For the tech-lover, you can get free chips and salsa each time you check in at a Chili's location on FourSquare (provided you've never checked in at that particular Chili's before). Mmm!
Woo-Hoo! Here it is. The actual menu list! Here are 11 meals that we have recently eaten by combining our random sale items & the items we have stockpiled. Our (semi-picky, but not too bad) family of 6 enjoyed them all. :) (If you missed post #3 in this series , it lists our "random sale items" for a couple of weeks. It'll explain why we used which fresh ingredients we used.) 1) We had Mediterranean Night with grilled chicken thighs marinated in oregano, garlic & lemon juice. I made a Lebanese cabbage salad using the cabbage & lemon juice. We threw it all together with pita, hummus & tabouleh. The girls begged to eat that way more often. We felt full, but healthy. (Next time, we'll have some couscous from my stockpile.) 2) We cooked a whole chicken in the pressure cooker with the carrots, onions & lemons. I cooked some rice from my stockpile. This process also made a ton of delicious chicken stock that I froze into small portions
Each Tuesday night, I park myself at the kitchen table with the following: • The new batch of sales flyers that just came in the mail • A hard copy of my price-tracking spreadsheet • A red pen • A glass of wine I scour each ad individually. If I see a price I think is a good deal, I consult the spreadsheet. If it’s not the lowest price for that particular item, I return to the flyer & continue searching. If it is that item’s lowest price, I write that week’s cycle number on the spreadsheet near that column & circle it. For example, the upcoming week will be my 42nd week of price-tracking, so I will write a “42” in red by the Cycle column. I also write the store that’s offering that price. It helps me track cycles & is crucial when price-matching. Trust me, it’s worth the effort! Remember, that the whole point of that sales flyer is to convince me to shop at their store. They really can pile on the ***stars***, exclamation points!!!!!, bright colors &am
This series of posts is in response to Julie's request that I explain how I feed my family. We eat a combination of the random fresh items that were on sale & non-perishable items from our stockpile. In Cooking With Sale Items & A Stockpile (Pt. 1) we talked about how to begin stocking up. Basically, if you buy the right stuff at the right time, the stockpile just kind of magically happens. If you only buy things when they're dirt-cheap, you can automatically afford to buy lots more of them & poof!... you've got a stockpile! That way, you'll never get stuck paying more than you absolutely have to. So, what's in our stockpile? Canned Black beans Pinto beans Chili beans Green beans Corn Tomato paste Petite diced tomatoes Ro-Tel Evaporated milk (for casseroles) Tuna Creamy soups for cooking Chef Boyardee pastas Black olives Chunky (meal-type) soups Peaches Spaghetti sauce Pineapple Enchilada sauce Refried beans White beans
For the tech-lover, you can get free chips and salsa each time you check in at a Chili's location on FourSquare (provided you've never checked in at that particular Chili's before). Mmm!
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