Fried Rice 'Stories'

Sometimes it's almost time to eat, the boys are hungry and you don't have a fancy, elaborate meal planned.  Sometimes you just have to go with what you got in the kitchen somewhere and make something at least edible.  I tend to stock up on packets in order to make different things; gravy packets, marinade packets, BBQ spice packets and of course ~ Fried Rice Packets. 

Fried Rice is an easy one for us because there's no guidelines or limits and we always have rice in our cupboard. I throw whatever vegetables I have in there and try to match up a meat of some sort.  There are SO many different variations that I'm going to add my meals to this specific post and let you know what was good (to my family) and what was a bomb! 

Story #1 ~ 
1 C small broccoli florets
1/2 red onion, chopped
few pinches of fresh basil
5 eggs, scrambled
3 tbsp soy sauce
1 lb bacon, chopped into bits
3 C cooked white rice
1 fried rice packet

Follow the instructions on the packet, adding meat, veggies and eggs when it tells you to.  I was a little worried about this dish because I've never put broccoli in my fried rice before.  However, the color of this meal were very appealing and the flavors & textures worked very well together.  Overall it was yummy & a success!  (Even my picky 4 year old ate it..... he only picked out a few 'brocco-trees'.)