Menu Plan Monday: Labor Day Frito Lay Addition (August 30, 2010)
Frito-Lay Giveaway
In our household any opportunity to have a gathering around food is a welcome opportunity. Labor Day most certainly applies, especially since it usually involves the grill! This holiday weekend Frito-Lay wants you to know that your favorite dips with chips doesn’t have to be considered an unhealthy choice. Here are some facts Frit0-Lay would like you to know:
- Tostitos Scoops! tortilla chips are made with just three simple ingredients – corn, vegetable oil and salt – and have 8 grams of whole grains per serving. Another fun fact: they have less sodium than a slice of bread!
- Lay’s Original potato chips are also made with just three ingredients – potatoes, vegetable oil and salt – that’s it!
- SunChips Original Multigrain snacks are always a fun alternative that pack 18 grams of whole grains into ever serving!
And in light of the upcoming holiday weekend Frito-Lay has come up with some great recipes for you to consider for your picnic this weekend. Here is one of those:
Corn and Heirloom Tomato Salsa (Perfect with Tostitos Scoops! Tortilla Chips)
Serves: 8; Serving Size: ½ cup
Ingredients:
Extra-virgin olive oil
2 ears of corn
1 to 1 ½ cups cherry heirloom tomatoes, halved
1/3 cup minced red onions
1 teaspoon minced and seeded jalapeno peppers
(use the seeds to add spice)
2 tablespoons chopped fresh basil
1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lime juice
1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 teaspoon rice vinegar
Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
Directions:
Lightly brush olive oil on the ears of corn. Grill the corn on all sides for about 2 minutes on all sides. (If you don’t have a grill, you can “grill” the corn over a stove’s flame – just be sure to hold the corn with tongs.) Remove the corn and set aside to cool.
Once corn is cool enough to touch, use a paring knife to cut kernels off cob into a medium bowl. Be sure to cut very close to the cob to use as much corn as possible. Add the remaining ingredients to the bowl and toss to combine.
Nutrition Information (per ½ cup serving):
40 calories, 2 g protein, 9 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 1 g fat, 0 g sat fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 85 mg sodium
So in honor of Labor Day weekend approaching, this week I will be featuring some of my favorite picnic recipe creations. These are recipes that I have come up throughout the summer months but not had the time to post. They are mostly non-freezer friendly but I think that they are perfect pairings, sides and accompaniments to our regular freezer meals.
Oh, and I almost forgot – I have a Frito-Lay chip and dip pack, complete with a chip and dip bowl, extra dip bowls for all of your recipes and chips for the weekend to one lucky reader. Here is how you can enter:
- Comment on which is your favorite Frito-Lay party chip.
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- Subscribe to the Once A Month Mom blog via RSS or email OR Become a Fan of Once A Month Mom Fan Page. Leave a comment below that you have done so or if you are already (or if you are already a subscriber or fan).
Menu Plan Monday
As I mentioned last Thursday, this past week was a little crazy because I and my husband have been away at a blogging conference. However, since we don’t have the kids with us I did have to leave them some meals to eat while we were away. Here is what we had before I left and what we they had while we were gone.
Monday – Pasta & Veggies with easy garlic bread
Tuesday – Out to dinner because we were all going STIR crazy!
Wednesday – Dinner with church family
Hubby and I were out of town for these days so I left the following things in the freezer for grandma:
Thursday -out of town
Friday – out of town
Saturday – Lunch – out of town
Dinner – out of town
Sunday – Lunch – out of town
Dinner -out of town
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I love Tostitos Scoops!!!!
By the way great menu plan this week!
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I like tostitos scoops, but DH likes the regular tostitos…
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Baked Lays are my favorite. I like the Sun Chips also.
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I love the Scoops. So easy to dip with.
Tostitos multigrain
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The bite sized rounds!
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I like the fritos scoops any flavor if you are having a party they are best for dip because they rarley break. I also like most flavors of the frito lay baked chips line and serve those often at parties.
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We love sun chips… the scoops too! They are so perfect with dips. I’m a fb fan
I definitely love the scoops with salsa!
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I like scoops because it’s easier to scoop!
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homemade chilli with tostitos scoops….family pleaser every time!
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I love baked lays.
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Hands down, it’s Fritos Scoops. So yummy filled with a dip.
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It is neat how few ingredients Fritos and Lays have in them! How was the conference? It looked like it was going to be awesome.
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I always get the scoops
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I enjoy baked tostitos, a little less guilt that way
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All of their tortilla chips are our favorite.
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I love tostitos scoops for everything from dips to crunching and layering in a casserole or topping off my enchilada soup. They also provide that little bit of salt I crave right after a bowl of chocolate ice cream.
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We love the Tostitos! – bite sized or their new ‘strips’.
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Tostitos Scoops are our favorite. Love them with everything!!
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I like the lime Tostitos.
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Favorite Frito Lay chip has to be the crunchy Cheetos!
Love the Frito’s Scoops and Baked chips.
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tostitos with a hint of lime… yum.
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(I already subscribe!) Tostito Scoops are my favorite, especially with a yummy 7+ layer dip!
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I really like those Tostitoes Soops. Especially with lots of Bean dip and cheddar cheese. And I follow you on Facebook and get your OAMM e-mail. Just starting the Once a month cooking. Now that my babies are 33, it will come in handy for my 8 grandchildren.
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Tostitos Lime
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My favorite is Ruffles!
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Our favorites are the scoops, the really hold the salsa!
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We like Lay’s Original Potato Chips.
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The scoops! They are perfect for my kids to get the dip or salsa from the bowl to their mouths!
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We love the Tostitos and the Sun Chips best!
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let me tell you how the scoops have made my boys so happy. I make little tacos in each individual chip. Yes it takes forever but they love them and they are so cute with a dab of sour cream and a little slice of jalopeno on top
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My favorite Frito Lay chip is the Sun Chip…cannot get enough of them
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fritos are great, but their scoops are sometimes more practical for the littles.
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We like the Tostitos mini rounds the best, but like a handful of fritos in a bowl of chili too
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We love the Tostitos Scoops. We also like to use the rounds to break up and make taco salads with them.
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Has got to be fritos! I usually only eat them at parties but I love them so much!
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Scoops, hands down are our favorite chip! Corn chips for frito pie come in a close second however!
i love all the lays chips but i can’t stop once i start in on the potato chips. my husband loves all the tortilla chips!
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I love their spicy cheese dip.
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The scoops are my favorite! I love to put chicken salad and stuff in them as appetizers.
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My favorite is the Garden Salsa Sunchips! They are to die for! I can sit and eat a whole bag by myself if I don’t watch myself carefully. lol
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I like the regular tostitos.
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Fritos! reminds me of my youngin’ days!
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Favorite Frito Lays – for hubby its Lime Tostitos. For me its Lays lightly salted – yum.
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Lime tostitos. Unbelievably delicious.
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