Today I bought a whole, cut up free-range chicken on sale for $4. It was nearing the bought by date, but didn't matter because I planned on cooking it today. I eat a lot of chicken and like to change it up a bit to keep my taste buds from protesting. So today I added Parmesan cheese, tomatoes and oregano.
*1/3 cup of almond flour. I didn't buy almond flour, I just threw a handful of almonds in the food processor. I bought the almonds at Sam's Club. I probably used less than 1/3 but just enough to fool myself into thinking its covered in breadcrumbs.
*a drizzle of oil or bacon fat (see upcoming bacon fat blog post)
*a dash of oregano
*canned stewed tomatoes (I had on hand. I think they were $1.60)
* about 1/4 cup of Parmesan cheese
Put the tomatoes in a baking dish. Add all dry ingredients together. Coat chicken pieces in oil/fat, then dredge in parm. mixture. Sprinkle any remaining parm. mixture over chicken.
Bake at 350 for 40 minutes (or however long you normally do).
We didn’t eat all the chicken, so with the remaining I cut up the pieces, and picked all the tiny annoying pieces off the legs and thighs, and made chicken salad.
*storebought Real Mayo (Google paleo mayo if you want to make your own)
*salt and pepper, to taste
*garlic powder, to taste (ya pretty much everything is "to taste" when I cook. I'm sorry.)
*a few sticks of celery, chopped
*1/4 cup chopped onion (either green onions or a white/yellow onion)
*a handful of grapes sliced in half. I don’t buy grapes because they can be pricey and I eat them all in one sitting, but when you use them sparingly in a recipe like this, it adds a lot of flavor for a small amount.
And snacks for work tomorrow are celery and grapes so they don’t go to waste. It annoys me when someone posts that they used 2 cups of chopped celery and it cost them 53 cents. No it didn’t. You can't buy just 2 cups of celery. You buy the whole stalk. So unless you plan to use it the rest of the week, you're not saving money. You'll find out I eat some strange combinations, but that’s because it’s what I had left after a day or two of meals. The more I do this, the better I'll be able to plan and avoid that one or two days a week where I have incredibly odd parings like pineapple, breakfast sausage, and a chicken leg.
I got off track here. I love to add some walnuts to chicken salad, but I didn't have any and they were too expensive, so this time they were left out.
Chicken, $4.00 (2 meals, servings each)
Celery, $1.79
Grapes, $2.99
Onion, $1.69
Can of Green Beans: $1.35
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