Sunday, February 23, 2014

Menu planning from an Aldi's ad

Having a good time with the ad and decided to record it.

Avocados 39 cents, Durk will get to have lots of bachidas (Brazilian avocado milkshake) but also we can have avocado-mango-tomato salsa on fish, simply chop all three and stir , together with a little olive oil and cilantro and Mexican seasonings. Put over baked fish. Serve with broccoli, baked sweet potato, whatever-
homemade guacamole on a fiesta dinner (oops, haven't ever finished that post, coming soon) basically it's onion, chicken, frozen corn, black beans, salsa, brown rice all cooked up together - or rice separate to put the chicken stuff on top of.

Multi-colored peppers 99 cents a package. Hmmm, good time for confetti spaghetti squash,
still have some sale asparagus from the other day and the canned black beans are only 59 cents, good week for black bean asparagus salad with red peppers and cilantro dressing.

Mexican style corn - good with cornbread mix and browned sausage from the freezer for a fast sausage-cornbread dinner, still have salad "kit" from big sale last week to go alongside.

That's four possible meals so far.

Cooked a ham today from last weeks amazing 59 cent a pound sale, so the rest of the week will be ham and angel hair pasta; ham-veggies-egg pie in potato crust ;  and split pea soup with ham. Seven days planned, hurray! Looks heavy on the Mexican so one day might turn into oriental veg and noodle stir fry with some ham (see yaki soba post).