Here’s our menu for Day 10 of the All You Grocery Challenge:
Breakfast: I had Raisin Bran, Jai had a banana.
Lunch:
I found this great recipe for homemade tortilla salad bowls, so I decided to try that for lunch. You run the tortilla through tap water, shape it around a ball of foil, and bake. I also sprinkled Chipotle seasoning salt on top of the tortilla before I stuck it in the oven. I then layered the tortilla bowl with salad, flaxseed, a sprinkling of cheese, taco sauce, a drizzle of ranch dressing, and topped with more Chipotle seasoning salt. I served this with grapes on the side, and it was VERY good! The seasonings add so much flavor to the salad. And how’s this for frugal: The taco seasoning came from leftover Taco Bell packets!
Dinner:
For dinner I adapted this Split Pea and Ham soup recipe. I used one small onion, pulled fresh out of my garden:
I sautéed that in olive oil, then added one ham steak, half a bag of dried split peas, a little salt and pepper, and enough water to cover. The recipe doesn’t list any cooking temperature, which I thought was odd, so I just brought it to a boil and reduced the heat as it seemed appropriate.
Jai’s plate is empty because he was at a class during dinnertime – don’t worry, there was plenty left for him when he got back!
This was a very frugal meal. I served it with homemade bread, which I made with flour, salt, yeast, water & margarine – yes, margarine! I substitute it for butter and there’s no difference in taste. The soup was made with a ham steak that I got for .63 cents, half a bag of dried split peas – roughly .72 cents worth – and of course the onion that I grew myself. The most expensive part of this might have been the butter that we spread on the bread slices. Margarine is undetectable when it is baked into foods, but we find it very unappetizing as a spread – so we always use butter for that.
I never thought of myself as a big soup fan, but now that I’ve started making more of them from scratch, I realize that I really enjoy it – probably because homemade is more flavorful than anything you would get out of a can.
A friend also gifted us the ice cream and homemade crackers pictured above. YUM!
