Life’s a Dance

I have been cooking & freezing food like a maniac lately. I took last week off to go to Indiana (more about that in another post) but besides that, I’ve cooked something to freeze almost every day. It really helps me to actually eat meals if I have something mostly or fully prepared and waiting in the freezer. Otherwise, with Jim away, I fall into eating snacks instead of meals. In the past month, I’ve made:

• 6 meals of shredded barbecue pork
• 3 meals of Italian beef
• 6 meals of taco ground beef
• 6 meals of taco chicken
• 8 meals of chicken enchilada soup
• 12 pocket sandwiches (barbecue, pizza, taco)
• 2 meals of chili
• 12 chicken breasts (raw) in marinades, ready to thaw & cook
• 4 hamburgers (raw), seasoned
• 12 applesauce oatmeal muffins
• 6 lemon blueberry muffins
• 6 apple strudel muffins
• 6 cinnamon sugar muffins
• 6 peanut butter muffins
• 6 peanut butter muffins with chocolate chips
• 6 mini peanut butter & banana muffins for E
• 6 mini banana oat muffins for E
• 3 meals of whole wheat pancakes (tried a yummy new recipe!)
• 12 hamburger buns
• 4 side dishes of roasted garlic & bacon smashed potatoes

And I still want to make some cinnamon pancakes, French toast sticks, seasoned raw pork chops, a couple beef dishes, more potatoes (gotta’ use up the bag!), some dinner rolls, tortilla soup and, if I can find a recipe to replace the one I’ve lost, some butter rum muffins.

Anyone want to come over to eat?!

I’ve eaten quite a bit out of the freezer already, so I’m not fully stocked, but I am still set for awhile! I love shopping the sales to make these things cheap, having the meals ready to go when I’m plum-tuckered out and saving the $$ when I’d resort to running through a fast-food joint. Its such satisfaction to look at a fully stocked freezer, though, that it can be hard to take things out! LOL