what's better than a bean burrito?

...A bean, chicken, rice, and cheeeeese burrito! So far the 5 Dollar Dinners website is batting a thousand. They're two for two anyway.

So it's the end of the month and what does that mean at the Miller household? That the grocery budget is nil, again, of course. Which necessitates another visit to the 5 Dollar Dinners website. And we were not disappointed. This time I made the Chicken and Red Bean Burritos, and butchered the recipe of course. But that's the point. The point is to save money by using what you have, and the recipes are so simple they're made for that.

So I boiled a whole chicken, which is more healthy than just chicken breasts because you eek out the goodness of the bones, and have chicken broth to boot. I try to put some kind of onions or celery in the stock pot to give the chicken an extra burst of subtle flavor.

Then I used a bag of extra beans that were sitting on the freezer door forlorningly. They were sure to be forgotten and die a slow death from freezer burn. But this recipe saved them from their fate, and it turned out to be the perfect amount.

Then I made some brown rice, threw them all together in a skillet with the tomatoes, chili powder and cumin, warmed up our whole-grain TJ's tortillas, shredded some cheese and cut up some green onions that were also about to bite the fridge dust, and voila! a scrumptious aaaand very healthy dinner. And (the best part of all), he liked it!