fall break is here, and i have decided to spend my days off cooking & planning meals for the next month. today, i have roasted 6 pounds of chicken, an 8 pound smoked ham, browned 5 pounds of ground beef, and am slow cooking a pound of black beans–all going in the freezer for weeknight dinners when school starts back up. since i have gotten the fridge of my dreams (black with the freezer on the bottom), i am trying to realize my vision of stacks & stacks of frozen dinners just sitting there smugly in the drawer, waiting to be thawed, heated, & eaten. what will i do with my extra weeknight time? maybe get my chubby self in shape, but, more likely, hang out with b-dog & j.
thank goodness i’m scheduled for a happy hour with the monster this afternoon, i’m dangerously domestic today!
know how you know i’m a dork? 19 October 10
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will you teach me how? I desparately need to do this so I won’t go home and make quick, junky, high caloric, non-profit meals!
i’ll let you know how it turns out–this is my first try at cooking in bulk. i think it will really help with our out-of-control grocery budget & give me more time out of the kitchen in the evenings. the two websites i’m taking cues from in this endeavor are:
http://www.menus4moms.com/kitchen/weeklymenu/archive/index.php
http://www.30daygourmet.com/Members/Login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fMembers%2fTools%2fMemberRecipes.aspx
(user name: recipes / password: macaroni)
we’re starting out small, but if it turns out to work for us, i may jump in with both feet & schedule a day & a half per month just to cook & have the meals planned out for a whole month. doesn’t that sound dreamy? : )