$5 Chicken Leg Quarters
$1 2 Boxes Jiffy Cornbread Mix
$1 2 Cans Green Beans
$1 Bag Of Carrots
$1 Bag Of Celery
$1 Several ears of fresh corn OR 1 bag frozen corn kernels
$2 Bag Of Onions
$3 Bag Of Potatoes
$3 Bag Of Apples
$2 2 Boxes Cornbread Stuffing, like Stove Top
$2 2 Bags Of Egg Noodles
$1 BBQ sauce
$1 Hamburger Buns
$1 Mac N Cheese
$2 All Purpose flour
$1 Yeast
$1 Blue bonnet Butter sticks
$2 Sugar
$1 Cinnamon
$1 Sour Cream
APPROXIMATE TOTAL COST --- $50
I rounded up to the next dollar on everything, so you should have a little leeway for regional cost differences, etc. Buy the cheapest store brand of each item you can find.
All drinks are water, unless you can spare $$ for tea or Kool aid.
Sweet oatmeal w/ chopped apples
APPLE CINNAMON MUFFINS
2 Cups All Purpose Flour (If you have it, you can sub 1 cup of whole wheat flour, or 1 cup of oats well chopped in the blender)
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 cup sour cream or Greek Yogurt
1/4 cup softened butter
2 large eggs
In a large bowl, add the flour, sugar, salt and baking powder. Stir well with a fork and set aside. In another small bowl, add the eggs, butter, and sour cream. Whisk well, then using a spatula to scrape the egg mixture into the flour mixture. Stir with the spatula until just combined. Peel the apples, then cut out the core and chop. Add to the muffin batter, along with a heaping teaspoon of cinnamon.
CINNAMON SWIRL BREAD
In a large bowl, add a cup of hot water, then 2 cups of flour and a heaping tablespoon of sugar. Stir with a wooden spoon to make a dough. Add a packet of yeast, then more flour until you have a good elastic bread dough. Knead by hand a good ten minutes, or in a kitchen aid for at least 5+ on speed 3. Cover with a damp cloth and let rise.
After it's risen, should take an hour or so, punch down. Roll the dough out on a clean counter top and spread half a softened stick of butter on top. Spread liberally with sugar and then heavily sprinkle on the cinnamon. Roll up into a loaf shape and Put the bread into a greased bread pan into a cold oven, turn on 300 and let bake about 45 to an hour. It should be nice and brown, and when you thump the bottom of the bread loaf, it should sound hollow. Toast sliced as needed for breakfast.
On CHICKEN AND DRESSING Sunday, cover 2 WHOLE chicken leg quarters with HOT water in your crock pot. Add a little salt and pepper, then boil on HIGH for several hours, giving you fall apart chicken and a great chicken broth. A couple of hours before dinner, pull the chicken meat from the bones, toss the bones in the trash. Use a permanent coffee filter, or whatever you have to strain the broth into a large bowl. Wash out your crock pot insert and return to the crock pot. Turn on HIGH.
Dump both boxes of stuffing mix into the crock pot, adding in enough of the broth you made to moisten it. Layer on the chicken, then make a simple gravy using the both, butter and flour in a small sauce pan. Chop an onion and spread out evenly over the stuffing. Pour the gravy onto the casserole and bake on high in crock pot until bubbly.
Open and drain the green beans, cook with a little more butter in a small sauce pan and serve. You should have enough leftover for Monday night.
On CHICKEN STEW OVER NOODLES Tuesday, cover 2 WHOLE chicken leg quarters with HOT water in your crock pot. Add a little salt and pepper, then boil on HIGH for several hours, giving you fall apart chicken and a great chicken broth. A couple of hours before dinner, pull the chicken meat from the bones, toss the bones in the trash. Use a permanent coffee filter, or whatever you have to strain the broth into a large bowl. Wash out your crock pot insert and return to the crock pot. Turn on HIGH.
Wash several celery stalks and carrots and slice or dice the way you like chicken stew. Also, dice an onion. Add the chicken meat, broth, and veggies to the crock pot, leaving about a cup of broth behind in your bowl. Use a whisk to combine several tablespoons of all purpose flour to the broth, making sure there are no lumps. Add to your soup in the crock and cook on high several hours until bubbly and thickened. About dinner time, boil the egg noodles and drain. Serve the stew over noodles. You should have enough leftovers for Wednesday.
On POTATO CORN CHOWDER Thursday, add the last 2 WHOLE chicken leg quarters with HOT water in your crock pot. Add a little salt and pepper, then boil on HIGH for several hours, giving you fall apart chicken and a great chicken broth. A couple of hours before dinner, pull the chicken meat from the bones, toss the bones in the trash. Use a permanent coffee filter, or whatever you have to strain the broth into a large bowl. Wash out your crock pot insert and return to the crock pot. Turn on HIGH.
Put the chicken meat in a container for another meal, then return the hot broth to the crock pot. Wash several potatoes and celery stalks. Peel and chop the potatoes, chop the celery. Shuck the corn and cut the kernels from the cob, making sure to milk the cobs with your knife into the crock pot.
Add some flour to the left in the bowl broth and whisk until no clumps. Add to the crock pot and stir well. Cook on HIGH until the potatoes are fork tender, serve with Jiffy cornbread. You should have enough leftovers for Friday.
On BBQ CHICKEN Saturday, put the chicken meat you saved into the crock pot with a couple sliced onions and the BBQ sauce. Cook on HIGH a few hours, until bubbly. Make mac & cheese by the box directions. Serve the shredded BBQ chicken with the buns.
