Recipes

Recipes

Easy Pancake mix

Blueberry muffin mix

Pancake mix

Make pancake mix as directed on box or how u like it, but add muffin mix to the batter. It will make them blueberry without having to buy fresh ones, and it will make your pancakes extra sweet and very fluffy.

Cheap Chicken and Dumplings

1 Can Cream of Chicken Soup

1/3 cup Bisquick

Heat chicken soup in pot adding water according to directions on can. Mix Bisquick with a couple tablespoons of water until mixture becomes slightly runny. Drop spoonfuls of mixture is soup. Allow to cook until soup is heated and dumplings are cooked. Makes one serving of cheap, easy chicken and dumplings.

Alice Springs Chicken

Buy frozen Chicken Breasts and put in the oven for 35-40 min set at 325'. Once Chicken is almost done, top with bacon (already cooked) and a mix of cheddar and Monteray Jack cheese. Continue baking for 10-15 minutes until cheese is melted.

Cream Cheese Chili Dip:

Combine 1 can Chili with beans (optional) with one package cream cheese in a pot. Simmer, stirring constantly, until ingredients are completely melted and mixed. Serve with tortilla chips.

Grandma Gooch's Fried Bologna Sandwich:

Cut one slit in each piece of bologna, from the center to the outside. This keeps the bologna from bubbling while frying. Place bologna slices in a frying pan (sprinkle pan with salt to keep meat from sticking). Fry until brown and half-crispy. Place bologna on your favorite bread. Add mayo or cheese (lettuce, tomato, etc. optional).

Ironed Grilled Cheese

2 slices bread

2 slices cheese

butter

tin foil

iron

Butter one side of each slice of bread. Smack your cheese in the middle. wrap entire thing with tin foil. Place HOT iron on one side of your sandwich for about 3 min. flip and repeat on the other side. Let cool. unwrap and enjoy.

Scrambled Eggs Burrito

Flour tortilla

eggs

diced tomato (add other ingredients like peppers, onions...or even sausage at will)

salsa

sour cream

Mix eggs and diced tomatoes in a bowl. Cook the eggs in a frying pan just like scrambled eggs. Spread salsa and sour cream over the tortilla and add the scrambled eggs. Wrap it up, then eat it up!

Easy Chili

1 lb ground beef

2 cans diced tomatoes, undrained

2 cans chili beans, undrained (get the ones with the spices already in them)

4 oz. can tomato sauce

onions and shredded cheddar if you want

Brown the beef and drain. Put the beef back in the pot. Add the tomatoes, beans, and tomato sauce, ALL UNDRAINED, into the same pot. Heat. Top with chopped onion and shredded cheddar cheese if you want.

Easy Ziti

3 Hard-boiled eggs, peeled and chopped

1 pkg Ziti noodles

1/2 lb pepperoni (the kind that's already cooked)

1/2 lb ground beef

1/2 pound provolone or mozzarella cheeze (provolone works better)

1 jar tomato sauce (or less if you like)

parmesan cheese

Cook ground beef in a skillet until thoroughly browned. Boil pasta noodles, drain. Put noodles back in a large pot. Add remaining ingredients. Stir till cheese is melted. You can eat it like this, or you can dump everything into a casserole pan and bake at 375 for 1 hour. It's not necessary to do that - use whatever works best, and enjoy!

Roll-Up and out the Door

Flour tortilla shells (Fewer carbs than bread, and easier eating in the car or walking to class.)

Cream cheese or American cheese

Ham or soft bacon bits (Hormel works great)

Put a good amount of cream cheese or two pieces of American cheese on the tortilla and microwave flat for thirty seconds. Spread cream cheese over entire shell, then lay pieces of ham or sprinkle bacon pieces over cheese. Start from the edge and roll tortilla up, more tightly than you would a burritto, and enjoy!

Potato Stew

6 med potato's, cubed

1/2 lb bacon

2 cans green beans

Brown bacon and set aside. Place potatoes and beans and fill with water till vegetables are covered, after potato's are done, drain the water. Add cooked bacon. Eat and enjoy

Chili Pie

1 Can Chili

1 Package cornbread (mix according to package)

1 Can White or Yellow Corn

Pour can of Chili into a pan, Pour corn over chili, Pour Cornbread over corn.... Bake at 350 until cornbreak is done. Really good when served with sour cream and topped with shredded cheddar cheese. This is so cheap and good!!!!!

Easy Fat-Free Brownie In A Cup

2 Tbs. fat-free brownie mix

1 Tb. fat-free vanilla yogurt

Mix ingredients in a ceramic micro-waveable coffee mug. Stir very well. Microwave on high for 45 seconds and enjoy!!

Frito Pie:

1 Bag of Fritos

1 Can of Chili

Heat chili, pour over Fritos, add sour cream or cheese if desired

Amazing Quesadillas

2 large tortillas

Grated cheese (cheddar and mozzarella together is yummy!)

Salsa (spicier the better!)

Canned refried beans

1 chicken breast

Whatever veggies you like

Chili powder

Preheat oven to 350.. Cut chicken into cubes and cook in frying pan. While waiting for chicken take 1st tortilla and put it on baking tray. Spread layer of beans on it, then sprinkle with cheese, salsa, veggies, and chili powder. When chicken is done put it on as well, then put 2nd tortilla over everything and press down the edges so it sticks to the edges of the first tortillas. Put in oven for ten minutes, take it out and flip over the quesadilla, then bake for another five minutes. Cut it up and enjoy!

Chili-Mac

1 box of Mac and Cheese

1 can of chili

Follow directions on the Mac and cheese box till macaroni is done. Add the chili. Stir until hot. I like to use the spicy chili with no

. Rabbit Pita

Cream cheese

1 Pita

Cheddar cheese

Your favorite rabbit veggies like sprouts, cucumbers, tomatoes...

