Chicken Melts, Pineapple Millionaire Pie, Save on Meat

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Have a great weekend!

-Tawra
www.LivingOnADime.com

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Today's Tips:

• Meat is one of the most expensive items on your grocery list. Here are some tips from Dining on a Dime to help you cut down on the cost of meat:
  
  
  1. Eat soup and a sandwich once a week
     
  
  
  2. Have pasta (macaroni and cheese) or rice (broccoli, cheese and rice casserole) night twice a week.
     
  
  
  3. Have a "leftovers" night.
     
  
  
  4. Have a baked potato night with all the fixings!
     
  
  
  5. Have a veggie night. Serve veggie soup, chef salad or platter of garden fresh veggies with cheese and crackers.
     


• When cutting onions, green peppers and other veggies, chop enough for a second meal.
  


• Store your cooking oil in a plastic squeeze bottle like the kind used for ketchup. Then you won't have to stop to unscrew the cap in the middle of making a recipe and it's easier not to use as much.
  

Today's Menu:

Chicken Melts*
Potato Green Bean Salad*
Pineapple Millionaire Pie*

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Today's Recipes:

You can use different meats, breads or cheese with this first recipe. For a fun and a different kind of meal for a teen get together, casual adult party or even for older kids, serve this recipe instead of the usual pizza. Make it like a sandwich bar and let everyone mix and match and make their own ingredients. This is also fun for a casual holiday get together like before or after trick or treating, Christmas caroling, putting up the Christmas tree, etc.

*Chicken Melts

2 Tbsp. butter or margarine, softened
2 tsp. mustard
4 slices whole wheat bread, toasted
8 oz. deli chicken or thin sliced chicken
8 slices tomatoes, thinly sliced
4 thin slices of onions
4 slices Swiss cheese

Mix butter and mustard and spread each slice of bread with the mix. Place on ungreased cookie sheet. Place 2 slices of chicken and tomato on bread and 1 slice onion and cheese. Broil just long enough to melt cheese.

*Potato Green Bean Salad

8-10 new red potatoes, cut 1/4 inch slices and cooked
1 (8 oz.) package frozen green beans, cooked (You can use fresh or canned)
1/2 cup radishes, sliced

Dressing

1/4 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup sour cream
1 Tbsp. fresh chives, chopped
1 tsp. milk
1/2 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. pepper

Combine dressing ingredients in a large bowl. Mix well. Add potatoes, beans and radishes. Gently stir. Cover and refrigerate to blend flavors.

This is the delicious pineapple pie they serve at Furr's Cafeteria. I went there over 35 years ago and asked for the recipe. This is the exact recipe I got from them:

*Pineapple Millionaire Pie

2 cups powdered sugar
1 stick margarine
2 large eggs (pasteurized eggs may be used - *see note below)
1/8 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. vanilla

Cream ingredients and pour into a 9 inch baked pie shell. Chill 1 hour.

Topping

1/4 cup powdered sugar
1 cup crushed pineapple
1/2 cup pecans
1 (8 oz.) container of whipped topping

Mix first 3 ingredients, fold in whipped topping. Spread onto chilled base mixture. Chill well.

*Note: A number of people have asked about using raw eggs. Yes, the recipe calls for raw eggs. If you are concerned about using raw eggs, all you need to do is buy pasteurized eggs (as it says in the recipe) and it will work fine.