This recipe can now be found exclusively in The $5 Dinner Mom Cookbook.

Here is a list of fall fruits and vegetables. They will get cheaper and cheaper as the season progresses and will likely be “on and off” sale. It’s hard to plan menus with lots of produce when you don’t know what’s going to be on sale, so hopefully this will help!

Fall Vegetables
Avocado
Beets
Broccoli
Brussel Sprouts
Cabbage
Carrots
Cauliflower
Celery
Collards
Garlic
Artichokes
Kale
Lettuce
Pumpkin
Rutabaga
Snow Peas
Squash
Sweet Potatoes
Turnips
Watercress

Fall Fruits
Apples
Bananas
Clementines
Cranberries
Grapes

For more nutritional information on these fruits and veggies, click here.

Ingredients
4 Chicken Thighs ($1.89�I got a bunch at Sam’s not long ago�marked “Price reduced for quick sale”�they went straight into my freezer)
2 Apples, sliced ($1.49) Apples will be on sale for most of the fall!
� onion, sliced ($.30)
1 cup apple juice ($.20)
Salt and Pepper
Dash Cinnamon ($.10)
3 T lemon juice, to prevent browning of apples ($.10)
1 cup rice ($.30)
2 Broccoli Heads ($.50) Broccoli will also be cheaper throughout the fall! Recently on sale at Kroger for $.99 for 4 heads!!!

Directions
1. Pour Apple Juice into the crock pot. Place chicken into the juice. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Add sliced onion around chicken.
2. Slice apples and mix with lemon juice and cinnamon. Place on top of chicken in crockpot. Set on low and cook for 8 hours.
3. Make 1 cup rice with 2 � cup water. Bring to boil, and then cover and simmer 20 minutes.
4. Steam broccoli in steamer or microwave.

Cost: $4.88