Saturday, July 30, 2011

Dinner From This Weeks Deals: Pork.....Stir Fry??

Tonight my husband is working, and I don't usually attempt coming up with new meals while he is away, but since my freezer is empty, I kind of had no choice.  That, and I've had both a pancake dinner and an egg dinner already this week. ;)

Plus, I had a pack of pork chops thawed in the fridge that really needed to be cooked.  I had absolutely no idea what I was going to do with them, but they weren't very neatly chopped, so I decided to cut them up in chunks and cook them that way.  I wasn't exactly sure where I was going with it, but I had something Asian-y in mind.

I had quite a few distractions while I was slicing up raw pork.  My just barely 2 year old (her birthday was Tuesday) is quiet (typo, or wishful thinking??) quite the mischievous and opportunistic one.  She can always tell when I cannot stop what I'm doing to stop what she's doing, so she takes full advantage of that.  Luckily, I have a 5 year old...("Ugh, your sister has the mustard!  Now's she's running off with the chili powder.  Can you get that yogurt from her and close the refrigerator?....you get the idea).

Once I was finally able to get the meat into the pot, I seasoned it up and began looking around for things to add to it.  I found half a bottle of Kikkoman stir fry sauce in my refrigerator, so I dumped that into the pot.  I thought I had some frozen broccoli, but I didn't.  I did find some baby carrots and a bell pepper that was about to go bad in the crisper, so I added those to the pot as well.


I made some rice to toss it over, and I think it came out pretty tasty!



Here is the cost break down:

1 lb pork (lowest price this week $0.99/lb at El Rancho)   =$0.99
1/2 bottle of stir fry sauce (paid about $1 for it)                = $0.50
1/2 bag of baby carrots ($0.69/bag at Aldi this week)      = $0.35
1 bell pepper (Fiesta and Tom Thumb have them 2/ $1)  = $0.50
2 cups rice  ( 1/2 of the 1lb bag that I paid $0.19 for)    =$0.10


Total:   $2.44


What's the tastiest meal you've ever tossed together at the last minute?

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