for Roasted Cauliflower. Make stuffed peppers by using the halves, cook slightly in microwave, used browned gr. beef, tomato sauce, leftover cooked brown rice from meal idea #1, season with garlic salt or basil and put into halves, add a little cheese if you want, bake until hot. I'm not sure if you'll need all three cans of tomato sauce, so open them one at a time to see how tomato-ee and juicy you will want the rice to be. OK?

7-Leftovers or Hamburger Helper. Add .88 and buy a Hamburger Helper if that is what you want. You should have enough ground beef for it and should have enough lettuce, cucumbers and tomatoes for a green salad to go with it.

Dessert:
Ice cream
fruit

Beef and Broccoli
This is how I would do it. Slice the meat thin and fry on hot heat fast, don't overcook. The meat should still be juicy inside. Take out of pan and put on a plate. Either fry the broccoli or par boil or steam it. Put the beef broth in the fry pan and heat, season with garlic salt, ground ginger, soy sauce if you want. Make a slurry of cornstarch and add to the beef broth and let thicken. Add the broccoli and meat back to the pan.


Enchilada Casserole
The recipe to this is at the left side. I allowed for an 8x8 size with the groceries listed. So what I would do is to cook two or three chicken breasts and dice the meat once it's cooled. Then I would take one can of cream of chicken or cream of mushroom soup and put in a bowl. I would add some milk, maybe 1/4-1/2 soup can of milk, a couple of spoonfulls of sour cream and some green salsa or green enchilada sauce if I had it. If you don't, then add a spoon full or two of the salsa you have. Tear a flour tortilla into bite size pieces and put in an 8x8 inch pan. Add one or two tortillas, however many you want, add the chicken, add some sauce, continue layering with tortillas, chicken and sauce until out of chicken and sauce. Top with cheese and bake at 350 until hot and bubbly but don't burn the cheese. I sometimes garnish with diced tomato, sliced olives and crushed tortilla chips. My son thinks this is dip and will eat it by scooping it with tortilla chips. That's yummy also.

To double recipe, add a little more chicken and another can of soup and put in a 9x13 pan. You should have enough sour cream, tortillas and salsa.

Sweet Vinaigrette
1/2 C. veg. oil
1/4 C. cider vinegar
1/4 C. sugar
1 tsp. salt

whisk together or shake together in a jar or tupperware container with a tight fitting lid.

Roasted Cauliflower
see http://thisweekfordinner.com/2010/04/20/simple-side-dishes-roasted-cauliflower/

Groceries:
Albertson's:
Ground round, 5# or more, $1.77 lb., aprox. $8.85
Dole bananas, .49 lb., buy 3 lbs. at $1.47
Strawberries, .88 each, buy 2
Albertson's milk, 3 for $5, so $1.66 each, buy 3
Suddenly salad, .88 with coupon from paper
**Hamburger Helper, .88 with coupon from paper. Only buy one if you are using it instead of leftovers on meal idea #7. Add .88 to total.
Albertson's sour cream, .88 with coupon from paper
Snack pack pudding, 10/$10, buy 1
Jello, 10/$10, buy 1
Bar S jumbo meat franks, 10/$10, buy 1
Calidad flour tortillas, 10/$10, buy 1

Bashas'
Food club tomato sauce, .17, buy 3 at .51
Bashas chicken, .79 lb., buy 4 lbs. at $3.16
broccoli, .89 lb., buy 2 lbs.
Valu time cereal, .88, buy 3 at $2.64
Food Club Pancake mix, $1.59
Food Club syrup, $1.59
Food Club apple juice, $1.59, buy 2
Fresh cauliflower, .89 lb.
Food Club shredded cheese, $1.25

