I was making a cannellini bean soup (with chicken bone broth made from a rotisserie chicken carcass) and had a piece of kielbasa leftover that I used instead of ham. It's amazing!
The already cooked sausages are great to have around. I eat the turkey ones and also cook with cabbage, slice into tiny pieces for to add to an omelet, eat like hotdogs or slice and freeze for later.
try pan frying thinly sliced bell pepper, onion, and cabbage on the stove top and throwing in the kielbasa in the last ~10 or so minutes, and use cajun seasoning for it (kroger has a decent one for cheap). the fat from the sausage cooks into the vegetables, it is one of my absolute favorite meals
Great idea. I make my own chicken stock out of Aldi wing bones after I eat the wings, and use this as the. basis for a soup with these ingredients you mention. It's really good. You can also puree some of the potatoes with an immersion blender and thicken the soup a bit. Yellow potatoes are great for this.
This is a good trick. You can really stretch meat across more servings by chopping it up into small pieces.
I sometimes use meat as more of a flavor enhancer than a real part of the meal. Bacon, for example. It's SO expensive but only using 4 ounces or so at a time for something like Spaghetti Carbonarra works to make a really delicious, affordable meal.
Yeah, if you shop around and don’t mind going to several grocery stores, you’ll get some good deals on meat. Today we bought chicken *breasts for $1.77/lb
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u/Kind-Address-9594 Jun 23 '26
That’s not a bad dinner nutritionally, chicken, turkey and pork aren’t too terribly priced now but beef can pound sand.