Spread cream cheese on a pita. Top with fresh cheddar and nuke for 20sec. Now, top with alfalfa sprouts-lots, tomatoes, cucumbers. Wrap it up and eat-very energizing and healthy!

Bar-B-Q Ham and Cheese

(For each sandwich):

2 slices of bread

2-3 slices of ham

1-2 slices of Swiss or American cheese

Barbeque sauce (as much as you want)

Put ham and cheese on one side of bread, and add dollops of barbeque sauce on the other side. Then put bread together and grill/toast in Foreman grill or in skillet, (Make sure to spray skillet with butter or Pam), until you reach your desired toastedness.

Red Potato Tortilla

The biggest red potato ya got

tortillas-2

cheese

sauteed onion

sour cream

lettuce

salt & LOTS of pepper

Boil the potato. Mash it and mix in onions, salt and pepper. Spread this down middle of tortillas. Add cheese and lettuce. Wrap it up and fry it in oil. Dip in sour cream & salsa if ya got it! This is delicious and very affordable.

Poor Man's Veal Parmesan

Only 3 ingredients!

1 pkg. of breaded beef patties

1 jar pasta sauce

1 pkg. mozzarella cheese

Place breaded beef patties on a baking sheet. Cover them with a generous amount of pasta sauce. Top with sliced mozzarella cheese (you can grate it if you have the time). Bake at around 375 for about 10 minutes. Goes great with homemade garlic bread!

Crunchy Ravioli

1 can of mini ravioli

1/2 a bag of Fritos

Cook ravioli in the microwave for 3 min. When done put in the Fritos and stir.

Fabulous low-fat, cheap, yummy bean burritos.

Can cheap pinto beans

1 yellow onion

garlic cloves

flour tortillas

Sautee chopped onion and garlic cloves (amount your choice) in oil. add can of pinto beans, cook few minutes to soften. smash with fork to make beanie paste delight. put in warmed flour tortilla and add toppings to taste. (I am a simple girl and prefer just cheese and salsa.)

Tortilla Pizzas

Flour tortillas

Shredded mozzarella Cheese

Pepperoni slices

Parmesan Cheese

Sprinkle Mozzarella cheese on tortilla, then put pepperoni on, then put on Parmesan cheese. microwave on medium for 1-1.5 minute or until cheese is melted. Fold tortilla in half and enjoy!

Tortilla Dip

Mozzarella Cheese

Salsa

Sour Cream

Get a bowl and put a layer of sour cream on the bottom of the bowl, next a layer of salsa, and then a layer of mozzarella cheese. Put in microwave for about 2 minutes and serve with tortilla chips.

Easy Baked Apples

1 Granny Smith apple

1 1/2 T. brown sugar (or regular sugar)

1/2 tsp. cinnamon

1 T. butter

Core apple. Peel if you wish (I prefer it w/ the skin because it gives you more vitamins.) Scoop out seeds and core. Pore butter, cinnamon, brown sugar, and raisins. Heat for 1-2 minutes in microwave.

Puppy Chow (This is messy and unhealthy but it becomes an addiction!)

9 cups of Rice Chex (almost whole box)

1/2 cup peanut butter

1 cup chocolate chips

1 stick of margarine or butter

2 cups powdered sugar

Melt butter, chips and peanut butter together and mix. Pour mixture over Chex and stir until cereal is well coated. Place powdered sugar in a paper bag and pour in coated cereal. SHAKE vigorously! Cereal should be snow white. Pour yourself a glass of milk and INDULGE!

Only-1-pot-to-clean Beans -n-Weenies

1 large can baked beans

1 or 2 hotdogs depending on how hungry you are

1-2 Tablespoons BBQ sauce

Boil hotdog(s). Remove them from pot and place on plate. Slice. Empty water from pot and place beans in it. Put hot dog pieces back into pot. Add BBQ sauce, and stir thoroughly. Heat through.

Fat-Free Potatoes

1 baked potato

1 slice of fat-Free Kraft American Cheese singles

Fat free sour cream

Imitation bacon bits

Poke holes in baked potato. Bake in microwave for 6 minutes. Cut potato open. Put on cheese and melt in microwave for 35 seconds. Remove, put on sour cream & bacon bits.

Meal-in-a-Pot

2 onions

3-4 garlic cloves to taste

1 can of spaghetti sauce

Turkey sausage, ground beef, tofu, etc. (optional)

1/2 cup of rice (approx.)

2 Tbs. oil or butter

Saute onions in oil until transparent. Add garlic and meat if desired. When meat is almost cooked add the entire jar of spaghetti sauce and the rice. Turn heat down and simmer until the rice is tender.

Peanut Butter Apples

1 apple

Peanut butter to taste

Cut apple into four sections from top to bottom. Carve out apple core and seeds. Place peanut butter on the inside of the individual pieces. Put the four apple pieces back together. The peanut butter apple is ready to travel.

Bagel Pizza

1 bagel (cut in half)

Pizza Sauce (as much as you desire)

Pizza cheese (you can buy packs of it shredded)

Toppings of your choice

If you have access to a toaster, toast the bagels before you add sauce. This gives it more of a "crust" texture. Add sauce, cheese, and toppings, and zap in the microwave for 30 seconds, Enjoy!

Barbecued chicken

Microwave-safe shallow baking dish

2 pieces uncooked chicken, skin removed

1/2 cup bottled barbecue sauce

2 tablespoons brown sugar

Mix barbecue sauce and brown sugar together and after washing chicken and patting it dry, soak the chicken on both sides with the barbecue sauce. Place in dish with meaty part towards outer edges. Place plastic wrap on top and seal tightly. Cook on HIGH for 20 minutes.