New foods, gotta try it!

Okay, so the weekends are my time to let loose and really cook well. You know, make the stuff that takes hours, that you just can't make during the week unless you want to eat at midnight. But, in trying to eat healthy and still have a decent meal during the week, I tend to try things that are quick and easy and see how they well they work out.

Now, I rarely eat beef or steaks, not really my thing, but I'm a constant fan of the Lou's Roast Beef au Jus. Pull it out of the freezer in the morning, nuke for 7 minutes at dinner time and you have a fair serving of beautifully shaved Roast Beef, free of fat and sinue. And a delicious au jus to join it. Boil few potatoes, mash up with my instant garlic potatoe powder (thanks Peewee for buying me that, use it all the time), and cook some veggies and you have a great meal in less that 20 minutes. And if you are only 1 or 2 people, you'll have plenty of meat for Roast Beef Sandwhiches the next morning. Maple Leaf makes a good beef in gravy but I like the Lou's for the au jus. It's lighter and more flexible.

I'm also not really a turkey lover but since it's so good for you, I try to find ways to sneak it in every once in a while. So I found another 10 minute meat. Maple Leaf's Turkey Breast in Sundried Tomato and Oregano Sauce. Yes, it is a decadent as it sounds. And it's a big honking Turkey Breast. You could easily cut this thing up for 4 people and it's only $4.97 at Walmart.

The meat dinners are huge in the stores right now but if you look at the ingredients on the packages, they really are not as bad as you would think. They are not as loaded with preservatives as I thought they would. Any fresh meat is always better but if you can't spend hours roasting a beef yourself during the week, you can rest assured that these will do the trick, just make sure you serve it with some healthy goodies like veggies.

And the final discovery for the past little while. I have officially found the best frozen perogies. Okay, so you can really only eat perogies on days when you're not worried about calorie intake, but every good Ukranian needs perogies occassionally to keep our Ukranian blood flowing. It's a requirement. And they are versatile. But, as anyone who has made them knows, it's not practical to make perogies at home all the time. So to get our fix, we try to find good frozen perogies, which isn't always easy.

Well, again a Walmart invention, I haven't seen them anywhere else yet, there is a brand that truly takes the cake. Cheemo Perogies. They come in 2kg bags for $3.97 (not bad if you ask me) and they are extremely flexible for cooking. Stuffed to the brim, they boil very well for your traditional butter and onions meal, they fry perfectly, and for a special treat, wrap them with butter and margarine in tinfoil and bbq them. Mmmm, yummy.

So there you go, so new food ideas for you all (unless you've already tried these or don't have a walmart to buy them at).