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Tamadrummer
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a Fun Topic (my Favorite Anyway)
Posted: 01-25-06 09:24am
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Your family's favorite meal that is quick
and easy to make:(remember not gourmet
meals, quick simple meals for moms and
dads to make when time is short)
one of my favorites is one my wife
actually taught me.
Homemade sloppy joes: (there were 6 kids
in her family so buying manwich was too
expensive)
1lb ground meat browned and drained
1/2 cup of ketchup
1/5 cup of yellow mustard
2 tablespoons of white vinegar
stir it around and allow it to all heat
through and it is ready for service.
Personally I like to serve mine on nice
crispy tater-tots but it is normally
served on hamburger rolls.
The total cost per serving on this meal is
about a quarter to fifty cents depending
on the grade of ground meat you use. I
prefer 75/25 because it has the best
flavor but many prefer much leaner ground
beef.
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liwikiwi
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Posted: 01-25-06 09:26am
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My mom always used to make this stuff, it
was just mac and cheese (home made, not
the kraft stuff) and then you add ground
beef...Its pretty yummy
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Tamadrummer
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Posted: 01-25-06 09:34am
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| liwikiwi
wrote: | | my mom always used to make
this stuff, it was just mac and cheese
(home made, not the kraft stuff) and then
you add ground beef...Its pretty
yummy |
something you might like to try instead of
ground beef is something we just started
doing on our grocery shopping day.
We buy a rotiserie chicken from the deli
and when we get home, I put away all the
groceries and my wife will make a box of
mac and cheese, she cuts up about 1/2 of
the chicken and put it in the finished mac
and cheese. It is awesome!
(unbelieveably simple yet very tasty and
super quick)
the other half of the chicken gets cut up
for chicken salad sandwichs for her
lunchs. You wouldnt believe how awesome
the left over chicken from a $4.00 deli
chicken is when being made into chicken
salad.
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liwikiwi
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Posted: 01-25-06 09:38am
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Oooooo I have another one...But its not a
meal. Its a dessert.
My mom used to take rice crispy squares
and then add greame crackers (or golden
grams) and chocolate. So it was like a
s'more...And then she'd freeze it and we
put icecream on it
its soooooooo good!
The chicken and mac cheese sounds good
too, I think I just might make that
tonight =)
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Tamadrummer
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Posted: 01-25-06 09:42am
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And we are sitting on 2 boxes of rice
crispies and 3 bags of mini marshmallows.
There may be something in the works
here.
As far as the deli chicken goes, it is so
easy and the kids and even your hubby
should love it and it will make your life
just that much more simple.
I love to cook gourmet and I do most
nights becuase my wife works hard and I am
home all day (house hubby/daddy) so I try
to make coming home something exciting
instead of the boring part of the day but
on shopping day, it needs to be quick and
easy and even better than that delicious.
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Sunflower_pie81
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Posted: 01-25-06 11:19am
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Quick and easy:
minute rice,
frozen/fresh brocoli
deli chicken
cut up the brocoli (steem it if it's fresh
(just a few extra mins.))
and chicken and stur it in rice (brown,
white, wild), your choice (i use wild)
and add a can of cream of mushroom (any
kind of cream soup)
i only add a half of a can to mine as my
hubby doesn't like it soggy.
And here's dinner in about 10 mins.
Last edited by Sunflower_pie81 on 01-25-06 13:43pm; edited 1 time in total
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Posted: 01-25-06 12:23pm
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Even better just order in gotta love pizza
lol
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Tamadrummer
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Posted: 01-25-06 12:30pm
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Pizza is ok but for this topic, it is
intended to be a topic of quick cooking
tips for those that do not order pizza
daily. ;>p
of course we all love pizza but I know in
my financial situation, pizza actually
costs about the same amount of money for
one pie as it will cost me to cook an
entire weeks meals including lunchs for me
and my wife.
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Kimmeh
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Posted: 01-25-06 13:28pm
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| sunflower_pie81
wrote: | quick and easy:
minuit rice,
frozen/fresh brockley
deli chicken
cut up the brockley (steem it if it's
fresh (just a few extra mins.))
and chicken and stur it in rice (brown,
white, wild), your choice (i use wild)
and add a can of cream of mushroom (any
kind of cream soup)
i only add a half of a can to mine as my
hubby doesn't like it soggy.
