Well, I have been INSANELY busy! We were in the city for a hockey tournament last weekend, have had a minimum of 3 hockey games/week for the last 3 weeks, AND have been busy with hat orders!! This week is shaping up to be the same! 2 practices, 3 playoff games & another tournament in the city! WHEW! Thankfully, after this weekend, our lives will slow down, as hockey will be just about done. Just little man`s last round of playoffs (1 practice, 1 game). Oh. And yet another trip to the city for little man`s consumption test on Friday.
Today, I am catching up on laundry & housework. I ran to get groceries this morning & quickly did up a meal plan AT the store for the rest of month. I did pretty well, only forgot a couple things (I can grab those when I go get the boys from school). I came home & made 2 meals worth of meatballs, 2 meatloaves & a shepherd`s pie. Now I am looking up chicken noodle soup recipes, and will have to get supper in the oven soon (roast chicken with asparagus & mushrooms, and baked potates).
I am excited to stock up the freezer! And I realize I have done this totally backwards, at the END of hockey season, but ball starts soon, so it will come in handy! I currently have the follwing meals in my freezer :)
- Beef Strogranoff (slow cooker, enough for 2 meals, so will freeze half)
- Tomato Macaroni soup (forgot beef broth)
- Chicken noodle soup
- Spaghetti & meatsauce (then leftovers will be frozen for baked spaghetti later, and the rest of the sauce for lasgna)
- Roast beef
- Perogies & smokies (times 2)
- Meatloaf x2 (made & froze 2 just now)
- Meatballs x2 (made just now, got 5 dozen, will freeze into 2 meals worth)
- Honey garlic chicken thighs
- Shepherd`s pie
- Roast chicken (for tonight, about to throw it in the oven)
Pretty good, right?? And, if I am not home, the instructions are written on each container (either a Ziploc bag or a tinfoil pan wrapped in tinfoil), so that hubbyman can make supper!
I am doing some prep work today, however, I normally freeze our leftovers. I don`t usually have time to cook 5 meals in a day (man, we are lucky to get ONE meal a day, LOL), so if I am making spaghetti or something, I will double (or triple) the recipe, and freeze anything left over. Spaghetti is one of the boys` favorites. I will put the pasta & sauce mixed together into a dish, then freeze it. When we go to have the baked pasta for supper, we just add cheese & bake it until it`s done!
It`s nice to know that I have even 1 or 2 things in the freezer ready to go. Eventually, I`d like to be organized enough to have 7 or more meals frozen at all times, but for now, this is working. And I like knowing that if we are insanely busy during the day, that we still can have a yummy, homecooked meal, instead of pizza or rink bugers!
How do you fill your freezer? Do you cook a month`s worth of meals in 1 weekend? Or do you prefer to make extra when you cook, and freeze the leftovers?
