So March is (was) Frozen Food month. I LOVE using my freezer. I have 2 - the regular top of the refrigerator kind and a stand alone upright freezer in the basement. It can make mealtimes do-able in my crazy household. I use it for a few things. 1) stocking up when frozen veggies or staples are on sale. I always have chicken breasts, chicken tenders, steaks, and hamburger in there. 2) meal-prep meals. I am a HUGE fan of meal preparation places. My favorite is dinnerdone. It is such a relief to have complete dinners ready to go - I just look at the list and pick one out! 3) leftovers. When I make sauce I always freeze half the batch (quick tip - mini muffin tins are great for this - pour the sauce in, flash freeze, then transfer to freezer baggies!). I also have a few recipes I will make double of (chicken in white sauce, taco meat, BBQ beef in the crock pot) and freeze half.
I think the freezer (combined with judicial use of the microwave) are a great way to get dinner on the table. Now if I could just get my kids to eat it!
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The freezer is always full in our house too! (both of them!)
Oh, and I just read your comment about going to the circus on Sunday. It was very fun last night - our girls LOVED every minute of it. Make sure to get there about 45 - 60 min early so you can go down on the circus floor for the "pre-show" experience. You can meet clowns, see special performances, try on costumes, etc up close.
you're sooo right. the freezer is my friend. you know what i recently started freezing? cooked pasta. it's microwaves wonderfully. when i make pasta, i just freeze a portion of it and some sauce, in a separate baggie, and voila! a fast and yummy dinner is waiting in the freezer for my kids.
i haven't heard of dinner done. will check it out. we have a dream dinners close by but it's kind of pricey...
My refrigerator died while you were saluting yours. WE had a funeral and everything for it. Kids wanted to bury it in the back yard.
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