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Dinner in a Pinch ~ What to do with these 5 ingredients?

This has been a weird week or two ~ our schedules have been totally whacked out and the one night Ryan was home I had no idea what to cook for dinner. I really wanted to get in the car and go out to eat ~ but we’re working on eating at home so I went in the kitchen and dug around. Here’s what I found: hamburger (bought on sale a couple weeks ago) pasta (was looking for elbow ~ but we only had small shells) tomatoes (diced in a can) frozen corn (big bag $1 on sale) an onion I also had some homemade gourmet Garlic basil seasoning in the cupboard too. (if you don’t have Homemade Gourmet spices you can just use garlic and basil to season the dish Here’s what I did: Threw the shells in boiling water while I fixed the rest. Browned 1/2lb of the...

Posted by Jackie Lee on Jul 16, 2009 in Kitchen Antics | Comments Off

Menu Planning Monday 6/29

Here it is, Monday again. I want to thank everyone who’s been helping me decrease my grocery bill. We had a blast at the store yesterday. We ended up saving over 85 dollars on groceries. Our bill was around $136 but we ended up with 5 or 6 buy one get one free meats, so we’ll have plenty of meat again for next week. I thought I’d start sharing my meal planning with you all, so you can follow along (and give me some hints along the way). So here we go: These meals are in no particular order. Part of the problem with setting a meal schedule is my husband’s schedule is so irregular that I have a hard time sticking to the meal plan. So I’ve set up meals, but we’ll play it by ear when we’re going to have what. Asian PorkWraps...