How to Have a Freezer Cooking Day if You Don’t Have a Deep Freezer
Guest Post by Jessica from LifeasMOM “I’d love to do freezer cooking, but I don’t have a freezer.” Sound familiar? Well, today we’re going to dispel the myth. You can practice bulk cooking even if you...
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Freezer Cooking Day: Um, I Think It’s Time to Replace the Cheese Grater
Our Freezer Cooking Day began at 9:15 a.m. yesterday morning. I had planned a Master List of everything that needed to be done and the order it needed to be done. I also tried to equally divide the...
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Freezer Cooking Day: Making Do in a Small Kitchen
While I worked on grating the cheese, the others got busy chopping peppers, boiling noodles, browning ground beef, and Gretchen started putting together the Beef, Bean, and Tomato Burritos. (I’d love...
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Freezer Cooking Day: My Little Helpers
Kaitlynn (2) and Silas (10 months) both enjoyed “helping” with Freezer Cooking Day. I think they may have done more eating than helping, but that’s okay. I figure if I start training them young,...
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Southwest Roll-ups
My sister-in-law brought all the chicken pre-cooked and chopped for the Freezer Cooking Day, which saved us lots of time and effort. We used it to make a few of the recipes–including one of our...
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Freezer Cooking Day: The Final Tally (and come link up your accomplishments,...
We finished our Freezer Cooking at 12:30 p.m yesterday! We didn’t quite get everything done on the Master List, but we counted up and had made enough for 45 dinners for our families! Here’s our final...
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Pumpkin Carrot Cake Muffins
Guest Post by Katie from goodLife {eats} When I first saw Crystal and Jessica talking about freezer cooking, I shied away from it. I made excuses: That’s not for me. I don’t have a big freezer. I like...
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Is Freezer Cooking Really Worth It?
Over the past few years as I’ve shared my Freezer Cooking Day adventures with you, a number of you have written and asked, “Is it really worth the effort?” Well, you’re right that it’s effort. Having...
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Freezer Cooking Day: My No-Casserole 2-hour Plan (and come link up yours, too!)
With summer upon us and grilling and salad season in full force, I challenged myself to create a menu plan for Freezer Cooking Day which include zero casseroles. I also am short on time this weekend...
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Homemade Baby Food for the Freezer
Guest Post by Erin from $5 Dinners A great way to save money when you’ve got a little one crawling under foot is to make your own baby food. The average price at my grocery store for a 1-serving jar...
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Freezer Cooking Day Success!
Wheat kernels ready to be ground Well, I made it through my 2-Hour Freezer Cooking list on Saturday. It did end up taking me a little over two hours — more like 2 1/2 hours. But I was very happy to...
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Freezer Cooking Day: The Final Accomplishments (and come link up yours, too!)
The final results of Saturday’s Freezer Cooking Day: –4 meals’ worth of Barbecued Beef (Wasn’t really thrilled with how the recipe turned out, so I’m not sharing it here — maybe next time!) –3 meals’...
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Freezer Cooking Day: The Lazy Edition
So, I did a very short Freezer Cooking Day this past Saturday. Actually, I don’t think “day” really describes what it was – since it was more like “snatches of time” in the middle of a busy day. To be...
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Revamping My Freezer Cooking Methods
As I’ve mentioned in the past few months, I’ve been simplifying and streamlining a lot of areas in my life so that I can focus on the most important priorities, not overload my plate and have time to...
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Impromptu Freezer Cooking Day: Preparing the Kitchen
We’ve been busy as beavers this morning! I’m finally sitting down for a coffeebreak while the children watch Jelly Telly. Breakfast was Oatmeal with Turbinado and Mini Chocolate Chips. I think I won...
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Impromptu Freezer Cooking Day: Chocolate Chip Pancakes, Chicken and Bread Dough
First up, I mixed up the Chocolate Chip Pancake batter. I used some milk from the freezer in the batter. I also grab up marked down milk when I find it on a great deal and then freeze it to use in...
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Impromptu Freezer Cooking Day: Brown Bag Burritos, Oranges and Cinnamon Swirl...
Once I finished making the Chocolate Chip Pancakes, I made the Brown Bag Burritos. Since I already had chicken cooked, I went ahead and substituted chicken for the ground beef. Because you know how I...
