Day 5: (No Title) Lol.
Apr 28
Yesterday consisted of making homemade chicken broth, and I then turned into homemade chicken noodle soup and I would be lying if I said it wasn’t the tastiest thing ever!
For breakfast I had a pear and a glass of OJ. Lunch was some leftover chicken turned into a chicken salad sandwich with a little onion, lettuce and mayo.
I also had a snack of some Greek Natural Yogurt (it has no taste at all…. so I added a little organic maple syrup!)
And dinner of course, the chicken noodle soup. (No soda on the side.)
People commented that “Making soup is a big job!”, well in reality it’s not. It’s actually very easy.
Here’s how.
Fill a large pot with water.
Put the chicken carcass in the water. (bones, skin, any other chicken parts, not the good meat though.)
Throw in chunks of half an onion.
Throw in a chunks of celery.
Throw in chunks of carrot.
Throw in a few cloves of garlic.
Add Bay Leaves, Thyme, Salt and Pepper.
Cover, and get to a simmering boil, and cook until the volume of liquid is reduced to 1/3 the pot. Took 5 hours for me.
When that’s done, you just use a strainer to separate the liquid from the contents. I like to take out the pieces of celery and carrot and even some of the good meat that may have been left on the chicken and put that in the soup.
That’s it! You don’t need to stir it, don’t need to watch it, don’t need to do anything but let it slowly boil for hours!
(Oh and sidenote… I was a good boy! I didn’t eat anything bad at the Jays game yesterday!)
In Recap
$2.50 – Leftover Chicken
$.18 – Two slices of bread
$.24 – Onion
$.05 – One piece of lettuce
$.25 – 1 tablespoon organic, preservative mayonnaise
$.31 – 1 Pear
$.09 – Celery
$.10 – Carrot
$.05 – Garlic
$.10 – Assorted Spices
$.25 – Homemade Pasta (Courtesy of my Grandma!)
$.37 – Natural Yogurt
$.24 – Pure Maple Syrup
So today I ate healthy for $4.73!
