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This idea has been a long time in the making! I’m very excited to introduce our latest project. It’s a collection of downloadable make-ahead recipe and instruction packets called Eat Right Away: Your Guide to Real Food Fast!

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Each of these downloadable Eat Right Away packets include:

5 brand new recipes
5 individual meal grocery lists, plus 1 big grocery list to aid you in making all five meals in one sitting (though you’ll actually be standing, not sitting, my apologies).
5 individual recipe instructions, plus 1 “Be Efficient” set of instructions to guide you through making all five meals in one 2ish-hour time frame
Freezer safe instructions for each recipe, plus guidance on thawing, reheating, and serving each meal with little effort.
Serving suggestions so you don’t have to think about the side dishes
Bonus tips

Each packet is only $2.00, and we’ve made it easy by packaging all four packets together into one $8.00 collection! Yep! That’s it. We want to get them into all of your hands to help you save time and money in your real food kitchen.

Each recipe is family friendly, easy to prepare, contains simple, real food ingredients, and can be made ahead and frozen so that you can Eat Right Away!

Bonus! So far, the ten recipes in these two packets can be easily adapted to be gluten free. The only ingredient which is not naturally gluten free in these recipes is pasta. Sub the wheat pasta for rice or corn pasta and voila! 10 gluten free recipes that you can Eat Right Away!

Let’s begin with Eat Right Away: Beef Edition. Recipes included are:

Cheesy Salsa Burgers (The easiest recipe ever. Make it gluten free by serving on a bed of lettuce.)
One Dish Cheesy Beef and Potatoes (Our family’s favorite so far.)
Bacon-Wrapped Individual Meatloaves (Make ’em ahead, pull ’em out, cook ’em up! You don’t even have to thaw these in advance.)
Easy Hamburger Soup (The ultimate comfort food.)
Baked Ziti (Could it be possible that we like this as much as lasagna? Yes.)

Eat Right Away, Beef Edition

Make all five meals in about 2 hours time. Be rewarded with five delicious meals to pull out and serve with little additional effort!

Next, take a look at Eat Right Away: Chicken Edition. Recipes included are:

Teriyaki Chicken and Veggie Kabobs (This one takes a tiny bit of extra effort. It is WORTH IT.)
Easy Apricot Chicken (Takes five minutes to make. No joke.)
Sloppy Salsa Chicken (Also takes five minutes…okay six. I’m serious.)
Mexi-Chicken Pasta (Where has this been all my life?)
Chicken Tostadas (So fast!)

Eat Right Away, Chicken Edition

Make all five meals in about less than 2 hours time. Be rewarded with five delicious meals to pull out and serve with little additional effort!

Eat Right Away: Slow Cooker Chicken Edition ~ Recipes Included Are:

Cheesy Chicken Potatoes and Broccoli
Italian Chicken and Veggies
Black Bean and Corn Salsa Chicken
Barbecue Cranberry Chicken
Ranch Chicken Tacos

Eat Right Away: Slow Cooker Beef Edition ~ Recipes Included Are:

Roast Beef and Melted Cheese Sandwiches
Mongolian Beef
Balsamic Beef Roast
Sweet Pepper Beef Stew
Hawaiian Beef and Rice

Just like the chicken recipes, you can make all five beef recipes in about one hour. Put them in the freezer or fridge. Pull them out and throw them into the crock pot.

Grab these four packets and get started with putting together these 10 great meals so that you can Eat Right Away!

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I hope you’re planning to join me for Week One of our newest Freezer Cooking Challenge! I figured if I needed to spend some time getting ahead, you might too. Why not cook together, right?

For Week One, we’ll be focusing on beef recipes. If I’m going to brown one pound of hamburger meat, I might as well brown eight or ten. I still just dirty up one pot, and the time I save overall is amazing. So, we’ll be browning 8 pounds of meat at once, then we’ll put together 8 meals with the meat we prepared.

We’ll do this over the course of a week – so really, the time it takes each day to do the work is very minimal. I’ll walk you through all the steps! Here’s what is on my list to prepare during the upcoming week. My idea is to make two of each casserole listed below – one for our evening meal, and an additional one for the freezer. So easy! (All of these recipes can be made gluten free if you use GF pasta and corn tortillas.)

Cheesy Beef and Rice – catch the details in this post
Bacon Cheeseburger Casserole (recipe in {Healthy} Make-Ahead Meals and Snacks eBook) – catch the details in this post
Cheesy Beef and Pasta Casserole (recipe in {Healthy} Make-Ahead Meals and Snacks eBook) – view details here
Creamy Salsa Enchiladas (recipe in Let’s Do This! eCourse, Lesson 2) or if you prefer, you can make the Cheesy Salsa Enchiladas version of this recipe – catch the details in this post

Don’t want to make them all? No problem. Want to make three of each? Okay. This needs to benefit you, not cause you stress – so you just grab hold of whatever part of this challenge works for you and drop kick the rest. The grocery list below assumes you’ll be making two of each casserole. You can adjust it accordingly.

What you’ll need:

5-6 Casserole Dishes (I use 9×13 inch Pyrex Dishes with lids)
8 pounds hamburger meat
1 pound bacon
16 ounces pasta (I use whole wheat)
5 cups brown rice
5 cups sour cream (40 ounces)
4 cups salsa (32 ounces)
4 cups tomato sauce (32 ounces)
2 eight-ounce cream cheese packages
1/2 cup dry minced onion
14 cups shredded cheese (4-ounces equals one cup; you’ll need approximately 56 ounces – less is fine if you would like to save money by skimping on the cheese)
12 whole wheat tortillas (homemade tortillas are awesome)
1 cup ketchup
2 cans black olives
2/3 cup milk

Be sure you have:

mustard
chili powder
sea salt
pepper
garlic powder

I’ve created a downloadable and printable grocery list for you here: Freezer Cooking Grocery List ~ Week One

Be sure to add plenty of fruits, vegetables, and salad items to your list to go with your casseroles!

Here are your first assignments:

Pick up all needed items at the grocery store.
Brown 8 pounds of ground beef, along with about a half cup of minced onion.

Once your meat has been cooked, let it cool, then put it into the fridge to be worked with later. You can divide it into 4 equal(ish) sized portions if you would like, just to make it easier later. I personally just put my whole pot into the fridge and will scoop out 1/4 of the contents each time I need it.

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You’re welcome to put together recipes as your own pace, of course. But for the sake of those who want to do this freezer cooking in stages, I plan to break all tasks down into small chunks so that it will be doable for all who only have a few minutes to spend on this at one time.

On Monday, we’ll continue on by putting together our first round of casseroles. Don’t forget, Let’s Do This! eCourse and {Healthy} Make-Ahead Meals and Snacks eBook are discounted to just $5 for the whole package.

Hope your freezer cooking prep time goes well! Let me know how these first assignments go for you.

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