I planned to spend all of Wednesday cooking meals to go in the freezer (dinner and breakfast) but Jackson had a surprise trip to the dentist (where they pulled a tooth-ouch) and that threw my day off -but I persevered! Instead of muffins, banana bread plus 18 meals --we ended up with 13 meals -I won't complain -it's 13 homemade meals, ready to go!
I had to make 2 extra trips to the store because I thought I could "wing it" and didn't double check that I had everything before hand. I am usually much more anal about that -but I tried to fly by the seat of my pants and it didn't work. After the 2 trips to the store (which I timed with dropping off at school and the dentist...) I realized at 6 pm that I was out of the heavy duty foil to wrap the last 4 meals!!! Yikes, into the fridge they went and I will get foil today -I was not going back out again. Needless to say, this morning I have already made the list, crosschecked the recipes and will be sure to have everything I need tomorrow for chicken day!
It was my ground beef day... so I made 3 meals of meatballs and gravy (with egg noodles); 2 Shepards Pies (homemade mashed potatoes even) and 3 baked ziti. Plus I have 5 meals worth of ground beef already cooked with onions and garlic for spaghetti or sloppy joes or ??
I used 15 pounds of ground beef ( 93/7 I got on sale! for $1.49 per pound!!!!) to make all these meals. In addition, I made up 10 pounds of mashed potatoes ( a few for side dishes) and I have enough homemade spaghetti sauce for 2 meals plus tonight!!
So Wednesday was good, today I scrapbook and tomorrow is my chicken cooking day! I am hoping to get the baking done tomorrow early since they say it will be 95 degrees here by the end of the day and I really want to get some muffins and coffee cakes in the freezer.
Meatballs, egg noodles and homemade gravy --Steven was upset this wasn't for dinner last night!I had to make 2 extra trips to the store because I thought I could "wing it" and didn't double check that I had everything before hand. I am usually much more anal about that -but I tried to fly by the seat of my pants and it didn't work. After the 2 trips to the store (which I timed with dropping off at school and the dentist...) I realized at 6 pm that I was out of the heavy duty foil to wrap the last 4 meals!!! Yikes, into the fridge they went and I will get foil today -I was not going back out again. Needless to say, this morning I have already made the list, crosschecked the recipes and will be sure to have everything I need tomorrow for chicken day!
It was my ground beef day... so I made 3 meals of meatballs and gravy (with egg noodles); 2 Shepards Pies (homemade mashed potatoes even) and 3 baked ziti. Plus I have 5 meals worth of ground beef already cooked with onions and garlic for spaghetti or sloppy joes or ??
I used 15 pounds of ground beef ( 93/7 I got on sale! for $1.49 per pound!!!!) to make all these meals. In addition, I made up 10 pounds of mashed potatoes ( a few for side dishes) and I have enough homemade spaghetti sauce for 2 meals plus tonight!!
So Wednesday was good, today I scrapbook and tomorrow is my chicken cooking day! I am hoping to get the baking done tomorrow early since they say it will be 95 degrees here by the end of the day and I really want to get some muffins and coffee cakes in the freezer.
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No lasagna or meatloaf? Are you a communist now?
Meatloaf is what I didn't get to - I will make it on Friday.. LOL... lasagna isn't something we eat alot of in the summer -we switch to baked ziti for some reason.
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