Since I’ve got no energy left (aka too pooped to party syndrome), decided to use up some deal stuff and make my own Mardi Gras dinner.  Into the slow cooker went two cans of the tomato & okra blend.  Good thing I checked because this is more than half okra, which means a can of Rotel gets added.  One can of kernel corn (not traditional, but we like it), one can of tomato sauce (Wags filler), one can of Bush’s black beans (clearance with coupon – – cheap!), one package of sliced chicken sausages, one cubed butterfly pork chop and one small package of fish fillets ($2.39 clearance and I had a $2 coupon).  A little bit of oil for mouth feel (pork has zip fat nowadays).

Now dinner can cook on its own for a few hours on high – I’ll start the rice cooker about an hour before dinner. FirstBorn won’t eat it ’cause it contains FISH!  Mr. Crispy will tell me what I should have done differently.  PITA will eat it, tell me how good it is and take a second bowl. You just know who I’m saving from the Zombies…