Cheap Canned Crab Is Only Good For Cat-food

The Walmart brand of canned crab smells like an aquarium. The crab meat is very mushy and strange tasting. When you are eating the meal cooked using the crab, you can feel little bits of shell/cartilage in your mouth. It is an unpleasant texture with any meal. It is better to buy lump crab meat, or the one in the jar. Cheap canned crab will ruin any meal.

A Healthy Breakfast

Fill your plate with a combination of these breakfast entrees and sides ranked by how healthy a serving is.

Perfect

• Fresh fruit is a safe option for any breakfast plate. Fresh fruit is packed with fiber, vitamins and minerals.
• Pack a ton of vegetables into your breakfast with a protein and fiber rich egg omellete .
• Water is literally the healthiest thing you can put into your body, have a lot of it, and have it often. You'll feel so much better for it.
• A hearty salad with lots of colorful vegetable is a light way to start your morning, dress lightly with lemon and a little olive oil.
• Milk is both good for you, with a ton of vitamins and minerals and filling as well. 2% or skim is best.

Good

• Hard boiled eggs are both filling and nutritious. Eating only the egg white is even better!
• Fresh squeezed fruit juice is not as good as raw fruit, but is still nutritious.

Decent

• Scrambled eggs can be healthy and better tasting by using a minimal amount of oil or butter.
• Bagels are great especially if they are whole wheat and without excess cream cheese.
• Sweet plantains can add some variety to your plate without breaking the bank.

Bad

• Bacon is so salty greasy and delicious, and it is for those reasons that we must eat it in moderation!
• Pop Tarts are just sugar, with a very very small amount of fruit sugar paste spread inside.
• Juice with added sugar or corn syrup should be avoided.
• Hashed Browns are crispy and yummy, but just like the bacon can be greasy and should not be consumed daily.

Easy Egg Recipes

We have gathered together a variety of tasty ways to get you egg-cited about eating this protein packed incredible edible super-food.

If you want to get a little more fancy try bringing these deviled eggs to a picnic.

A classic side item for breakfast is fluffy scrambled eggs served with a yummy side of bacon .

For a fast nutritious breakfast you can make this easy yet hearty egg omellete .

If you're looking for a new way to eat simple hard boiled eggs then you may want to try seasoned hard boiled eggs with butter. 

How To Hard Boil Eggs The Right Way

If you overcook an egg when boiling it, it gets a sulfuric taste and dark green ring around the yolk. Yechh! Peeling eggs are much harder if they are farm fresh! Eggs a few days old are best, your supermarket's eggs are probably a few days old when you buy them. If you absolutely must use eggs hatched the same day you plan to hard boil them then steam for 20 minutes instead of boiling. They should be easier to peel that way, if they still aren't put in the fridge for a day and they should be fine.

Preparing perfectly cooked hard-boiled eggs are a snap if you follow these simple steps:

1. Put eggs in a saucepan and cover with cold water.
2. Set heat on high and let water slowly come to a boil.
3. When water is at a hard boil remove pan from heat and let sit for 12 minutes.
4. Cool by pouring cold water into the saucepan or by setting the eggs on ice.
5. Store in a covered container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.

Enjoy!

Simple Foods For A Picnic

Beverages

Homemade Lemonade
Ahhhhh.... lemonade in a jar...so thirst quenching...so easy.
Bring a cup of sugar and a cup of water to a boil, take off heat and add a cup of lemon juice. Now just add enough water to dilute to your liking (3 to 4 cups is usually best), or half water half ice into a jar. Stir or shake it up well, and keep very very cold until picnic time.

Entrees

Classic Sandwich
Get a huge baguette or french loaf, cut down the middle horizontally. Now layer the inside with your favorite meats and cheeses, some good examples are ham, pork, turkey, chicken, or even lobster. Add some thinly sliced onion and tomato, drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper. Now close everything up and cut into smaller sandwiches, for ease of eating during picnic time.

Fried Chicken
So delicious hot or cold. If you want to go real old school American then Fried Chicken is the way to go. We have a great recipe for delicious crispy juicy fried chicken here.

Favorite Fried Chicken

I personally prefer the shake method to the egg and flour dredge method when I'm breading chicken. It's easier and the chicken comes out perfectly coated every single time. Try it next time if you usually dip chicken in flour, then egg, then flour again. This is an award winning fried chicken recipe handed down through the generations of an otherwise very private family.

Ingredients

2 lbs chicken pieces

2 cups milk

2 tbsp vinegar

2 1/2 cups of flour

salt and pepper to taste

cayenne (optional) to taste

Eazy Peazy Potato Salad

An inexpensive and delicious meal isn't too hard to find, because I will be showing you some in the coming posts, but a dish THIS delicious and THIS inexpensive deserves some recognition. Potato Salad is the vice president of the American BBQ, a laughably easy way to get children to consume vegetables, and also a dish they make in Germany hot, or so I heard. I don't like to think of that last one, so I'll go back to the first point.

Make this dish for a BBQ, party, potluck, Christmas, or make a regular weeknight a whole lot more tasty. This particular recipe is really called Ensalada Rusa, so a Russian potato salad recipe that was given to me from a Dominican lady that made it every single night for her family. I kid you not, and it's by far the best potato salad I have ever had.

Stew is Short for Guisado

The easiest way to use up vegetables and possibly tough inexpensive cuts of meat is with a stew. Here is my staple all purpose Latin American Stew, or Guisado. You can use any kind of meat you want, and really any vegetables, I listed some vegetables I use as a starting point. Feel free to add peas, corn, squash, etc.

5 Tips : How To Eat In For Less

You may have noticed during your last visit to the supermarket that food can be very expensive. Expensive enough to make a shopper waltz right over to the frozen aisle and stock up on 3 dollar burritos, or maybe grab a few TV dinners. You know the food is junk, it tastes terrible, you REALLY don't want to nourish a growing child or adult with it, yet the low price makes you come back again and again. One of the main objectives of this site is to teach others how to cook to eat well, but cooking starts with the ingredients, and I have 5 tips for the novice grocery shopper to help you keep a well stocked pantry. Junk food optional!

Start With The Basics (Like Basic White Rice)

Learning how to cook can be like learning to ride a bike, it feels un-natural at first but as soon as your body has the rhythm down you have a lifelong skill. Starting with a dish as simple as plain rice is great because not only does it go with almost any protein, vegetable, or legume...it's also a cinch to make! Here's how:


1 cup long grain rice
2 cups water
1 teaspoon salt 
1 teaspoon butter or oil (optional) 


Directions: 
1 In a saucepan with a lid ready bring water, salt and butter to a boil. 
2 Add rice and stir for one minute. 
3 Cover and reduce heat to medium low, if there's nuclear-cloud-sized steam leaking from your pot, you should probably set it to low. 
4 Cook for 20 minutes, without removing lid.
5 Remove from heat and fluff with fork. Cover pot and let sit 5 minutes.