Three Meat Pasta

Three Meat Pasta
Paula Deen, Food Network

1 lb. angel hair pasta
2 C. cooked chicken, off the bone
2 C. cooked sausage, like Keilbasa, cut 1/2 inch thick into coins
2 C. cooked ham, cubed
1 large yellow onion, chopped
2 C. cheddar cheese, shredded
16 oz. cottage cheese
3 chicken bouillon cubes
1 C. hot water
1-2C. Parmesan cheese, grated

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
In a large paot, boil salted water for angel hair pasta. When cooked, drain and set aside. In a large bowl mix together the chicken, sausage, ham, onions, cheddar cheese and cottage cheese. In a separate small pot, dissolve bouiloon cubes with hot water and pour over the meat and pasta. pour mixture into a 9x12x2 inch greased baking dish and top with the parmesan cheese. Bake for 30-35 min. or until the bubbling around the edges.

Sweet and Sour Chicken

I made the Sweet and Sour Chicken recipe tonight for dinner that was in the post earlier today that I got from the "two peas and a pot" blog. Except that I switched out pork from a pork loin instead of using chicken. It was yummy, yummy. I have never been a fan of homemade sweet and sour before because I could never find a sauce to my liking. This one is good. If I would make any changes, I might thicken the sauce slightly with some cornstarch and add it to the pork right before serving so as to keep the pork crisper. Everyone gobbled it down, even the child who is a self proclaimed hater of Asian cuisine. But then again, I don't really know how authentic sweet and sour pork made with ketchup is. I had some sauteed red pepper strips and pineapple chunks on the side for those who like to add one or both of those. Next time I may get crazy and have sauteed onions on the side.

Sweet and Sour Chicken
from the blog, "Two Peas and a Pot"


3-4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
Salt and pepper
1 C. cornstarch
1/4 C. canola oil

Cut the boneless chicken breasts into chunks. Season with salt and pepper. Coat chicken in cornstarch. Fry in a little oil until brown but not cooked through. Place in a single layer in a baking dish. Mix sauce ingredients together and pour over the chicken.

Sauce:
3/4 C. sugar
4 T. ketchup
1/2 C. vinegar
1 T. soy sauce
1 tsp. garlic salt

Bake for 1 hr. at 325 degrees. Turn chicken every 15 minutes. If you want extra sauce, make another batch and put in a pot and bring to a boil. Keep at medium heat, stirring often for 6-8 minutes until reduced slightly.

Favorite Chicken

Favorite Chicken aka Chicken Risotto
From Sooz

6 T. butter/margarine
1 lb. chicken breasts cut into bite sized pieces
1 clove garlic, minced
1 1/2 C. uncooked rice
3 green onions, chopped
3 C. chicken broth
1 tsp. basil
1 C. shredded cheese

In a large skillet melt 2 T. butter. Add chicken and cook over medium heat about 5 minutes. Remove chicken from skillet. Add 4 T. butter, rice and garlic to skillet and cook until rice is lightly browned, about 5 minutes. Add green onions and mushrooms if desired. Cook 2 minutes. Stire in chicken broth and basil. Bring to a boil; cover and simmer 15 minutes. Stir in chicken, continue simmering until chicken is heated and rice is tender, about 5 minutes. Top with cheese and serve! Makes about 6 servings.

P.F. Changs Lettuce Wraps

P.F. Chang style Lettuce Wraps
from Carrie S.

3 T. oil
2 boneless skinless chicken breasts
1 cup water chestnuts (can)
2/3 C. mushrooms
3 T. chopped onion
1 tsp. minced garlic
4-5 leaves of ice berg lettuce

Special sauce
1/4 C. sugar
1/2 C. water
2 T. soy sauce
2 T. rice wine vinegar
2 T. ketchup
1 T. lemon juice
1/8 t. sesame oil or EVOO
1 T. hot mustard
2 tsp. water
1-2 tsp. garlic and red chili paste

Stir Fry Sauce
2 T. soy sauce
2 T. brown sugar
1/2 tsp. rice wine vinegar

Make special sauce by dissolving the sugar in water in a small bowl. Add soy, rice vinegar, ketchup, lemon juice and sesame oil. Mix well and refrigerate this sauce until you are ready to serve. Combine the hot water with the hot mustard and set this aside as well. Eventually add your desired measurement of mustard and garlic chili sauce to the special sauce mixture to pour over the wraps. Bring oil to high heat in a wok or large fry pan. Saute chicken breasts for 4-5 minutes per side or until done. Remove chicken from the pan and cool. Keep oil in the pan, keep hot. As chicken cools, mince water chestnuts and mushrooms to about the size of small peas. Prepare the stir fry sauce by mixing the soy, brown sugar, and vinegar together in a small bowl. When chicken is cool, mince it as small as the mushrooms and water chestnuts are. With the pan still on high heat, add another T. of EVOO. Add chicken, garlic, onions, water chestnuts and mushrooms to the pan. Add the stir fry sauce to the pan and saute the mixture for a couple of minutes, then serve it in the lettuce cups. Top with special sauce.

Lemon Poppyseed Chicken

Lemon Poppyseed Chicken
from Sharon M.

1 lb. chicken breasts cooked and shredded
1/2 cup sauteed mushrooms
1 1/2 can cream of chicken soup
1 tsp. crushed garlic
2 Tblsp. minced onion
6 ounces sour cream
1/2 cup chicken broth
2 Tblsp. lemon juice
1-row keebler town house crackers, crushed
1/3-cup butter, melted
Poppy seeds

In sprayed baking dish spread chicken evenly. In a bowl combine soup and sour cream, broth, garlic, onion and mushrooms. Pour soup mixture over chicken. Sprinkle with Poppy seeds. Sprinkle crushed crackers evenly over chicken casserole. Drizzle butter over crackers. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 30 minutes uncovered. Serve with salad and bread.

Menu with what's on sale for the week of June 2-June 8

$76.43

Breakfast
1-Oatmeal, blueberries
2-Oatmeal
3-French toast
4-Oatmeal
5-Oatmeal
6-Oatmeal
7-Cinnamon toast

Lunch
1-Pasta salad, strawberries, lemonade
2-Egg salad sandwich, mixed berries
3-PB&J sandwich, banana, goldfish crackers
4-Leftover Taco soup, chips
5-PB&J sandwich, banana
6-PB&J sandwich, cherries
7-Pasta salad, if enough flour tortillas and cheese are left, make cheese crisp

Dinner
1-Taco soup, with sour cream, tortilla chips and cheese as toppers. See left column for recipe
2-Fish sticks or filets, steamed carrots, canned vegetable of choice, cantaloupe chunks
3-Salad with garlic cheese toast (french bread cut in half horizontally, spread with butter, sprinkle with garlic salt, top with cheese and put on a low broil and watch continually until cheese is melted)
4-Baked chicken 1/4's, mashed potatoes, steamed broccoli
5-Spaghetti, french bread
6-Leftovers
7-Pollo Fundido, salad see http://www.recipezaar.com/recipe/Pollo-Fundido-38053

Dessert:
Yellow cake topped with strawberries

Grocery List:
Albertson's
Fresh Express garden salad, .88, buy 3 at $2.64 (I just realized that there is a limit of 2, so either take someone with you to buy the third one, or if you think you'll only need 2 this week, only buy 2)
French bread, .99, buy 2
Albertson's cream cheese, 10/$10, buy 1
Calidad, tortillas, 10/$10, flour tortillas, buy one package, I'm not sure how many are in one package though. You'll need them for Pollo Fundido and possibly cheese crisps if you want them.
Hunt's tomato sauce, 10/$10, buy 1
Idahoan Potatoes, 10/$10, buy 2
Bush's beans, 10/$10, buy 1
2 lbs. bag carrots 10/$10, buy 1
Suddenly Salad pasta salad, 10/$10, buy 2
Betty Crocker yellow cake mix, 10/$10

Bashas
Bashas eggs, .88, limit 2, buy 2 at $1.76
Doritos, plain, $1.88
Driscoll's strawberries, .99, buy 2
Boneless, skinless chicken breast, $1.67 lb., buy 2 lbs.
Del Monte Vegetables, .79, buy 2, one should be corn for the Taco soup
Van de Kamps seafood, $4.99
Bahsas sour cream, $1.29
Food Club butter, $2.25
Bananas, .48 lb., buy 8 lbs. at $3.84

Fry's
Cantaloupe, $1.00
Fry's milk, $1.68, buy 2 at $3.36
Kroger shredded cheese, 3/$5, buy 3 packs
Fry's canned tomatoes, .77 buy 2 cans
Goldfish crackers, 4/$5, buy 1
Kroger lemonade, 10/$10
Kroger Value bread, .88, buy 4 at $3.52
Fry's spaghetti, .88
Kroger Value sauce, $1.19
Kroger Value Peanut butter, $1.49
Onion, I've allowed for $1
Bell pepper, I've allowed for $1
Half and Half, I've allowed for $2.99

Safeway
Chicken leg 1/4's, .69 lb., buy 4 lbs. at $2.76
Blueberries, $2.99, buy one get one free, get 2 at $2.99
Rancher's Reserve boneless beef round steak, $1.57 lb. I've allowed in the total for 1 lb. You may want a little more for the soup. Buy a steak and ask the butcher to grind it into hamburger for you. You may be able to find a lb. of hamburger that is reasonable though, so if so, get that instead.

