Whats for supper, budget or semi, freezer specials

[disneymarie]

Last week I went through the frozen meat.
1 night was a Bayou, seasoning on rice, bean and saute chicken
1 night was a pk of hamburg, canned tomatoes, seasonings, and put it over pene noodles, added what was left of shredded cheese.

Tonight, I am making pizza dough in the bread maker, I have, shreeded cheese, I have pizza sauce in the pantry and several toppings.

Earlier,
I took jello and had a can of fruit cocktail I drained and made that for a snack that went over.

Tomorrow, A thrown together Tex Mex soup
I have some smoked kielbosie,chopped, red beans, tomatoes, a can with green chili's, can corn, the rest of some chicken shredded, saute onion, I add all the Mex seasonings I have. A can of chicken stock.

I have a frozen bag of rolls from the holiday. With my new skillets I place them in the heated skillet, brush melted butter, crumble rosemary......

Sunday I have chicken breast I will season and bake, with baked pototoes and green beans. I have a box of corn bread mix, that has gone over great baked in a skillet too, or baked in the oven pan.

Found this one for next week,

Cavatelli with Spicy Tomato-Sausage Sauce

2 c Quick Tomato Sauce (I have jars of Speghetti sauce from bogo)

12 oz Hot Italian sausage

1 tb Olive oil

1/2 c Reserved juice from canned

-tomatoes (or water) 2 tb Fresh basil, chopped (1 1/2

-tsp dried) 3/4 lb Cavatelli or penne

3/4 c Ricotta (or any cheese I have or on sale

PREPARATION: For The Sauce, make the Quick Tomato Sauce. Remove casing from sausage. Heat olive oil in large frying pan over medium heat; saute sausage, breaking into small pieces, until color turns pale and sausage is just cooked through, about 10 minutes. Add the Quick Tomato Sauce, basil, and tomato juice; simmer, uncovered, over low heat for 5 minutes. Sauce can be made 1 day ahead. COOKING AND SERVING: Cook the pasta in 4 quarts boiling, salted water until just tender, about 8 minutes. Drain well. Reheat the sauce. Toss the pasta with sauce. Serve on warmed serving dishes. Garnish each serving with 3 tablespoons ricotta. Makes 4 servings.

Anyone else have ideas to share for other meals, leftover, budget, use what in the house kind of things.
I get so tired of the same thing, and hate going out to buy orders.
Di

 

[hsmamato2]

refrigerator soup,one of my specialties,and my family always loves it!
tonight is corn chowder in the crock pot. 2 bags frozen corn, whatever amount of milk I have (had about 2c maybe) a chopped onion- chicken stock and some water to fill to top- salt,pepper,parsley- and a handful of shredded cheese,cook on high for a few hours and that's dinner! Wait,ai also added some dry potato flakes as a thickener,so it's not as thin. and a handful of whatever was left on the chicken carcass from 4 days ago.(last of that chicken;-)
before our last vacation, I literally took EVERYTHING out of the fridge,and created a soup or stirfry. I learned a couple of years ago,that when you add mashed potatoes to just about any soup or stew,it gets all nice and thick and yummy that's why I keep potato flakes in the cabinet now,for days when I don't have leftovers of the 'real thing' to add!

 

[disykat]

Last night in my grocery sack there was a flier for "quick italian soup" that was made from by adding 5 cups of water and some stuff I always have around the house ( a can of tomatoes, misc. veggies, hamburger) to a box of Hamburger Helper Lasagna. Next time hamburger helper goes on sale I'm going to buy some for a quick dinner on one of "those nights."

 

[disneymarie]

Be nice to have a sticley for a Budget, whats for supper? Thread

Just to click on for reference "on those nights"

FYI I ordered my first Angel Foods package to pick up tomorrow. It had a lot of variety this month I would use.

 

[lisam427]

disneymarie,
im glad to hear you ordered angel food. ii have been ordering angelfood for about a year and i love it. it has been such a money saver and a time saver. i used to spend about $98 a week on groceries, cat food, paper products etc.. for two people. plus we would eat out. after angel food my monthly grocery bills are under $200 for everything. when you pick up your order, let me know how you like it.

tonight we dd was bugging me for takeout pizza. instead we had a ham steak, corn on the cob, and fries from the freezer. right now everything is cooking as i am typing. dd was whinning about how she is sick of eating at home all the time as we used to eat out at least twice a week. ive had to put my foot down. i just cant see throwing away $40-$60 a week on eating out anymore.

my favorite frugal meal is potato cheese soup from miserly moms. it is a great use of leftover potatoes and something i consider a comfort food. here's the link to the recipie if your interested.

http://www.storknet.com/bookshelf/miserly.htm

 

[joha]

Today:
Turkey meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and greens.
I had some grilled salmon from last night...
We are making some chocolate chip cookies for dessert.

Not sure about tomorrow, I was thinking making pizza or Chinese fried rice...

 

[joha]

Sorry double post