Freezer Cookin' 101

Last summer I was preparing for Molly when I filled my freezer and I enjoyed that feeling that knowing I could pull something out and have quick meals on hand so I decided to fill the freezer again this summer.

I started by pulling all the meals we enjoy & weeded through to figure out which ones I could freeze. This is what I came up with. From the list of recipes I jotted down the ingredients I'd need for each recipe & then totalled them up (how many lbs of chicken, how many cans of cream of mushroom soup, how many roasts etc.) to create my final shopping list. Don't forget a box of Heavy Duty Freezer bags.

I shopped. Molly napped through the trip to HEB so that helped me get in and out of the store in less than 45 minutes & I only spent $142.21 which made 24 meals, 1 side dish, and a batch of garlic cheese biscuits.

I had some help getting the ground beef into the pressure cooker & chicken breasts into some boiling water. She also helped me label each bag with the name of the meal and any cooking instructions.

After the meat that needed to be cooked was done I started getting the ingredients for each recipe into their own bag. I laid them out flat on a baking sheet in my freezer so they'd take up less space in the deep freeze.