Sprouts
Cherries, $1.47 lb., buy 2 lbs. at $2.94
cucumbers, .49 ea
Broccoli, .99 lb.
Roma tomatoes, .69 lb.
Oats, 2 lbs/$1, buy 3 lbs. at $1.50

Items not on grocery list
sugar
cinnamon
cumin and chili powder
garlic salt
flour
jelly
salad dressing
pickle relish
mayonnaise
oil for deep frying
jalepenos
one green bell pepper (just use one pepper)
fresh garlic (use powdered or garlic salt if you have it)
chili seasoning mix (use chili powder if you have it)
Taco seasoning packet. I have a big container of it so I forget to include it in the grocery lists. Add about a dollar to your total to pick up some taco seasoning. Or use the spices that you have in your spice cabinet, ie., cumin, garlic powder or salt, chili powder, you should be able to come up with the taste with those.

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.

Zesty Roasted Chicken and Potatoes

Zesty Roasted Chicken and Potatoes

http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/zesty-roasted-chicken-and-potatoes/2d928937-e488-4510-a373-e8cb3b308294

Cheesy Chicken and Salsa Skillet

To use up all that free salsa you're getting this week.

Cheesy Chicken and Salsa Skillet
Margie M.

2 C. multi-grain penne pasta, uncooked
1 lb. boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into bite sized pieces
1-1/4 C. chunky salsa
1 C. frozen corn, thawed or canned corn
1 large green bell pepper, cut into thin short strips
2 C. of shredded four cheese Mexican blend cheese

Cook pasta as directed on package. Meanwhile, heat up a skillet with a little olive oil in it. Or use PAM. Add chicken; cook and stir 2 minutes. Add in salsa, peppers and corn. Bring to boil, then reduce heat to med.-low and cook for 10 minutes or until chicken is done, stirring occassionally.

Drain pasta when done. Add to skillet and stir gently. Top with cheese and remove from heat. Cover and allow to sit one minute until cheese is melted.

Four servings, 2 c. each

White Chicken Chili

Canned beans are cheap this week.

White Chicken Chili

4 cans of white beans, drained
2 cans of white corn, drained
3 C. chicken broth
2 cans diced green chilis
2 chicken bouillon cubes
2 medium onions, chopped
1 Tablespoon garlic powder
1 Tablespoon oregano
1 Tablespoon cumin
1/2 teaspoon Cayenne
4 C. cooked chicken breast
One 24 oz. sour cream

Combine broth and cubes. Add all spices. Simmer broth for a few minutes. Add green chilis, corn, chicken, beans and onions. Cook 15 minutes. Add sour cream and stir for about 5 minutes.

Bacon/Cheese Chicken Roll-Ups

This is what we usually have for dinner on Christmas Eve. The family loves it. I usually make double the amount b/c they love it cold or warmed up for lunches or for a leftovers night. I don't eat chicken so I make mine out of pork or veal. The recipe calls for "cutlets", thin style. I use a regular chicken breast or pork chop that I've pounded thin with a meat mallet between two pieces of plastic wrap to keep meat parts from flying all over. I think what I'm going to do this year is to pound the meat out a week or two ahead of time, then freeze flat between pieces of wax paper or plastic wrap then put in a ziplock bag. When I defrost for Christmas Eve, the main time element to the dish will have already been done. Big thing to remember in doing this dish is to not cross contaminate all of the ingredients while you are assembling since you will have chicken or pork fingers, so I pull out piles of the ingredients with clean hands and work from the piles. If I need more, then I go back with clean hands to the package of bacon, or stick of butter or package/tub of cream cheese.

Bacon/Cheese Chicken Roll-Ups
from Cooks.com

Boneless chicken breast (cutlets, thin style)
Cream cheese with chives (I use regular cream cheese and add chopped fresh chives if I can find them, if not dried, on top of the cream cheese)
Butter
Bacon

Lay out cutlets on working surface. Place in center of each cutlet approximately 2 tablespoons cream cheese and 1/2 talbspoon butter (in meatball shape). I also salt and pepper the cutlet before adding the cream cheese. I add chopped chives at this point b/c I hardly ever buy the chive cream cheese. Roll up cutlet around cheese and butter. Wrap 1 slice bacon around each roll (I might use 1 1/2 slices, try to cover all the chicken roll). Place, seam side down, in shallow pan. Bake in 400 degree oven approximately 40 minutes or until chicken is tender and juices run clear. Bacon should be golden. I sometimes turn the broiler on at this point to crisp up the bacon a little. This dish can be prepared ahead of time and baked just before serving.

You can serve with bread dressing, or a rice pilaf or plain rice, wild rice dish, or scalloped or cheesy potatoes, or buttered herbed noodles and a vegetable.

Menu for what's on sale for Nov. 11-Nov. 17

Kids are gone (to school), dogs are resting, a load of sheets going in the washer, a load going in the dryer, the sink is empty, a load of dishes going in the dishwasher, insides of french doors have been windexed, bed made, I have the budget menus drafted and ready to type up. One would think I was organized. Nawwwwwwww. I can go one further and say that I am doing all of this wearing my dog print pj's. The ones my daughter picked out for me as a gift years ago. I'm pretty sure that the Flylady (http://www.flylady.com/) would not approve. But I do have a budget menu for the week planned for you.

If you scroll down further I also have a budget Thanksgiving Dinner menu planned out with items that you can buy this week, that are on sale for what I think are great prices in Arizona, that you can store until the big day. Wouldn't it be great to go get it and be all done with it? If you have the space in your pantry and freezer, that is. All for under $25. I'm thinking that it could possibly feed 10 adults. Certainly 6-8 quite well. You'll have to judge that one with who you have coming. At my Thanksgiving table no one ever eats yams except for two or three people and the same with the cranberry sauce, so I only have one can of each listed on the grocery list. The only thing is you may think that it's too early to buy fresh potatoes. I'm thinking that they may go on sale cheaper in a week or two anyway. That was the only perishable on my list. The only perishable that couldn't be frozen, that is.

Scroll down past the Budget Thanksgiving menu and there are links for recipes for ideas for foods for Thanksgiving if you feel like doing some of it from scratch. I love looking up recipes.

Here is the Budget Menu:
$68.27

$65.27 if you have a Fresh & Easy $3 off $30 coupon that you can use at Fry's this week.
$60.27 if you have a Sprouts $5 off $25 purchase coupon that you can also use at Fry's.

Breakfast
1-Cold cereal, milk
2-Instant oatmeal, apple juice
3-Blueberry pancakes, see recipe for pancakes under "recipes"
4-Cold cereal, milk, apple juice
5-Instant oatmeal
6-French toast
7-Egg biscuit

Lunch
1-Egg salad sanwich, clementine
2-Bologna sandwich, banana
3-PB&J sandwich, apple
4-Bologna sandwich, clementine
5-PB&J sandwich, banana
6-Meat loaf sandwich, grapes
7-Bagels and cream cheese, grapes

Dinner
1-Beef pot roast, potatoes, canned vegetable of choice
2-Spaghetti with Alfredo sauce, green salad
3-Meat loaf, mashed potatoes, canned vegetable of choice
4-Bear Creek soup of choice, biscuit
5-Ground beef quesadillas, green salad
6-Chicken, stuffing, canned vegetable of choice. If desired, buy a jar of apricot preserves/jam, for extra to current total, to make Apricot chicken, see http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Apricot-Chicken-II/Detail.aspx
7-Fish fillets, canned vegetable of choice, green salad

Desserts:
Pie ala mode
Ice cream

Grocery List:
Bashas'
Boneless cross rib roast, $1.88 lb., buy aprox. 5 lbs. at $9.40
Jumbo Red Globe grapes, .79 lb., buy 2 lbs. at $1.58
Iceberg head lettuce, .79 ea.
Food Club cheese, .99
Bashas' milk, 1/2 gallon, .88, buy 4 at $3.52
Food Club jumbo biscuits, .88, buy 2
80% lean fresh gound beef, $1.38 lb., buy 5 lbs. at $4.14
Dreyers ice cream, $1.48, limit one, with shocker coupon and $25 additional purchase
Sara Lee frozen Pie, limit one, $1.48 with shocker coupon and $25 additional purchase
Bar S meat Bologna, $1.28
Tree Top apple juice, $1.69
Total came to $25.75. You need $25 in purchases to buy the pie and ice cream using the shocker coupons so make sure the meat packages you pick out come to at least the totals I have listed.

