Chicken Recipes For Easy Dinner Ideas

I wanted to create a weeks worth of quick easy dinner ideas using my favorite chicken recipes.

As I have scanned the grocery ad’s the past few weeks, I have noticed the price of chicken per lb. is cheap.

I have seen it as low as $0.39 per lb. in my area.

I have been able to purchase family packs with 16-20 legs or thighs for about $2.00 a pkg., sometimes even less.

This is exactly the price I want and need when creating my quick easy dinner recipes for the month.

When it’s this low, I recommend stocking up, THIS IS CHEAP!!

Put that freezer to use just sitting in the garage.

Creating quick easy dinner recipes with chicken is so easy.

Whether you prefer crockpot chicken recipes, chicken casserole recipes or just simple chicken recipes it doesn’t matter because there are so many quick chicken recipes available and they are all free recipes – free is good!!

Lemon Chicken on Foodista

Here is just a few of my favorite quick easy dinner recipes using chicken:

Chicken Casserole Recipes

These are a few of my most popular chicken casserole recipes straight from the casserole kitchen.

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Chicken, Broccoli ‘n’ Cheese Casserole

Easy Chicken Pot Pie

Chicken Spaghetti

Chicken and Rice Bake

Crockpot Chicken Recipes

Crockpot Meals with chicken are easy and delicious with these simple crockpot chicken recipes.

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Crockpot White Chicken Chili

Crockpot Lemon Chicken Recipe

Chicken Jambalaya Crockpot Meal

Cheap Quick Rice and Chicken – Crockpot Style

Quick Chicken Recipes

And best of all, or at least my favorite type of quick chicken recipes include fast 15 minute dinners from start to finish or simple mix in a pan and bake.

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Chicken Pasta

There you have it, seven quick easy dinner recipes using chicken. I hope you take advantage of the cheap chicken prices and prepare those make ahead meals for cheap meals on a budget.

Want some variety with meat, I have a great weeks worth of cheap family menu ideas for less than $40.00:

A Cheap Family Menu For Less Than $40.00

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February 1st, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Dinner Recipes, Best Crockpot Recipes, Casserole Cooking, freezer meals recipes | 3 comments

Puffy Oven Apple Pancake Casserole

I tried this simple breakfast casserole recipe for a simple Sunday brunch a few weeks ago and it was so good.

It’s called Puffy Oven Apple Pancake Casserole and it’s one of those cheap cooking recipes every one has to try.

The ingredients are very basic (making it a cheap recipe), I had everything already in the pantry or refrigerator.

The only possible draw back was the 30 minutes you have to let the pancake mix sit before baking but an easy and even better solution was to prepare it the night before, cover and refrigerate until ready to use.

Have fun with the recipe, I hope you enjoy it and let me know if you get creative as I love taking a recipe and adding to it – so share, share, share!!

Puffy Oven Apple Pancake

Serves 4
Prep Time: 30 minutes (can mix the night before, cover and refrigerate.)
Bake Time: 15-20 minutes

Cheap Cooking Ingredients:
Pancake:

  • 1 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 1/2 cups milk
  • 6 large eggs
  • 1 tbsp. sugar
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 1/2 cup (1 stick butter)

Apple Filling:

  • 2 large Golden Delicious or Granny Smith Apples, peeled and sliced
  • 1 tbsp. butter
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • whipped cream (optional)

Easy Meal Directions:
Pancake:

  1. Mix flour, milk, eggs, sugar, salt and let stand for 30 minutes.
  2. Preheat oven to 450 degrees, place baking pan or casserole dish in oven and add butter.
  3. Remove once butter is melter, pour pancake mixture into heated pan and return to oven.
  4. Bake for 15- 20 minutes or until edges are puffed and golden.

Apple Filling:

  1. While pancake bakes, add apples and butter to a skillet and cook 5-10 minutes or until tender.
  2. Add brown sugar and stir until dissolved then transfer to a serving bowl.

To serve: Cut pancake into quarters and fill each serving with apples. Top with whipped cream if desired.

TIP: make sure the family / guests are at the table, ready to eat as the pancake will slump quickly.

Looking for something different? Try this: Breakfast Casserole

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January 27th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Casserole Cooking, cheap breakfast ideas | Leave a comment

My Mom’s Goulash – My Poverty Meal

I ran across a goulash recipe today from Recipezaar called Poverty Meal and I had to laugh.

As a child my mom made something very similar to this but she called it Goulash. I think I like calling it the Poverty Meal instead as that is exactly what it was.

We grew up poor and my mom did her best to provide for us. I could always tell how broke we were by the ingredients she used, no kidding.

If times were good the recipe included vegetables, ground beef, cream of mushroom soup and cheese. If we were broke it became a simple tomato sauce and noodle dinner.

I have made this a few times for my family and I need to include it in my menu planning more often as my kids actually like it and eat it well.

It’s one of those quick dinner recipes that  definitely fits well within my $5 dinner meals and depending on the ingredients you use it could actually be less than $2 to prepare. So here is my version of a Poverty Meal or as my mom calls it her Goulash recipe.

My Mom’s Goulash Recipe – My Poverty Meal

Quick Dinner Recipes

Goulash Recipe

Inspiration from Recipezaar, family recipe
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Meal Preparation Ingredients:

  • 1 lb ground beef (ground turkey works well too)
  • 2 small cans of tomato sauce
  • 1 can of cream of mushroom soup
  • 1 pkg. elbow macaroni
  • 1 can of mixed vegetables (optional)
  • 1 cup of cheese (optional)
  • salt and pepper to taste

Meal Preparation Directions:

  1. Prepare elbow macaroni according to directions on package, drain and put back in pot
  2. Cook ground beef or turkey until done, drain grease
  3. Add tomato sauce, cream of mushroom soup and mixed vegetable to pot of macaroni, mix well
  4. Add ground beef or turkey and salt and pepper to taste.
  5. Top with cheese if desired.

Meal Assembly:
Serves 4-6. Add a dinner salad and sliced french bread for a nutritious cheap family meal.

TIP: Double the batch for a make ahead freezer meal next week. Need tips to begin make ahead meal planning? Here is a great article: Quick Tips For Make Ahead Meals

Looking for something different? Try this Quick Dinner Recipe: Easy Tuna-Fish Casserole

Or better yet try this kid approved meal: Easy Meatloaf Recipe

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January 24th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Dinner Recipes, Casserole Cooking, easy ground beef meals, freezer meals recipes | 3 comments
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