so i made a $6 meal in under 20 minutes.......

       Jay Eatz was once again eating on the cheap, cheap in time, cheap on money but tasty on the mouth.  With a Hungry Man costing almost $5 and taking 8+ mins in the microwave you can't tell me you don't have an extra dollar or an extra 12 mins.  This meal is a million times lighter in sodium and 10 times as healthy.  Here is what i did.

       I stopped at the local grocery store and checked out the fish isle.  Lately I have been trying to put fresh fish into my bi-weekly meal rotation.  One of my new favourites is steelhead trout.  You can Google steelhead trout recipes and all kinds of fancy dishes will come up, some quick, but most require $5 to $10 worth of ingredients to prepare.  I suggest trying some of these some time but for quick, simple and easy only two ingredients are required.  Butter and salt.  

       I preheated the oven to 375 degrees, rinsed off the fish, lined a cookie sheet with tin foil, placed fish skin side down, sprinkled a little salt and topped with two slices of butter.  Into the oven for about 10 mins.  In the mean time I sliced up an orange pepper and added some frozen green and yellow beans plus a splash of olive oil and sauteed while the fish did its thing.

       Plate fish and veg and your done.  All this should take less than 20 mins (including oven pre-heat time and prep) and cost less than $6.  Dinner for 2, double the fish and the veg but still should be done in 20.  Take that frozen dinner.

       By the time the veg was done so was the fish.  A quick tip on how to remove the fillet from the skin is as follows: Use a steel spatula and slide it between the fillet and the skin of the fish and the fillet will separate easily from the skin (almost like striping wallpaper).