Monday, August 4, 2014

August Little Big Meal is a Big Deal!

This month at Fresh Market, on Thursdays you can pick up a Little Big Meal for $20. While the past few months' deals haven't impressed me, August has simply blown me away!
You choose a protein - sirloin strips, chicken strips, or shrimp. 
You choose a starch - udon or soba noodles or rice. 
You pick up a pack of stir fry veggies (precut!!), a simmer sauce, a package of peanuts, and a pound cake!  All for just $20!
We immediately decided to purchase three meals to use all week, one of each type of protein. Chap chose to do 2 2-lb bags of rice and one package of noodles this time. The pound cakes went straight to the freezer and we just took one over to a friend's house for dessert last night. I also halved the chicken and steak into freezer bags and froze one of each, as well as all the shrimp. 

So we tried the chicken meal today for lunch. I pretty much followed the directions on the simmer sauce. Over medium heat, I browned the chicken a little in olive oil, added the whole pack of veggies, used a fork to break up the chicken, then added the simmer sauce and turned the heat down! I covered my pan to let the veggies steam some and cooked one bundle of noodles (there were 3 in the package). I mixed the noodles into the big skillet when they were done, and the meal was complete!

This was soooo easy and really delicious. We are going to have some of the steak tonight! I definitely plan to send Chap back for at least one more this Thursday!

Here is the purchase minus the pound cakes which were already in the freezer!

Here is the chicken dish made in the lemongrass basil simmer sauce! This was also after I served myself and the Monkey!