Meals this week

Hello everyone 

Here is what we ate for our main meals this week 

This was a white chicken chili (that looks more green than white) It was based off of several recipes and contained white chicken, white beans,  green chili verde sauce, onions, green chilis, corn, chicken broth and taco seasoning 

Tuesday we had cheeseburger bowls- just everything that goes on a cheeseburger but no bun and served in a bowl.  

Wednesday was dill pickle chicken- I save pickle jars and juice when the pickles are gone.  Then chicken gets marinated in the refrigerator in that dill pickle juice for 8 or more hours.  
I put a light coating of seasoned flour on each piece of chicken and then fried them in just enough oil to keep them from sticking.  

we had some steamed vegetables and little oranges with the chicken strips.  

Thursday is the day we went to the commissary.  

That day we gate lunch at Cheddars that is just outside the Air Force base main gate.  

My husband had a cheeseburger,  I had blackened fish and we both had cole slaw.  

It was a really tasty meal.  

Friday night 2 grandchildren were here.  We had homemade pizza.  

The grownups like onions, peppers and jalapeños on theirs.  The grandchildren wanted just meat and cheese.  

Saturday morning breakfast was also eaten by the 2 grandchildren that slept over.  

We all had some french puff muffins.  Some of us had sausage, some had eggs.  

When their dad picked them shortly after we ate,  He ate a leftover muffin and the last of the sausage and he took the last muffin to our daughter.  

Then Saturday,  I cooked a new recipe with some of that stew meat in the meat bargain box.  I was sure we would like it so I made a double batch.  

It turned out really good!  

We’ve ate it Saturday and Sunday and I put 2 meal size portions in the freezer.  

https://southernbite.com/slow-cooker-beef-and-noodles/

What have y’all been cooking? 

❤️ Rhonda 

Thankful for some bargains

My husband’s back is making him miserable.  He just had an MRI and we aren’t medically trained but we can see from the MRI,  he has problems.  He has an appointment with a surgeon next week .  

He hurts when he sits still and he hurts when he moves around,  so to give him a distraction,  we drove about an hour to the Tinker Air Force Base to shop.  

Their commissary has always had good beef.  I’m sure you all know how expensive beef is right now,  I haven’t bought any for a while and beef was the main thing on my list.  

The Tinker meat department is huge- probably 100 feet or more long.  

They sometimes have these discount boxes made up.  I’ve bought them before and I remember one time,  they made 2 for me,  

Anyway,  they had 2 made up and I bought them both.  

I trust their quality and I’ll just cook whatever is in them.  

this box is all beef 
this one is pork and beef 
$74 seems expensive but it was heavy- so I bought it.  

Inside this one was 4 rolls of ground beef,  3 packs of boneless pork, a big pork tenderloin, 2 stew meat and a small beef roast.  

I added up the price stickers and these would have sold individually for $67.63—-instead of the $55 on the box price tag.  
This all beef box had a large ground beef, 4 assorted roasts and 3 more packs of stew meat.  

They added up to $128.51 —-a huge savings since I paid $77.  

If you’re wondering if this meat was past its best date- No, not at all.  I shopped on the 12th and this roast was packed on the 11th.  

When we got home,  I double- bagged some of these packages and put them straight away in the freezer.  

I put the ground beef and stew meat in the fridge and I may cook some it before freezing.  

I also have some chicken to repackage.  

If you have elgibility and access to a military commissary,  you might want to see what you can find.  

In general,  the current prices on most items are similar to civilian stores.  I mainly commissary shop for meat.  I think all the meat I browsed was lower than current store prices.  

I need to get busy.  That meat needs to be dealt with.  

But I won’t need to shop for meat again for months! 

❤️ Rhonda