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Impromptu Freezer Cooking Day: The Final Tally
Well, as usual, the freezer cooking ended up taking longer and making more of a mess than I’d hoped. And I skipped making the brownies in favor of cleaning up the kitchen. But I’m happy to have some...
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Who wants to do some freezer cooking??
So, at l-o-n-g last, I’m bringing back the “live-blogging” of Freezer Cooking today. I’m not sure exactly how this is going to go down and I’m going to have to find my new groove, but we’re just going...
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Come see a virtual peek into my Freezer Cooking Day!
I’m back to freezer cooking and it feels SO good! It’s amazing the difference it makes when someone asks, “What is there to eat?” and I can list off options that are in the freezer! On Thursday...
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All the details on my Freezer Cooking Day + some WINNER recipes!!
I did another Freezer Cooking session on Wednesday and it was really successful! I love that cooking and baking ahead cuts down significantly on the time I need to spend cooking and baking and cleaning...
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Freezer Cooking: Blueberry Coconut Crisp, Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Bars,...
I did something different for this week’s Freezer Cooking session. Instead of doing a few Facebook Live videos and taking lots of pictures for a blog post, I decided to do the entire cooking session...
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Last Week’s Freezer Cooking Session
So many of you loved me live-videoing my freezer cooking session last time around that I went ahead and did the same this time, too. If you want a laugh, you can watch the entire video of my freezer...
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Freezer Cooking Day: Crockpot Sausage & Peppers, Slab Apple Pie, Apple Pie...
Our garage freezer was almost empty 2 weeks ago. I decided to challenge myself to see if I could slowly fill it up — on our $70/week grocery budget. This is one way you can save SO much money. Buy...
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Freezer Cooking: Baked Oatmeal & Turkey Meatballs
I’m currently challenging myself to stick with a $70 grocery budget for our family of five. This includes almost all of our breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and dinners + most household products...
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My Freezer Cooking Master Plan (and come link up yours, too!)
Are you ready for another Freezer Cooking Day? Since I only did a smaller Freezer Cooking Day last time around, our freezer is especially empty right now. So I’m very excited to get it filled up...
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Freezer Cooking Day: Grocery Shopping
I’m so excited about Freezer Cooking Day! I’m ready to fill up our getting-close-to-empty freezer again! To start things off, here’s a picture of all the groceries we bought for Freezer Cooking Day....
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Freezer Cooking Day: Prep Work, Blueberry Pancakes, and oops, we ran out of...
How’s the Freezer Cooking Day going at your house? My sister Gretchen, came to help me and we began our cooking around 9:15 a.m. (After I made out my plan, I started panicking a little because I wasn’t...
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Freezer Cooking Day: Oven-Baked Chicken and Burritos coming out our ears!
Someone had left a tip on a recent Freezer Cooking Day suggesting that I try baking the chicken instead of boiling it. I’m not sure who left that tip, but it’s a good one. I just stuck the frozen...
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Freezer Cooking Day: Taco Meat, Lasagna, Lemon Chicken, and White Bean Chili
Gretchen added spices and onions to the already-browned ground beef for Taco Meat and then she took on that task of making all the Butterhorn rolls (a rather tedious task that I was completely happy...
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How I Freeze Onions
While the thought of making up casseroles and freezing them might not be appealing to your family, there are many ways that you can use your freezer to speed up cooking preparations. Here’s one...
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Freezer Cooking Day: The Final Tally
After about four hours of work, here’s what my sister and I had to show for our efforts: FishMama’s Lasagna x 4 Brown Bag Burritos x 2 Cheeseburger Meatloaf x 3 Chicken and Red Bean Burritos (recipe...
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Freezer Cooking Days: March 31-April 2, 2010
It’s the end of the month and my freezer is getting empty. Which is a good thing because March 31-April 2, 2010, FishMama and I will be hosting another big Freezer Cooking Extravaganza. What Is Freezer...
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Freezer Cooking Day: My Plan (and come link up yours, too!)
I finally finished planning our Freezer Cooking Day for tomorrow. Here’s what’s on our list: ::Spaghetti Pie ::Barbecued Meatballs ::Baked Ziti ::Southwest Roll-ups ::Chicken and Rice Casserole...
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