Fry's
Beef cross rib steak, $1.88, buy 2 lbs. at $3.76
Kroger salad dressing, .99
Kroger American cheese singles, .99, Fri/Sat./Sun. only
chicken of the Sea tuna, 20/$10, buy 3
Kroger peanut butter, 10/$10, buy 1
Campbell's cooking soups, 10/$10. Buy 1 if making 8x8, buy 2 if making 9x13
Fry's large eggs, $1.39, buy 2
Fry's tortilla chips, 10/$10, buy 1
Herdez or LaVictoria salsa, 2/$4, buy 1
Kroger fruit snacks, 10/$10, buy 1
Kroger Value buns, .88, buy 3 total, 2 hamburger, 1 hot dog
Kroger deluxe ice cream, 10/$10, buy 2
Kroger cream cheese, 10/$10, buy 1
Kroger bagels, 10/$10, buy 1 (might be in refridgerated section)
Kroger Value bread, .88, buy 4 at $3.52
Beef broth, 1 can, I've allowed for .99

Safeway
Sat. and Sun. only-2 liter Pepsi/7 Up, .69, buy 1
Sat. and Sun. only-8# bag of oranges, $2.99 each
Red seedless grapes, .88 lb.
Fresh express spinach, .99
Cucumber, .69

Sprouts
Green bell pepper, .77 each, buy 2 (for four people), at $1.54
Pineapple, $1.50
Iceberg lettuce, .88
Brown rice in bulk, .69 lb., buy 2 lbs. at $1.38
Cluster tomatoes, .97 lb.

Items not on grocery list:
Mayonnaise
jelly
spices/herbs
condiments
oil
flour
sugar
cornstarch
vinegar
salt
Parmesan
green salsa or enchilada sauce
butter
powdered sugar
pickle relish

Other great deals this week:
Dreyer's ice cream, $2.49-Safeway
Pork chops, $1.88 lb.-Fry's
chicken drums/thighs, .77 lb.-Fry's
Strawberries, .88 each-Fry's
American Beauty, Creamette, or Ronzoni pasta, 10/$10-Fry's
Fry's milk, $1.68, limit 2-Fry's
Kroger Orange juice, 128 oz., $2.99-Fry's
Roast, $1.88 lb.-Fry's
Idahoan potato pouch, 10/$10-Fry's
Kroger Value apple juice cocktail, $1.47-Fry's
Bashas' sandwich bread, .99-Bashas
food Club salad dressing, .99-Bashas
Pork loin, $1.77 lb.-Albertson's
7 Up, RC cola, or A&W root beer, .88 with coup-Albertson's
Albertson's cereal, 10/$10-albertson's


Well, there you have it. Since it is quite a lengthy post, I am so afraid I might have left out something important. Like you sit down to eat hamburgers and realize that you didn't buy hamburger. You'll probably notice before you sit down to eat, though.

Cheesy Potatoes

Cheesy Potatoes

1 bag (30 oz.) of shredded hash browns
1 can of cream of celery soup
1 can of cream of mushroom soup
2 cups (1 pint) of sour cream
4 cups of shredded cheddar cheese

Mix above ingredients together keeping 2 cups of cheese out for the topping. Transfer to a 9x13 pan that you've sprayed with nonstick cooking spray, top with remaining cheese, cook uncovered at 350 degrees until internal temperature is 140 degrees, approximately 55-60 minutes(if potatoes were frozen, if not, then much less time, check often).

*Add ham to make a Potato and Ham casserole

Recipes for St. Patrick's Day

Irish Soda Bread
Here is the link to the recipe that I posted (link) for the menu for the week for Irish Soda bread
http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/irish_soda_bread/

Irish Soda Bread Muffins
Also, a recipe I found a link for from Simply Recipes to The Recipe Girl for Irish Soda bread muffins. It looks intriguing.
http://therecipegirl.blogspot.com/2008/03/irish-soda-bread-muffins.html

Corned Beef and Cabbage
This recipe, for corned beef and cabbage is on Simply Recipes. She tells you how to bake corned beef with a yummy sweet, hot, mustard on it or to simply boil it.
http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/corned_beef_and_cabbage/

Easy Corned Beef and Cabbage (and bacon)
And this one I've made before. It is yummy, I think. Although it has salty ingredients in it so I don't make it as much as I would like to. It uses canned corned beef. I like canned corned beef. I saw Paula Deen make this on her show a couple of years ago so I tried it and like it so much that I made it again.
http://pauladeen.com/index.php/recipes/view2/easy_corned_beef_and_cabbage/

Baked Potato Bar
Baked potatoes with an assortment of toppings: shredded cheddar, bacon crumbles, sliced green onion, sour cream, ham dices, gravy, seasoned ground beef, salsa, chili, steamed broccoli, cheese sauce, ranch dressing.

