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| What have I gotten myself into? |
CURRENTLY PLANNED COMBOS (Not necessarily in this order)
Creamy Tuna Broccoli Pasta
| 2 cans | Chunk light tuna in water |
| 1 box | Tuna Helper Creamy Broccoli |
Cheesy Chicken Pasta
| 1 box | Tuna Helper Cheesy Pasta |
| 1 can | (12.5 oz) Canned chicken in water |
Black Bean Brownies (Don't fight me on this one; these are actually good.)
| 1 can | (15 oz) Black beans |
| 1 box | Dark chocolate brownie mix |
Barbecue Chicken Strips
| 1 bottle | (18 oz.) Sweet Baby Ray’s barbecue sauce |
| 1/2 bottle | (6 oz.) honey dijon mustard |
| 2 tbsp | Sweet Baby Ray’s barbecue sauce |
| 40 oz. | Boneless skinless chicken breast tenders |
Apple Cinnamon Muffins
| 1 box | Apple cinnamon muffin mix |
| 3 | eggs |
Beer Bread Veggie Pizza
| ½ liter | Sparkling water |
| 8 | string cheese |
| 1 box | Beer bread mix |
| 2 cloves | garlic |
| 2 tbsp | butter |
| 1 can | (14 oz) artichoke hearts |
| 1 | 8 oz bag asparagus |
Lasagna
| 8 packs | String cheese |
| 2 cans | (14.5 oz) diced peeled tomatoes |
| ¼ cup | Parmesan cheese |
| 1 | Onion |
| 2 cloves | garlic |
| 2/3 pkg. | Frozen spinach |
| 1 lb. | Lasagna noodles |
| 1 can | (10.75 oz) Tomato soup |
Noodles & Veg
| 1 | 12 oz bag asparagus |
| 6 oz. | Egg noodles |
| 1 bag | (16 oz) Brussels sprouts |
Gobi Cauliflower
| 1 bag | (16 oz) cauliflower |
| 1 packet | Gobi spice blend |
Thai Noodles
| 1/2 cup | Crushed peanuts |
| 1 packet | soy sauce |
| 1 cup | Individual peanut butter |
| 1 bag | (14 oz.) Wide rice sticks (noodles) |
| 1 bag | (16 oz) broccoli |
Stir Fry
| 14 oz. | Extra firm tofu |
| 1 cup | Individual peanut butter |
| 2 packets | soy sauce |
| ?? | Oyster flavored sauce |
| 1 bag | (14 oz.) Thin rice sticks (noodles) |
| 1 bag | (14 oz) whole green beans |
| 1/2 cup | Crushed peanuts |
Cranberry Crumble
| 3 bags | (12 oz) cranberries |
| ?? | sugar and/or splenda |
| 1 | Large fuji apple |
| 1 bag | (12 oz) Maple Crunch granola |
Au Gratin Potatoes
| 1 box | Betty Crocker Au Gratin Potatoes |
| 1 sm bag | Dried potatoes |
Cheeseburger Macaroni
| 1 box | Whole Grain Hamburger Helper Cheeseburger Macaroni |
| 1/4 lb. | Lean ground beef |
Crock Pot Chili
| 3/4 lb. | Lean ground beef |
| 1 can | (8 oz) Tomato sauce |
| 1 can | (15 oz) Kidney beans |
| 1 can | (15 oz) White beans |
| 1 can | (14.5 oz) diced tomatoes with onion, celery, and green pepper |
| 1 can | (15 oz) chili beans |
| 1 | onion |
| 1 can | (4 oz) diced green chiles |
Beef Stroganoff
| 1 box | Hamburger Helper Stroganoff |
| 1/4 lb. | Lean ground beef |
| 1 handful | Whole wheat rotini |
Individually Portioned Meals
| 1 | Mushroom noodle soup bowl |
| 1 can | Campbell’s Chicken Tuscany soup |
| 4 boxes | Amy’s Indian Mattar Paneer frozen dinner |
| 1 | Lean Cuizine mini pepperoni pizza |
| 1 | Healthy Choice chicken parmigiana dinner |
WHAT'S LEFT
So my remaining list, minus a little butter here, a little flour and sugar there....
