Thrift, Lunch, Treat, Chili Relleno(!)

I've only been spending $30-$40 a week on our groceries lately, which is really nice, but probably only due to the fact that we're gone on the weekends a lot. I swear half the budget is breakfast cereal for BDC. It's a constant struggle between my desire to spend less and my desire not to buy overly sweetened chemically corn bits for my life-partner to eat. There were boxes of kashi on sale at target this week, so I stocked up. Has anyone seen that commercial for a popular cereal brand where they say that if you eat kashi go lean crunch for breakfast you'll need "all these" multivitamins to get the nutrition you'd get from said brand? As if cereal is the only way people get all their vitamins and minerals? Yeah, that commercial is dumb.

This week I picked up these bizarrely shaped peaches along with the grocery haul. I don't do a lot of peaches but these are good. Juicy and fragrant.

UFO peach

These babies are out of this world with a little dairy free sorbet. Not kidding.

Oh yeah, babe

Last post I was talking about BDC and how he loves him some good Ashley-prepared vegan food. Today I was home during his lunch time so I whipped up this plate of loveliness so he could work on the credits to The Works of Darren McGannon.

PB&J on whole grain, Cherries, Apple, and Salad

And, for the finale of this post, I give you the easiest chili relleno recipe ever. Well, easy if you have all these items in your kitchen by happenstance. Below is a recipe for one.

Easiest Chili Relleno EVAR.

You'll need:
1 poblano pepper
1/4 package SOFT tofu
1/4 brick vegan mozzarella (grated)
cayenne
chili powder
1/2 can chunky tomato soup (I used the giant evil organic brand)

Then you:
Char the skin of your pepper on the open flame of your range.
Stick that sucker in a plastic baggie.
Let it sit and sweat while you cut up your tofu and cheese.
Sprinkle your tofu and cheese with spices, to taste.
After a few minutes, take out the pepper and peel off the skin.
Cut a slit in the pepper and stuff in your tofu and cheese
Use a wooden skewer to sew the slit shut.
Put your pepper in a baking dish.
Dump the soup on the pepper.
Spice it some more.
If you've got extra cheese, put that on top.
Broil, 10-15 minutes.