Potato Soup
See recipes on the left side.

Colcannon
Tyler Florence made this on his "The Ultimate" show. Looks yummy and authentic. Colcannon is a traditional Irish dish. Potatoes, cabbage, bacon, butter....
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/tylers-ultimate/colcannon-recipe/index.html

Blarney Stone Bars
This recipe for a sweet treat, Blarney Stone Bars looks good, from Taste of Home magazine.
http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Blarney-Stone-Bars

Twice Baked Potatoes

Last year I made these to have for dinner Christmas day. I made up the whole bag of potatoes and froze them since my kids love twice baked potatoes. They didn't last that long but for as long as they did, my kids could pull a potato out of the freezer and pop it into the microwave for a quick snack or lunch during Winter break. So I'm thinking this year that I may make the twice baked potatoes a week ahead, freeze and if I can keep people from eating them before Christmas, my potatoes will be done and all I will have to do is warm them in the microwave or oven for Christmas dinner.

Twice baked potatoes

Potatoes, one per person (?)
sour cream
butter
chopped cooked bacon or bacon pieces
chopped green onion
shredded cheddar
garlic salt if desired
salt and pepper

Wash potatoes and pierce with a fork or knife and place uncovered on a baking sheet. Bake potatoes in the oven at 350 for about an hour depending on their size. While still hot but cool enough to handle, slice a part of the top of the potato off, scoop out flesh into a bowl and leave shells intact on baking sheet. Add some butter, milk, sour cream to flesh and mash with a masher. When desired consistency add bacon, cheese and green onion and salt and pepper. Fill into shells, top with more cheese and bake until hot or until cheese melts if they are already hot. You can freeze before baking if you want.

If you want to, instead of a whole potato for one serving, you could slice the potato in half after baking making two servings from one potato. Do this if the potatoes are big or if there are a lot of children you may be serving.

California Candied Sweets (Yams)

http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/2128/California-Candied-Sweets82134.shtml

Apples and Yams

http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1850,154189-231193,00.html

Sausage and Apple Dressing Recipe

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchens/sage-sausage-and-apple-dressing-recipe/index.html


This is a lot like what I do for dressing although I don't put in walnuts, eggs and I use vegetable broth instead of chicken broth.

Mashed Potatoes

Check out this video by Alton Brown on how to make perfect mashed potatoes http://www.foodnetwork.com/altons-mashed-potatoes/video/index.html

However. If you don't have a food mill you have my permission to use a potato masher. We happen to like rustic style lumpy mashed potatoes over here and that's what I'll be using come turkey day.

Mashed potatoes can be put in the crockpot on low to keep warm or you can put the covered bowl over a pot of water that has come to the boiling point(turn heat to low or off) for about an hour. Or put hot foods in an ice chest to hold until dinner. I wouldn't do this for longer than an hour or two though.

Menu for what's on sale for Sept. 9-Sept. 16

So late in the sales week, but better late than never. Remember that you have until Monday night, Sept. 14th to enter in the Fry's $20 GC giveaway. See my post way down there, under the "Announcing.." headliner.

Here we go...$69.12 this week

Breakfast
1-Cold cereal, sliced peaches
2-Hard boiled eggs, toast
3-Cold cereal
4-French toast, cantaloupe slices
5-Cold cereal
6-Cold cereal
7-Eggs, toast

Lunch
1-Tuna sandwich, cookie
2-cottage cheese/canned fruit salad, celery sticks
3-Pork sandwich, apple wedges (keep some apple for the Spinach Salad for dinner idea #3)
4-Egg salad sandwich, tortilla chips, cookie
5-Tuna sandwich, strawberries
6-Chicken Noodle or tomato soup, leftover corn muffins
7-Macaroni and Cheese, Soda

Dinner
1-Macaroni and cheese, canned vegetable of your choice

2-Pork roast, canned vegetable of your choice, bread dressing, see http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Celery-Stuffing/Detail.aspx for recipe for bread dressing. Cut the pork loin into 3 pieces (or more?). One for the roast, one for the strips for stir fry and one to freeze for next week or the week after. Leftover roasted pork can be used for sandwiches. I did not put an onion down on the grocery list for the bread dressing, so if you need onion in this dish, add it to your grocery list.