| Perishable | ||
| ½ carton | Mint cookie crunch ice cream | |
| 7 | Eggs | |
| 1 jar | (24 oz) salsa | |
| ½ slice | Smoked gouda | |
| 1/2 bottle | (6 oz.) honey dijon mustard | |
| Sides | ||
| 1 bag | Tasty Bite Bangkok Beans | |
| 1 box | Cornbread stuffing | |
| 5 cups | Biscuit mix | |
| Meat | ||
| 4 | Crunchy breaded fish fillets | |
| 2 | Roasted chicken patties | |
| Vegetables | ||
| 1 can | (8.25 oz) sliced beets | |
| 1 can | (4 oz) diced green chiles | |
| 2/3 bulb | Garlic | |
| 1 jar | sliced pepperoncini | |
| 1 jar | Pickle sandwich slices | |
| 1 jar | Butter chips (pickles) | |
| Bread | ||
| 1 loaf | Sliced 12-grain bread | |
| ¼ loaf | Unsliced wheat bread | |
| 3 | Stale rolls | |
| Noodles | ||
| 1 box | (16 oz) elbow macaroni | |
| Rice | ||
| 1 cup | Short grain brown rice | |
| 2 cups | Long grain brown rice | |
| 4 cups | Long grain white rice | |
| Grains | ||
| 1.5 cups | Cous cous | |
| 2 cups | Polenta | |
| 2 cups | Grits | |
| 6 cups | Cornmeal | |
| Snacks | ||
| 3 sleeves | Saltine crackers | |
| 1 bag | Baked Tostitos Scoops | |
| 3 bags | Orville Redenbacher’s Smart Pop! 100 Calorie Bags | |
| Condensed Soups | ||
| 1 can | (10.75 oz) Cream of chicken soup | |
| 1 can | (10.75 oz) Cheddar cheese soup | |
| Soup Mixes | ||
| 1 bag | Roasted garlic potato corn soup mix | |
| 1 box | Beefed-up barley soup mix | |
| 1 box | Seafood veggie chowder soup mix | |
| 1 carton | (16 oz) Matzo meal | |
| Dried Fruit | ||
| 1.5 cups | Dates | |
| 1.5 bags | (18 oz) fruit and berry trail mix | |
| 2 lbs. | Raisins | |
| 1.5 cups | Prunes | |
| 1.5 cups | Dried cranberries | |
| 3 tbsp | Raspberry jam | |
| 1 jar | (9.5 oz) rhubarb & berry fruit spread | |
| 1 jar | (10 oz) fig preserves | |
| Nuts & Seeds | ||
| 1 cup | Sunflower seeds | |
| ½ cup | Sliced almonds | |
| 1 handful | Whole almonds | |
| 2 cups | Flax seeds | |
| 1.5 cups | Pumpkin seeds | |
| 1 jar | Dry roasted peanuts | |
| ½ cup | Slivered almonds | |
| Jams, Jellies & Preserves | ||
| 1 jar | (10 oz) carrot jam | |
| 1 jar | (2.45 oz) dark cherry butter | |
| 1 jar | (2.45 oz) plum preserves | |
| 1 jar | (12.5 oz) Pumpkin butter | |
| Nut Spreads | ||
| 3 | (2.5 oz each) Single serve peanut butter | |
| 8 oz | Almond butter | |
| 2 tbsp. | Peanut butter | |
| Baking | ||
| 15 | Graham crackers | |
| 3 cups | Flax meal | |
| 1 bag | Chocolate melts | |
| 1 box | (18 oz) Eating Right granola cereal | |
| 1 bag | (individual) bran cereal | |
| 1 bag | (individual) Kashi puffed wheat cereal | |
| 1 canister | Hershey’s cocoa | |
| 1 bag | Cinnamon sticks | |
| 2 cups | Wheat germ | |
| 1 bag | (16 oz) mini marshmallows | |
| 1 cup | Protein powder | |
| 1 ½ cups | Butterscotch chips | |
| 2 cups | White chocolate chips | |
| 1 box | Junior mint inside-outs | |
| 7 | Chocolate covered Oreo cookes | |
| 5 cups | Pancake mix | |
| Axed drink Items | ||
| 1 bottle | Sparkling apple cider | |
| 1 box | Individual Crystal Light lemonade packets | |
| 7 | Fruit Chillers Freeze & Eat tubes (strawberry) | |
| 1 bottle | Chai cola | |
| 2/3 bottle | Grenadine | |
| Axed Condiments (ones I want to use up) | ||
| 3 packets | Soy sauce | |
| 9 packets | Mild Taco Bell Border Sauce | |
| 4 packets | Verde Taco Bell Border Sauce | |
| Axed Staples (ones I want to use up) | ||
| 1 packet | Taco seasoning mix | |
| 1 packet | Fajita seasoning mix | |
| 1 packet | Beef stew seasoning mix | |
| 1 packet | Sloppy joe seasoning | |
| 1 packet | Tandoori chicken spice mix | |
| 8 cups | Wheat flour | |
| 1 ½ cups | Splenda brown sugar blend for baking | |
| 1 bag | Splenda sugar blend for baking | |
| 1 ½ cups | Turbinado sugar | |
| ½ cup | Dry yeast | |
| 3 lbs | Powdered sugar | |
| Condiments | ||
| 1 bottle | Ketchup | |
| 1.5 bottles | Worcestershire sauce | |
| 1 bottle | Oyster flavored sauce | |
| 1 bottle | Honey | |
| 1 jar | Chili garlic sauce | |
| 1 bottle | Hot sauce | |
| Staples | ||
| 1 box | Brown sugar | |
| 1 box | Corn starch | |
| 2 canisters | Baking powder | |
| 10 cups | White flour | |
| 8 cups | Sugar | |
| 7 ¼ sticks | Margarine | |
| ½ stick | Butter | |
| 1 lb. | Butter | |
| 1/2 canister | Hershey's cocoa | |
| Hella | Tea | |
IDEAS:
ReplyDeleteYou definitely have the makings for a creative homemade stuffing, starting with the box mix. The cinnamon sticks, sunflower seeds, and any of the dried fruits might be good to spruce that up.
