Cooking, Baking and Cooking Some More

Since I'm trying to spend as little as possible on groceries this month, I decided to do lots of cooking.

Yesterday I made a crock pot full of chili.  I make chili different every time depending on what I have on hand.  We had Chili last night and again for dinner tonight.  Plus I have enough for another dinner and probably a couple lunches left in the freezer.  I figured out that each 1 cup serving of Chili cost 50 cents and had 5 weight watchers points plus.

Tomorrow I am going to make Chicken Sandwich Filling in the crock pot.



I tried to make this recipe for home made flour tortillas from Pennies & Pancakes.  I liked this recipe, but it was a lot of work.  I made 17 tortillas and still had almost half the dough ball left.  I decided to freeze it for later. I'm not sure if the savings is worth all the work when I get a 10 pack of tortillas from Aldi.  I haven't tried these yet, I'll let Mr. Ripples have the honor when he gets home from work.




I also made some Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies. I revised this recipe from sparkpeople.  I tried to lighten them up a bit using egg whites and substituting half the butter with applesauce.  They are still good, but the weight watchers points are still too high to be a good treat for me.  The girls and hubby'll have to eat these themselves.

And finally, I made these blueberry muffins.  I used oats for half of the flour and substituted applesauce for the oil.  These came out pretty good and were only 3 WW Points Plus.

Now I'm exhausted.  Little Ripples and Baby Ripples helped me mix up the cookies and the muffins.  I had to clean the kitchen twice, sweep, vacuum and mop the floor.