Frugal Friday - Cresent Rolls and Cream Cheese

In our little corner of the world there were great sales on cream cheese and crescent rolls. Of course a sale is only good when you use the product, so if you purchased these items too, here is a recipe adapted from Once a Month Cooking.

Chicken Packets

4 oz cream cheese
3 tbsp milk
1 cup chicken, cooked and cubed
1/4 cup diced red onion
1/4 cup finely chopped celery
2 packages of crescent rolls

Whip together the cream cheese and milk. Mix in the chicken, onion and celery. (this mixture can be frozen)

Unroll the crescent rolls. In each tube there will be 4 rectangles with a perforated line through them. Press the perforated line so that it will not separate. Divide the mixture up on each of the rolls and pinch closed however you like.

Place on greased cookie sheet and cook at 350F for 20 minutes.

My cost for this?
Cream Cheese - no more that $0.50 (I cannot remember if I used half a block that I got for $1 or half of a block that I got for 0.75)
Crescent Rolls - $1
Chicken - $1 (Foster Farm cooked chicken strips on sale for $3 with a doubled $1 off coupon)
Celery and Onion - such a small amount it was probably not more than 5 or 10 cents.

Total = no more than $2.60 for 8 packets.

Lunch is either 2 packets or 1 packet with fruit or salad.

Head on over to Crystal's to hear how the pro's do it - I am still working on the baby steps....