While I’m not running this week (resting!!), I thought I’d catch you up on stuff. Now that the kids are back in school, my husband and I are finding one nice quiet day a week, on my day off. So far we’ve gone out to lunch a couple times, complete with a ride in the Mustang convertible and a beer (so deviant, a beer at noon??).
But another thing we’ve done is some cooking!! One thing that drives me crazy is not having a plan for dinner. When I don’t have a plan, I find myself going to the store 4 times a week because I didn’t plan ahead and I forgot something. What a time and money waster! So when I saw a freezer crockpot meal plan in my inbox, I decided to give it a try. Note, this is NOT a sponsored post, but just some ramblings about my day…. The plan promised 20 meals in under 2 hours, and for $160! Sold!
I made a couple shopping trips to Sam’s Club and the grocery store to get the supplies, and then we were ready to go!
There were lots of veggies to cut. LOTS. I have to say, the plan was very well organized. We had recipes with chicken, beef, hamburger and pork chops. We bought a lot of stuff in bulk at Sam’s, so we had some leftovers (onions, lots and lots of onions!).
We didn’t quite get this all done in an hour like I expected. I mean, if one person can do it in 2 hours, we should have crushed this in an hour, right? Nope, I think we were in the kitchen for 3 hours that day. But, we did get our 20 bags of meals to put in the freezer! And by my records, we spent around $135 because there were some things we didn’t need to buy.
Are you wondering what crockpot meal included that watermelon?? Uh, I’m just lazy and couldn’t find another place for it. That’s why this isn’t a cooking blog 😉
We have tried two of the meals already and they were good. So far I think it was time well spent. Did you ever wonder what your parents did while you were at school? I’m sure they were doing a lot of this. haha!
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Q: Have you ever done any “freezer cooking”?
I do it sporadically. But I typically have some bags of pasta sauce, soups, or Cincinnati style chili in the freezer at all times.
Q: What would you like to do when you have a day off?
Yum…invite us for dinner ANY time! LOL.
If my family doesn’t dig the pork chops (a food we never eat!), there might be a bag or coming your way! 😉
Whenever I read about people who do the freezer meals, I think, I WANNA DO THAT! But I never do. I would like to do it where like me and 3 friends each choose one thing to make a butt load of and then trade!
I really liked the crockpot concept if these menus, and the fact that nothing had to be cooked ahead of time. I’ve done some other large cooking days where I had all sorts of stuff cooking and it’s pretty time consuming. But still, it’s time well spent!
Looks like you cooked up a storm! I am a big fan of cooking a big meal on Sunday’s and then eating it for about three days (lol) but my freezer isn’t big enough right now to freeze too many things! That’s the dream! ?
We have a large stand up freezer which is great! The only problem is that you have to really watch out when you open it up now because it’s so packed – you might end up with a frozen bag of chili on your foot. ouch!!
I have so many freezer meals pin to my board on Pinterest….. but have yet to try it!!!!!! So wish I could, but dang, every minute of my day is accounted for!! But, oh how I would love to do this!!!!!!!
Sounds like me, Pinning lots of recipes! This plan was really nice because of the detailed assembly instructions. Typically I just make a few at a time on my own, not a big group of recipes.