Freezer Cooking

This past weekend Bethany and I did some freezer cooking.

(We've only been talking about doing this for a year).

As much as I love meal planning, sometimes life happens and our dinner plans do not work out as, well, planned.
Just knowing that I have a few extra meals in our freezer helps to make me feel less stressed.

 

Here's what we whipped up:

Breakfast Burritos (we each got 15)

Chicken Parmesan Meatloaf

 Pesto Chicken Stuffed Shells

 Pineapple Lemon Chicken - not the exact recipe we used but similar

(I'm sorry but you do not get a picture of this meal- I hate raw meat and did not figure you really wanted to see a photo of raw chicken).

So between the 2 of us for (approximately) $70

and about 4 hours one afternoon, we were able to stock our freezers with:

3 meals (that each serve at least 4)

and

15 breakfast burritos

I think this is great considering there are times when I spend $70 at the grocery store for one week alone!

Accomplishing freezer cooking was one item on my resolution list and I am so happy to have it crossed off. 
I feel so accomplished from this one afternoon of cooking that I am hoping to repeat this again every couple of months.

Recommendations and Resources:
- Do cook and split the meals with a friend: this really cut the cooking time and costs down
-Plan ahead and check your fridge for ingredients (remember you will be doubling a lot of items)
-Purchase disposable pans/dishes to freeze meals in
-Write the date and instructions for cooking on the container
-Don't Panic Dinner is in the Freezer, Freezer Pleasers, What's Cookin Chicago?

And a funny story to end on...
On Sunday I asked the Mister what he wanted this week for dinner as I was preparing my meal plan
He looked at me strangely and said, 'why are you asking me? You just made all food yesterday!'
Oh silly boys! Ha!

Have you ever done any freezer cooking?