Fry's
Total came to $37.17
If you have a Fresh & Easy coupon from Wednesday's ad for $3 off of $30 purchase, you can use it for a total of $34.17
There may also be a Sprouts coupon that was sent out in the mail with the Paradise Valley Mall coupons that you can use for an additional $5.00 off. I can't find mine right now to verify information and the expiration date, I know it expires soon though. So go check if you have it.

California Cuties Clementines, $2.47 for 3 lbs.
Fry's large eggs, .97, buy 2
General Mills cereal, $1.47, buy 2
Stove top stuffing, $1
Heinz gravy, $1
Bear Creek Soup mix, $2.99
Sara Lee bagels, $1.99
Fry's instant oatmeal, $1.50
Ragu cheese sauce, $1.58
Van de Kamps fish sticks or fillets, $4.99
Kroger cream cheese, $1
Fry's spaghetti, .88
Kroger Value bread, .88, buy 4
Boneless, skinless chicken breast, $1.57 lb, buy 3 lbs. at $4.71
Bananas, .39 lb., buy 3 lbs.
Onion, .50
Flour tortillas, I've allowed $2.99

Safeway
Green Giant canned vegetables, .39, buy 4 at $1.56
Sat. and Sun. only, Gala apples, .47 lb., buy 3 lbs. at $1.41

Sprouts
Blueberries, $1.50
Roma tomatoes, .88 lb., buy one lb.

Other great deals this week:
boneless 1/2 pork loin, $1.67 lb.-Fry's
Kroger Value sugar, .97-Fry's
apples, $1 lb.-Fry's
Fall squash, $1 lb.-Fry's
Bruce's cut yams, 3/$5-Fry's
Kroger or Pictsweet frozen vegetables, .88-Fry's
Fuji apples, .77 lb.-sprouts
Bosc and Bartlett pears, .77 lb.-sprouts
Navel oranges, .77 lb.-Sprouts
Jenny O turkey, .37 lb.-Fresh & Easy
Mrs. Smith's pies, $1.99-Fresh & easy
Cool Whip, .99-Fresh & Easy
Red delicious apples, $1.49 for a 3 lb. bag-Smart & Final
Asparagus, .99 lb.-Safeway
Sat. and Sun. only, hot do buns, .79-Safeway
93 % lean gr. beef, 5 lbs. or more, $1.67 lb.-albertson's
Farmer John franks or links, 5/$5-Albertson's
Del Monte vegetables, 2/.88, .24 a piece if you have a coupon, but the coupon expires on Sat.-albertson's
Celery, .99 ea.-Albertson's

Items not on the grocery list:
Peanut butter
ketchup
plain oats or crackers for the meat loaf
Butter
brown sugar
vinegar
Apricot jam/preserves
Pancake syrup
jelly
mayonnaise
salad dressing
salsa or taco sauce for the quesadillas
flour
baking powder
Pancake syrup

Menu for what's on sale the week of Nov. 4-Nov. 10

So, sitting here in my purple bathrobe working on this. It's a sight. Too bad you can't see it.


Here it is:


$71. 03 (and you can save $2-$3 on this price if you are a couponer)


$74.53 if you opt to have the s'mores ingredients added in. And we all want them.



Breakfast
1-French toast, sausage
2-Cold cereal, milk
3-Eggs, toast
4-Cold cereal, milk
5-Cold cereal, milk
6-Blueberry pancakes, see pancake recipe link on the left side
7-Cold cereal, milk


Lunch
1-PB&J sandwich, orange, cookie
2-Lunchmeat sandwich, orange, cookie
3-PB&J sandwich, apple
4-Lunchmeat sandwich, grapes, cookie
5-PB&J sandwich, orange
6-Pizza
7-Tacquitos


Dinner
1-Beef Teriyaki kabobs, mushroom and zucchini kabobs, Uncle Ben's rice mix. See below for Beef Teriyaki recipe. Add a dollar to the budget if you want a fresh pineapple for chunks from Albertsons with your skewers.

2-Broccoli and Cheese Frittata, hash browns, green salad and tomatoes. See http://www.mrbreakfast.com/superdisplay.asp?recipeid=638 for recipe

3-Spaghetti and sauce, baguette

4-Pork loin, Scalloped potatoes, canned vegetable of choice. If you wish to make Crockpot pork loin with cranberry sauce and Lipton onion soup mix, go to http://www.crock-pot-slow-cookers.com/recipes/creating-pork-loin-dishes-with-lipton-onion-soup/ for recipe and allow for $1 extra for a can of cranberry sauce at Albertson's and aproximately $2 for a box of Lipton onion soup if you don't already have it in the pantry.

5-Italian Cream cheese chicken over Uncle Ben's rice mix, canned vegetable of choice. See http://www.recipetips.com/recipe-cards/u--3788/italian-cream-cheese-slow-cooked-chicken.asp

6-Green salad with leftover pork strips, baguette

7-Leftovers

Dessert idea:
S'mores. Grahams, marshmallows and half a Hershey bar either warmed in the microwave for 30 seconds or the marshmallows roasted over hot coals or embers. yum.
*** marks the ingredients in the grocery list and they are extra added to your total this week if you opt to have it.



Beef Teriyaki Kabobs
taken from the Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook, pg. 221


1 pound boneless beef sirloin steak
1/3 cup soy sauce
2 tablespoons dry sherry or apple juice
1 tablespoon molasses
2 teaspoons dry mustard
1 teaspoon grated gingerroot or 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1 clove garlic, minced


Partially freeze beef. Thinly slice across the grain into long strips 1/3 inch thick. (I've also done chunks) For marinade, combine soy sauce, sherry, molasses, mustard, gingerrott, garlic, and 1/3 cup water. Pour over meat. Marinate for 15 minutes at room temperature.


Drain meat, reserving marinade. On 8 long skewers, (soak for an hour if bamboo or wood) loosely thread meat accordion-style.


Place skewers on the unheated rack of a broiler pan. Broil 3 inches from the heat 5 to 6 minutes or to desired doneness, turning and brushing occasionally with marinade. Makes 4 servings.


Grill directions: Cut, marinate, and skewer meat as above. Place on uncovered grill directly over hot coals 5 to 6 minutes or to desired doneness. Turn and brush with mariade often.


NOTE: Do not serve the marinade as it has been touching raw meat.

Grocery List:
Albertson's
Roma tomatoes, 5/$5, buy one lb.
TJ Farms shredded potatoes, 5/$5, buy one
Pork loin, $1.57/lb., so aprox. $6
Pillsbury flour, 5/$5, buy one
Cream cheese, 5/$5, buy one
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.57 lb., buy aprox. 3 lbs. at $4.71

Bashas
Boneless top sirloin, $1.99 lb, so aprox. $3.98
Navel oranges, .39 lb., buy 6 lbs. at $2.34
Bashas large eggs, .99, buy 2
Italian or yellow squash, .89 lb.
***Hershey bars, 2/$1, buy 2 if you opt to have s'mores

Fry's
Blueberries, $1.50
Fry's milk, $1.47, buy 2
Apples, $1 lb., buy 2 lbs.
Kroger butter, $1.88
Fry's cream of chicken soup, .88
French baguette, $1, buy 2
Kroger Value bread, .88, buy 3
Del Monte canned vegetables, .67, buy 2
Kroger Value peanut butter, $1.49
Fry's spaghetti, .88
Kroger Value spaghetti sauce, $1.19
Italian dressing mis, allow for $1
Land O Frost lunch meat, 10/$10, buy 3
***Kroger marshmallows, 10/$10, buy one if you opt to make s'mores
***Grahm crackers, I've allowed for $1.50 if you opt to make s'mores

Fry's mega 10 event
1-Kellogg's cereals, $1.99
2-Kellogg's cereals
3-Tombstone pizza, $1.99
4-Keebler Fudge Shoppe cookies, .99
5-Kraft shredded cheese, $1.99
6-Jose Ole tacquitos, $1.99
7-Betty Crocker scalloped potatoes, .99
8-Brown and serve sausage, .89
9-Uncle Ben's rice mix, .99
10-Uncle Ben's rice mix

Safeway
button mushrooms, .99
Red seedless grapes, .88 lb.

