I made tuna noodle casserole before, but I decided to revisit it. I hadn’t made it since that last post, and after cooking it again, I will definitely include this meal on a more regular basis.  It’s easy to make, and it’s a pretty inexpensive meal to make as well!  You can probably buy all the ingredients and it’ll end up to cost less than $10.  I also added the full recipe below from Campbell’s Kitchen, and you can print it straight from the blog! 

Here are the ingredients I used:

Here’s how I did it:

Heat your oven to 400 degrees!

To me, tuna noodle casserole is a comfort food.  Its even good the next day too!  Yum yum yum.

I packed up my lunch before leaving for work today – an Almond Butter sandwich (on multi-grain bread), some string cheese, and avocado in milk with some sugar.  I was totally happy with eating that but then, as I was picking up a gift for my mom’s birthday, I realized there was a great sushi place I hadn’t been at in a while!

This place is kind of a little hole in the wall (which I love) in the corner of a plaza.  There’s kind of a story behind how I found this place.  It was by total chance, and I thank my good friend Olivia for checking this place out.  We were hungry, and she pointed out this sushi place called Yokohama Sushi.  We then discovered that they had a 50% off menu on their sushi menu!  After that day, it was definitely a place we frequented a lot, and even the waitress knows us!

So, today I ended up getting a Mexican Roll (for only like $5.50) and enjoyed it fully!

Here’s a closeup of a roll – a Mexican roll is basically shrimp tempura, spicy mayo, avocado and lettuce with sesame seeds.  Not the healthiest, but moderation is key, right?

A bit later, I had my avocado dessert.  This is something that my dad would make whenever we had avocado in the house, and I had decided to make it for myself. 

I’m planning to check out a gym near my place, and then veg out after.  I’m excited about the gym though, because I NEED to get into shape.  Wedding dress fitting is coming up fast!!

For some odd reason, I was craving hot dogs today.  I used to live in NYC and you really couldn’t go wrong with a $2 hot dog, which you could pretty much find on any NYC street corner, and they were quite tasty!  Since NYC is now far far away, I had to settle with just buying some hot dogs at the grocery store with buns, but then my fiance, Glen suggested we make chili cheese hot dogs with chopped onion.  Definitely made the hot dog a bit more, sophisticated than your plain dog.

Ingredients I Used:

• 4 Beef Jumbo Hot Dogs
• 1 Can of Hormel Chili with Beans
• Chopped Onion
• Shredded Cheese
• Hot Dog Buns

This is considered a pretty budget friendly meal, since everything above cost under $10 altogether!

How I Made It:
First, I boiled the 4 beef hot dogs in water for about 10-15 minutes. Then, in another small pot, I heat up the chili, and while that was heating up, I chopped half of an onion, toasted hot dog buns and that was it. Brought the hot dogs, chili, chopped onions altogether, with cheese on top and done!

End Result:

This is a totally simple recipe which just consists of boiling, cutting and putting ingredients together… so it really didn’t take a long time, and all that food definitely gets you full fast! We both had 2 hot dogs each and I got only 1 and 1/2 eaten. LOL.

I also made some oven fries as a side, but by the time they were done, I was too full to eat them… I guess I can save them for lunch tomorrow!

I haven’t watched shows on the Food Network in a while, and today I decided to put it on while eating lunch and started watching this show called “Ten Dollar Dinners with Melissa d’Arabian.” I didn’t realize that she was this year’s Food Network Star. She cooks dinners that are budget friendly and easy to make. She made a Lemon Shrimp Scampi that looks easy and cost almost $7 to make for a family of four, along with some Roasted Broccoli with Parmesan and Affogado, which is ice cream with coffee made with a French press. An entree, with a side and dessert – just the type of meal I like to make.

Melissa has an enthusiastic personality which is good because it made me want to try these recipes out, and she doesn’t like to waste food, as she used shrimp peels to make shrimp stock. I never even knew that you could do that! I’ve found a new favorite Food Network show!