And here's dinner in about 10
mins. |
my recipe is kind of like yours...Only
not...Lol
2-3 cans of mushroom soup (or any kind of
cream soup)
minute rice or regular rice
chicken breasts or pork chops (uncooked)
in a large-enough casserole dish place
meat and soup and a can or two of water.
Put lid on and put in oven at about
350-400 for about 2 hours (that makes meat
really tender) if you put meat in frozen
check it to make sure that it is done.
Giving yourself enough time to when meat
is done cooking, cook up rice.
Serve the soup over rice and enjoy :d
tada this is a fantastic meal :d my mom
always cooks it as something fast, and
it's pretty cheap, depending on what kind
of meats you use...But it's very tasty.
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Yuuum
Posted: 01-25-06 13:31pm
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Ok here is an easy dish that is so yummy-
1 package of velveeta shells and cheese
1/2-1 cup (approx.) of frozen chopped
brocoli
1/2-1 cup (approx.) hilshire farms turkey
sausage (or polish sausage if you are not
counting calaries)
ritz crackers
turn the oven on broil. Cook the macaroni
and cheese. Microwave the brocoli then
add to the mac and cheese. Brown the
sausage on a skillet then add to the mac
and cheese. Stir it all up then place in
a square baking dish. (don't know the
size off hand) add crushed ritz crackers
to the top and put in the oven on the top
rack. Leave it in only for a couple of
minutes or it will burn. The top should
be nice and crispy. Enjoy!
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Sunflower_pie81
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Posted: 01-25-06 13:42pm
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Well by reading these posts I learned how
to spell brocoli and minute. Very good
(spelling not my strong point.)
kimmeth,
that sounds delightful. I'll have to try
it out for myself.
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designerGAL
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Posted: 01-25-06 13:45pm
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Oops...Actually I did spell brocoli
wrong...Should be broccoli!
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Sunflower_pie81
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Posted: 01-25-06 14:08pm
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| designergal
wrote: | | oops...Actually I did spell
brocoli wrong...Should be
broccoli! |
here I am thinking you were teaching me
how to spell.
Oops
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Sunflower_pie81
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Posted: 01-25-06 14:19pm
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| tamadrummer
wrote: | | of course we all love pizza
but I know in my financial situation,
pizza actually costs about the same amount
of money for one pie as it will cost me to
cook an entire weeks meals including
lunchs for me and my
wife. |
for those of us who love pizza quick and
easy and cheap recipe:
1 can of buscits
pizza sauce (or spegitti sauce starting at
.89 cents here)
pizza cheese, (we have used sliced cheese
a few times)
ham, pepperoni, sausage, ground beef, (any
kind of meat)
and veggies if you like.
Pre-heat oven to the buscits label
roll out buscits to the thickness of your
choice
spoon on the sauce on half of the buscit
sprinkle on the cheese to your liking on
half
your choice of meats and veggies on half
then fold over like a taco and take a fork
and mash the edges together
(dont' have to fold if you don't want just
put toppings over the hole top)
bake and whallah pizza rolls
my mum made these when I was a
kid....Yummy
god now I am hungry
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liwikiwi
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Posted: 01-25-06 14:24pm
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| sunflower_pie81
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1 can of buscits
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whats buscits? Maybe we don't have that
in canada, i've never heard of it..?
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Tamadrummer
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Posted: 01-25-06 14:45pm
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The kind that come in the cardboard tube.
Pillsbury grands and most store brands
too. They are just pieces of precut
bisquit dough that are put into a
cardboard tube and they are pretty good
too.
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Sunflower_pie81
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Posted: 01-25-06 15:09pm
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Maybe if I spelled it right it u may know
what it was.
Sorry about my spelling
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Posted: 01-25-06 15:30pm
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Me and my fiance found these bags of
chicken stir-fry...(tysons)...Everything
is included the
rice,chicken,vegtables,sauce...
It takes like 15 minutes or so...It was so
yummy ..We had it lastnight for the first
time..I would recommend it..
I think it was around 4/5 dollars..For a
bag
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Posted: 01-25-06 19:28pm
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Maybe it's just me and my weird family but
lol... We like mac n cheese cooked with a
little bit of milk and tuna fish added in
with it. Make sure that the mac n cheese
is a little creamy. Its oh so good once
all cooked and it takes less then 20
minutes.
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Sunflower_pie81
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Posted: 01-26-06 08:57am
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Jill,
those stirfry things are really good and
tasty. I agree with you,
gen
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