Sprouts
Hass avocados, 3/$1, buy one at .33
Lettuce, red, green or romaine, .88, buy 2
Apples, .88 lb., buy 3 lbs.
Broccoli crowns, .99 lb.

Other great deals:
Cucumbers, 2/$1-Sprouts
Pears, $1 lb.-Fry's
Vegetable oil, $1.99-Fry's
Food Club brown or powdered sugar, .88 with shocker coup and $25 purchase-Bashas
Nestle choc. morsels with shocker coup and $25 purchase-Bashas
Hershey bars, 2/$1-Bashas
food Club stuffing mix-.99-Bashas
Kraft buy 3 deal, buy 3 Kraft products listed on ad coupon and get a Capri Suns box free
Del Monte pineapple 5/$5-Albertsons
Stove top stuffing, 5/$5

Items not on grocery list:
soy sauce
molasses
pancake syrup
jelly
spices-ginger
check closely, I feel as though I've forgotten a lot this week.

Menu with what's on sale for the week of Oct. 14-Oct. 20

I made and canned applesauce on Wednesday. I now have a greater appreciation for how many apples go into a jar of applesauce and why the stores charge what they do for applesauce. I peeled and peeled and peeled a boatload (maybe 16 or 17 lbs.) of apples on Wednesday and ended up with 7 pints of finished product. 7 PINTS! Of course, the two teenagers coming in and eating applesauce before I canned it didn't help but that's why I'm making it anyway. I used the little gala apples from Fry's sale last week, so that may have been why I had to peel so many per jar. Funny how when you feel you're preparing enough for 5 months of applesauce eating and then you find out it's 7 pints. My next canning projects are more applesauce, sliced apples for baking, and mincemeat pie filling. And maybe some beef chunks this week. Is it healthy to be this obsessed with canning? I feel like I'm having my own Julie Powell (Julia project)experience as I'm working my way through the Ball Blue Book guide to preserving.



Bashas Pasta meal deal is a good one this week. What I did menu wise was take the ground beef and use it for a meat loaf and then do the spaghetti vegetarian with the salad and bread. You buy the ground beef and use coupons found in Wednesday's ad for free salad, free baguette, free pasta and free sauce. Any leftover ground beef not used in the meatloaf can be used in the spaghetti sauce or the quesadillas on meal idea #5. I had originally wanted to put down a Broccoli cheese soup and corn muffins for meal idea #5 but it wasn't as cost effective. See Jane Maynard's blog "This week for dinner" to check it out. Broccoli and Cheese Soup http://thisweekfordinner.com/2009/10/15/broccoli-cheese-soup/ It sure looks good.

And as always, you can make this more inexpensive by taking off some fruit or juices. Or take off the tortilla chips. Also, if you use coupons you can get four Campbell's Chunky soups for $3.00 instead of three.

Some of the deals for Safeway will need to be gotten on Saturday or Sunday.

Here we go:


$66.90

Breakfast
1-Oatmeal, strawberries
2-Oatmeal, juice
3-Corn griddle cakes, recipe on Jiffy corn muffin mix
4-Oatmeal, juice
5-Oatmeal, pear slices
6-Oatmeal, juice
7-Eggs, toast, juice

Lunch
1-PB&J sandwich, pudding cup, Capri Sun drink
2-PB&J sandwich, orange, brownie
3-Meatloaf sandwich, apple, Capri Sun drink
4-PB&J sandwich, cookie, apple, Capri Sun drink
5-Chicken salad sandwich, pudding cup, Capri Sun drink
6-Chunky Soup, Pop
7-Mac & Cheese, Pop


Dinner
1-Meat loaf, mashed or baked potatoes, canned vegetable

2-Baked or fried chicken, zucchini/mushroom/onion saute, Rice A Roni. Bake both chickens, use one for dinner. Take the meat off of the other one and stash in the freezer for dinner idea #7. Might have enough for two dinners out of the extra chicken.

3-Spaghetti/sauce, salad, Baguette

4-Potato sausage cheese Frittata or Sausage cheese Frittata, sliced tomatoes, steamed asparagus, corn muffins. See http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=1622436 for Potato sausage cheese Frittata or http://find.myrecipes.com/food/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=1168075 for Sausage cheese Frittata.

5-Guacamole and tortilla chips, Cheese Quesadillas (can add any leftover ground beef or chicken to it), steamed broccoli seasoned with butter and garlic salt.

6-Leftovers

7-Chicken Pot Pie, canned peaches. See Ina Garten's recipe http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/chicken-pot-pie-recipe/index.html

If you want to use the pie crust recipe that I use, see the side under recipes for a previous post for pie crust.

Dessert Ideas:

Peanut butter cookies

Brownies
Apple crisp, if you buy more apples

Grocery List:

Albertson's:

Sargento shredded cheese, 5/$5, buy 3

Broccoli crowns, 5/$5, buy 2 lbs.

Pears, 5 lbs./$5, buy 1 lb.

Bashas

Pasta Meal Deal

Ground beef, buy 3 lb. package for $7.99 (73%)

Use coupon, get free baguette

Use coupon, get free Dole salad

Use coupon, get free Food Club pasta

Use coupon, get free Fool Club pasta sauce

Slicing tomatoes, .69

Russet potatoes, .69 for a 5 lb. bag

Fry's

Rice A Roni, .88, buy one

Campbell's Chunky Soup, .99, buy 3, four if you have a coupon

Fry's canned peaches or fruit cocktail, .83, buy one

Fry's canned vegetables, .50, buy one

Fry's chicken broth, .49, buy 2 for $1.47

Jiffy corn Muffin mix, .39, buy 2

Kroger Peanut butter, .99

Fry's flour, $1.57

Kroger Value, jelly, allow for $1.47

Whole frying chicken, .49 lb., buy two at aprox. $1.47 each, for $2.94

White mushrooms, $1

Hunt's snack pack pudding, .88, buy 2

Fry's lg. eggs, 18 count, $1.98

Kroger Value bread, .88, buy 3

Carrots, allowed for $1.00

Flour tortillas, allowed for $2.99

Sprouts

Apples, .77 lb., buy 2 lbs.

Zucchini or yellow squash, .99 lb.

Yellow onions, 2 lbs./$1, buy 2 lbs.

Oats, quick, rolled or steel cut, 2 lbs./$1, buy 4 lbs.

Hass Avocados, 3/$1, buy 3

Safeway

Saturday and Sunday Sale

Kraft Mac & Cheese, 3/$1, buy 2

Safeway soda pop, 3/$1, buy 2

Doritos brand regular corn tortilla chips, $1.49

Regular Safeway sales

Asparagus, .99 lb.

Banquet sausage, .99, buy 1

Betty Crocker traditional brownie mix, .79

Lucerne milk, $1.37, buy 2 (some people think that Lucerne brand milk tastes different, if you don't care for it Fry's has milk for $2.19/gallon)

Navel oranges, .99 lb., buy 2 lbs.

Buy 5 Deal

1-Capri Sun Drinks, $1.49

2-Capri Sun Drinks, $1.49

3-Juicy Juice, $1.49

4-Mott's apple juice, .88

5-Mott's apple juice, .88

Other great deals:

Green bell pepper, .49 each-Bashas

Oscar Mayer deli shaved lunch meat, 2/$5-Safeway

Lettuce, .99 each-Safeway

Cheerios, $1.67-Safeway

Roma tomatoes, .99 lb.-Sprouts

Green Bell peppers, 2/$1-sprouts

Ground beef, 93%, $1.67 lb.-Albertsons

Fresh green cabbage, 3 lbs., .99-Albertsons

Fry's Mac & Cheese, .44 each-Fry's

Fry's canned beans, 59-Fry's

Fry's veg. oil, $1.99-Fry's

Assorted fall squash, $1 lb.-Fry's

Fry's milk, $2.19-Fry's

Items not on grocery list:

butter

sugar

brown sugar

vanilla

garlic salt

salsa or taco sauce

Mayo

ketchup

lemon juice

Menus with what's on sale Oct. 7- Oct. 13

So. Yesterday afternoon I sit down to write out some of the recipes that I wanted to and to perhaps work on the Budget Menu after that and I get this urgent message from my son as I let the message machine pop on instead of answering the phone. Can I just ask you this? How does someone forget to bring a speedo (Ew.) to a swim meet? So I drop everything and run and find it (on the bedroom floor, big surprise, but by then I was just so happy to have found it fast), pick it up with only my forefinger and thumb without having to look at it too much and put it in a bag, throw the after swim meet pizza party cookies into a cooler so they won't turn into molten lava, then throw the cooler into the car and race to the pool to give him his swimsuit before the swim meet started. I used to be so smug about this sort of thing. People who had children who would forget to bring their swimsuit to a swim practice or a swim meet. Not any more.