3-Spinach Salad, french bread. See recipe below for Spinach Salad.

4-Pork stir fry with Ramen noodles. Use pork strips, broccoli and mushrooms for stir fry.

5-Taco Soup, corn muffins. Tortilla chips, sour cream and avocados for toppers. See recipe below for the Taco Soup

6-Bacon and tomato sandwiches. Add $1.28 to the week's food budget and buy some Kroger Value french fries to go with it if desired. Peach Raspberry Crisp for dessert. See side bar to take you to the entry that has the link for the recipe.

7-Spaghetti, sauce, garlic bread

Spinach Salad (Beth C., who gave it to Ginna B., who gave it to me)

Fresh spinach, washed
shredded or thinly sliced cabbage or some cole slaw mix
sliced strawberries
diced apple
Brianna's brand poppy seed dressing
(halved grapes, but the budget did not allow for grapes this time)
(Toasted amaranth and cooked quinoa are also added as are sugared cashews but I did not allow for them in the budget this time. Also adding cooked chicken or pork is good.)



Taco Soup (Kathy G., who gave it to Margie M., who gave it to me)

1 lb. of ground beef or ground turkey
1 small to medium onion, diced
1 can of corn with liquid (15 oz.)
1 can of black beans or pinto beans, with liquid (15 oz.)
1 can of diced tomatoes (28 oz.), or two smaller cans (15 oz.)
2 cans of tomato sauce (8 oz. each)
1 C. of water
1 package of taco seasoning

Brown ground beef. Drain grease. Sautee onion or cook in a bowl with a small amount of olive oil in it in the microwave for 30 seconds. Combine everything in a pot, heat until hot. Serve with toppers.

Toppers:
Shredded cheddar or Monterrey jack cheese
jalapenos, pickled or fresh
sour cream
sliced olives
sliced or diced avocado
sliced green onion
tortilla chips or corn tortilla strips fried in oil and salted. Or you can bake them.

(serves 4-6)

Now for the Grocery List:
Albertson's
Calidad tortilla chips, .99
Albertson's french bread, .99, buy 2
Hunt's diced tomatoes, .99
Jiffy corn muffin mix, 2/.79, buy 2
Bunch spinach, .69, buy 2

Bashas'
Boneless pork loin, $1.27 lb., aprox. $11 for one (cut into 3 pieces. Use one for a roast, one for pork stir fry and freeze one piece for next week or the next week)
Utah peaches, .79, buy 5 lbs, aprox., at $3.95
Strawberries, $1, buy 2
Bashas' large eggs, .88, buy 2
Del Monte vegetables, .69, buy 3
Lawry's taco seasoning, 2/$1, buy 1
S&W black beans, .75
Shamrock Farms sour cream, $1.39 (use a coupon and pay .39 for this)
Celery, .79
Broccoli, .99
Dole mushrooms, .88
Brianna's poppy seed dressing, I've allowed for $4.70 for this
Del Monte fruit, .75
Hamburger, $2.49 lb., $3.50 per package, aproximately
Cabbage, I've allowed for $1 for this
Large tomatoes, $1.99 lb.

Fry's
Fry's milk, $1.39, buy 2 (you can also buy the milk at the same price at Albertson's)
Driscolls raspberries, $1, buy 1
Gala apples, .77 lb., buy 2 lbs.
Campbell's chicken noodle or tomato soup, .49, buy 3
Maruchan Ramen noodles, .10, buy 2
Bumble Bee chunk light tuna, .47, buy 2
Fry's chicken broth, .50, buy 2
Fry's tomato sauce, .15, buy 2
Fry's macaroni and cheese, .29, buy 3
Big K soda, .47, buy 1
Kroger Value cereal, .99, buy 3 (or you can buy the Malt O Meal cereal at Albertson's for .99 each)
Kroger Value cookies, $1.19, buy 1
Bar S bacon, $1.99
Kroger cottage cheese, $1.18
Kroger Value bread, .88, buy 4 loaves
Fry's spaghetti, .88
Kroger Value spaghetti sauce, $1.19

