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S/O Dinner
What foods/meals always seem to make it into your dinner rotation?
For us these are the quickest/easiest meals that don't require me going to the store for fresh ingredients:
Chicken/veggie stir-fry with rice
Wedding soup with sour dough rolls ( I always make a huge batch and freeze several containers of it before I add the couscous/pasta and the sour dough rolls are from the freezer too)
Popcorn chicken and french fries (can't get much easier than that!)
Venison sausage and baked mac & cheese
Shrimp and feta pasta
Cheesesteak baked potatos
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Re: S/O Dinner
What are cheese steak baked potatoes?
Do you actually make popcorn chicken, or buy frozen?
Some that we make all of the time are tacos (just Ortega but the kids actually eat them), baked chicken tenders, Sheppard's pie, grilled steak, roasted veggies and chili.
Cheese steak baked potatoes are just baked potatoes topped with thinkly sliced round steak (I cook it in the crockpot with broth and oinion soup mix) and cheese. DH and DD eat sauteed mushrooms and onions on theirs.
Popcorn chicken is frozen from a bag. Usually from Sam's Club or Costco.
That sounds like something DH would like (minus mushrooms) -- we'll have to try that! I bet you could even throw onions into the crockpot with the steak... I've done that before and they're pretty good that way.
spaghetti
macncheese
pancakes
those are likely my most repeated meals. if I don't have ingredients to make those things, well then I am likely really past the point of needing to go to the grocery store. I sort of make it a game, to see how long we can last on the odd mismatched items that are left in the house a week after my last trip to the store.
pork chops - DH makes & they are awesome & girls love
pepperoni casserole
tacos
green beans with parm cheese
pulled pork sandwiches
some kind of pasta
homemade mac & cheese
How time flies! Caileigh (9), Keira (6) & Eamon (3)
I like to do that occasionally too! DH gets crabby though, because if I'm out of meal items it it is highly likely that we've been out of snacks for longer.
How big of a round steak do you use and how much broth? This just went on my menu for the weekend:)
yes, that is typically the case at my house too!
Our go to meals are usually:
Pasta and sauce
Easy french dips
Brinner
Chinese Dumplings (frozen)
Hot dogs and mac n cheese (boxed)
Salsa Chicken
Italian Chicken
Spaghetti Squash hash
This fall/winter I'm going to try to use the crock pot at least once a week. I just found this recipe and it's super easy and delicious: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/slow-cooker-chicken-and-dumplings/detail.aspx
We buy side of beef every year and my family butchers it, so it's already sliced for us. We call them "chip steaks" so I'm not sure if that cut is sold in grocery stores--but I do know that it is round steak. I'm guessing it's probably a lb or so of meat. It fits in my little crockpot.
Then I add one can of broth and the packet of onion soup mix. If I don't have beef broth, I've also used a bullion cube and water. :-)
That's another one I make a lot (I skip the butter and add baby carrots to mine).
What do you make to go with your pierogies? I have a huge bag in the freezer and I always struggle with what to pair them with. I'd love to have them with something other than pork chops.
I am a champion at this game and I pick up random items at the market in our neighborhood in order to avoid a trip to the big grocery store.
But now that I have made an interesting meal plan and shopped three weeks in a row (gasp!) that my shopping list and the time it takes me to shop each week is getting shorter. When i go several weeks without shopping we run out of a lot of stuff and the list-making and shopping seem to take forever. Plus the huge bill makes me feel bad. This past Sunday I went shopping with Heather and everything fit in the tiny kids cart and a hand-held basket.
To answer Amy's question, these are the items I try to always have in my freezer and cabinet to round out or make meals:
frozen, breaded chicken and fish sticks
peas, carrots, broccoli bites and sweet potato fries
pizza dough
mac'n'cheese, noodles with sauce, rice, tomato soup, couscous
And I am finding that most of the crockpot meals that I have been trying lately make more than we can eat, so suddenly I have some good frozen food available for those nights that I get home late or am avoiding the store!
I make them with ham. Ham steaks are easy -- I just put them in the mic for a few min with brown sugar and mustard, then brown them on the grill for a few more min.
We eat pierogies with Fish alot!
Married, September 23, 2006
We eat pierogies with Fish alot!
Married, September 23, 2006
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