You could also make fliet of fish sandwiches quite easily with the fish fliets, the cheese, the stale buns (toast them) and then combine the mayo & pickles to make a tartar sauce spread.
You could also use some of your condiments to spruce up the recipes you are already planning on making. For example, the "garlic chili sauce" might be good in the chili, or you could mix the fajitas and sloppy joes flavor packets together to give your chili a little more pizzazz if the jar of chili sauce would make it too soupy.
If you're in the mood for a snack, peanut butter toast and smores seem like an obvious choice.
But, one thing I'm really confused about is the 40 oz. of BBQ chicken breasts. Was that a typo?? You realize that like 3 lbs. of chicken fingers, right? Not sure that one person should be eating that many chicken strips in one week... You DO have to eat everything you make, right? You can't just throw away the leftovers?
Oops, just realized, you don't actually have mayo. Maybe the cheese soup could work as a substitute?
ReplyDeleteNice, Ortinator! Here's a good one!
ReplyDeleteSoak raisins in a bowl of water for at least 1 hour. Melt 1 tbsp of margarine or butter in a pan, then add Chopped White or Yellow Onion, 5 cloves of Chopped Garlic, 3 chopped tomatoss, 1 inch of chopped Ginger then fry on medium-high for about 5 minutes.
In a second pan, Break apart into chunks and fry your Roasted Chicken Patties (I assumed they are fully cooked) with 1 teaspoon of margarine or butter for about 2 minutes (to brown). Place chicken into the first pan. Add 2 cups of water and 1 cup of rice (I prefer Indian Basmati), then season with 2 Tsp Garlic Salt, 1 Tsp Cinnamon, 1 Tsp Coriander, 1 Tsp. Red Chili Pepper powder (Habanero), 1 Tsp Black Pepper, and 1 Tsp of Cumin, and cook on medium heat until rice is cooked (10-20 minutes).
In second pan, fry Sunflower Seads, Dry Roasted Peanuts, and Raisins in 1-2 Tsp of Margarine (or Olive Oil - which is what I prefer) for about 5 minutes on Medium-High for garnish.
Serve Chicken and Rice with the nuts and raisins on top as garnish.
This is very similar to Kabseh (sp), and that is delicious, so this should (and I stress SHOULD) be very tasty. You could even add 1 or two chopped Jalapenos to the Onion/Garlic/Ginger mixture if you want more spice.
Enjoy! I'm trying this now, too! Oh, and you can substitute all butter / margarine with Olive Oil, and I use Garlic Olive Oil for extra tastiness. :)
Sag an you are a mish- mosh recipe guru!
ReplyDeleteThanks for all the great ideas, guys! Sagan, that sounds weird but that's exactly why I'm willing to try it.
ReplyDelete@Ali: Okay, so maybe I should consider portioning out the chicken strips, but I made a similar sized bag of chicken wings before and they don't last that long. 40 oz sounds way more than it is.
Rachel Ray has a recipe for "Captain's Chicken & Rice" that sounds pretty similar to what you are describing, Sagan. We make it every once in a while. It's easy to throw together and it's good! Just one more reason to set aside some of those chicken strips!
ReplyDeleteOrtinator, I tried this (or a variation thereof) and it was GODLY!!!! If you like Indian spiced food, this is AMAZING! I'll send you an email in Facebook with the instructions and ingredients. Trust me, it is SO FREAKIN' YUMMY!!!
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