Cue Crockpot Freezer Cooking. It's not your typical once a month cooking, you don't cook the ingredients ahead of time and then reheat. For the most part, you prep everything and then throw it all in a bag, raw, and freeze it. You include instructions on cook times and what else needs to be added (let's face it, potatoes taste like ass after they've been frozen) for when you're ready to cook.
Sounds simple, right? Well my small brain could not "get it" and I stewed over it for weeks until I came across Melissa Fallis' awesome blog post about crockpot freezer meal preparation. I know I sound like an idiot, and normally I'm not, but this case I was a complete doofus on wrapping my head around this form of meal planning.
Melissa writes that she made the following recipes:
"Savory Vegetable Beef Soup (I make this 3-4 times a winter)
Teriyaki Chicken
Balsamic & Onion Pot Roast
Healthy BBQ Chicken *from mamaandbabylove.com
*Stephanie's Goulash *adapted from mamaandbabylove.com *"
I can't wait to try them all.
But it will have to wait. At the moment my pantry and freezer are full of food I haven't even used yet. So I'm going to create a pantry crockpot freezer meal challenge for myself (details in a follow up post) and make room for all these yummy eats.
I can see the grocery budget falling now.
If you've got an empty freezer, check out Melissa's blog post (and the comments). You'll feel enlightened
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