$3.00 Pot Roast

$3.00 Pot Roast? Yes, believe it or not, I have been able to get some high quality meats at my local Randall's store, courtesy of their discount section. In Houston, at least on the far left side of the Randall's (grocery) meat case, there is a section containing meat that needs to be immediately cooked, or in my case frozen.

Last week while perfoming my taxi cab duties for my teen's film shoot, I grabbed four packages of meat (ground beef, chicken, pork and beef fajita) in 1 lb. packages for a grand total of $5.90. This will feed my household of two, anywhere from 4 to 8 meals.

Yesterday, I made a pot roast in the crock pot. My base was a package of onion dip mix (onion soup mix works well, too), with 1" of water. I turned the pot on high and put the frozen meat into the pot. After turning the meat a couple of times at the 1 and 2 hour marks, I finally added diced potatoes and carrots to the mix at the 3 hour mark. The result? Two hours later after returning from another teen taxi cab run, our delicious dinner is waiting for us. There were no leftovers last night, although the beef and onion broth (sans the fat ladeled out) will make for a good pot of soup later.

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