Here it is for the week

$75.19

Feel free to shave off what you can. I was a little limited as the Albertson's deal I had to buy in increments of 6. Also, especially with Albertsons, using coupons I bet that you can clip at least $5 off of this total, if not more.

Breakfast
1-Breakfast tacos (chorizo, eggs, tortilla)
2-Cold cereal, milk, Sunny Delite
3-Blueberry muffins, pear slices
4-Eggs, toast, Sunny Delite
5-Cold cereal, milk
6-Pancakes see http://www.thedailychannel.com/recipes/pancakes1.htm for recipe
7-Cold cereal, milk, orange rolls

Lunch
1-Tuna sandwich, chex mix, banana
2-PB&J sandwich, apple (hopefully you have jelly already)
3-Tuna sandwich, chex mix
4-PB&J sandwich, cantaloupe chunks
5-Tuna sandwich, apple
6-Mac & cheese
7-Dinner leftovers

Dinner
1-Pig in Blanket, carrot sticks, cantaloupe chunks see http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1726,149161-232195,00html If you'd rather do a chili dog, there is an interesting recipe and video of how to make it at the left side, under Tyler Florence. You'll need to add hot dog buns and another pound or two of ground London Broil to the list if you do.

2-Chicken and dumplings, romaine and tomato salad see http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/patrick-and-gina-neely/neelys-chicken-and-dumplings-recipe/index.html see http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/wild-rice-salad-recipe/index.html for a homemade salad dressing with ingredients you may already have

3-Shrimp scampi and pasta, frozen vegetable, see http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchens/shrimp-scampi-recipe/index.html The shrimp in the bag are already cooked so you'll just need to soak them in cold water, drain, then toss in the sauce lightly. Otherwise they will get tough like erasers.

4-Bacon Quiche, romaine and tomato salad, french bread see http://southernfood.about.com/od/quicherecipes/r/r70603a.htm See left side for recipe for pie crust.

5-Chicken enchiladas, frozen vegetable. Use a can of enchilada sauce, chicken quarters meat, cheese, flour tortillas.

6-Ground beef gravy over mashed potatoes, steamed broccoli. Brown ground london broil, season to taste with garlic powder or salt, salt and pepper if desired, add can of cr. of mushroom soup, can of water, or almost a can of water and stir until smooth and heat through. You can add some worcestershire sauce if you have it. Put on mashed potatoes.

7-Pizza, frozen vegetable

Possible dessert ideas this week could be snickerdoodles. Apple pie if you buy more apples and apple pie enchiladas if you buy more apples or apple pie filling and more flour tortillas.

Apple Pie Enchiladas
Submitted to the couponsense message board recipe folder by Erika M.
I just think that this is a nifty idea!

1 (21 oz) can apple pie filling
6 (6 inch) flour tortillas
ground cinnamon
1/2 C. granulated sugar
1/2 C. packed brown sugar
1/2 C. water
1/3 C. butter or margarine
whipped cream or vanilla ice cream
1. spoon fruit filling evenly down the center of each tortilla, and sprinkle with cinnamon. roll up each tortilla, and place seam side down in baking dish.
2. Combine both sugars, water, and butter in a saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat, reduce heat, and simmer, stirring constantly for 3 minutes. Pour sauce over enchiladas and let stand for 30 minutes.
3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bake for 20 minutes. Serve warm with whipped cream and/or ice cream. Can drizzle excess sauce over ice cream. Makes 6 servings.

This menu has been a booger to figure out. And if it seems high, it is, but there are some high end ingredients in here. Just hope that it's all here.
Grocery List:
Albertson's:
Sunny D juice, .88 with coupon from Wed. ad
Las palmas enchilada sauce, green or red, I think, it's up to you, $1.99
Calidad tortillas, flour, $1, buy 2
Buy in stacks of 6 deal
1-crescent rolls, $1.50
2-Cinnamon toast crunch cereal, $1.50
3-General Mills flour, $1.50
4-Betty Crocker blueberry muffin mix, $1.50
5-chex mix, $1
6-Progresso chicken broth, $1
1-Progresso chicken broth, $1
2-Green Giant steamers vegs, $1
3-Green Giant Steamers vegs, $1
4-Green Giant Steamers vegs, $1
5-Pillsbury orange rolls, $1.5-
6-Kix or Cheerios or cinn toast crunch cereal, $1.50
chorizo, $1
Red Baron Pizza, $2.99
London Broil, $1.77 lb., buy one lb., ask the butcher to grind it into hamburger for you

Bashas
French bread, .98 with coupon from the booklet sent out
Bar-S meat franks, .39 with coup from booklet
Hormel Black label bacon, $1.88 with coup from booklet
Kraft singles, $1.48 with coup from booklet
Russet Potatoes, .98 for 10 lb. bag with coup from booklet
Extra large shrimp, 1 lb. bag for $3.49 with coup from booklet
Bananas, 3 lbs./$1 with coup from booklet
Fresh chicken leg quarters, .47 lb. in 10 lb. bag, $4.70
Bashas large eggs, .88, buy 3 doz.
bumble Bee chunk light tuna, .48, buy 3
Food club butter, 2/$3, buy 2 (use unsalted butter for pie dough)
Crystal Farms cheese, $1.99, buy 2 shredded
Food Club mac & cheese, .48
American Beauty or Ronzoni pasta, .98
Broccoli, .99 lb.
Large celery, .88
Milk, I've allowed for $3, buy 1
Onion, .50, buy 1
Cr. of mushroom soup, I've allowed for $1.75
Lemon, I've allowed for .30, buy 1
Parsley, I've allowed for $2.00
Carrots, I've allowed for $1.50

Fry's
Gala apples, .49 lb., buy 3 lbs. at $1.47
Kroger Value bread, .88, buy 4. should give you 80 slices. Or buy the Fry's bread at .99, there are more slices of bread. I think 26 but you may need to count it.
Fry's mayonnaise, $2.49
Kroger Value Peanut butter, $1.29

Sprouts
Bartlett or Bosc pears, 3 lbs./$1
vine ripe tomatoes, .69 lb., buy 1 lb.
Green leaf, red leaf or romaine lettuce, .88 ea, buy 1
Jumbo cantaloup, .88 each

Items not on the list:
brown sugar
baking powder
salt
herbs
spices
heavy cream
whipped cream
ice cream
garlic powder or whole garlic
jelly
dry mustard
vinegar
oil

Other good deals this week:
large green bell pepper, 2/$1, sprouts
Fry's cereal, 2/$3-Fry's, duh
Ken's salad dressing, .99 with coup-Albertson'
Dole bananas, .39 lb.-albertson's
Fresh gr. beef, .99 in 5 lb. packs with coup from booklet-Bashas
rotisserie chicken, $3.99 with coup from booklet-Bashas
Food Club salad dressing, .78 with coup from booklet-Bashas
Shamrock Farms sour cream, .98 with coup from booklet-Bashas
New crop pears, .77 lb.-Bashas
food Club flour, $1.99-Bashas
Food Club sugar, $1.99-Bashas
Ragu Pasta sauce, $1.79-Bashas
Ore Ida onion rings, $2.88-Bashas

Menus with what's on sale for Sept. 23- Sept. 30

Sooooo...after having spent the week caring for, or being cared for, if I can come up with a menu plan other than applesauce, toast and jello, consider yourselves lucky. Mr. B.M. (Budget Menu) said that I should make a shopping list of Advil Cold Medicine, Tylenol, cough drops, sprite and juice for this week. Silly boy.



Here goes, the brain is still fuzzier than usual so forgive me if the math doesn't add up completely. I think that it does. I tried hard to include everything and add right. And you can TOTALLY make this grocery list sing for around $67 down to $65 if you are a coupon clipper. See my sidebar for couponsense the website, not couponsense the blog. Well, you can see the blog also. If you want to.

$69.46

Breakfast
1-Cold cereal, juice
2-Cold cereal, peaches
3-Yogurt, cherry vanilla granola parfaits. Cantaloupe chunks
4-French toast
5-Cheese omelettes
6-Eggs, toast
7-Cold cereal, juice

Now, I must tell you that I had breakfast tacos listed at first on one of the days, but had to pull it as it cost too much this week. The sausage was Kroger sausage at Fry's for $1.99 and Mission Flour taco tortillas at Bashas for $1.99. Pulling those items got us under the $70 mark.


