Convenience Foods: Buffalo Chicken Wings
Convenience foods are ... convenient.
However, you have to factor in the price you're paying for that convenience and decide if it's worth the trade-off.
In this case, I picked up a package of prepared Buffalo chicken wings (hot sauce and Parmesan garlic sauce included) on sale and said 'the heck with it'. Especially as raw chicken wings are rarely 'on sale' and even if they ARE, you still have to coat/bread, bake, make the sauces etc. At 4-6 whole wings (8-12 pieces) per serving size, the package barely serves two people as a meal, if that's all you're having, but I stretched things with a lot of raw veggies like carrot sticks and broccoli florettes. I used Ranch dressing as a dip for the veggies and saved the garlic sauce for another purpose. Instead of french fries as a starch side dish, I made crispy skin-on smashed potatoes.
And I feasted.
A more modest dessert of one of my Jammie Dodgers and my Sunday meal was a success.
Other convenience foods I buy and use are onion rings, tater tots and canned inari sushi. And if that last one seems a bit out of left field ... well there's a reason.
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However, you have to factor in the price you're paying for that convenience and decide if it's worth the trade-off.
In this case, I picked up a package of prepared Buffalo chicken wings (hot sauce and Parmesan garlic sauce included) on sale and said 'the heck with it'. Especially as raw chicken wings are rarely 'on sale' and even if they ARE, you still have to coat/bread, bake, make the sauces etc. At 4-6 whole wings (8-12 pieces) per serving size, the package barely serves two people as a meal, if that's all you're having, but I stretched things with a lot of raw veggies like carrot sticks and broccoli florettes. I used Ranch dressing as a dip for the veggies and saved the garlic sauce for another purpose. Instead of french fries as a starch side dish, I made crispy skin-on smashed potatoes.
And I feasted.
A more modest dessert of one of my Jammie Dodgers and my Sunday meal was a success.
Other convenience foods I buy and use are onion rings, tater tots and canned inari sushi. And if that last one seems a bit out of left field ... well there's a reason.
Later