A Weekend of Success!

This weekend was the wonderful adventure of FREEZER MEALS! It was a great learning experience and I will definitely be doing it more often! But as of right now, I have plenty to tie me over for a while. I was hoping to get 14 meals done but I ran out of chicken and was only able to do 11 meals. I still think that is plenty, we will only use 3 meals per week so we have enough meals done for 4 weeks! I took pictures from the start to the ending of ALL meals done. So, here you go.....



All of the food to be prepared today!

Sunshine Chicken:  Here is the cast of characters....

Chicken Breast, BBQ sauce, Orange Juice, and Ziploc Bags

First: Cut chicken into chunks and place in Ziploc Bag

Measure 2 cups of BBQ sauce and pour into bag with chicken

Measure 1 cup orange juice and pour into bag.

  

Seal bag, and shake. Freeze flat. When ready to eat, defrost chicken, either place chicken in crock pot on low 6-8 hours. Or place chicken in baking pan and bake on 350 for 40 minutes. Enjoy!

Crock Pot Buffalo Chicken

The cast of characters: Chicken Thighs, Wing sauce, and Ranch dressing packet.

Place frozen chicken in Ziploc Bag. (Normally you would use Chicken Breast, but I had some Chicken Thighs that were already in my freezer, so I used those instead.)

Pour all of the Wing Sauce into Ziploc Bag with Chicken.

Then, add the packet of Ranch dressing.

Shake bag well. Freeze flat. When ready to eat, pour contents into Crock Pot and Cook on low for 6-8 hours depending on your crock pot.

Crock Pot Ranch House Pork Chops

The cast of characters: Pork Chops, Cream of Chicken, Ranch Dressing packet, and Ziploc Bags.

Place Pork Chops in Ziploc Bag. ( I put 4 Pork Chops to a bag)

Pour in Ranch Dressing packet to bag with Pork Chops

Next pour in Cream of Chicken Soup to bag. ( Yes, I'm a cheapy person and always buy the off-brand.)

Shake together well. Freeze flat. When ready to eat, place Pork Chops in Crock Pot on Low for 6-8 hours. Serve with garlic potatoes.

Teriyaki Chicken:

The cast of characters: Chicken Breast, pepper, salt, garlic, red onion, Teriyaki, pineapple chunks, and carrots.



Place half a can of pineapple chunks and half a bag of baby carrots in Ziploc bag.



Add 1/2 red onion to bag and 2 cloves of garlic, diced.

Cut Chicken Breast into chunks and place in bag.

Add salt

And pepper

Add 1/2 cup of Teriyaki Sauce to bag.

Seal bag and shake well. Freeze flat. When ready to eat, place in crock pot on low for 6-8 hours. Serve with fried rice.

Lasagna Casserole:

The cast of characters: 1 package of Egg Noodles, 2lb. Ground Beef, green onions, bell pepper,  2 cups tomato sauce, 1 cup sour cream, and 2 cups cottage cheese.

Brown ground beef. Once done add 2 cups tomato sauce.  Stir.

Cook egg noodles according to package directions. Once done let cool in foil pan.

Mix together cottage cheese, sour cream, green onion, bell peppers, salt and pepper.

Place half of the egg noodles in pan, then layer cottage cheese mixture, place remaining noodles on top.

Top with beef tomato sauce. Cover with foil. Freeze. When ready to eat, place in oven on 350 for 30-45 minutes.

Sweet & Spicy Chicken:

The cast: Chicken Breast, 2 cloves garlic diced, 1/2 red onion, BBQ sauce, Soy Sauce, Honey, Coconut Milk, Crushed Red Pepper and Olive Oil

Cut chicken into chunks and place in Ziploc Bag.

Add 1/4 tsp. of red pepper

Add 1/4 tsp. of pepper

Next add 1 TBS. Honey

Add 2 TBS. of Soy Sauce

Add 1/2 cup of BBQ sauce

Shake coconut milk well before opening! Add 1/2 cup canned milk.

Seal bag and shake well!! Freeze. When ready to eat, defrost chicken and cook chicken in skillet on stove top or place chicken in crock pot on low for 8 hours. (I know it looks kinda gross, but it is suppose to be very very yummy!!!!)

Meatloaf:

The cast: 1 1/2 lb. ground meat, 1/2 bell pepper (diced), 1/2 onion (diced), 1/2 sleeve of crackers (crushed), 2 eggs, salt, pepper, and 3/4 cup of milk.

****Oh and I promise there is nothing wrong with the meat, we just make our own ground meat by using venison and pork, so it has a different color to it!!

Combine all ingredients together and mix well.

Place meat mixture in bag and shape loaf size. Freeze. When ready to eat, place in crock pot on low for 6-8 hours.

That's 11 Meals!!!

Whoa! That was a lot of food!!! It took me a few hours to prepare everything and probably would have been shorter but I was taking lots of photos as well. I started everything around 1 in the afternoon and had the entire kitchen cleaned and wiped down by 4:30. It was fun preparing everything in one afternoon and it is awesome knowing when I come home on busy practice days, we will already have a meal waiting on us!!

Well Until Next Time, God Bless!