Homemade Pita Chips

Want to save a little money on groceries? I do. I find the easiest way to do this in my neighborhood is to buy things in large quantities. Only problem is having just two people in a household (even two food lovers) is hardly enough to justify buying "in bulk". Tings like canned or dried goods I don't mind so much because they can sit in my pantry for months without rotting or going stale. Perishable items however...

Items like chicken breast. And pita bread. My super large family oriented Superstore located approximately .025 km from my front door has a very limited selection of chicken breast. you can buy two incely sized ones for 12$ (blood curdling scream) OR a pack of 5 for $20. Normally I buy the 2 pack, because honestly we cant afford chicken much anyways, its a treat and I don't like it sitting around in my freezer. I broke that rule the other day because I needed skin-on bone-in chicken breasts for a recipe. Lo and behold...they didn't sell them in two packs. I had to buy the 5er. Annoying but whatever. It saved me a bit of money a nd now I have 3 individually wrapped and frozen chicken breasts in my freezer if I ever need them :).

Now the pitas are a different story. They offer a 4 packand a 16 pack at my store. The 16 pack is only twice as much as the 4 pack (figure that one out). and the 4 pack is tooooo small for us anyways. They're gone in two days! an 8 pack would be ideal but since the 16 is so cheap we decided to buy it. Now after a week of chowing down on these things, they went stale. They don't freeze well and are hard to chew once they stale up.

INSERT R'S FABULOUS IDEA HERE.

He made pita chips. Take a stack of  8 or so pitas and chop them up into squares, add a drizzle (literally a drizzle. You don't need very much at all) of canola oil or another high heat tolerant oil (not olive oil) and sprinkle with seasoning of choice. R put Cavenders Greek seasoning on half, and salt, pepper and cayenne on the other half. I can't have the cayenne ones because their too spicy...but the Cavenders (in there MSG goodness) are delicious. I was amazed at how little oil and seasoning they need to taste good. The pitas crisp up so well and taste so good even without any seasoning at all! And they are much cheap (and less greasy) than the store bought pita chips :). Try it sometime!

KB