Week #3 on $350

Here are meals for week #3.  You can find breakfast and lunch ideas on Week #1's page here.

 Groceries:

• Chicken (If you bought the big breast box from Costco you will have enough)
• Cream of Chicken Soup ($1.29 at No Frills)
• Stuffing Box ($1.49 at No Frills, TIP buy extra after Thanksgiving when on sale and store them)
• Onion
• Cheese
• Broccoli
• Carrots
• Rice
• Lettuce Head x2 (take first 5-7 large leaves off and use rest for salad, large leaves for wraps)
• Green &/or Red Peppers
• Perogies (still from week one as you bought a large bag)
• Sour Cream
• Bread Crumbs (made yourself)
• Hamburgers (Superstore sells burger steaks for $10 for 20 yellow no name box, surprisingly good).
• Hamburger Buns (no name $1.99 or 4 for a $1 at Walmart pick your own bins)
• Honey Garlic Dinner Sausage (pack of 9 for $11 at Costco)
• Zucchini
• Mini Potatoes (or buy the full potatoes and cube yourself for cheaper)
• Roast (between $8-$15)
• Garlic
• cumin/ honey/ Worcestershire sauce/ ketchup/ brown sugar (regular kitchen items)
• Half & Half
• grapes
• Yorkshire Pudding packet ($1.49 at No Frills)
• Avocado  
• Pineapple Rings (Dollarama $1)

Meal #1
Chicken Casserole

• chicken either as breasts or cubed
• stuffing mix
• small onion diced
• 1 cup broccoli heads
• 1 cup grated cheese
• 1 can cream of chicken 
• 1/4 cup of mayo

In a frying pan, add your chicken raw and water enough to fill the bottom.  Let cook for 20 mins with a lid on.  While these are cooking make up your stuffing mix.  MAKE SURE you salt both sides of the chicken, makes it real tender.  Take out and either cube chicken (makes the chicken go further) or leave in breasts.  In a casserole dish, mix stuffing made, chicken, onion, broccoli, half the cheese, cream of chicken and mayo.  Top off with remaining cheese.  Cook at 375 for 30 mins so everything can get all gooey.  Serve onto of rice, and with a salad.

Meal #2
Meatloaf

• ground beef
• small onion diced finely
• garlic finely minced
• squart of mustard
• 1 large egg beaten
• T of Worcestershire sauce
• 1/2 cup Half & Half
• 1/2 green pepper finely diced
• 1 cup diced finely bread
• 2 T brown sugar 
• cumin/ honey/ Worcestershire sauce/ ketchup/ brown sugar

1. Take onions and green peppers and garlic and cook in frying pan till soft.  2. Take 1/2 cup ketchup, tablespoon of cider vinegar, t of cumin, splash of Worcestershire sauce, and a T of honey and mix in a different bowl, this is the glaze.  3. In a bowl whisk egg, brown sugar, salt, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, half and half, and half of the glaze mixture.  Once mixed, add first and second batches made to meat and mix gently with hands, making sure not to squeeze meat or over mix.  Shape into loaf and put into greased bread pan.  Bake at 350 for 60 mins.  Add remaining glaze mixture after 10 mins of baking.  Make sure your meat reads 160 degrees before taking it out.  Once cooked let stand for 10 mins and then cut into loafs and enjoy!  Serve with a veggie and salad.

Meal #3
Chicken Lettuce Wraps

• chicken cooked and sliced or can of flaked chicken
• full lettuce leaves
• mayo/ sour cream enough to moisten batch
• grapes cut into halves or quarters
• green and or red peppers diced
• red onion diced finely
• cheese grated
• rice
• ranch
• carrots

This can be considered a lunch meal but I like light suppers to on busy days and this can be wiped up quick. Start by getting a pot out to make your rice (make double the recipe if you plan on eating BBQ sausage tomorrow), as well as a pot out for boiling your carrots (or eat them raw).  Then mix first 6 ingredients together (except the leaves) and put in bowl.  Break off large leaves from lettuce head and scoop good size amounts of mixture into leaves, wrap.  Make rice, once finished, add 2 T of ranch (I prefer the ranch packets mixed with mayo or sour cream, tastes better to me).  Serve with the rice and carrots.

Meal #4
BBQ Sausage

• honey garlic sausage
• BBQ sauce (we prefer Kraft Chicken n' Rib)
• rice
• green and or red peppers cut into large pieces
• onion cut into large pieces
• pineapple rings
• zucchini

Turn on the BBQ and place your sausage on there.  While that's cooking, cut up peppers, onion, and zucchini, put on shishkabobs and lather with BBQ sauce.  Bring out to BBQ along with your pineapple rings.  Place on BBQ and lather rings with BBQ sauce.  Sausage takes about 20 mins to cook, making sure the inside isn't pink anymore, and turn veggies every few mins, especially the pineapple rings.  Serve with rice and BBQ veggies.

Meal #5
Hamburgers

• hamburgers
• hamburger buns
• lettuce
• cheese
• onion
• pickle
• avocado
• dressings of choice
• salad
• large potatoes

First cut up large potatoes into fries, sprinkle with olive oil and make sure coated with hands.  Sprinkle salt and paprika on top with chili powder.  Place in over at 400 for 20 mins.  Take burgers to the BBQ.  Serve with salad.

Meal #6
Perogies

Easy supper night, recipe found here.

Meal #7
Roast

• CROCK POT
• roast
• potatoes cubed
• carrots cubed
• onion sliced
• onion soup mix
• splash of Worcestershire sauce
• t of salt
• salad
• Yorkshire pudding packet

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This week you are looking at about $65 in groceries for suppers.  If you factor in about $23 for lunches and breakfast your total for groceries this week should be $88.