Lunch
1-Tuna sandwich, grapes, hard boiled egg, Capri Sun drink
2-Ham sandwich, carrots/celery, cookie
3-Tuna sandwich, crackers, carrots/celery stix
4-Lunchmeat sandwich, carrots/celery, cookie, Capri Sun drink
5-Lunchemat sandwich, cookie, cantaloupe chunks
6-Pizza, grahms
7-Ramen Noodles, cheese toast


Dinner
1-Chicken Broccoli rice casserole, jello.
If you feel like making rolls from scratch for this meal, I have a great recipe below. Ingredients are not added into the budget but if you're a baker you probably already have them anyway. Recipe link for casserole is http://www.classiccasseroles.com/Casseroles/ChickenBroccoliAndRiceCasserole.htm
NOTE: When I've made my version of this before, I've put the chicken in the pan, then the broc, then combined the rice, sour cream and soup and put that on top. I don't imagine it really matters the order of thing. I never add cheese on top either, so if you want to save your cheese for something else, do it here. The topping with the soup, rice gets all golden and yummy on it's own. I never add the mayo to the rice mix either, so just add a little more sour cream if you want, or not, instead of the mayo if you don't have it or are one of those people who thinks it's gross.

2-Pork Chops, applesauce, canned vegetable

3-Mac & Cheese, pineapple chunks

4-Chicken, mashed potatoes or oven roasted potatoes, canned vegetable, rolls

5-Ham Fried rice, canned vegetable. Make rice with some of the ham sandwich meat cut into dices, and some diced onion, can use some of the carrots and celery cooked in the rice as well. Season with garlic powder and soy sauce.

6-Spaghetti, salad

7-Leftovers. OR Baked potatoes with sour cream or supplement the leftovers with baked potatoes. Or might be a great time to pull the extra gr. beef or pork out of the freezer from the past two weeks.

Desserts: Pudding, Cheesecake Pie (see recipe on side bar)
You could easily make rice pudding if you wanted to, if you're not sick of rice, by adding a can of sweetened condensed milk and using this recipe http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1842,147169-245203,00.html
Just make sure to do an egg count, my head is spinning, I can't count the eggs used right now.

Smart's Sunday Dinner Rolls-Carol Smart
I've made these on Mondays and Saturdays and they turned out just fine. Again do an egg count before you start. I make these without the eggs all of the time though. It's up to you.

2 C. milk
4 Tbls shortening or butter

Put these in a glass bowl in the microwave for 1-2 minutes or to just before a boil(scald). Let cool to lukewarm.

In another bowl add 1 T. yeast, 1/4 C. warm water and 1 tsp. sugar. Let it grow.
Then after 10-20 minutes or before it grows over the bowl, put it in the mixer with the milk and melted butter.

Add:
2 eggs, beaten
3 Tbls. sugar
2 tsp. salt

Add 2 C. flour and beat thoroughly. Gradually add enough flour to make a dough that can be stirred with a spoon. Knead. (You want enough flour in this so that you have a smooth elastic dough with only a slight amount of tackiness to it. Grease a bowl and the top of dough, cover and let rise to double. Make 24 rolls (when I make them I have enough to fill a 15x10 inch baking sheet) and let double again. I usually put a little oil on tops or it's on my hands when I'm shaping them to keep them from drying out. I put saran wrap on top and to let them raise. Bake at 350 till golden brown. Aprox. 15-20 minutes. Keep a close eye on them in the oven.



Grocery List:
Albertsons
Albertson's chunk light tuna, .69, buy 2
Albertson cream of chicken soup, .69, buy 1
Del Monte canned vegetables, .69, buy 3
Red greapes, .69 lb., buy 2 lbs.

Bashas
Split chicken breast, .87 lb. I am aproximatley guessing, since I have been quarantined, LOL, to home that the package size would be around 5 lbs., but I don't know, I have not done my research this week, also another reason this is coming out two days late than the ads. 5 lbs would put us at $4.35

Utah Peaches, yum, .79, buy 2 lbs.
Food Club yogurt, 3/$1, buy 4 or however many is in your family but add $ to the total if you go past 4
Blue Ribbon long grain rice, 2 lbs., .99
Food Club applesauce, 2/$3, buy 1
Maruchan Ramen noodles, 6/$1, or .16, buy 2 at .32
Value Time med. eggs, .88, buy 2
Value Time mac & cheese, .36
Celery, .79
Bashas cour cream, $1.99

Fry's
Kroger mini carrots, .88
Dole Premium classic salad, .88
Assorted Pork loin chops, .88. Again, I've not checked this out yet, let's presume that they are in 5 lb. packages, total would be $4.40
Del Monte Gold Pineapple, $1
General Mills cereal, $1.77, buy 2
Bar S ham, $2.99
Fry's milk, $1.99, buy 2 (this seems to be the price for milk at most stores this week)
Kroger Value bread, .88, buy 4 for $3.52. There are 20 slices of bread in each loaf
Kroger Value spaghetti, .88
Kroger Value spaghetti sauce, $1.15 (If you hate this, buy Ragu or Prego, add extra $ to budget)
Land O Frost Premium lunchemeat, $2.99
Kroger Value cookies, $1.15
Grahm crackers, I've allowed for $1.99
Seet onion, .88 lb., I've allowed for one at .44

Buy 10 Mega event
1-Philadelphia cream cheese, .89
2-Philadelphia cream cheese
3-Jello pudding, .89
4-Jello gelatin, .89
5-DiGiorno Pizza, $3.99
6-Capri Sun drinks, $1.39
7-Wheat thins snack crackers, $1.49
8-Juicy Juice, $1.99 (find a coup and it's only .99!)
9-Kraft shredded cheese, $1.39
10-Kraft shredded cheese

Sprouts
Broccoli crowns, .99 lb.
Sweet cantaloupe, 2/$1, buy 2
Idaho russet potatoes, .99 for a 5 lb. bag
Cherry Vanilla granola, $2.49 lb., buy $1 worth

Other great buys this week:
Lg vine ripe tomatoes, .49 lb.-sprouts
Extra lean gr. beef, $1.99 lb.-Sprouts
Sno-white cauliflower, .99 ea-Sprouts
Boneless Beef cross rib steak, $1.88 lb.-Fry's
Green onions or radishes, 2/$1-Fry's
Romaine lettuce, $1
Campbell's chicken Noodle soup, .69-Albertson's
Shasta soda, .69-Albertson's
Iceberg lettuce, 2/$1-Albertson's
90% lean gr. beef, $1.77 for 4# or more-Bashas
Assorted pork chops, .97 lb.-Bashas
Food Club cereal, $2.50-Bashas
Mission soft taco shells, $1.99-Bashas
Pillsbury cake mix, .99-Bashas
Juicy Juice drink boxes, 2/$4-Bashas
Value Time soft white bread, .88-Bashas
Bashas milk, $1.99-Bashas
Food Club whipped cream, $1.99-Bashas
Food Club tater tots, $1.99-Bashas

Items not on the list:
Butter
cream
sugar
sweetened condensed milk if you decide to make the rice pudding
yeast
flour
salt
soy sauce
garlic powder
Mayonnaise
salad dressing
powdered sugar

Menu for what's on sale Sept. 16-Sept. 22

Rock bottom prices on chicken and grapes this week. Doesn't look like a grand sale week but apples, oranges, eggs and some other things that my morning brain is not remembering right now were really an execeptional price. I finished the first draft of the menus at $63.0-something and went back and added another cheese, some more apples and oranges for good measure and the lasagne noodles that I had forgotten. That hardly ever happens. Usually I am crossing items off like crazy to get to a price that you and I can live with. You may want to buy less of some of the fruit, depending on what your family needs, and buy some kiwi for 4/$1 and carrots at 2 one lb. bags for $1 at Albertsons. Or some Hass avocados at Sprouts at 4 for $1. I've been told that the avocados freeze up nicely and that you can halve them, scoop out the flesh from the peels with a spoon, leave the pit in, put them in a ziplock bag with other guacamole fixins and freeze. When you take out, thaw and then mash the bag in you hand, squeeze the guac out of the bag and viola!---chip ready guacamole. And kiwis are full of vitamins, I was also told, this week as a matter of fact, that we are the only nation that peels our kiwis before we eat them. The peel is full of good stuff. A little fuzzy for me though. I have to be told to buy kiwis, I just never think to do it on my own.

Here is the final menu, at $70.85

Breakfast
1-Oatmeal
2-French toast
3-Oatmeal
4-Cold cereal, apple wedges with peanut butter
5-Cold cereal
6-Eggs, bacon(save some bacon for the chicken wraps, lunch idea #4)
7-Oatmeal

Lunch
1-PB&J sandwich, orange, Capri Sun drink
2-Chicken salad sandwich, grapes
3-PB&J sandwich, snack crackers, apple, Capri Sun drink
4-Chicken wrap(chicken pieces or slices, a strip or two of cooked bacon, lettuce, tomato and dressing of choice wrapped in a flour tortilla, wrap in plastic wrap or waxed paper), grapes
5-PB&J sandwich, apple, if any are left. Or oranges. Whatever is left.
6-Hot dogs, snack crackers
7-Grilled cheese sandwich

Dinner
1-Chicken enchiladas or chicken enchilada casserole, green salad/dressing. Cook one of the chickens and use the meat for the casserole and then for chicken salad sandwiches on lunch idea #2 and chicken wraps on lunch idea #4. Enchilada casserole and enchilada recipe below.

