Keeping your grocery bill low and feeding those hungry mouths is starting to become much harder than it once was! Luckily, there are loads of inexpensive options to keep their tastebuds watering and coming back for more.
Firstly, if you havent invested in a slow cooker, do so (use some money from your Kijiji sales)....the food is amazing and moist and you have to do such little work (though cleaning it can be a bit of a pain). Once of my favorite things to do is make a roast dinner in the slow cooker. All you need is:
Roast (any cut that you can afford but not too fatty)
3 or 4 peeled potatoes
a few handfuls of mini carrots (which go on sale at the store all the time!)
One can of beef broth
One can of cream of mushroom soup
You simply put in the can of broth and the can of mushroom soup and mix them up. Add the roast and surround it by the peeled potatoes and carrots and let it cook all day on low. At least 8 hours. The roast will come out incredibly tender and delicious and then you use the broth and soup combo to make your gravy (or use the soup combo as the gravy itself either way tastes great).
For those of you that do not have a slow cooker and that have a bit of a sweet tooth, something I like to do is go to my local grocery store (the Save-On by my house has amazing bulk packed meat offers though I hear Walmart Supercenter also has great prices on bulk packaged meat) and get a package of pork chops that usually has nine pork chops (not bone-in, only costs $9), I stick a few in the freezer and then I use the rest to make this incredible pork receipe that is cheap to make and delicious to eat!
You will need:
5 or 6 pork chops
2 or 3 apples (I like to use Gala apples - they are sweet and inexpensive)
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup cinnamon
1 package of shake & bake pork
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F;
2. Mix sugar and cinnamon in bag that comes with shake and bake (dont add shake and bake yet);
3. Chop apples into slices and shake in cinnamon/sugar mixture;
4. Place sugared apples on bottom of baking dish;
5. Add 3/4 of the package of shake and bake pork chop mix to the cinnamon/sugar mixture - mix well;
6. Shake pork chops in the mixture and place on top of the apples in the baking dish
7. Bake at 375 for 50 minutes (or until pork is no longer pink).
Its amazing! Tastes like melt in your mouth pork chop apple pie. Who wouldn't love pork chop apple pie. :) My receipes may not be the most healthy but they sure taste great and there are definitely ways to cut calories in both receipes. If you are cooking the roast, get the low fat version of the mushroom soup and select a cut of roast that has the least amount of fat. If you are making the pork chops, use the cinnamon and sugar mixture on the apples only and ensure fat is trimmed from your pork chops prior to cooking. Or serve the meals with brown rice (you can get your coupon for brown rice on the sites I blogged about previously), and a nice salad.
Give these receipes a try. They are quick, tasty and relatively inexpensive to make. Plus (depending on how big your household is) there is usually lots leftover for future meals! I like to buy a nice big roast to ensure roast sandwiches for the family for a couple of days. Also, if you keep the gravy you can also make hot roast beef sandwiches from the leftovers. Enjoy and happy cooking!
No comments:
Post a Comment