Crock Pot adventure - MASTER GROCERY LIST and tips to date!
We had leftover day!! No review of new food today! Tomorrow is pizza soup day. Be afraid, be very afraid!
Master Grocery List!
This list will have everything as I made the dishes. I will put a star next to things I had on hand. Your mileage may vary! I tried to be very careful, however, I might have missed something. One bag of onions was not enough for me. Had I had two bags of onions it would have been prefect, hence this list has two bags of onions.
10 lb pork butt roast
3 lbs Ground turkey
16 pounds Boneless Chicken Breasts
**Ketchup
**Molasses
**Texas Pete (or whatever hot sauce you like)
1 Jar pasta sauce
15 ounce can of diced pineapple
**Olive oil
Butter
2 boxes cream cheese 8oz
**Shredded cheese
1 jar of minced garlic
**soy sauce
3 boxes Chicken Broth
**Realemon
**cornstarch
1 jar Pasta Sauce
16 oz mushrooms
1 can of kidney beans
1 can Lima beans
1 can of pinto beans (ended up being black beans)
1 can of corn
3 can tomatoes and chiles
Small tub sour cream
Tortilla chips
3 green bell pepper (Aldi)
1 15oz can OR 2 8oz cans diced tomatoes
2 cooked Italian sausage (I bought a pack of ground Italian sausage)
sliced pepperoni
Bag o sweet potatoes (Aldi) divided in half or TWO bags if you want the "happy little accident" version.
2 mangoes
**raisins
**peanuts or cashews
2 bags frozen broccoli
I pack fresh spinach
Baby red potatoes - I bought a bag of red potatoes
4 8oz cans tomato sauce
2 boxes penne pasta
**tomato paste
2 bags frozen broccoli (I used baby florettes)
Baby carrots weighing 48 ounces or more - I bought 2 bags of plain old carrots at Aldi
2 bag of sweet onions (Aldi)
1 pack zucchini (Aldi - (Aldi - Five zucchini were in the package)
1 pack yellow squash (Aldi - Five yellow squash were in the package)
Bag/bunch of Celery
apple cider vinegar
bay leaves
**garlic powder
**red pepper flakes
**Onion powder
**Kosher salt (I used sea salt)
**parsley
**Cayenne pepper
**curry powder
cumin
paprika (I want to find smoked paprika. I bought extra strength)
whole peppercorns
thyme
**oregano
**Nutmeg - for Ms Dash copycat
**Sage - for Ms Dash
My version of Ms Dash - I used this recipe (http://www.food.com/recipe/mrs-dash-seasoning-20729) and substituted for the mace, marjoram and savory.
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 tablespoon garlic powder
2 teaspoon basil
1 1/2 teaspoon thyme
1 teaspoon parsley
1 teaspoon onion powder
1 1/2 teaspoon sage
1 teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon nutmeg
I have everything bagged up, so I can review my changes now.
Modified ingredient lists are available for days one and 2 here - http://eternal-chimera.livejournal.com/310343.html
Chicken Curry (day 3)
(adjusted spices per yesterdays post)
3 T curry powder
1 ½ teaspoons ground cumin
2 pounds chicken (cut up)
1 cups baby carrots.
1 coarsely chopped mango
1 cup chopped onion
1 zucchini chopped
1 ½ cloves garlic
½ cup chicken broth
BAG IT!
Add before cooking - 2 cups chopped peeled sweet potatoes. Add when you start the dish OOPSE I put 2 POUNDS in instead of 2 cups. I only needed one pound!
Garnish with .5 cup raisins, .5 cup peanuts or cashews
I am sure this feels like it is taking forever because of me creating lists and chopping and cutting up all the meat in to smaller closer to bite size pieces and just having never DONE THIS BEFORE. I keep reminding myself that the time investment is going to pay off when I don’t have to think about food much for a whole month. It may be taking longer than I think it should because I did not sit down and plan out my attack a little better. I will see if I can work it out a bit more for the next time. This has made me really want a food processor!
Crock Pot Pizza Soup - (2 bags each contains)
½ (15 ounce) (or 1 8oz) can tomato sauce
½ (6 ounce) can tomato paste
½ tablespoon ground oregano
¾ teaspoons dried minced garlic
½ teaspoon ground paprika
1.5 jars of water
½ green bell pepper
1/2 onion, chopped
½ cup sliced mushrooms
½ can tomatoes
½ cooked Italian sausage
½ cup sliced pepperoni
1 t basil
½ T dried oregano
BAG IT!
-1/2 to 1/3 cup of dried pasta cooked after the rest is done and added.
Savory Chicken (2 bags each contains)
2 lbs cut up chicken
1 8oz can tomatoes with chilies
1 large onion
4 garlic cloves
1c +4T chicken broth
Salt pepper 2 bay leaves
1 Bag o frozen broccoli
BAG IT!
Lazy Day Stew - (2 bags each contains)
1 lb Ground turkey
Baby red potatoes cut in half
1/2 can Lima beans
1 8 oz can tomato sauce
½ T molasses
2c baby carrots
1 chopped onion (I ran out and used ¼ cup dried minced onions from my spices)
1c celery chopped
BAG IT!
