Posted on 08/04/2005 2:24:13 PM PDT by mdittmar
The food is really good too, even though it isn't a name brand. I usually like it just as much if not more than the name brand! Their frozen hamburger (85% lean) is cheaper than Walmart here at 1.79 per pound. The cheapest you can get at Walmart is 1.99 a pound for 80% lean and it's only if you buy the big old "family pack", which means I have to separate it into meal-sized servings and freeze, which means I gotta buy baggies! The Aldi's beef is already in pound-sized packages and already frozen!
I love Aldis. Their whole milk was 2.29 for most of the summer! You can't beat 49 cents each for a dozen eggs and a loaf of bread!
Using Aldis, I can feed my family of four on about $15 a week, no kidding.
El Paso Turkey Chili
Ingredients
1 pound ground turkey
1 medium onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1 (14 1/2 ounce) can chicken broth
3/4 cup water
1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce
1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste
1 (15 ounce) can kidney beans
2 teaspoons chili powder
1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
1/8 teaspoon cinnamon
Serves 4
Step 1-Cook turkey, onion and garlic in a large pot over medium heat until turkey is browned, about 10 minutes.
Step 2-Add broth, water, tomato sauce, tomato paste, kidney beans, chili powder, cumin and cinnamon to pot.
Step 3-Bring chili to a boil; reduce heat to medium low. Simmer until slightly thickened, about 20 minutes.
They should know that in true jails people are lucky to get their daily ration of water and moldy bread. These guys should thank the Lord that they have the opportunity to feast on turkey, watch TV, and most of all be able to complain without fearing retribution. Elsewhere they would be facing thumbscrews by now .....on their gonads!
I will have to add the ginger ale next time I make it. This receipe was in a WW11 cookbook. A tin of Spam cost over 2.00 here.
That sounds like a good recipe. I don't actually know what Spam costs locally. I like the ham recipe with gingerale, I mix in a little of the pineapple juice, as I usually have canned pineapple. It's pretty good with Dr. Pepper, too. Go figure, it sounded odd when I heard it on a cooking show, and I tried it on a request from a family member, but, voila!, everyone loved it. My fav is still the gingerale, tho.
Is it here in Tulsa?? I've never seen it!
I love thrift stores...I collect old milk bottles and found an old "third quart" bottle from 1914 in the Salvation Army thrift store...paid a dollar and seven cents for it and it goes for about $25 online! Heh heh!
I also got a sprouter brand new...still had packets of seeds in it, for 59 cents and sold it on Ebay for $11.50 (which I donated to The Hobbit Hole Troop Support project....see my tagline.)
I have forgotten the actual name. I will ask my sister in law and let you know.
Baloney - AKA lips and bags, or snouts if you prefer.
Makes me glad I'm a vegetarian!
Often eat rice and beans for days at a time - cheapest food on the planet.
It is just called the Habitat for Humanity surplus store.
I am sure that it is in the yellow pages. If you do not find it let me know and I will try to get directions for you.
Fantastic! I'll find it.
Thanks!
"...meals such as turkey chili mac, turkey a la king, turkey stew and turkey sausage were unnecessarily cruel."
You'll get no sympathy from me. You did the crime, now pay the time...and no WHINING!
I discovered one of the local hamburger joints had a 99 cent salad bar which was all you could eat. There must have been thirty different things you could put on it.
I would eat one large salad a day and it was pretty good. I probably would rather have had something else but I never did get just sick of it.
They ought to get a break every other day with beans and rice, seasoned with turkey.
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