Home Cooking Assignment:
This week, I decided to make a recipe I found on wholefoodbellies.com fo baked zucchini, feta, and quinoa bites. I was first introduced to this recipe by my mom and immediately fell in love with it. They're filled with veggies, freezer-friendly, and a great way to use any leftover quinoa! To eat the bites, I put them in a whole-wheat pita pocket and added hummus, diced tomatoes, and more feta.
To make the bites, you will need:
1 cup cooked quinoa
2 medium zucchini
3 tbsp whole flour
1/2 brown onion
3 cloves garlic crushed
2 spring onions
Zest from 1/2 a lemon
2/3 cup crumbled feta
1 large egg
Salt and pepper to taste
The first step in making these bites is shredding the zucchini and straining it in a cheesecloth or clean dish towel. After that, you mix together all of the ingredients in a bowl and spoon ball sized amounts onto a baking sheet. Finally, bake them at 400 for 15 minutes per side and then take them out! I enjoyed mine in my hammock by the river, which I would highly recommend!
Budgeting Assignment:
1. Cost of five items
This week, I decided to make a recipe I found on wholefoodbellies.com fo baked zucchini, feta, and quinoa bites. I was first introduced to this recipe by my mom and immediately fell in love with it. They're filled with veggies, freezer-friendly, and a great way to use any leftover quinoa! To eat the bites, I put them in a whole-wheat pita pocket and added hummus, diced tomatoes, and more feta.
The first step in making these bites is shredding the zucchini and straining it in a cheesecloth or clean dish towel. After that, you mix together all of the ingredients in a bowl and spoon ball sized amounts onto a baking sheet. Finally, bake them at 400 for 15 minutes per side and then take them out! I enjoyed mine in my hammock by the river, which I would highly recommend!
Budgeting Assignment:
1. Cost of five items
- Almond Milk (Almond Breeze- Original)
- CVS- $5.49
- Fresh Thyme- $2.99
- Butter
- CVS- Country Crock $3.79
- Fresh Thyme Horizon Organic $4.99
- Apple Cider Vinegar
- CVS GEA Organic- $4.79
- Fresh Thyme- Fresh Thyme Brand, Organic- $4.99
- White Quinoa- Organic
- CVS- 48 cents/ ounce
- Fresh Thyme- 25 cents/ ounce
- Blue Diamond Salted Almonds- 6 oz can
- CVS- $4.99
- Fresh Thyme- $4.99
- I chose these pantry items because they're ones that I use frequently. By shopping at fresh thyme instead of CVS, I can save a lot of money on items like Almond Milk and Quinoa but will pay more on butter. I believe that this is due to the source that the butter came from in CVS vs. Fresh Thyme.
2. I only used 1 cup of cooked quinoa in my recipe which would be about 2.5 oz of dry quinoa. The quinoa I bought was from fresh thyme so it was only 63 cents. Buying quinoa in bulk from fresh thyme saves me a lot of money in the long run and will last me for a long time.
3. A pantry staple is an item that you should always have available in your home pantry. By maintaining a personal home food pantry, you always have ingredients to cook yourself a nutritious meal and you save a lot of money.
4. I was shocked to see the price difference in the same brand of Almond Milk between CVS and Fresh Thyme. I feel like it is a common misconception that grocery stores like Fresh Thyme are expensive but this exercise proved that they can be cheaper! I will continue to shop at Fresh Thyme because of this.
5. I believe that building your personal food pantry is very beneficial and necessary. To improve mine, I can add more protein options like nuts and legumes. I can also expand the kinds of vinegar and oil I have available.
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