Budget Friendly Recipes: 2.17.25
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Hey! So glad you’re here! If you’re looking for details on how I took $20 worth of groceries and made 12 servings of the best lemon chicken soup ever (for under $1.75/serving!) – here’s what you need to know!
What I Made
What it cost:
- $15 5 lb organic whole chicken
- .99 bag of orzo (not organic!)
- .99 bag organic carrots
- $1.99 bag organic lemons
Tools we used to make this:
- Our Favorite Crockpot
- Containers for Freezing – these are a must have, the 1 cup trays are my favorite
- Dutch Oven – Here’s a link to the dutch oven we used in the video. Affiliate code CLEANEATINGCOUPLE saves $$ on their site.
- 11 cup container – I love these containers for storing big portions of food!
- Food Processor – this is a must if you like making soups. It saves so much time when chopping..
Tips for Cooking a Chicken in the Crockpot
Recipe: Crockpot Whole Chicken
Toss the little bag that comes inside the chicken. You don’t need it.
Keep the seasoning on the chicken simple. I usually just spray the chicken with our olive oil sprayer, then add garlic powder, pepper, and dried parsley
Once the chicken has cooked, take it out of the crockpot and let it sit on a cutting board for 10 minutes to cool before shredding.
Grab a pair of food safe gloves if you don’t want greasy chicken hands.
Chop the chicken while you have a cutting board out! Use it for lemon chicken soup, or whatever you like. It’s great in our healthy chicken salad.
Tips for Crockpot Bone Broth:
Recipe: Crockpot Bone Broth
Leave all the drippings in the crockpot. Add all skins, scraps or any pieces of chicken that you don’t want to eat in the crockpot.
Boil water and add it to the crockpot to speed up cook time. This isn’t necessary, but will help the broth come to a boil quicker.
Strain the broth into a pot in a clean sink. It will splash, and that way you can rinse off the sink!
Strain through a big strainer first, then a finer strainer.
Tips for Lemon Chicken Soup
Recipe: Lemon Chicken Soup:
Get a food processor. It will save you so much time chopping veggies!
Add a parmesan cheese rind to your soups. Remove it at the end when you’re done cooking.
Get these containers for freezing! They’re a game changer for storing food!
