I have started trying to cook once every two to four weeks and freeze meals. We have a food saver to vacuum seal for freezing. The vacuum saver has already paid for itself in food saved from freezer burn. The meals are ready to go in the slow cooker or oven. We eat off of these meals for ALL meals ALL week.I cook one meal on Saturday and one meal on Sunday and we usually eat out for one meal per week. We also make breakfast and tacos once a week. This fills in the holes when we don't want to eat leftovers. Plus, breakfast and tacos are always quick and easy to make. Below is a week of recipes I used in my experiment. I will continue to blog about my cooking and freezing ventures. To see the recipe, click on the name of the dish underneath the picture. They link to the blog posts with the the recipes.
NOTE: I typically buy frozen chicken. I can get a ten pound bag from Sam's for a great price and we eat mostly chicken for our lean protein source. This means, if the recipe calls for chopped chicken, the chopping doesn't happen until it thaws or cooks. (NEVER refreeze and meat after it thaws!)
There are two meals without a picture. I'll add more later.
Here are pictures of all of the frozen meals, ready for the freezer or fridge. These pictures show 10 meals going in the freezer or fridge. One went right into the fridge to cook the next day. The rest went into the freezer and were laid out to thaw the night before or just dumped frozen into the slow cooker.
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