Need a frugal meal?

I’ve blogged about this recipe before.  This link in blue should take you to the recipe  on allrecipes.com 

Tasty Lentil Tacos   

Tasty Lentil Tacos might sound like an oxymoron but they really are good!  Yes, the texture is different than meat but I think with the taco seasoning,  it tastes identical to meat tacos.  

The extra lean pure ground beef I prefer from Walmart is about $8 a pound now.  

Lentils are about $1.25 a pound, and if you cooked the whole pound, it would yield a lot more than 1 pound of meat.  

So, I cooked up a batch of lentil tacos and we enjoyed them for 2 days.  

The first night we had them in taco salad bowls.  The second meal, we had rice and taco bowls with which ever toppings we preferred.  

If you want to see the lentil taco filling up close…..

These are the taco bowls we have occasionally- they are in the refrigerated section.  

I like them really crunchy and bake longer than the packaging suggests 

Lentil tacos won’t fool very particular eaters but they are delicious, quick to cook and thrifty 

❤️ Rhonda

New week to do list

Hello everyone 

It was a relief to get a lot of last week’s list done and our seems much better to me.  

Here’s this week’s list 

I straightened and inventoried our frozen food 

This list will be on the side of the refrigerator and I can mark off things as I use them, 

I wish we had more ground beef but I’m not complaining- there is a lot of frozen food.  And with grocery store prices going up,  I’m very thankful to have all this.  

3 of the grands were here some this weekend.  

These 2 boys watched some tv - I think they were tired from their week 

They also played with LEGO’s and made get well cards for Grandpa.  

And we did a Christmas craft kit their mom left here a while back 

It was a Hobby Lobby kit,  the pieces were a thin craft foam and had sticker backs,  

It was a fun, mess free and frustration free craft kit.  

The stockings turned out really cute too! 

I used some for a little garland on my hutch 

Sweet little Cora was here one afternoon. 

I worked on my to do list while she watched Cocomelon and then she worked on her list ❤️

  

She recently got her first haircut which she was very proud of 

Just a trim and a few bangs.  

My husband has had an unpleasant week with that cold and mostly stayed in the bedroom,  

He says he’s feeling much better this morning  and he slept all night.  

So, I hope we ALL have a great new week! 

❤️ Rhonda