Sprouts
Chilean Hass avocados, .49
Cantaloupe, .99

Items not on the grocery list:
oats
sugar
flour
butter
herbs and spices
onion

Other great deals this week:
Gala apples, .69 lb.-Safeway
Lucerne milk, $1.39-Safeway
Fresh and Easy shredded cheese, $1.99-Fresh and Easy
Yoplait yogurt, .40-Bashas'
Macayo diced green chilis, 2/$1-Bashas'
Malt O Meal cereal, .99-Albertson's
Albertson's milk-$1.39-Albertson's
Land o Frost Deli Shaved lunchmeat, $2.50-Albertson's
Albertson's sour cream, .99-albertson's
Kroger Value sugar, $1.69-Fry's
Kroger sour cream, $1.19-Fry's

The Utah peaches at Bashas. My friend was telling me that her friend takes the sliced, peeled peaches and puts them in a ziplock baggie. Then she puts that in a pie plate and freezes it so that it forms to the pan form. She then takes out the pan once the peaches are frozen and stacks them. Then when she wants peach pie, she takes out a bag of pie form peaches and plops them into a pie crust.

Menu for what's on sale Sep. 2-Sep. 8

Remember to enter the $20 Fry's GC contest by putting your name and email in the comment section of the "Announcing..." post below!!!!!!

This week:

$69.09

A good week to stock up on meat. My friend Mindy over at the $50 Stockpile blog (see my sidebar) has some good ideas for how to use $50 for meals this week.

Breakfast

1-French toast, bacon (reserving bacon for baked beans)

2-Breakfast tacos (eggs, sausage crumbles wrapped in a flour tortilla)

3-Cinnamon toast, cantaloupe chunks

4-French toast

5-Egg biscuit

6-Cinnamon toast

7-Breakfast tacos

Lunch

1-PB&J sandwich, celery sticks

2-PB&J sandwich, goldfish crackers

3-Bagels, cream cheese, carrots

4-PB&J sandwich, cantaloupe chunks

5-PB&J sandwich, watermelon chunks

6-Grilled cheese sandwich, leftover potato salad

7-Grilled cheese sandwich, potato chips

Dinner

1-Potato Cream Cheese Soup. Find recipe at http://www.recipezaar.com/Paneras-Cream-Cheese-Potato-Soup-150863

2-Hamburgers or meatloaf, green salad

3-Hot dogs, baked beans. The recipe for the baked beans on Pioneer Woman Cooks is below. I allowed for a half recipe for the beans. Otherwise it serves 18. So if you want to make the full recipe and use some for labor day, that would work. I allowed for 3 fifteen ounce cans of Pork & Beans in the grocery list.

4-Labor Day Menu. Spareribs, Potato Salad, Celery and carrots, Potato chips and dip, watermelon. If enough eggs will be left for the rest of the week, make some deviled eggs. Cheesecake pie for dessert. Cheesecake pie recipe below. If you have leftover cream cheese from bagels this week, a good dip can be made creaming the cheese, adding some milk to make creamier and some garlic salt to taste.

5-Leftovers.

6-Southwestern Chicken Caesar salad. A couple of options here. A recipe http://www.recipezaar.com/southwestern-chicken-caesar-salad-wchipotle-dressing-380694 or make your own dressing by adding a couple of dashes of green tabasco to bottled caesar dressing. You could try the red kind if that's all you have. Or let's go crazy and even say to try a small amount of taco seasoning. Try just a little in a small amount of dressing first to see if you'll like it. Or buy the Caesar salad kits on sale at Fry's this week. Making your own would be more cost effective though. If you choose to use the recipe, use one cob of corn for this salad, if you decide to buy some black beans for it, you will have to allow for extra in the food budget.