I may use stew beef next time, It will depend on if I can find some on a good sale.
Slow Cooker San Francisco Pork - I did this with the pork I bought, I didn’t buy pork chops - (2 bags each contains)
1 t olive oil
2lbs pork, cut up into bite size pieces.
Salt and pepper
1 cloves garlic, finely minced
1/8 cup soy sauce
1/8 cup low-sodium chicken broth
½ tablespoon molasses
1/8 teaspoon red pepper flakes
½ T cornstarch
½ T cold water
BAG IT!
Mashed Potatoes or Hot Cooked Rice (for serving)
Chicken & Spinach - (2 bags each contains)
2lbs chicken
1/2 jar Pasta Sauce
Onions, bellpeppers, etc.
½ t salt
½ teaspoon garlic powder
½ teaspoon paprika
1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/8 teaspoon onion powder
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
1/8 teaspoon red pepper flakes (optional)
Sliced zucchini & squash
8oz mushrooms sliced
½ fresh pack fresh spinach
Put in bags!
Cook noodles that night - Pasta of your choice (bow-tie, spaghetti, etc.)
Lemon Garlic Chicken - The bags on this turned out super puny. I am going to cook them both together and when I do this again, I plan to do two bags.
Ingredients: in each bag for the next time!
1 tsp. dried oregano
½ tsp. salt
¼ tsp. ground black pepper
2 pounds chicken cut up
2 T. butter
1/4 c. chicken broth
3 T Realemon
2 clove garlic minced
1 tsp. parsley
1 8 oz cream cheese
Put in bags!
My tips to date -
Get all the bags, at LEAST 18 plus some extra gallon freezer bags (I had two bags break on me at the zipper, so I advise having a few extras on hand) and some quart size freezer bags, for freezing leftovers and for extra veggies, before you start. Make sure you have a sharpie for labeling. I ended up using measuring cups, measuring spoons, my food scale, cutting boards, knives and a mandolin slicer.
Sit down/get comfy and cut your goodies up. Cut all the meat up and bag as you go, if possible. If you label the bags first then you know what goes in that bag. IF you have a food processor this would probably be MUCH easier. If you wanted to purchase the veggies frozen that might work as well. I did not go that route.
When I was measuring spices for the bags, I used two ramekins to hold the spices until I was ready to dump them in the matching bags.
I tried to buy two small cans instead of one large one wherever I could. It is just easier to keep up with.
I browned my ground meat one pound at a time. I allowed it to cool on a plate while I was cooking the next pound, then bagged it and put the newly browned meat to the plate to cool. The only exception was, I made the taco soup the first day so that never was inside a bag.
Master Grocery List!
This list will have everything as I made the dishes. I will put a star next to things I had on hand. Your mileage may vary! I tried to be very careful, however, I might have missed something. One bag of onions was not enough for me. Had I had two bags of onions it would have been prefect, hence this list has two bags of onions.
10 lb pork butt roast
3 lbs Ground turkey
16 pounds Boneless Chicken Breasts
**Ketchup
**Molasses
**Texas Pete (or whatever hot sauce you like)
1 Jar pasta sauce
15 ounce can of diced pineapple
**Olive oil
Butter
2 boxes cream cheese 8oz
**Shredded cheese
1 jar of minced garlic
**soy sauce
3 boxes Chicken Broth
**Realemon
**cornstarch
1 jar Pasta Sauce
16 oz mushrooms
1 can of kidney beans
1 can Lima beans
1 can of pinto beans (ended up being black beans)
1 can of corn
3 can tomatoes and chiles
Small tub sour cream
Tortilla chips
3 green bell pepper (Aldi)
1 15oz can OR 2 8oz cans diced tomatoes
2 cooked Italian sausage (I bought a pack of ground Italian sausage)
sliced pepperoni
Bag o sweet potatoes (Aldi) divided in half or TWO bags if you want the "happy little accident" version.
2 mangoes
**raisins
**peanuts or cashews
2 bags frozen broccoli
I pack fresh spinach
Baby red potatoes - I bought a bag of red potatoes
4 8oz cans tomato sauce
2 boxes penne pasta
**tomato paste
2 bags frozen broccoli (I used baby florettes)
Baby carrots weighing 48 ounces or more - I bought 2 bags of plain old carrots at Aldi
2 bag of sweet onions (Aldi)
1 pack zucchini (Aldi - (Aldi - Five zucchini were in the package)
1 pack yellow squash (Aldi - Five yellow squash were in the package)
Bag/bunch of Celery
apple cider vinegar
bay leaves
**garlic powder
**red pepper flakes
**Onion powder
**Kosher salt (I used sea salt)
**parsley
**Cayenne pepper
**curry powder
cumin
paprika (I want to find smoked paprika. I bought extra strength)
whole peppercorns
thyme
**oregano
**Nutmeg - for Ms Dash copycat
**Sage - for Ms Dash
My version of Ms Dash - I used this recipe (http://www.food.com/recipe/mrs-dash-seasoning-20729) and substituted for the mace, marjoram and savory.
