Thanks PC.  I have been looking for whole chickens on sale, but lately they have been so high!  I think they are on sale at the local grocery store this week so I am heading there on Fri.  What makes it so hard with our budget is that there is money elsewhere for our debt snowball!

I know - sometimes the chicken prices can suddenly jump.

I don't buy the brand name chickens like Tyson's. They're always more expensive. I used to get super cheap ones when I lived in MD - i have no idea why but they are much more expensive here. Maybe it depends on where you live.

I used to live near the Amish community - they always sold chickens too. Maybe that's an option depending on what part of the country you live in.

Tonight we are having omlets.  But last night we had awesome (even if I did make it myself) jerk chicken with Cuban black beans and rice and collards.

O.K., no Isernio sausage in the freezer so we went and bought some. It was on sale too!!!!! I have never seen it on sale!!!!! Yea!!!!!!!    bounce

So, we are having spaghetti made with the sausage (chicken sausage) YUM, Yum, YUM!!!!!!!! I didn't think about this until just now, but I should have bought a spaghetti squash and used that for noodles! Darn it!!!!!!

OMG we went to our local produce market and bought a bunch of apples, papaya, tomatoes, a pear (boyfriend only wanted one), blood oranges and Asparagus and only spent $8.00. We paid only $.39 a pound for Red Delicious Apples and only $.99 a pound for Asparagus!!!!! Great prices there! The papaya was weird tasting, it was a large one with kind of red flesh, it smelled like, well, like, o.k. the boyfriend says, like someones butt crack!!!!  Sorry, but kind of true. It was an interesting taste if you could get past the smell! Won't go there again!  Sick

Tonight It's tortilla pizza. I'm definitely craving Mexican food though. I make some mean green chile!

tonight i made ribs in the crockpot. Just cut up the desired amount of onion ( i used 2 small), 3-4lbs ribs, and an entire bottle of your fave bbq sauce...or if you are like me and want to make your own..i used one can of condensed tomato soup, 1/2 cup cider vineger, 3/4 cup brown sugar, cayanne pepper (pinch), chili powder (tsp), salt (tsp), worcestershire(1 TBS). Cook on low for 7 hours. Meat fell right off the bone..mmmm.
I cut up the onion and prepared the bbq sauce the night before. That way when I got up this morning i just threw in the ribs, the onions and poured the sauce on and i was out the door. My pot has a keep warm setting which it switches to after 7 hours, but if yours doesnt, just cook it on low for 8 hours.

Wish I could say our dinner was interesting tonight...my mother gave us a ham bone so I made soup with celery, onions, barley and green peas. So our dinner consisted of soup and bread...boring but tasty and as a treat we made popcorn on the stove with a touch of butter and salt!

MMM..I'd be interested in the marinade recipe!...But only if it turns out good