Posted on 06/12/2007 4:07:45 AM PDT by Kaslin
Use leftover mashed potatoes for potato soup. Refrigerate mashed potatoes, lightly brown some finely chopped onions in butter, add finely chopped carrots and celery cook until softened slightly... add the mashed potatoes..stir cook a few minutes and then add 2C warmed milk. Season with salt, pepper and a little rosemary. Simmer a few minutes...enjoy. A 75+ year old family recipe.
You don’t even have to mash them. When you boil them, they are soft and will split, just put a little butter and salt on them, YUM!!!
Well $ 2 is still better then paying almost $$7 for 20 ounces of cut-up Cantalopes
Cool! I remember driving through the area, the number of chicken barns is staggering.
I won’t forget about driving through southern indiana into kentucky, though, and the snow on the road in August, but it was really chicken feathers from birds going to the processor there.
She totally blew it at the end when she added a can of chicken broth to the gravy. If she’d just bothered to boil the bones from the previously roasted chicken and packaged it into serving sized containers for the freezer, she’d have saved $ on store bought broth.
It not only saves you money, it can save you pounds as well.
Last fall we started making home made soups and freezing them in individual serving sizes for me to take to work as lunches.
Chili, beef vegetable soup, and chicken noodle soup.
Now keep in mind, a burger, chips, and a drink costs on the order of $6 to $7 dollars at the cafeteria.
Since starting to bring these soups, and saltine crakcers, for my lunch and drinking water with them I've lost a total of 25 lbs.
It costs about $13 to make a pot of soup that creates about 10 to 12 individual servings.
5 lunches at the cafeteria = $30 X 2 weeks = $60.
One pot of soup = $13 = good for 2 weeks.
$60 - $13 = a savings of $47 every two weeks>
$94 a month X 9 months = $846 in my pocket. Let's even take out $47 for crackers. $800 in my pocket in 9 months.
Save money, lose weight, and tastes better.
How can you lose?
Two words: Crock Pot.
I prefer to take my cooking tips from Giada DeLaruentis-yummy!
Yeah, it sure can seem that way, except in our case its NOT during hockey season (which for us runs early Sept through March). I'm the house cook, and with three boys playing hockey, wow, coordinating a home cooked family meal takes some effort - but we manage almost every night to eat together during the season. Its not as hard as many think, just takes some planning. There are quite a few nights where the last thing I do before I go to bed is put together a crock pot meal or cassserole and throw it in the fridge. The next day my lovely wife fires up the crock pot at the appointed time of day or when I get home all I have to do is toss the casserole in the oven and make some sides. Kids do table setting/clearing dishes.
there are 2 processing plants in this county, Tyson and Perdue, I pass the Tyson plant at least twice a day because it is only about 3 miles from home.........believe me with all the chicken trucks around here, I understand exactly what you mean about the feathers.
It’s even worse when one of them happens to overturn, but fotunately it doesn’t happen to often.
We eat a lot of chicken in our house, always have, but it irks me to no end that with all of them growing around here and the number of plants in the region, chicken is still higher priced here than in other areas.
No argument there :)
Food prices are going up. Thanks for a thoughtful post.
Do you have room to grow your own? I told my kids I was going to do that, but they said they would refuse to eat the eggs and chicken from pets.
I have enough room that I could raise some myself, however I value my marriage too highly and my husband has drawn the line at livestock of any sort. He doesn’t care how much square footage I want him to till up, or how many hundreds of veggie plants I put in, but no animals.
Do you do a lot of canning, etc? I have a big garden this year for the fist time, and I am considering canning stuff.
Why would anyone want to burden themselves with seven children? I do not understand. I have two and that is freakin work. God bless vasectomies.
“I can’t help but wonder who buys precut fruit at these prices.”
A John Edwards staffer? They stop at the Pic-N-Save for cut up fruit right after they do his errands at Wal-Mart.
*SMIRK*
Bless you you have a good $$$ purse
Yes, and this year I'm planning on selling a good portion of my crops.
I make jelly from hot peppers and so as they start coming on I bag them up and freeze them for when I get in the mood to make a batch, or I run out.
You are sooooooooooooo bad!
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