Sloppy Joes in Pita Pocket

From the book, The Formula, A Personalized 40-30-30 Weight Loss Program, by Gene and Joyce Daoust   page 167

2 tbsp olive oil

1/2 cup minced onion

1/2 cup chopped celery

1/2 cup chopped greenpepper

1 garlic clove, minced

1 pound ground turkey breast or extra-lean ground sirloin

1/2 cup chopped mushrooms (we don't use these)

1/4 cup bottled chili sauce (I use Heinz or sometimes Walmarts generic one)

1/2 cup ketchup

1 tsp Worcestershire sauce

1/2 cup water

Heat oil in skillet and saute onion, clery, green pepper, and garlic until soft and just beggining to brown.

Add ground meat and brown.

Add mushrooms, chili sauce, catsup, Worcestershire sauce, and water. 

Simmer for 15 to 20 minuts (we simmer this for hours - much better this way!)

p.s., I add a little bit of mustard

After coming home yesterday after our Girls Day Out, it was just a few minutes before my husband was due home from work.  I went to the freezer, pulled out a batch of sloppy joes I had made last week.  As much as possible, when ever I cook, I make mega excess, then freeze a ton.  Last week, I had made sloppy joes. I used ground turkey meat, 99% fat free, browned pounds and pounds of it, added several bottles of chili sauce, some worcestershire sauce, a little mustard, and some ketchup.  I also put in some onion, garlic,  and green pepper.  If I simmer it for a long, long time, the flavor all melds in together and it's one of my husband's favorite meals. 

I dethawed the sloppy joes, wrote a blog about the days events, then as I finished, my husband walked through the door, and supper was ready!  I have been trying to teach Rachel the value of making meals ahead of time and freezing them so that when you have a day like we had, having fun all day, when you come home, supper is ready and on the table. I always point out to her when this happens, just how easy supper was, and how terrific it is to cook ahead.  I was a domestic zero when I married, and it seems it's taken me approximately 3 decades to get just a few things down pat.  I'm trying to help her take a different road, by training her in organization of our home, setting a plan to keep the house clean (a different room each day), and preparing meals ahead of time. 

This morning, after seeing my husband off to work, I went to pick raspberries that are growing in our garden.  I had to fight bumble bees and a zillion mosquitoes to get a bowl full, but I was determined to pick them as I didn't plant these just for the bugs to get to them!