Monday, November 2, 2009

Looking for Recipes...Update

OK.. so I've been helping sort cans and boxes of food for families for Thanksgiving at my daughter's school for about a month. Every week we've been receiving mass loads of soups, mac and cheese, tuna, ramen, and chef boyrdee cans. It's crazy how many!! While packing them up the other day one of the mom's mentioned that its ridiculous how many canned goods we're going to be giving to these families. Seriously, have you ever thought about eating ravioli, tuna, and chicken noodle soup for just about every meal? Sounds dreadful, doesn't it?

Here we are loading them up on nonperishable foods that are loaded with salt and preservatives and virtually no nutritional value, right? So I decided to try to find alternative recipes for these items... so far, I've gotten quite a bunch

Country Chicken Chowder (Chicken Noodle Soup)
Cinnamon Snack Mix (Ramen Noodles)
Tuna Pot Pie (Tuna)
Pizza Casserole (Ravioli)

...just to name a few!! BUT I was wondering if anyone had any other suggestions. I know that I haven't been keeping up with this blog and a bunch of my followers are gone, but if you could do me a favor and spread the word, that would be great! I am looking for quick, easy, family friendly, CHEAP meals you can use nonperishable foods to make.

Some other items that are in excess are pastas, tomato products, canned veggies, gravies, cake mixes... MAC n CHEESE... got it? So any recipes that you can offer would be great.

To make it worth your time and trouble, I will be doing a give away!! I have some small Pampered Chef items that I can throw together as incentive for a random drawing. Please send the recipes by November 14th so I have time to get them together for a booklet I want to put together for the families.

Thank you sooo much for your help!! Happy Holidays!


So far I've had only 2 people email me and one post on here... that makes the chances pretty good in the random selection!!! Last day to add recipes...
So the winner is... MaryAnn Gomes! BUT - since there were only 3 people who participated, I will be sending out a special PC treat to each of them!! Yay... holiday cheer to everyone :o)

3 comments:

* elizabeth * said...

Most of these have just a few ingredients and look really good!

http://www.kraftfoods.com/kf/recipes/cheesy-tuna-mac-57278.aspx

http://www.kraftfoods.com/kf/recipes/one-pot-mac-cheese-primavera-75195.aspx

This but with real chicken, not gross deli chicken:
http://www.kraftfoods.com/kf/recipes/mac-chicken-cacciatore-112434.aspx

http://www.kraftfoods.com/kf/recipes/tuna-pasta-salad-50183.aspx

http://www.kraftfoods.com/kf/recipes/tuscan-tuna-salad-53821.aspx

http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,1726,144184-254202,00.html

And what about rinsing the ravioli off and putting on another sauce, I know it sounds odd, but when you've had it up to your ears with ravioli, a different sauce can keep you from killing yourself.

http://www.budget101.com/ramen_noodle_recipes.htm

Hope this helps!

-Tee- said...

wow!! awesome! Thanks :o)

Unknown said...

I know I'm late to the posts... but my mom always made this and I make it for the kids because its comfort food to me (I didn't know then that it was because grocery money was thin)

Anyway my mom would layer in a casserole dish from the bottom up: One pound ground beef cooked, one can corn, one package instant mashed potatoes cooked, one can spaghettios, cheese.

Bake until the cheese melts.