In the kitchen this week.

To add to my Dez Deals weekly blog ‘Food Savings Friday’ I’m going to start a weekly blog about what meals I came up with, with the food I bought for the week or already have in my fridge and cupboards.

Let’s start with today to make it fresh, sound good? Okay then. Going forward I’m going to start with Monday and list through Sunday and post on Sunday the weeks meals. Let’s see if I can remember what I cooked up this week….

“Corndogs”

By corn dogs, I mean I mixed up a pack of Jiffy Corn Bread mix and quartered some hot dogs. I took the ingredients and added them to a muffin pan. Cool, fun idea for the kids eh?

I took this idea to a friends house for a play date lunch idea. She had a Krusteez corn bread mix on hand so we used that instead and it came out much more smooth and fluffier than the Jiffy mix. She had little ones so we chopped up the hot dog into smaller pieces to make a easier for the younger chitlens. Also, next time, I may put the dog vertical in the cup instead or just use the chopped idea since that way you get hot dog in every bite. We’ll see and of course I’ll blog about it when I do.

Juice Cubes

I blogged over at Sarcasticaville about this and wanted to share it here too. Basically I didn’t want to waste juice (if you can even call it that these days), but didn’t want to drink all those calories/sugar either. So this was my plan. Usually I’ll just do half water and half whatever for Little Man, but I wanted to make it fun and get less juice in the process. This is also a perfect way to get your H2O in with very little calories. It’s sorta like those single serve juice packs that are only 5 calories, but way cuter.

VitaRain, Hi-C, and Water cubes

Little man asked for popsicles and here was my solution, again… I just some foil over the top and toothpicks, which Little Man so generously offered to place for me. By the way this is VitaRain from Costco which is Vitamin Water with zero calories, zero sugar, just vitamins. And now it’s a healthy “popsicle” for Little Man.

"Strength" flavored VitaRain

Chocolate Bananas

It take 3 ripe bananas to make Banana bread or any Variation of it and I had 4, so I used the other half of the ice cube tray and made chocolate covered bananas. Its banana pieces and chocolate syrup, that’s it! Brilliant if I have to say so myself.

Half healthy?

Crock Pot Roast Chicken

I got this for 4.6 lb chicken for $3.63 and roasted it on a bed of carrots, the last of my celery, onion, garlic and some fresh rosemary. I seasoned it with salt, pepper and some leftover steak seasoning.

My house smelled a m a z i n g!

I picked it apart while it was still warm and threw all the leftover bones, skin, etc back into the pot with the leftover veggies and chicken dripping for some delicious broth. You just fill the water up just covering the bones for another 6 hours and BAM yummy chicken broth for leftovers. I’m thinking pot pies, or chicken and dumplings or chicken noodle soup, or…. well there are just too many possibilities!

I cant think of anything else I made this week for meals, silly eh? So we’ll start new next week.

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