Freezer Cooking for June

Here’s a picture from our freezer cooking day in April!

The Problem:  I am out of town visiting family. (Visiting family is not a problem. I’m lovin’ it. But it is a little bit hard to make frozen meals when you’re several hours away from your kitchen and your freezer.)
The Other Problem:  My freezer is full of frozen meat. (Wait, frozen meat is not a problem either – it’s a blessing.)
The Actual Problem:  The only thing in my freezer was frozen meat…we’d eaten up all of our frozen, homemade healthy convenience items.
The Additional Problem:  If I’d waited to make freezer meals until after I got home from my trip, there would have been nothing for my husband to eat while we were gone, plus nothing for me to feed the boys once we got back while I was trying to catch up on twenty-eight loads of laundry.

The Solution:  Make the freezer food before the trip!

Ah, and so that is what I did. I took a few days last week to make up some healthy convenience foods for the freezer. Matt has been eating on it while we’ve been out of town, and when I get home, there will be easy-to-warm-up food in the freezer to make life easier for me while I recover from being away from home.

This was my to-do list:

• Frozen Potato Chunks (following this Frozen Hashbrown method)
• Venison Sausage (using this Turkey Sausage recipe)
• Whole Wheat Hamburger Buns (because I would really like to be able to simply pull buns out of the freezer when I need them)
• Corn Dog Muffins
• Sloppy Corn Muffins
• Porcupine Meatballs (a new recipe from my friend Holly)
• Chewy Granola Bars (not for the freezer, of course, but just to eat)
• Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Orange Muffins
• Honey Whole Wheat Bread
• Whole Wheat Tortillas

Check back in a few days and I’ll share how my cooking attempts went. Also, I plan to address the question many of you have asked:  “Laura – are you in the kitchen ALL the time?!”

:)

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