The other night Ryan and I went out with friends. It was such a great night to reconnect with everyone. All was great until the bill came. A pricey $35 witch would have been a good price if we had gotten actual meals! Ryan got Soup and I got some ravioli appetizer. At least we probably made up for it with the 3 extra baskets of bread. The next day I went to the store, I spent $27 on our weekly groceries. "Wow" I thought to myself. I can't believe that we had spent more on one meal than and entire week of grocery's.

Since then I have been even more inspired to eat at home more. It's so cheep and at least I think its fun. It's crazy to me that I can take different ingredients and make pretty much anything I want and I can personalize it to the the way I want it.

Every week when I get the grocery store adds in the mail I check to see whats on sale. From there I plan a meal schedule based off of what's on sale and the plans that we have for the week. I normally plan 1 meal for every 2 days and leave the weekends blank for either leftovers or going out to eat. This weeks meals are Chicken Noodle Soup w/ Biscuits, Breakfast for dinner pancakes, Hash browns, eggs), And Chili w/ Corn Bread. I'm trying to push myself to make at least 1 new recipe each week. This week I will be trying 4.

My first new recipe I tried was Pennsylvania Chicken Noodle Soup.

Ingredients

2 Tbsp Butter (I used I can't believe it's not butter light)
1 Carrot, finely chopped
1 Stock of Celery, finely chopped
1/2 Cup of Onion, finely chopped i used a brown onion)
1 Lg. Chicken Brest, skinned, about 1/2 lb. (I used boneless skinless chicken breast tenders, they were cheaper)
4 oz. Noodles, narrow, wide or dutch (I used fettuccine noodles)
1 quart Chicken Broth (i used organic chicken broth, I got it at costco)
1 Cup of corn, frozen or canned. (i used fresh corn that I had cooked)
1/4 tsp. Black Pepper

First I cut up all the veggies



I melted the butter in my pot and added the Celery, Carrot and Onion. I washed and added my Chicken. Set my burner to medium-low and covered for about 10 minites. I flipped the chicken several times.



After that I removed the chicken and cute it into cubes. I wanted a more chunky soup so I cut pretty big chunks.



Then I adden my quart of chicken broth and brough it to a boil.


I added the noodles and corn and simmered covered for about 15 minutes or until the noodle s were done.

I think the next part is the key. I took two cup of the soup and blended it in a blender and added it back to the soup. This made the soup thicker and more creamy.

After that I added 2 cups of water and put the chicken back in and cooked for a few minutes

I seasoned with pepper and mmmmmmm mmmmmmmm it was so good!!

I paired that with fresh made biscuits and a cut up strawberry's with frozen bananas over vanilla yogurt for dessert.