Peanut Satay Stir-fry with Whole Grains & Crab Rangoons

Day 215

Criteria for tonight's meal:

1. It had to be cheap
2. It had to be quick
3. It had to be vegetarian
4. It had to contain adequate protein

Peanut Satay Stir-fry with Whole Grains & Crab Rangoons

Do you know how many choices that eliminates? Vegetarians can find plenty of delicious meals, but the cheap ones don't tend to be quick and the quick ones don't tend to be cheap. Cheap and quick often means processed food or sacrificing nutrition in favor of flavor. Not all processed food is garbage though. I was lucky tonight and found some sales, too. Not that everything on our plates was the epitome of health food, but we got some nutrition at least. And flavor. For cheap. Fast.

Crab Rangoons

I was not in the mood to cook at all. I had some errands to run after work and came home feeling hungry so I was in no mood to shop or cook.

We needed to use some things that have been in the fridge awhile, like wonton wrappers and cream cheese, plus we already had peanut oil, so I knew I would be making cheese rangoons, which was about the extent of the effort I felt like putting in. All I needed was a bunch of scallions, which I found for $1.49.

Rangoon filling

Raw & fried ragoons

Cheese rangoons

Peanut Satay Stir-fry with Whole Grains

As for the rest of the meal, the sales at Sobeys dictated what it would be. They had mixed veggies on sale for $1.49. Best deal ever. And they had this Seeds of Change organic Seven Whole Grains stuff for $2.99. I grabbed a bottle of peanut satay ($2.99) and that was it. What's better than that?

The Seeds of Change organic Seven Whole Grains include:

• Whole grain brown rice
• Rye
• Barley
• Millet
• Red wheat
• Red quinoa
• Wild rice

Seven Whole Grains packet

The veggies were your basic Compliments bag of mixed fresh vegetables. I also tossed in the rest of the scallions left over from making the rangoons. Sautéed on fairly high heat in peanut oil until tender enough to fork through them. Then I added the sauce, but forgot to take a pic. Except for the final plated meal pic.

Stir-fried vegetables

Peanut satay stir-fry with whole grains & crab rangoons

Reviews/Comments

I got lots of favorable comments from Laura as we were eating, but that was a long time ago and I don't remember them specifically. But, she gave the meal a 9 as a whole and so did I.

The organic whole grains were pre-cooked and had a creamy texture and sort of a nutty flavor. Laura thought they were bland as hell and used it as a base for her stir-fry. She did like it, but thought it lacked flavor. It was supposed to have a tamari flavor, but that's basically just soy, isn't it? Anyway, it had a mildly nutty and grainy flavor - go figure, eh? I loved it. Since it's on sale from like 5 bucks to 2, Imma go back and get some more.