Labor Day Monday Meal Re-planning

A new grocery store has popped up across the street from our ‘local,’ and as a result the ‘local’ has had some crazy deals on the last few weekends.  I re-jiggered the weekly meal plan based on the deals on hand – they had 10 chicken leg quarters for $1 (total!), a $1.60 roasting chicken, $1.00 for a half dozen chicken thighs . . . there was a run on all of this, people pushing to grab, elbows flying.  Kind of wild.  The line was out the door.  I suppose the store is achieving its goal of keeping its loyal following, although I fear a stampede one of these days.  In any case, I bought all the “too good to be true” deals and then re-configured the meal plan around those, and I’m putting my new list here so I can find the recipes again.  Lots of chicken this week:

Skillet steak and wilted kale (we already had the steak in the freezer)

Chicken and black bean chimichangas (I’ll just roast my own $1 chicken instead of getting a rotisserie)

Eve’s chicken quarters with rice and broccoli.  This entire meal will be about $3 for all of us!

Peach whisky chicken thighs w/roasted potatoes (already had some potatoes, I think I’ll spend more on peach preserves than all other ingredients combined!)

French lentil soup (this was in our freezer from a double batch I made a few weeks ago, and I had to take it out to make room for all the cheap chicken)

Spaghetti bolognese w/ground turkey (cook ground turkey, add onions and garlic and cook a bit longer, pour in Prego or some other premade sauce, heat through and serve w/spaghetti – I will add some chunks of old tomatoes too)

We’ll try the other new stuff next week, I guess.  Let’s hear it for bargain basement deals.

In other news, some good NOLA friends are passing through on their way home from a beach vacation and having brunch at our place this morning, and then after nap we’re going to another friend’s apartment to swim in their complex’s pool.  Aside from a short period of time yesterday when the constant presence of the children really began to grate the nerves, it’s been a perfect long weekend.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I must go cook a bunch of chickens.  Bawk bawk.