Are you a Black Friday shopper? If you are, you know you can get hungry while you are out saving money.
Here are some recipe ideas for you to make before the big shopping day. They can easily be carried in your purse or brief case.
Super Target @ Triangle Town Center Mall, in Raleigh, NC is offering excellent prices on baking ingredients for Thanksgiving.
Make this banana bread days before and slice it and wrap up your slices individually to take with you shopping.
Banana Bread
- 1 box white cake mix
- 2 bananas, mashed
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 single serving cup of apple sauce (4 ounces)
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- cinnamon sugar
- butter spray
Preheat oven to 350*. Spray 2 loaf pans with butter spray and then lightly coat them with cinnamon sugar. In a bowl add cake, banana, egg, milk, apple sauce and cinnamon. Mix well with wire whisk, removing all lumps. Pour evenly into two pans. Sprinkle cinnamon sugar over the top of each. Bake for 60 minutes.
Make this snack mix and package it in small plastic, zip top bags to take with you shopping.
Monkey Munch Snack
- 9 cups Chex cereal, heaping
- 1 cup chocolate chips (semi sweet), heaping
- 1/2 cup peanut butter
- 1/4 cup margarine
- 1 to 1 1/2 cup powdered sugar
Empty cereal into a LARGE bowl and set aside.
In a microwave safe bowl combine chips, peanut butter and margarine. Heat for 1 minute on high, stirring after 30 seconds.
Remove after 1 minute and stir until there are no lumps. If you need to pop it back in, do so and stir until there are no lumps.
Pour mix over cereal and stir it in well. All cereal pieces should be coated with the melted mix.
Add powdered sugar over the coated cereal and mix until coated.
Store air tight in the refrigerator.
Bake up these cookies and pop some in a plastic zip top bag or small plastic container to take with you shopping.
Thanksgiving Oatmeal Cookies
- ¾ cup Crisco, butter flavored
- 1 ¼ cup brown sugar, packed
- 1 egg
- 1/3 cup milk
- ½ tsp vanilla
- 3 cups oats
- 1 cup flour
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp cinnamon
- 1 cup dried cranberries
- 1 cup pecans, chopped
Preheat oven to 350*.
Spray cookie sheets with butter spray. (Or line them with no stick foil)
Blend Crisco, sugar, egg, milk and vanilla until blended.
In separate bowl combine oats, flour, soda, salt and cinnamon.
Add dry mix into wet mix and slowly blend.
Add cranberries and nuts. Mix.
Drop by teaspoon full scoops onto sheet, 2 inches apart.
Bake for 10-12 minutes.
Makes 2 ½ dozen cookies.
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