Spring Dinner with Kroger

Here I am again talking about Kroger Brand Products. It just so happens that I received some free products to try and now that I have tried them, I want to share my opinion of them. The products in the below (except for the cake and frosting since these were reviewed in my last post) photo are what I am going to talk about.

I'm going to start by saying that I had not ever bought or cooked a pork tenderloin in my life, so, receiving one for free was the perfect opportunity to try one. I decided that slow cooking might be a good way to cook this type of meat and that is exactly what I did.

I always rinse my meat before I cook it because you don't know who has handled it and sometimes there are bone shavings on it. After rinsing I placed in my slow cooker and added about 1 1/2 - 2 cups of chicken broth.  (I am sorry but I am one for just guessing at the amount of spices and such.) I then added some salt, pepper and crushed garlic.  I love garlic so I added a good amount of it.

I set the cooker on low and cooked the tenderloin for 4 hours, turned off cooker and let the meat sit for 1 hour before slicing.

When the Kroger Moist & Tender pork tenderloin was done, I proceeded to cook the Kroger Homestyle Mashed Potatoes and the macaroni and cheese in the microwave according to the package directions.  I also had the Kroger Crescent Rolls in the oven.

Alright, dinner is ready! (Even though I don't have a photo of the green beans, they are Kroger canned cut green beans. For some reason I didn't think of taking a picture of the can.)

I am going to first talk about the Kroger Moist & Tender pork tenderloin. It was so moist and tender you could cut it with a fork. So good you didn't want to stop eating it! Slow cookers are awesome!

On to the Kroger refigerated Homestyle mashed potatoes. My family and I did not care for them at all. The texture is awful and they don't taste like potatoes at all. Will not buy these again.

The Kroger refigerated macaroni and cheese my grandson loved but I thought it wasn't cheesy enough. Better than the mashed potatoes by far though.

The Kroger Crescent Rolls taste about the same as any other brand. Will definitely buy these again. And I always buy Kroger green beans as they are always good.

Dinner was a success even if we didn't care for the mashed potatoes and I just want to say that this was the first dinner we had with the Kroger’s Moist & Tender pork tenderloin. A whole tenderloin goes a long way.

The second night I cooked some green beans and potatoes together and heated some of the Kroger Moist & Tender pork tenderloin with some bbq sauce. This was absolutely delish! (plate on right is my grandson's, he is a fussy eater)

The third night we just had pork tenderloin sandwiches with some swiss cheese, lettuce and mayo on whole wheat bread. Delicious!  I am hooked on Kroger’s Moist & Tender pork tenderloin and will make again in the near future.

Now, we did have dessert each night and my last post was on the Kroger yellow cake mix and Kroger Chocolate Fudge Frosting. The cupcakes were yummy for sure. I wanted to try the white cake so I bought a Kroger White cake mix and baked it in a 13 x 9 cake pan. I did not frost because my mom made some cherry jello with fresh strawberries and we topped with some Kroger whipped cream in the can (like Readi Whip). This was fantastic!













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