2-Crockpot/slowcooker lasagne or regular oven baked lasagne, green salad/dressing. Pudding for dessert. You will be using the ground beef for Lasagne and sloppy joes. Freeze the remainder to use next week for something. Or form into burgers for a weekend lunch. Lasagne recipes below.

3-Oven-fried chicken, steamed or sauteed zucchini, canned corn. Cook the second chicken here. see http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/cutupchicken.htm for info on cutting a whole chicken into pieces for fried chicken. See side bar for the Oven-fried chicken recipe. If the thought of cutting a whole chickie is too much for you, or if you're dangerous with sharp knives, like I am, then you have my permission to not do oven fried chicken and bake it whole instead cutting it up for eating once it's cooked.

4-Leftovers

5-Grilled cheese sandwiches. Ice cream for dessert.

6-Deli baked pizza(call Bashas deli first so that it is ready when you pick it up, it says on the ad that it takes 30 minutes.), jello, ice cream for dessert. This would be a great dinner for a softball or soccer or football practice or swim meet night. Just swing by Bashas on the way to the field or pool and you can eat once you get there. Eat your jello and ice cream when you get home.

7-Sloppy joes, canned vegetable. (Note: if you don't want to buy the sloppy joe sauce, use some ketchup, mustard and brown sugar to taste, maybe some worcestershire sauce if you have it to taste.) Use leftover buns for garlic toast or cheese toast or for hamburgers with the leftover ground beef.




Slowcooker Lasagne (MaryAnn D.)
Can I just say before you read this recipe that this is the recipe that changed my life?
I haven't met anyone who has tried this who did not think it was the best thing since
sliced bread. I know it sounds weird, but it absolutely works.

12 uncooked lasagne noodles
1 jar (28 oz.) spaghetti sauce
1/2 diced onion or 1 diced shallot, cooked in the microwave in a little olive oil for 30 secs.
1/2 to 1 lb. of browned ground beef
1 pint cottage cheese
2 C. shredded mozzarella
1/4 C. of water
some dried oregano and powdered garlic if desired
Nonstick cooking spray

Spray your crockpot with nonstick cooking spray. Break noodles in half or smaller and place half of the noodles int he bottom of a 4 quart slow cooker. Spread half of the meat over the noodles. Over the beef, layer half the sauce and water, half the cottage cheese and half the mozzarella cheese. Repeat layer. Cover and cook on low heat 4 to 5 hours. Do not cook more than 5 hours.

Note: With my crockpot/slowcooker, sometimes I will cook this 4 hours on low, then the last hour or two, if I am home and preparing the rest of the meal, on high. I think that the noodles are more tender that way.






Lasagne-oven baked

9-12 cooked lasagne noodles, depending on the size of your pan
1 jar spaghetti sauce
1 C. cottage cheese (or more, depending on your likes)
1-2 C. shredded mozzarella cheese
1 lb. browned ground beef
1/2 diced onion or 1 diced shallot, cooked in a little olive oil in the microwave for 30 secs. or more(don't leave too long, it will burn)
some dried oregano and powdered garlic if desired

Drain the cooked noodles on some paper toweling, then you have to work quickly. Put a small amount of sauce on the bottom, layer 3 or four noodles into a 9x13 pan, add some cooked gr. beef, cooked onion, you may want to add a pinch of oregano and garlic powder to the meat, some sauce, some dollops of cottage cheese. Then repeat the layers starting out with more noodles. If you want lots of mozzarella, then add it to each layer. If not, then end with the mozzarella. I sometimes will add the mozzarella at the end of the cooking time so that it is not rubbery when we go to eat it. Bake at 350 until hot and bubbly. Remove from oven and let stand for 20-30 minutes. I think that this is better the next day, so make it ahead of time if you want to.

NOTE: the last time I made this I added a small can of tomato sauce to it to make it saucier.



Chicken Enchilada casserole (Dottie's Kitchen Store)

I have adapted Dottie's recipe to the way that I cook. I don't get out sauce pans and heat stuff that I am going to bake anyway. And I usually do a half of her recipe, so this is the quantity that you will have ingredients for if you shop from the grocery list that I made for you.

1/2 chopped onion, softened in the microwave in a bowl with a little olive oil, 30 secs.
1 can cream of chicken soup
1/2 soup can of milk
1/2 can (4 oz., so 2 oz.) chopped green chilis
1/4 to 1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 C. green chile sauce (oops, guess that I never read the recipe good before, I never add this, so do what you want)
taco size corn tortillas, you can use flour, since I have you buying flour tortillas
shredded or diced chicken meat
shredded cheddar or mexican blend cheese

Mix together onions, milk, soup, chilis, sour cream and green sauce. Then I take a 8x8 pan and spray nonstick cooking spray on it. I tear up(Dottie's recipe says to layer the tortillas, I tear them up) around 3 or 4 and put on the bottom of the pan. I then spread some chicken on top of that, some sauce, some cheese, then repeat layers ending with cheese. Bake at 350 for around 30 minutes until cheese melts and it's hot and bubbly.

When I do a full recipe, or enough for a 9x13 pan, to take to a party, I follow the recipe more closely and this is what I do:

Sauce:
1 onion, chopped and sauteed
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 soup can full of milk
1 (4 oz.) can of diced green chilis
1/2 C. (I probably add more) sour cream
1 C. green chili sauce (I have never added this before and my kids gobble it up)

Other ingred.:
Corn or flour tortillas
chicken
shredded cheese

Mix up sauce ingredients. Layer the corn tortillas(you have flour tortillas) in a 9x13 pan treated with nonstick cooking spray or oil, or tear up like I did in the smaller version. Layer with chicken, sauce, cheese, repeat layers until the casserole is full or you run out of ingredients. Bake at 350. I usually garnish if I'm taking to a potluck with chopped tomato, green onion slices and sliced black olives.

NOTE:you will have all but the can of cream of mushroom soup to make the larger version.




Sour Cream Chicken Enchiladas

This version is a rolled enchilada. For 8x8 pan follow this recipe. For 9x13, double.

1 can cream of chicken soup
1 C. sour cream or more
some diced green chilis
diced or shredded chicken
shredded cheese
flour tortillas

Mix the soup and the sour cream together. Spray the bottom of an 8x8 pan with Pam or nonstick cooking spray. Take a flour tortilla and add meat to it, a small amount of sauce if you want and roll it up. Place in the pan. Continue until you have 4 or 5 enchiladas rolled. I then like to cut the enchiladas in half. Spread the remaining sauce over the enchiladas and top with cheese. Or wait until the last minutes of baking to spread the cheese on top. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes or until hot and bubbly. Double this recipe if you want to have enough for a 9x13 pan.

Here's the grocery list for this week:
Bashas'
Fresh whole chicken, .49 lb. Buy two chickens at aprox. 4 lbs. each, total, $3.92
Fresh ground beef with four lbs. or more, $1.77 lb. buy 4 lbs., at $7.08
Iceberg lettuce, .69 ea., buy 2
Gala apples, .49 lb., buy 4 lbs.
Large cheese pizza from the hot deli, $4.99. Allow 30 minutes for it to cook, call ahead
Farmland bacon, $1.99
Food Club cheese singles, .99
Food Club peanut butter, .99
Del Monte vegetables, .58, buy 2
Bashas sour cream, .99
Bashas cottage cheese, .99
Mission flour tortillas, $1.99
MP diced green chilis, 2/$1, buy 1
Food Club instant oatmeal or oats, 2/$1, buy 2
Cream of chicken soup, allowed for $1.99
onion, allowed for .50, buy 1
Food Club lasagne noodles, allowed for $1.39
Del Monte sloppy joe sauce, $1.00

Fry's
Mega 10 event
1-Kraft shredded cheese, $1.39
2-Kraft shredded cheese
3-Kraft shredded cheese
4-Nabisco snack crackers, $1.49
5-Jello instant pudding, .89
6-Jello gelatin, .89
7-Kraft salad dressing, .99
8-Oscar mayer weiners, $1.49
9-Dreyer's ice cream, $2.49
10-Capri Sun drinks, $1.39