7-Grilled chicken sandwiches and corn on the cob. Here's what my hubby does. He bakes the chicken breasts in the oven at 350 or lower temp(I'll have to ask him now which it is) until they are almost done. Still inedible though. He then slices the breasts in half, so that you now have double the amount of chicken breasts, but thinner, and easier to eat as a sandwich. A really good $ stretcher idea for BBQ's and parties. He then puts BBQ sauce on them and BBQ's until they are done, not very long. Ice cream for dessert. If you want to use the leg quarters instead for this night, then cook the meat, take off the bone, and use as BBQ chicken sandwiches.

Quick Southern-Style Baked Beans

recipe by Pam Anderson
serves up to 18
as posted by the Pioneer Woman Cooks

8 slices bacon, halved
1 medium onion, small dice
1/2 medium green pepper, small dice
3 large cans(28 oz. each), Pork and Beans (or 6 small cans)
3/4 C. BBQ sauce
1/2 C. brown sugar
1/4 C. distilled or cider vinegar
2 tsp. dry mustard or 2 T. Dijon mustard

Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position and heat oven to 325 degrees. Fry bacon in large, deep saute pan skillet until bacon has partially cooked and has released about 1/4 C. drippings. Remove bacon from pan and drain on paper towels. Add onions and peppers to drippings in pan and saute until tender, about 5 minutes. Add beans and remaining ingredients and bring to a simmer(If skillet is not large enough, add beans and heat to a simmer then transfer to a large bowl and stir in remaining ingredients. Pour flavored beans into a greased 13-by 9-inch (or similar size) overproof pan. Top with bacon, then bake until beans are bubbly and sauce is the consistency of pancake syrup, about 2 hours. Let stand to slightly thicken.

You may want to halve this recipe and only use 3 small cans of P&B's. Adjust the other ingredients.

Spareribs

3 lbs. spareribs
2 T. butter
1 Onion, medium, diced
1 clove garlic or comparable amount of garlic powder
1 C. celery, chopped
3/4 C. water
1 C. ketchup
2 T. vinegar
2 T. lemon juice
2 T. worcestershire sauce
2 T. brown sugar
1 tsp. dry mustard
1 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper

Melt butter; add onion, and cook until translucent, add remaining ingredients and cook 20 minutes. Enough sauce for 3 lbs. of meat. Simmer spareribs in sauce for 3-4 hours. (my mom always cut them into separate ribs or chunks of 2-3 ribs before cooking in the sauce.)



Cheesecake Pie (Angela N.)

2 bricks cream cheese, room temperature
2/3 C. heavy cream
2/3 C. powdered sugar
1 grahm cracker or shortbread or oreo pie crust

Mix cheese, cream (or less milk if you don't want to buy cream, start with 1/4 C.), powdered sugar, with an electric mixer until creamy. Pour into a cracker crust, refridgerate four hours. Serve with canned pie filling or fruit jam. Strawberry or Raspberry freezer jam is an excellent topping for this.

Albertson's

Albertson's is quadrupling coupon values this week

Cantaloupe, .99, buy 1. You may want to buy the cantaloupe at Sprouts for the same price.

Van Camp's Pork and beans, 2/$1, buy 3 cans. Food City has them for .25 if you have one close to you.

Bashas'

80% ground beef, $1.38 lb., 4 lbs. or more, aprox. $5.52

Bashas hot dog or hamburger buns, .88, buy 2 hamburger, 1 hot dog buns

Food Club cheese singles, .99

Food Club slice bacon, $1.99, buy 1. Fry's has Kroger Value bacon every day for $1.77

Bar S meat franks, .28 with shocker! coupon from the Wed. ad, with additional $20 purchase

Blue Bunny ice cream, $1.48 with shocker! coupon from the Wed. ad and additional $20 purchase

Kraft mayonnaise or Miracle whip, $1.98 with shocker! coupon from the Wed. ad and additional $20 purchase

Russet potatoes, .99 for a 10 lb. bag, buy 1

Whole seedless watermelon, $1.99

They have Pork and Beans here for .75 if you don't want to run to Food City or Albertson's

Eggs, I've allowed for $1.49 per doz., I forgot to check real prices last night, buy 3 dozen.

