Tropical Chicken with Broccoli for 4

During these winter months bring a bit of the tropics into your life for a very reasonable price! For starters, I typically purchase all fresh produce at Aldi. Never been? You're missing out. Even when grocery stores have sales on certain produce, Aldi can oftentimes still beat them. Have you ever seen a whole pineapple for $.99 at a grocery store? Nope! Well, I have purchased it at Aldi. Don't knock it until you've tried it.

Tropical Chicken and Rice

1- 1/2 pounds of chicken breasts, thawed and cut into small chunks
1- whole pineapple, chunked (or you can use a can of chunk pineapple in it's own juices)
1- red onion
1- lime
1- orange
1-1/2 cups brown rice

Sautee onions, sliced in butter flavored cooking spray or a small amount of olive oil. Add chicken, seasoned lightly with salt and pepper. Cook until chicken is almost cooked through. Add half of the zest and half of the orange's juice. Add half of the zest of lime and half of the limes juice. Add pineapple. Cover and simmer while cooking rice. For rice, follow directions. Once it is done, fluff and then add remaining orange and lime juice. Stir rice into the chicken mixture.

While this is going, steam one package of broccoli from *Aldi. While steaming, add the remaining zest from the lime and orange. Salt and pepper to taste (or just pepper with fresh ground black pepper if you want to cut out salt).

*Aldi:
1- whole pineapple, $.99
1- bag of frozen chicken breasts, 48oz, $5.99 (and you only use half of it- so $3)
1- pkg of broccoli, $1.39 (Note: where you get one crown for the same price at a regular grocery store, Aldi gives you 3! There is no beating that price!)
1- red onion $.60
1- orange $.30-.45
1- lime $.25
1- box brown rice $1.29 (at Aldi- if you can find a better deal with coupons, please do) Typically a box of rice contains 4 cups. You are using 1 1/2-2 cups. So $.65

Total Cost: $7.33 for 4 servings, and these are hearty servings that will be really filling with the rice and fruit. Plus this is a very healthy meal on a budget. If you're only cooking for 1 or 2, you have leftovers to take to work or have for dinner the next night!