Sometimes The Grocery Store Will Dictate What You Eat!

I am all for clipping coupons to save money while grocery shopping. Unlike the extremists who can create major savings, my savings come mostly from spend $25 and receive $5.00 off.

Sometimes the grocery stores have loss leaders to get us in their store that are to good to be true. For example my local store had Iceberg lettuce for $1.49 a head. A competitor had the same lettuce for $0.33 and fryer chicken for $0.59 lb.

Without boring you another grocery store had an amazing sale on produce and vegetables.

I could not pass up on these deals, with $25 in my hand we shopped and we will be eating alot of chicken and vegetables this week.

Lasagna - full of flavor taste and texture

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This Lasagna is flavorful, tasty and the kids end up eating a lot of vegetables.
We like this recipe because it gives us a low fat, low sodium meal that is full of vegetables. The ingredients are very simple but the taste is powerful.

My ingredients are:
Olive oil
Red and yellow peppers
Celery
Garlic
Tomato
Onion
Oregano
1 pound of ground turkey
Grated Cheese
Whole wheat flour
2 eggs

First step is to cook the ground chicken in a non-stick skillet with a fat free spray. while the turkey is cooking begin making the pasta by breaking the eggs adding some olive oil and then the flour mix and knead.

While the dough is resting roughly chop 1/4 of each pepper and a cup of celery, place in a bowl. Cut up two tomatoes and place in a blender with two garlic cloves, onion and oregano. Turn the blender on and add olive oil. Blend until smooth and pour into bowl with chopped veggies and mix.

Begin heating a pot of water to cook the pasta noodle in.  roll the pasta dough into thin strips and place in boiling water for 30 seconds. Remove and oil so it won't stick.

Chop the cooled cooked ground turkey.

Place 1/3 third of the vegetable sauce oon the bottoom of the pan, then a layer of ground turkey, then a layer of shredded cheese, followed by a layer of pasta noodle. Add dollups of home made Greek style yogurt cheese.

Repeat and finally add shredded cheese to cover the top and bake at 350 for one hour.

Soup Salad Grilled Chicken and Whole Wheat Pasta

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What an amazing week!
April 27th I took up running. First day was 120 yards with a break in the middle. Today
I reached my goal of running 100 60yard runs.
The food we have been eating lately has been really health oriented.
similar to pizza salad can be made with anything including grilled chicken, hummus and Greek yogurt cheese.
The bones and skin from grilling chicken  wer put into a slow cooker to make an incredible broth. The soups I made with this broth were packed full of veggies. I used half a bunch of celery stock and my kids cleaned out the slow cooker. Good broth is everything!

Picked up a bag of whole wheat flour and made 100% whole wheat pasta, truly it was an amazing meal.

We are still under budget and eating fine.

On a side note the family has dropped a combined 32 pounds in the last three weeks.

Spectacular Chicken Noodle Soup

Last night we tried the  chicken broth from last weeks BBQ chicken we cooked.
The finished product was spectacular. The broth is everything when it comes to chicken noodle soup. It was low in sodium, low in fat but had big time flavor we added lots of vegetables and whole wheat pasta.
The kids at almost a whole slow cooker worth of soup.

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Soft Cheese Easy to Make at Home

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Soft Cheese the home made way

Living on a budget of $100 a week to feed a family of four is never easy. This task becomes really hard when you try to eat high quality food. One way we are able to keep the high quality is to make soft cheese. Our family loves to eat cheese and the soft cheese we find in our deli section of our grocery store would easily wipe out our budget.

Our Greek style soft cheese has become a favorite which is great because it is very easy to make.

You will need the following ingredients;

1 Whisk

1 Large bowl

1 Container of Greek Yogurt

Cheese cloth

Plastic container

The first thing is to empty the yogurt container into your bowl and whisk for about ½ a minute.

Spread the cheese cloth over the plastic container and slowly pour the yogurt onto the cheese cloth.

Grab the corners of the cloth and lift so the yogurt forms a ball and tie the top with string or twist ties.

Let this ball of yogurt hang over the kitchen sink for 12 hours (I like to make mine before bedtime and wake up in the morning with my fresh cheese)

Carefully peel back the cheese cloth and there is your creamy tangy soft cheese ready to eat.

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Mayonnaise You Can Make During T.V. Commercials

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If there is one thing I like better than getting a great deal at the grocery store it is making food during T.V. Commercials. Mayonnaise is one of those foods you can make during commercials rather than watching the commercial (exception would be Superbowl ).

This recipe requires the following ingredients
2 egg yolks
1 tablespoon of dijon mustard
salt and pepper
1 cup of oil
1 tablespoon of lemon juice or white vinegar
Wet dish cloth

The first thing I do is set up all my ingredients on the counter before my show starts.

During the first set of commercials I separate the egg yolks froom the whites and put the whites in another container to for later. since this does not have to be perfect I squeeze the dijon into the bowl until it is the same size as one egg yolk, add a little salt and pepper.Back to watching my show.

Next commercial whisk everything then slowly begin to add my cup of oil while whisking. When all the oil is mixed in begin whisking extra hard for 30 seconds.

At this point you are almost done but if your show is a good one wait until the next set of T.V. commercials  to whisk in 1 tablespoon of lemon juice add a little salt or pepper to taste.

Now you have 1 cup of inexpensive home made mayonnaise.