Weekend Rewind: Once Upon A Time In My Freezer
This post was originally written on April 5, 2010. It sort of makes me sad reading through it again because it has been a truly long time since I've done a freezer cooking day and put away very much food. With my husband working so much, I try to schedule cooking on his days off, and I've been making enough for leftovers the next day, and then perhaps freezing one meal if there's one left. I guess the idea is still the same....saving time and money, but I think what makes me saddest is the organization I *used* to maintain! That calendar you see has sat empty for far too many months!
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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:
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. =)
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