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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Amazon deals
Cooking for the entire family GF on a budget can be tough! Thank goodness for Amazon and their Subscribe & Save. I buy pasta in bulk and then get it shipped to me! Love it! And of course their prices beat the grocery stores!!
A lot of their products are on sale 30% off right now so be sure to check them out!
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A lot of their products are on sale 30% off right now so be sure to check them out!
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Sunday, October 16, 2011
Chicken Soup Recipe
When I see vegetables on sale/clearanced out as they are ripe and ready to eat, I grab them. I grated up about 5 or 6 zucchini and 6 or 7 summer squash, sliced up orange bell peppers and organic carrots. Then I froze each little sandwich baggie (each containing a pepper, a squash or a cup or two of carrots) and put them in a larger freezer baggie.
It saves time since they're chopped and ready to go. It saves money because I got all of it for practically nothing! I think the zucchini and squash were less than $1 total.
Anyways, so I wanted to make a chicken soup this week for the cooler weather and so I pulled out my frozen veggies and some chicken breasts and made it! It was delicious. Here is my recipe.
Boil raw chicken breasts in a saucepan with a few cups of water. After it reaches a boil you can turn down the water and cover the chicken to let it simmer until it is cooked through. When the chicken is done, cut up the chicken into bite sized chunks and put them, along with the "broth" into a big soup pot. Then I added more broth from a carton. I ended up using about 1/2 the container but you can add more or less depending on how thick you like your soup. Imagine Free Range Chicken Broth
is my favorite chicken broth and it's safe for Lucy. Add 1 cup chopped carrots (mine weren't even peeled!), 2 C grated summer squash, 2 small onions, 1 bell pepper and spices. Let it simmer for several hours.
I started the chicken around noon, started the soup around 1pm and served it at 6pm. It was so good.
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Chicken Soup
2 lb boneless skinless chicken breasts
2 small onions (or 1 large) diced
1 C sliced carrots
1 bell pepper, diced
2 C summer squash, grated
1/2 carton of chicken broth (GF/DF) I like Imagine Free Range Chicken Broth
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp dill
salt & pepper to taste
Bring chicken to boil in a pot with 3-4 cups of water in it. Turn down the heat and cover.
When chicken is cooked through, chop it into bite-sized pieces. Add vegetables, water that chicken was cooked in, along with chicken broth and spices to a soup pot. Simmer for several hours.
Serve with brown rice in the soup or on the side, or GF/DF bread.
It saves time since they're chopped and ready to go. It saves money because I got all of it for practically nothing! I think the zucchini and squash were less than $1 total.
Anyways, so I wanted to make a chicken soup this week for the cooler weather and so I pulled out my frozen veggies and some chicken breasts and made it! It was delicious. Here is my recipe.
Boil raw chicken breasts in a saucepan with a few cups of water. After it reaches a boil you can turn down the water and cover the chicken to let it simmer until it is cooked through. When the chicken is done, cut up the chicken into bite sized chunks and put them, along with the "broth" into a big soup pot. Then I added more broth from a carton. I ended up using about 1/2 the container but you can add more or less depending on how thick you like your soup. Imagine Free Range Chicken Broth
is my favorite chicken broth and it's safe for Lucy. Add 1 cup chopped carrots (mine weren't even peeled!), 2 C grated summer squash, 2 small onions, 1 bell pepper and spices. Let it simmer for several hours.
I started the chicken around noon, started the soup around 1pm and served it at 6pm. It was so good.
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Chicken Soup
2 lb boneless skinless chicken breasts
2 small onions (or 1 large) diced
1 C sliced carrots
1 bell pepper, diced
2 C summer squash, grated
1/2 carton of chicken broth (GF/DF) I like Imagine Free Range Chicken Broth
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp dill
salt & pepper to taste
Bring chicken to boil in a pot with 3-4 cups of water in it. Turn down the heat and cover.
When chicken is cooked through, chop it into bite-sized pieces. Add vegetables, water that chicken was cooked in, along with chicken broth and spices to a soup pot. Simmer for several hours.
Serve with brown rice in the soup or on the side, or GF/DF bread.
Dairy free/Gluten free warning
So I like quick & easy during the week for lunchtime. I just don't want to spend all day cooking between breakfast, lunch & dinner. Not to mention the cleanup. Fortunately #1 likes peanut butter and jelly or peanut butter crackers so she's easy!! Obviously that won't work for a GF/DF peanut allergy with #2.
So I bought Hormel Natural lunchmeat - it was some flavor of turkey breast (oven roasted or the like) and it had some lactate ingredient but it said "not from milk". Lucy STILL broke out from it with hives all over her face. I just wanted to warn others about it, since it was a huge shock to us!
I did find some "carving board" chicken that is rotisserie style today and she ate it, loved it and didn't break out. Hopefully that would be safe for those with allergies. Just a little FYI!! We learned the hard way and fortunately it's not a life or death situation for her.
So I bought Hormel Natural lunchmeat - it was some flavor of turkey breast (oven roasted or the like) and it had some lactate ingredient but it said "not from milk". Lucy STILL broke out from it with hives all over her face. I just wanted to warn others about it, since it was a huge shock to us!
I did find some "carving board" chicken that is rotisserie style today and she ate it, loved it and didn't break out. Hopefully that would be safe for those with allergies. Just a little FYI!! We learned the hard way and fortunately it's not a life or death situation for her.
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