May's Freezer Cooking, Once a Month Cooking, Batch Cooking...... Part 2
Everywhere I shopped last Thursday, my food shopping day, I stumbled upon great "manager special" ground meat deals. All under $2 a pound and were anywhere from $1.50 to $1.80 a pound. They all needed freezing by the next day. So you know what I did? I purchased a total of 19 pounds over three stores. While I was at Kroger I picked up 3 3-pound rolls of ground beef and 2 1-pound packages of ground turkey. I left the store thinking great deal, glad I went shopping here today. I never expected to come across any more. Next stop was Hays where I picked up a 3-pound package of ground beef and then Walmart where I picked up one 5 pound roll of ground beef. It really was not my intention to spend all my grocery budget on ground beef but when the opportunity knocks, I generally like to answer it.
I took my purchases home and had an impromptu Once a Month Cooking day for dinner starters (or investment cooking). I had no real plan so I can't share that part with you. I just put sicky lables on each roll or pack to suggest what I needed to make with it. Worked on mix and freeze first and then moved onto the mix/cook/freeze meats.
I took my purchases home and had an impromptu Once a Month Cooking day for dinner starters (or investment cooking). I had no real plan so I can't share that part with you. I just put sicky lables on each roll or pack to suggest what I needed to make with it. Worked on mix and freeze first and then moved onto the mix/cook/freeze meats.
Look at all those Yellow Stickers
4 Dinners worth of Bolognese Meat Sauce
3 Meals of Meatballs. They are giant so one per person.
One Batch of Mini Meatballs for Swedish Meatballs
3 dinners worth of plain old ground beef ear marked for Hamburger Helper
(a project I am currently working on... Pantry ready GF replacements for Boxed HH)
3 Batches marked for Taco Dinner and 1 for Taco Pizza
2 Meatloaf Dinners
2 Hamburger Dinners
