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Stretch the Kitchen – Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

Ingredients

250ml butter

250ml brown sugar

118 ml honey (substituted for white sugar)

2 eggs

10ml vanilla

295ml flour

2ml baking soda

5ml salt

709ml oats

250ml almonds(substituted for walnuts)

250ml chocolate chips

 

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F
  2. Cream together butter, brown sugar, and honey (white sugar) until smooth. Beat in eggs one at a time, then stir in vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda, and salt; stir into creamed mixture until just blended. Mix in the quick oats, walnuts, and chocolate chips. Drop by heaping spoon-fulls onto ungreased baking sheet.
  3. Bake for 12 minutes in the preheat oven. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

 

Pictures:

Our group decided to make oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. While getting the ingredients for this, we made a couple mistakes on how much of some things we needed, but we ended up managing to make them good, anyway. The almonds we substituted instead of walnuts, went pretty well with the chocolate.

$20 Potato Day

Group Members: Maryam, Liam, Katie

Unit 6, Block B

Total Cost: $12.98

Breakfast – Potato Pancake

Shallow-fried pancake made of grounded or grated potatoes, flour and eggs. Goes well with sour cream.

Ingredients:

Russet potatoes 5lb- $2.47

Celery $1.67

Onions 3lb- $1.97

Great Value Half & Half Cream 1L for $2.47

Salt and Pepper- Staple

 

Lunch – Potato Salad

Mashed potatoes with added vegetables. The mayonnaise gives the salad a sticky texture, and flavour. You can add other ingredients such as bacon to add more flavour to the salad.

Ingredients:

1.5lb Potatoes(from leftover potato from breakfast)

1/4 cup Chopped Onion(use onion from before)

1 tsp Salt – Staple

1/8 cup Vegetable Oil – Staple

1/4cup Cider Vinegar (500ml Great Value – $1.47)

1 tbsp Dried Parsley

Black Pepper – Staple

 

Dinner – Potato Soup

Small diced potatoes added with flour and cream to form a liquid state. Other ingredients such as onions, salt and pepper are added for flavouring.

Ingredients:

4 Potatoes(from before)

1 Yellow Onion(from before)

1 Egg (dozen- $2.93)

1 tsp Salt – Staple

2 tbsp Flour – Staple

Black Pepper – Staple

2 cups Vegetable Oil – Staple