My Freezer Meals

I took inventory of my freezer today to see what meals I still had in there and reorganize it.  Here is what it looks like now:

As you can see, I have most of that third shelf left to put food on.  The big brown box is full of frozen uncooked meat, mostly pork.  At the bottom in the bags are two whole chickens, 10lbs of boneless skinless chicken breasts, and some shrimp.  In the door, I also have some fish and sausage.  Anybody have a good pork recipe? 

I took all of the stuff out of the freezer, and threw it momentarily into an empty laundry basket.  I smashed my finger in the process =( so it kinda hurts to type.  I put it back into the freezer neatly, and wrote down everything I found in a notebook. 

I added this all up and found that I have 48 meals in my freezer ready to heat and enjoy.  I then took out my dry erase calender and filled in a meal for each night until payday. 

I will work out side dishes and extras later on, but I have the whole month's menu planned out with plenty meals to spare.  Now did I make all of these in one day?  Oh no!  But I've learned to use my time wisely in the kitchen.  When I find a good price on meat, I buy a lot of it.  I find a recipe, or a few, using the same type of meat, gather all my ingredients, and get to cooking (always when daddy is home of course--he's a lot of help in the kitchen too).  I will double, or quadruple perhaps, a recipe.  Hey, it doesn't take much longer kitchen time to do that.  Then I eat my meal, and bag up the rest in dinner sized portions.  Do you realize that if you tripled the recipe you cooked each night for one week, then you would have two weeks worth of meals in the freezer by the time the week was over, with no extra work on your part.  That saves lots of time, and it saves money too.

Oh, and I found one more thing in my freezer.  Green beans.  I thought I had used them all up.  So....I am making some more baby food. =)