When chicken goes on sale for 1.99/pound or less, I pounce on the opportunity and stock my freezer.
I bought ten packs of this and marinated about forty pounds of chicken with my favorite three freezer marinades (recipes with tutorials follow):
I use handy dandy plastic shoeboxes to store the bags upright when filling.They hold my chicken in the freezer until they are frozen solid and then I remove later.
Once I fill the bags with flavorful marinades and squeeze the air out, the bags lay flat in my shoe box and I transport them to my freezer for overnight freezing.
12 -24 hours later, I remove this shoe box and stow the bags anywhere. This box is necessary for freezing flat. I have three of these in my kitchen at all times. I use them for a thawing box, transporting box, and 5-minute bread box.
When we’re ready to grill chicken, I thaw several of these quart bags in my thawing box over night. I don’t have to marinate chicken for months because I’ve got enough chicken to feed an army in my freezer (a crew of six for about five months).
We can have a delicious grilled chicken dinner within 15 minutes. Now that’s why I spend about three to four hours prepping all is chicken. We take it on vacation, picnics and camping.
This is linked to Tasty Tuesday, It’s a Keeper and Good cheap eats.
Would you invest about four hours to have mouth-watering 15-minute chicken dinners?
What a smart idea! Work now and have everything ready later!
My motto is work smarter, not harder. thanks for stopping by
Perfect for the summer time! Love this. I want to try the Asian Honey. Yum!
I would love for you to hop over and share this on my new meme. http://www.crystalandcomp.com/2011/07/the-mommy-club-share-your-resources-and-solutions/
This is totally a mommy solution.
Glad you stopped by, I’ll try to get over and explore your site some more after this weekend. Heading to She speaks, so excited.