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[footballmouse]

Need help with dinner for tonight. This is what I have: tyson grilled diced chicken, diced tomatoes, salsa, cream of chicken soup, cream of mushroom soup, small tortillas. Can I make anything with any of this?

 

[Stephaniesue]

Chicken tortilla soup.

Mix all of it together with some water in a pot, let it cook until hot. Take the tortillas and cut them in thin strips, spray with cooking spray or brush lightly with oil, bake at 350 for a few minutes. These will be crispy on top of the soup.

I make it all the time, very good. Even better if you top with cheese, and add some spices to the soup mix.

 

[brennicksmom]

try this website. You input ingredients and it tells you what you can make.

http://www.supercook.com/#/recipes/All%20recipes

 

[brennicksmom]

You can use Recipe Matcher too.

 

[Marionnette]

Need help with dinner for tonight. This is what I have: tyson grilled diced chicken, diced tomatoes, salsa, cream of chicken soup, cream of mushroom soup, small tortillas. Can I make anything with any of this?

That's all you have in your house? No pasta or rice? No frozen or canned vegetables aside from the diced tomatoes? No cheese, margarine or milk? No onions, garlic or even dried spices?

If I only had that on hand, I'd be making a reservation for dinner and then plan to go grocery shopping afterward.

 

[footballmouse]

Yes I have an onion, pasta, rice, alfredo sauce, can corn, taco seasoning. Can't go to the store until i get paid next week.

 

[Marionnette]

Yes I have an onion, pasta, rice, alfredo sauce, can corn, taco seasoning. Can't go to the store until i get paid next week.

That's a little better. I thought that perhaps you were trying to clean out your pantry before going on your vacation!

How do you plan to survive until you get paid? It doesn't sound like you have enough there to stretch for a week +/- a couple of days. I could probably get one or two decent meals out of what you have, although the lack of vegetables and the high sodium content of most of your ingredients wouldn't go over well at my house.

Split the chicken into two meals. One will be a sort of chicken burrito and the other is going to be alfredo pasta with chicken. The pasta dish is pretty self-explanatory. For the "burritos", mix the chicken and salsa and allow it to marinate for an hour. Strain through a fine mesh sieve and reserve the juice. Mix the salsa/chicken with half a can of one of the soups. Set aside. Add enough water to the reserved liquid to make one cup. Bring to a boil in a saucepan and then add 1/2 cup of rice. Reduce to simmer, cover and cook for 15 mins. Mix rice with salsa/chicken and divide evenly between the tortillas. Roll up burrito-style. Place seam side down on a baking dish. Top with the remaining soup. Bake at 350º for 25 minutes until heated through.

I have no idea how this will taste but if what you have listed is all that you have in your house, it might be worth a try.

 

[Eureka]

Need help with dinner for tonight. This is what I have: tyson grilled diced chicken, diced tomatoes, salsa, cream of chicken soup, cream of mushroom soup, small tortillas. Can I make anything with any of this?

Quesadillas

 

[TwoMisfits]

Yes I have an onion, pasta, rice, alfredo sauce, can corn, taco seasoning. Can't go to the store until i get paid next week.

Okay, so you need to make this stuff last for multiple meals...

So, I would take the chicken and divide it by 3 (if you are the only eater). Tonight, I would take the cream of chicken soup (thinned out per the directions) and add precooked rice and some chicken to it for a poor man's chicken and rice soup. If you are an only eater, you should have enough to probably have a light lunch tomorrow.

Then I would take another 3rd of the chicken tomorrow with some of the taco spice, some caramelized onion (1/4 onion) and the tortillas and make a poor man's quesadilla with some of the salsa on the side.

Then I would take the last of the chicken, some pasta, the alfredo sauce, and some more carmalized onion (you could do this all one day - take another 1/4 of it) and make a chicken alfredo - make enough pasta to have leftovers for a 2nd meal.

As a side for the quesadillas, you could make mexican rice with some of the taco seasoning and some of the salsa juice. As a side for the soup (or an extra addition), have a 1/3 of the can of corn.

As an extra meal on your last dinner day (Sat?), take the cream of mushroom soup (keep it thick, but heat it up) and add it with some last carmelized onion to just cooked pasta or just cooked rice - whatever you have left (like a vegetarian tettrazini).

 

[java]

Do you have eggs? You could do a fried rice. Cook rice. Let cool. Then stir fry with some onion, soy and whatever veggies you have. I like to scramble an egg in there too. It seems to multiply. And its yummy reheated.

The tortillas can be used like mentioned above, or even turn into cinnamon desserty type chips.

Are you looking for this to last for how many days?

 

[pat fan]

tyson grilled diced chicken, diced tomatoes, salsa, cream of chicken soup, cream of mushroom soup, small tortillas.
Yes I have an onion, pasta, rice, alfredo sauce, can corn, taco seasoning.

Divide the chicken into 3 portions.

Cook rice. (use for burritos & soup)

Sprinkle a little taco seasoning on some chicken. On a tortilla place chicken, rice, corn & salsa for chicken burritos.

Add alfredo sauce to chicken. Serve over pasta.

Add water to cream of chicken soup. Add rice to make more filling.

Cook pasta. Saute onions. Add remaining chicken, diced tomatoes, onions & pasta. Mix for chicken goulash.

You can also use the tortilla's for a snack. Lightly coat them with butter if you have it and cook in a frying pan on each side til crispy. Eat with salsa. Or, you can cook them in a toaster but be CAREFUL you don't start a fire.

Next payday, invest in dry beans (black, pinto, great northern or navy and 16 bean mix). Dry beans are cheap and go a lot further. One package of 16 bean mix and a can of diced tomatoes will feed one person soup for a week! Once it cools (after the first eating) it thickens so each time you take some out to re-heat you add water to thin it, makes it last longer. Or, you can use it if it's thick enough in a tortilla with some rice. Stop at the deli to get a ham bone or an end of deli ham to add to the soup. Great northern or navy beans are used to make baked beans. That could last you a week too. My dad loved a cold bean and onion slice sandwich for lunch. Ask at the deli for cheese ends too. Use to make homemade mac & cheese. A little more expensive than store brand "kraft" style, but much healthier and it makes a bigger batch to get more meals from.

We grew up pretty poor, so I can stretch a dime in the grocery store/menu dept!

 

[Halloweenqueen]

How many people in your family? How many meals?

 

[footballmouse]

I just needed it for tonight. I have other meals planned for the week ahead. My son got the chicken out & thawed it. I wasn't prepared to use it so I didn't have the stuff for a recipe for it and I needed to make it tonight. Thanks for the suggestions, we went with the quesadillas.

Regarding the Chicken Tortilla Soup - I have this recipe for a crockpot, how long would I cook it for on the stove?

 

[Stephaniesue]

I just needed it for tonight. I have other meals planned for the week ahead. My son got the chicken out & thawed it. I wasn't prepared to use it so I didn't have the stuff for a recipe for it and I needed to make it tonight. Thanks for the suggestions, we went with the quesadillas.

Regarding the Chicken Tortilla Soup - I have this recipe for a crockpot, how long would I cook it for on the stove?

Depends on if you are using cooked chicken or raw chicken. If the CP recipe calls for raw chicken, just bake it off ahead of time.

With already cooked chicken you can add it at the end. It shouldn't take more than 30 to 40 minutes on the stove top if the chicken is pre- cooked. Maybe closer to an hour if it's raw.

I hope that helps .