Chilighetti

This meal is a fast, easy and cheap way to use left overs

Items
1 can of chili (or 2 cups of home made chili)
4 cups of prepared whole wheat spaghetti
cheese for garnishing
hot sauce for taste
** optional: cut up small pieces of onion for garnishing

Prices and places
Chili--food storage
whole wheat spaghetti--Aldis for $1.69
Cheese--given to us from my mother
hot sauce--always in our food storage, because my family loves it

Recipe
1. Mix the spaghetti and chili together in a microwave safe container
place chili
2. place mixture in the microwave and cook for 3min and check if warm enough if not continue to heat for 3 more minutes
3. When meal is hot enough serve and allow individuals to place the cheese and hot sauce on their own meal ** optional: cut up small pieces of onion for garnishing

Spinach Salad

Fresh and Healthy

Items
1 cup Spinach
1/8 cup dried cranberries (if you don't have this you can substitute raisins)
1/4 of a small onion
Italian salad dressing for garnishing
2 Tbsp pecans (optional)

Places and Prices
Spinach
2 for $3 (Quality)
Dried Cranberries
we had these in the cupboard (were given them awhile ago)
Onion
we had this in the cupboard (bought a bag from Aldi's a while ago)
Italian salad dressing
we had this in the cupboard (I have bought this item at Wegmans in the past on sale, 2 for $3---I usually don't but salad dressings unless they are on sale)
Pecans
we had these in cupboard

Recipe
1. Preheat oven to 350. To be used for roasting your pecans
1. Rinse carefully the spinach
2. Cut onion into small very small pieces (tip here, if you get your onion cold before cutting it, it wouldn't make you cry)
3. Place the pecans in a pan, single layer and place into oven. watch these so they don't burn
4. Chop up the pecans and put on side to be used later
5. Mix all ingredients.
6. Just before serving you can put the salad dressing on the salad. If you put it on before hand it could make the salad soggy.

Serving Size: 2 adult bowls