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Easy Chicken and Rice Stuffed Peppers

September 29, 2014 By Jenn @ Frugal Upstate Leave a Comment

Simple meals.  Isn’t that what we all are looking for at this time of year?

School, sports, activities, kids, homework, work. . . it can be a challenge to get a meal on the table some nights.  For us this year Wednesday is total chaos night.  Buddy and Princess have play rehearsal after school from 3:15-5, then Buddy has soccer practice from 5:30-7 followed by Boyscouts from 7-8.  Their bedtime is usually between 8:30 and 9:00, so that’s a packed schedule!  For my part Wednesdays I frequently have meetings and/or a lesson in town, so I’m not exactly hanging out at home with tons of time to cook.

So I need to have some convenient, quick, tasty and inexpensive (because hell0–FRUGAL) meals up my sleeve for these busy nights.  Sometimes I plan ahead and get a meal going in the crockpot, or have planned leftovers from earlier in the week.  Other times it all kind of sneaks up on me–and that’s when convenience foods come to the rescue.

Walmart knows families are busy, so they created a new resource–their Simple Meals site.  They asked me to create a new recipe based on one of their Simple Meals–I decided to take the Super Sized Sloppy Joes and change it up into Easy Chicken and Rice Stuffed Peppers!

Easy Chicken and Rice Stuffed Peppers

Now long time readers know that usually I’m a from scratch kind of girl.  But scratch can take some time–especially when all your meat is frozen solid in the deep freeze 🙂  That happens far more frequently than I’d like to admit.  I do keep some convenience items on hand for quick meals-things that are very shelf stable that I can store for a long time so that even if I don’t use them often, they are there when I need them.

For these Easy Chicken and Rice Stuffed Peppers I pulled out the following items from my pantry from Walmart:  Rice-a-Roni Spanish Rice, Hunt’s Manwich Sloppy Joe Sauce, and Great Value Chunk Chicken Breast.  The only other thing I need (besides water and a bit of butter) is a few nice green peppers.

Ingredients for Easy Chicken Stuffed Peppers

I love things that are multipurpose, and all of these ingredients can be used in several ways.  The Rice A Roni makes a good side dish by itself.  The Manwich Sauce can be used with ground beef, pork or turkey and served on a bun (like the original Super Sized Sloppy Joes recipe), with toast or over rice or noodles.  And of course there are a ton of recipes out there for Great Value Chicken Breast–anything from chicken salad to enchiladas.

So here’s how you make Chicken and Rice stuff peppers.  Start out by making the Rice-a-Roni by the package directions, but with one substitution and one addition.  Instead of adding the can of diced tomatoes the directions call for, pour in the can of Manwich, and once it’s come to a boil and has been cut back to a simmer, stir in your drained can of chicken.

While the rice dish is doing it’s whole 15 minutes of simmering, go ahead and boil a pot of water and preheat the oven to 350.  Cut your peppers in half, clean out the stem, seeds and ribs, and then cook them for 3 minutes in the boiling water.  Drain them and set them aside to cool.

Grease a baking dish, place the pepper halves inside, and spoon the chicken and rice mixture inside.  Bake for 15 minutes at 350.

making easy chicken stuffed peppers

If you want you could sprinkle some melted cheese over the top of these stuffed peppers.  Mmmm.<

While stuffed peppers are a fairly complete meal, I like to pump up the nutritional value a bit by adding more veggies.  Birds Eye sells some great vegetable mixtures that you can warm up in just minutes in the microwave.  Personally I like the Broccoli Stir Fry Mix–sure, it’s supposed to be mixed in with some meat and sauce, but you can just use it as a nice combination of delicious vegetables!

Bird's Eye Broccoli Stir Fry

While this meal isn’t instant–you do have to spend a bit of time simmering the rice mixture and baking the peppers–the hands on time is very short.  You can get things going, then check the kids homework, spoon the filling in, pop it in the oven, set the table and before you know it dinner is done.

Looking for some more great Simple Meals for busy nights?  The Walmart Moms have you covered:

Build Your Own Taco Bar

Fajita Bar

One Dish Chicken Stirfry

Quick BBQ Pork Sliders

Chicken Mac ‘n Cheese with Zuchinni

Taco Salad

4 Ingredient Chicken Pot Pies

 

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walmart MomDisclosure: As a participant in the Walmart Moms Program, I’ve received compensation for my time and efforts in creating this post. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

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I’m Jenn –an Upstate NY wife, mom, blogger and veteran. I talk very fast, read constantly, take on too much and make plenty of mistakes. I’m a real person, not perfection. I love to talk about the frugal lifestyle, “Village Homesteading”, living a more sustainable lifestyle and being prepared for all the curves life throws at you.

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