Green bell pepper, .99, buy 1

Yellow onion, $1 lb., buy 2

Fry's

Pork spareribs, .97 lb., one rack was a little over 4 lbs., or $4.23. I know they're cheaper at Bashas' this week. I couldn't find a pack to price and you have to buy a twin pack. I figured that this might be cheaper in the long run but if you have extra $, buy spareribs at Bashas'.

Boneless/skinless chicken breast, Kroger Value brand, $1.67 lb., aprox. $3.92. You can go with leg quarters at Bashas' for $3.80 for a 10# bag. Your choice. (Just turn meal idea #7 into BBQ chicken sandwiches instead of grilled chicken sandwiches.)

Lay's potato chips, $1.47

Kroger shredded cheese, .97, buy 1 for the top to the soup or for the breakfast tacos or to top with the Caesar salad. You may choose to buy another package of cheese depending on how many items you want cheese in this week.

Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce, .88

Kroger cream cheese, $1.25, buy 4 packages

Kroger Value canned biscuits, .46

Kroger Value peanut butter, $1.29

Kroger dip, .97

Celery, $1

Organic mini peeled carrots, 2/$3, buy 1

Mission taco tortillas, buy one, get one free, $2.69 for 2

Grahm crackers, I've allowed for $1.99 for this. This is to make the pie shell

Fry's milk, $1.99, buy 1

Pepperideg Farms goldfish crackers, 10/$10

Kroger bagels, $1.25

Kroger Value bread, .88, buy 5 loaves. You will need 80 slices of bread minimum this week. Four loaves is 80 slices. The fifth loaf will give you security if something burns. Rollover into next week if you don't use it.

Farmer John sausage links, $1, buy 2

Fry's chicken broth, .89, buy 2

Romaine lettuce, I've allowed for $1.50 for this

Sprouts

Sweet corn, 10/$2, buy 5 ears

Large vine ripe tomatoes, .99 lb., buy 1 lb.

Other great buys this week:

chilean avocados, 2/$1, Sprouts

Green beans, .99 lb., Sprouts

Blue Bunny ice cream, $1.88, Albertson's

93% br. beef, $1.77 lb., 5 lbs. or more, Albertson's

Dole salad kits, .97, Fry's

Bar S jumbo franks, .57, Fry's

Kroger Value bacon, $1.77, Fry's

Popsicles, .88, Fry's

Broccoli or cauliflower, $1, Fry's

Hunt's pasta sauce, 4/$5, Fry's

Kroger apple juice coctail, $1.29, Fry's

Fresh pork spareribs, .88 lb., Bashas'

Boneless top sirloin, $1.99 lb., Bashas'

Cook's Ham, .99 lb., Bashas' (makes for a cheap lunch meat)

Fresh chicken leg quarters, .38 lb., in a 10 lb. bag for $3.80

Things not on the grocery list:

brown sugar

ketchup

garlic powder

worcestershire sauce

ground mustard

Dijon

tobasco

Funeral Potatoes

I know, the photo doesn't go with the title. I've decided to go back to the old posts that had recipes in them and clean them up to just be one recipe, so that when you click a recipe you don't have beef in the chicken category and candy in the chicken category and so on. For the Funeral Potatoes recipe I had originally put down a website and when I go to that now nothing happens, so I found the recipe that I think is close to the one my mom used to make. I also have one that the hubs uses for caterings and the ward uses for ward dinners that I will post in another post.

Funeral Potatoes Mesquitemamma as posted on http://www.grouprecipes.com/

32 oz bag of frozen shredded hash browns

2(10.3/4 oz.) cans cream of chicken soup

2 Cups sour cream

1 1/2 C grated cheddar cheese

1/2 C. melted butter or margarine

1/2 C. chopped onion

2 C. finely crushed corn flakes

2 T. butter or margarine melted

Grease 9x18 baking dish and preheat oven to 350. In a large bowl combine soups, sour cream, cheese, onion, and the 1/2 cup of melted butter. Gently fold hash browns into mixture. Pour mixture into pan. Combine crusted corn flakes and the 2 Tbs. of melted butter and sprinkle on top of potato mixture. Bake for 30 minutes.

*If you want to, you can use cubed potatoes instead of hash browns but you will need to increase baking time to 55 minutes.

*Add leftover ham if you want to make this into a Potato and Ham casserole