Basic and budget recipes don’t have to mean boring — especially when it comes to dinner. I’ve been working on my own grocery budget as much to add cash to my vacation savings account as to reduce waste and keep a cleaner pantry — both pleasant side effects of buying only what you need!
Relying on staples that stock our pantry and freezer, we can save our budgets with those basics for delicious and filling dinners every cook should know.
If you’re a Costco regular, then there’s no doubt you’re well acquainted with just how often this massive store can come to the rescue when you’re getting ready to feed a crowd. While there are a ton of great buys, Costco really wins in the appetizer department. Meaning: The warehouse store can really be a life-safer this time of year when holiday parties are nonstop.
Whether you’re hosting or just tasked with bringing something, here are the best Costco appetizers to add to your cart, and the ones that are worth skipping.
Trader Joe’s has a bunch of incredible seasonal products they’ve released for the holidays, and one of them in particular caught my eye: Yule log ice cream. You guys, how ridiculously weird and delightful does that sound?!
“Bûche de Noël cake is a tradition that hearkens back to the ancient practice of burning a decorated Yule log (or, as the French say, Bûche de Noël) in celebration of the winter solstice,” Trader Joe’s begins in their Fearless Flyer, “The custom eventually morphed into baking ornate cakes decorated to resemble a Yule log, which is a pretty favorable progression of events, if you ask us.” (Agreed.)
If you love the DIY nut butter section that Whole Foods offers, you’re going to flip at this news. Cooking Light reports that Whole Foods is testing out a station in-store where shoppers can blend and fill bottles with fresh almond milk using some pretty spiffy-looking machines. Yes, you can now make your own almond milk!
As they’ve done in the past, throughout the month of December Target is featuring weekend-only sales in a variety of departments. So of course we’re especially excited that this weekend (that’s right — today and tomorrow only) they’re offering an additional 25 percent off kitchen appliances and cookware.
We sorted through hundreds of items to bring you our top four picks so you can take advantage of these generous savings. As a bonus, some are already on sale, making the prices that much more tempting.
Whether you celebrate the 12 days of Christmas, the eight nights of Hanukkah, or the one evening of Festivus, Whole Foods has a new event to add to your annual calendar: the 12 days of cheese. Yes, dairy-lovers, they have added a curd-nerd holiday to the winter that will light your refrigerator up with delicious deals on classic cheese, special holiday wedges, and exciting artisanal wheels.
When it comes to grocery stores, some chains rise above the rest, but few sow the kind of fervent enthusiasm as Trader Joe’s does. This week the radio show Freakonomics did their research-driven dive on just what it is about the “quirky little grocery chain,” as they say, that makes people love it so much.
For fans of celebrity chef Bobby Flay, the Food Network has been feeding them plenty of battles, burgers, and brunches for nearly 25 years — and it doesn’t look like the star will be slacking off anytime soon. Busy, busy Bobby is opening a new restaurant in Las Vegas called Shark, working on his 15th cookbook, and has just announced his newest television show — co-starring his daughter.
If you thought that epic romaine lettuce recall was bad (which, by the way, is now over), you’re in for a rude awakening, because there’s another huge recall happening now: According to a recent report from the USDA, about 5 million pounds of raw beef that may have been contaminated by salmonella have been recalled.
I’ll admit, I was skeptical of this recipe the first go-round. Am I really pouring sloppy Joe sauce into a bag of frozen meatballs? Will this actually taste good? But the answer was a resounding yes (why was I even nervous? It’s sloppy Joe sauce and meatballs!), and the pouring of that sauce turned out to be one of the smartest sheet pan dinner shortcuts ever.
This recipe requires just four ingredients, no mixing bowl, and makes both a sandwich and a vegetable side on one single sheet pan. Ready to get a little weird with this Miracle Meal? Here’s how to make sheet pan sloppy Joe subs and broccoli for dinner tonight.