Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Bread Based Tuesday: Honey Garlic Chicken Pizza ...and a small shopping trip

Lunch was Honey Garlic Chicken Pizza from A housewife's Tale.
I used one chicken breast and a half recipe of her garlic sauce. No onions in the house, green or otherwise.
I need to check prices at the store to figure out the cost of the sauce ingredients as I haven't purchased them recently, I'll do that soon, but it was pretty cheap :)

Crust/toppings:
flour (.20)
water (free)
yeast (.10)
salt (.01)
sugar (.01)
oil (.04)
chicken (.50)
cheese (.50)

Recipe for honey garlic sauce
1 cup water (free)
1/2 cup light brown sugar (.) {24 tsp/227 tsp in 2lb bag}
3 tablespoon soy sauce (.) {3 Tbsp/126 Tbsp in 2qt jug}
1 tablespoon honey (.10)
3 cloves garlic minced (free--gifted from Gardening Great Aunt)
2 tablespoon cornstarch (.) {6 tsp/56 tsp in 1lb}
(whisk everything together and boil, when it comes to a boil, turn heat to low and continue whisking till thickens)
Add 2 tablespoon of Kraft bbq sauce (.02)

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Nothing worth buying from the grocery store sales this week so I spent a few dollars at Aldis on milk, eggs, and bread. They had a great sale on eggs, .49/dozen so I stocked up.  A dozen eggs weighs a pound so that's some crazy cheap protein!  I'm going to a ladies night out at my church this weekend and need to take a snack to share, looks like I'll be making deviled eggs! :)
I am not sure what we will decide to do about bread for this challenge. I made my own whole grain super healthy bread last week, and while it was tasty I don't think it saved us any money--we polished off one loaf fresh out of the oven, even the baby ate a slab. Delicious! Oops, did we really eat an entire stick of butter in a half hour?!? That alone cancels out the savings on ingredients! On top of that nobody liked it for sandwiches, and we make 3-5 sandwhiches a day in our house. (I made the remaining loaf into whole wheat croutons, they turned out pretty good!) Aldis whole wheat bread puts two slices of sandwhich bread at 12 cents, or $18.60 a month for bread if we eat five a day--nearly a THIRD of our grocery budget! Eating tortilla wraps would save  three cents a sandwhich, but they are not whole grain and I'd prefer we eat as many whole grains as possible. This week I plan to make whole wheat bagels in an effort to take another crack at this dilemna.  My kids think mini bagel sandwiches are super cool, and the individual nature of them would serve as portion control. We don't generally butter bagels when we buy them from the store, so that would save money on butter for sure. And I have several jars of Barley Malt syrup in my pantry that I believe are a key/expensive bagel ingredient--my husbands favorite barbque sauce recipe calls for it so I keep it on hand but I don't forsee us eating ribs anytime in the next six months so he won't miss it. I'll price them out when I make them, I need to purchase more whole wheat flour first though as I used up the last of mine on last weeks bread. I do still have quite a bit of white flour but again, nutrition is more important than empty calories. My husband and I both have twenty pounds we'd like to lose over the next few months,  hopefully being more mindful about our eating/spending will help with that.

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