Planning the next big cooking day

For Christmas, Matt gave me the cookbook Frozen Assest: Cook for a Day, Eat for a Month by Deborah Taylor-Hough. This book/concept has been AMAZING for me!!! I realize that it's not for everyone, but if you are like me and have a hard time planning meals and then sticking to the plan and always feel like you are eating mac and cheese for dinner, this may be the thing for you. I will blog on it every once in a while because it has truely changed mealtimes at our house for the best.

This is my cookbook. It has all of my main recipes including the meals for my cooking days. Each cooking day, I choose 10-15 meals and make 2-3 meals worth. My next cooking day is next week. My freezer is almost empty! I have 7 meals left.

This is what we had list night: Chili on baked potatoes

When I make the meals, I put most of them in gallon Ziploc bags and stick a label on with the recipe name, heating/baking instructions, and a date. (I used to handwrite everything, but now that I know what we really like, I have labels made up) The bags freeze really thin to minimize freezer space.

For this meal, I threw the chili in the fridge the day before, then Saturday night poured the chili into a pan, warmed it up, and 20 minutes later we had a yummy meal to eat while watching football. Lucy loved it, too!

This morning I started planning my meals. It's looking good: Chicken Broccoli Cobler, Lasagna, Southwest Pork and Bean Soup, Enchiladas, and many more! Yum!