Fry's large eggs, .77, buy 1
Fry's milk, .77 half gal., buy 4
Green seedless grapes, .67 lb., buy 2 lbs.
Zucchini, or yellow squash, $1 lb.
Kroger Value cereal, .99, buy 2
Kroger Value bread, .88, buy 4(there are 20 slices in each loaf)
Hamburger buns, allowed for $1.50, buy 1
Hot dog buns, allowed for $1.50, buy 1
Kroger Value Spaghetti sauce, $1.15

Sprouts
Navel oranges, .88 lb., buy 3 lbs. at $2.64
Vine ripe tomatoes, .88 lb., buy 2 lbs. at $1.76

Other great buys this week:
Hass avocados, 4/$1-sprouts
Lg. green pepper, 3/$1-sprouts
Breyers Ice cream, $1.99-Albertsons
Carrots, 2/$1-Albertsons
Kiwi, 4/$1-Albertsons
Fresh ground beef, .99 lb, 5 lb. chub-Fry's(if chub meat doesn't gross you out)
Kroger boneless, skinless chicken breasts, $1.57 lb., 3 lb. bag-Fry's
Bashas sandwich bread, .99-Bashas
chuck Roast value pack, $1.37 lb.-Bashas

Items not on the grocery list:
butter
jelly
mayonnaise
Pam or nonstick cooking spray
Parmesan cheese
green salsa or chili sauce

Menus for what's on sale Aug. 26-Sept. 2

$68.82

Breakfast
1-Egg biscuit
2-Cold cereal
3-Cinnamon or orange rolls
4-Cold cereal
5-Cinnamon toast
6-Orange or cinnamon rolls
7-Cold cereal

Lunch
1-Green salad, apple, brownie
2-Lunch meat sandwich, celery sticks, cookie
3-Lunch meat sandwich, apple, cookie
4-Chicken salad, leftover from dinner idea #3, cookie
5-Lunch meat sandwich, orange
6-Mac & Cheese, plum
7-Mac & Cheese, 7 Up

Dinner
1-Mac & cheese, sliced tomatoes, broccoli salad, see recipe below (save some bacon crumbles for baked potatoes in dinner idea #2.)

2-Baked potato with sour cream, sliced scallions, shredded cheese and bacon crumbles, canned vegetable

3-Chicken salad, see recipe below, cantaloupe wedges, crescent rolls, brownie for dessert

4-Tacos made with ground beef, shredded cheese, some lettuce left from Lunch idea #1, shredded cheese, some tomato dices left from tomatoes used in Dinner idea #1, sour cream. If you don't have any taco seasoning mix, but you do have some little packets of taco sauce from Mexican take out in your fridge, use those to season the cooked ground beef. Or use garlic salt or garlic powder, cumin, chili powder to taste.

5-London Broil, cauliflower gratin, grilled corn on the cob. see http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/sara-moulton/grilled-marinated-london-broil-recipe/index.html or http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,1726,154168-232205,00.html
for London Broil recipes and http://www.recipezaar.com/Barefoot-Contessas-Cauliflower-Gratin-208626 for the Barefoot Contessa's recipe for Cauliflower Gratin. I would use regular cheese instead of Gruyere if it were me.

6-Try Chicken Squares at http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,1839,146187-227194,00.html You hopefully have a can of cream of chicken soup in the pantry. If you'd rather have plain chicken, then bake and have the crescent rolls on the side. You'll have to add a canned vegetable to the grocery list or eat leftover sides.

7-Beef and Cheese Crescent Pie and mashed potatoes. See http://www.kitchentips.org/recipes/a-tasty-beef-and-cheese-crescent-pie-recipe




Polynesian Chicken Salad (Stacey C.)
2 C. cooked chicken breast, diced
1/4 C. pineapple chunks, drained
halved green grapes (red ones are the ones on sale this week)
small can of drained mandarin oranges
1/2 C. celery, diced
1/4 C. slivered almonds
4 green onions, sliced
1/2 C. low-fat vanilla yogurt (can substitute plain non-fat yogurt)
1/4 C. regular mayonnaise (can substitute fat-free mayo)

Combine chicken, pineapple, celery, almonds, and onion; set aside. Blend together yogurt and mayonnaise; stir into chicken mixture. Serve on bed of lettuce.

NOTE: I did not put almonds on the shopping list, you may want to do that. I was trying to keep costs down. Also, you may want to double this recipe since it is for a main dish. Or just double the chicken, celery, pineapple amounts.


Broccoli Salad
2-3 bunches broccoli, cut into florets
4-6 slices of bacon, fried and crumbled
1/2 C. of grated cheddar

Dressing:
1 C. Miracle Whip salad dressing
1/2 C. white or cider vinegar
4 Tablespoons sugar

Wash the broccoli and trim into florets. Make the dressing and add the other ingredients, gently toss.


Grocery List:
Albertson's
Corn, 6/$1, buy 6
Fresh Express salad, $1, buy 1
Libby's vegetables, 5/$3, buy 3, one veg needs to be green beans for the Beef and cheese crescent pie. Whether you buy a third canned veg for a side to the chicken squares is up to you.
Green onions/scallions, 2/$1, buy 1
Boneless/skinless chicken breast, $1.57 lb., buy 3 lbs. at aprox. $4.71

Bashas'
Bashas' 1/2 gallon milk, .88, buy 4 at $3.52
Food Club Mac & cheese, 3/$1, buy 3
London Broil, $1.67 lb. It will be aprox. $8-$9 for 2 pieces of London Broil, have one ground into hamburger for Tacos and Beef and cheese crescent pie, leave the other one whole for grilled London Broil
Bashas sour cream .88
7 up, .89
Land O'Frost deli shaved meat, $1.99, buy 2
Valu Time Eggs, .98
Prune Plums, .99 lb.
Canned pineapple, $1.38
Valu Time mandarin oranges, .50

Fry's
Mega buy 10 event
1-Gen Mills or quaker cereal, $1.39
2-Gen Mills or Quaker cereal, $1.39
3-Grands! biscuits, .88
4-Pillsbury cinnamon rolls, .88 (.38 if you have a coupon)
5-Pillsbury cinnamon or orange rolls, .88 (.38 if you have a coupon)
6-Pillsbury crescent rolls, .88
7-Pillsbury crescent rolls, .88
8-Pillsbury crescent rolls, .88
9-Betty Crocker Brownie mix, $1.49
10-Old El Paso Taco shells, .99

Organic red seedless grapes, .67 lb., buy 1
Navel oranges, .77 lb, buy 2 lbs. at $1.54
Kroger shredded cheese, $1.99, buy four package
Kroger Value cookies, $1.19
Celery, allowed for $1.00
Vanilla yogurt, buy 2 small containers, allowed for $1.50
Tomato sauce, allowed for .50
Apples, 3 lb. bag, $2.77
Potatoes, $2.97 for 10 lb. bag
Kroger Value bacon, $1.77 lb., buy 1
Kroger Value bread, .88, buy 2

Sprouts
Snow White Cauliflower, .99 ea
Large cantaloupe, .77 ea
Broccoli crowns, .77, buy 2 at $1.54
Hot House tomatoes, .99, buy 2 lbs.


Items not on list:
Miracle Whip
sugar
soy sauce
honey
vinegar

Other great deals:
93% lean gr. beef, $1.77/lb.-Bashas
Bashas cottage cheese, .88-Bashas
dole mushrooms, .99-Bashas
Valu Time sugar, $1.88-Bashas
Red or green cabbage, 2 lbs/$1-Albertsons
Fresh carrots, $1/2 lbs.-Albertsons
Yellow onions, 3 lbs./$1
Raspberries, .99-Sprouts
hass Avocado, .77 ea-sprouts
Carne Asada, $3.99/lb-sprouts
Reeses King size peanut butter cups or Reeses pieces theater candy, free with coupon-Fry's, see http://www.couponsense.com/ to find out how

Oven Fried Chicken

Jean Anderson's Oven-Fried chicken
taken from "Sara Moulton Cooks at Home", pgs. 72, 73

12 tablespoons (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter
3 garlic cloves, minced
2 cups fresh bread crumbs
2/3 cup freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano
2 teaspoons kosher salt
Freshly ground black pepper to taste
One 3-1/2 lb. chicken, cut into 10 pieces (or all thighs, wings, or breasts if desired) {*or boneless chicken breasts or tenders}

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Combine the butter and garlic in a small saucepan. Heat over medium-high heat until the butter has melted. Pour into a large bowl and cool to room temperature.

Mix the bread crumbs, cheese, salt, and pepper in a large bowl. Dip each chicken piece, one at a time, into the melted garlic butter. Transfer to the bread crumb mixture and turn until coated on all sides.

Arrange the chicken in one flat layer on a large baking sheet. Drizzle on any of the remaining melted butter. Bake until lightly browned and just cooked through, 50-60 minutes.

*My comment