Episode 35. [Meals] Food Prices Are Soaring! 2 Frugal Meals To Stretch Your Grocery Budget

Opening Bible Verse: Ecclesiastes 9:7

We are all feeling the pinch at the grocery store right now.  So how can we stretch our budgets and our time between grocery store visits?

That food you have in your house used to be money!  So let's use it!

There is money sitting in your pantry, your fridge, your freezer and in the form of leftovers! 

In today's episode I share two meal ideas I threw together this week to avoid going to the grocery store while stretching the budget just a little bit more.

Here are the recipes (roughly) that I made:

First Night:

Broiled chicken thighs with salt and pepper

Last bits of frozen veggies

2 Cups of cooked white sticky rice

Heat veggies in large skillet add cold rice and fry with olive oil. Add salt and pepper to taste. Serve chicken over fried rice.

 

Second Night:

All the random half filled bags and boxes of pasta

1 15oz can of diced tomatoes

5 cloves of garlic, minced

4 Tbls of butter

2 Tbls of olive oil

1/2 jar of Kalamata olives

Leftover meat from chicken thighs, diced

Cook all pasta according to package instructions. In large skillet, heat chicken in oil and butter. Add garlic and brown. Add tomatoes and bring to boil.  Add olives at the end. Serve over pasta with a salad!

The other recipe I mentioned was the marinade for the salmon. Here's that recipe:

1/4 cup real maple syrup

1/4 Balsamic Vinegar

2 Tsp of dijon mustard

Salt and Pepper

Whisk all ingredients together and place in a baking dish with salmon. Marinate in fridge for at least half an hour. Save sauce remaining in baking dish to pour over salmon while it cooks. 

I cut salmon into serving sizes and place on baking sheet lined with foil and sprayed with cooking spray. Pour extra marinade over salmon and broil for 3 minutes per side or more depending on your preference.

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