As promised:
Tater tot Casserole
Chop up one small onion.I prefer very small.
Brown 1 pound ground chuck, Drain off grease, add onions and simmer till onions are cooked. Drain again. Add one can of cream of mushroom soup, stir till consistent, pour into casserole dish, lay tater tots on top, place in oven until tater tots are brown. Remove and serve. Very tasty. and will be a couple dinners easy for two.
Pinto Beans and fried or mashed potatoes have always been a favorite meal for me.
Yes I do put fatback in there! When the kids were young and here, they wanted fried spam( I baked it) to go with it.
You can get 50 lbs potatoes at about any trade lot/flea market Price depends on season and the market.
Aldi is where we buy all of our ready soups, canned vegis bake means, Canned white chicken, Canned roast beef( stew beef(good but gives me heart burn) They have bags of chicken breast that are huge. One breast will feed both Leslie and I. We buy the all beef hot dogs, cheap, bulk, and are great. and long. All kinds of side dishes, like rice, and so on. Their brand of noodles are VERY cheap, and several flavors. I could go on and on about Aldi, but you just need to go and try it once. Take a Quarter, that gives you a shopping cart, that you get back when you return it. Also take you own bags. As you go through the place, look for boxes too, makes it easy to load into car!
You have eat our Spaghetti, all ingredients come from Aldi. Make a huge pot and freeze it, will last many many meals. Remember Harlan?? That was about $50 dollars to make, it fed us all up there, and was about twice as much come back home still frozen!
As mentioned, buy in bulk. Leslie will find a big roast, cut it up and make several meals off of it. At local food store, ease in there around 9:30-10 am, that's when they start marking down meats in the fresh section. Bring them home and freeze them.
IF you like breakfast biscuits, you can buy the specials at Hardee's or BoJangles and bring home and freeze them. Wrap in foil and steam them, and they taste as good as when you bought them.
IF you get in the mood, you can cook up several different meals at once in the oven and in the crock pot. Freeze. Thaw and heat and a fast good meal. I have a friend who does this and can cook about two weeks of food in the time to fix one meal, and she only heats the oven up once. You have to plan though.
If you go to the thrift store to get bread, look and see if they have some of those small dinner rolls that come in an aluminum pan. Save the pan and reuse for a future meal. then recycle it, or reuse it again.
Soda's...Grocery stores never have them on sale much, so look at convenience stores. You can often get two 12 packs for 5-6 bucks. Sam's cola's are pretty good.
Pizza place specials, like $5 bucks ones. Eat once. put rest in zip lock. Nuke till pliable and put in frying pan to heat up. Makes crispy crust and not chewy like nuking them all the way.
If you don't have one, look for a cheap used small freezer. we buy a lot and freeze it.
Hope this helps Mike.
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