Freezing Marinated Chicken in Bulk

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):

My husband helps me by making a lot of chicken cutlets for each bag. I place about four to five cutlets in each labeled quart size bag.

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?