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 tablespoon garlic powder
2 teaspoon basil
1 1/2 teaspoon thyme
1 teaspoon parsley
1 teaspoon onion powder
1 1/2 teaspoon sage
1 teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon nutmeg
I have everything bagged up, so I can review my changes now.
Modified ingredient lists are available for days one and 2 here - http://eternal-chimera.livejournal.com/310343.html
Chicken Curry (day 3)
(adjusted spices per yesterdays post)
3 T curry powder
1 ½ teaspoons ground cumin
2 pounds chicken (cut up)
1 cups baby carrots.
1 coarsely chopped mango
1 cup chopped onion
1 zucchini chopped
1 ½ cloves garlic
½ cup chicken broth
BAG IT!
Add before cooking - 2 cups chopped peeled sweet potatoes. Add when you start the dish OOPSE I put 2 POUNDS in instead of 2 cups. I only needed one pound!
Garnish with .5 cup raisins, .5 cup peanuts or cashews
I am sure this feels like it is taking forever because of me creating lists and chopping and cutting up all the meat in to smaller closer to bite size pieces and just having never DONE THIS BEFORE. I keep reminding myself that the time investment is going to pay off when I don’t have to think about food much for a whole month. It may be taking longer than I think it should because I did not sit down and plan out my attack a little better. I will see if I can work it out a bit more for the next time. This has made me really want a food processor!
Crock Pot Pizza Soup - (2 bags each contains)
½ (15 ounce) (or 1 8oz) can tomato sauce
½ (6 ounce) can tomato paste
½ tablespoon ground oregano
¾ teaspoons dried minced garlic
½ teaspoon ground paprika
1.5 jars of water
½ green bell pepper
1/2 onion, chopped
½ cup sliced mushrooms
½ can tomatoes
½ cooked Italian sausage
½ cup sliced pepperoni
1 t basil
½ T dried oregano
BAG IT!
-1/2 to 1/3 cup of dried pasta cooked after the rest is done and added.
Savory Chicken (2 bags each contains)
2 lbs cut up chicken
1 8oz can tomatoes with chilies
1 large onion
4 garlic cloves
1c +4T chicken broth
Salt pepper 2 bay leaves
1 Bag o frozen broccoli
BAG IT!
Lazy Day Stew - (2 bags each contains)
1 lb Ground turkey
Baby red potatoes cut in half
1/2 can Lima beans
1 8 oz can tomato sauce
½ T molasses
2c baby carrots
1 chopped onion (I ran out and used ¼ cup dried minced onions from my spices)
1c celery chopped
BAG IT!
I may use stew beef next time, It will depend on if I can find some on a good sale.
Slow Cooker San Francisco Pork - I did this with the pork I bought, I didn’t buy pork chops - (2 bags each contains)
1 t olive oil
2lbs pork, cut up into bite size pieces.
Salt and pepper
1 cloves garlic, finely minced
1/8 cup soy sauce
1/8 cup low-sodium chicken broth
½ tablespoon molasses
1/8 teaspoon red pepper flakes
½ T cornstarch
½ T cold water
BAG IT!
Mashed Potatoes or Hot Cooked Rice (for serving)
Chicken & Spinach - (2 bags each contains)
2lbs chicken
1/2 jar Pasta Sauce
Onions, bellpeppers, etc.
½ t salt
½ teaspoon garlic powder
½ teaspoon paprika
1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/8 teaspoon onion powder
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
1/8 teaspoon red pepper flakes (optional)
Sliced zucchini & squash
8oz mushrooms sliced
½ fresh pack fresh spinach
Put in bags!
Cook noodles that night - Pasta of your choice (bow-tie, spaghetti, etc.)
Lemon Garlic Chicken - The bags on this turned out super puny. I am going to cook them both together and when I do this again, I plan to do two bags.
Ingredients: in each bag for the next time!
1 tsp. dried oregano
½ tsp. salt
¼ tsp. ground black pepper
2 pounds chicken cut up
2 T. butter
1/4 c. chicken broth
3 T Realemon
2 clove garlic minced
1 tsp. parsley
1 8 oz cream cheese
Put in bags!
My tips to date -
Get all the bags, at LEAST 18 plus some extra gallon freezer bags (I had two bags break on me at the zipper, so I advise having a few extras on hand) and some quart size freezer bags, for freezing leftovers and for extra veggies, before you start. Make sure you have a sharpie for labeling. I ended up using measuring cups, measuring spoons, my food scale, cutting boards, knives and a mandolin slicer.
Sit down/get comfy and cut your goodies up. Cut all the meat up and bag as you go, if possible. If you label the bags first then you know what goes in that bag. IF you have a food processor this would probably be MUCH easier. If you wanted to purchase the veggies frozen that might work as well. I did not go that route.
When I was measuring spices for the bags, I used two ramekins to hold the spices until I was ready to dump them in the matching bags.
I tried to buy two small cans instead of one large one wherever I could. It is just easier to keep up with.
I browned my ground meat one pound at a time. I allowed it to cool on a plate while I was cooking the next pound, then bagged it and put the newly browned meat to the plate to cool. The only exception was, I made the taco soup the first day so that never was inside a bag.