Nearly every meal I prepare consists of foods I have cooked or baked in bulk and frozen. I thaw items in a plastic shoe box to prevent condensation dripping onto my shelves (I’ve learned from experience). Then I shop my freezer from my freezer inventory, to see what goodies I can thaw and serve to my family and others. I write these items down on a seven-day menu plan and post it on my refrigerator as a reminder to thaw my food 24 hours ahead of time. Typically right after the dishes are done, I check my menu plan and put new items into my thawing box and slash them off my freezer inventory. Here’s what I’m thawing this week…
We rotate the same breakfast items each week:
- Freezer waffles with fresh/frozen seasonal fruit
- Homemade Crock pot yogurt with homemade granola
- Oatmeal with cranberries, walnuts and raw sugar
- Cheerios with bananas and milk
- Scrambled eggs and quick bread like banana or zucchini
We rotate leftovers, wraps, sandwiches and salads for lunch.
Dinner:
- Italian Sticky Chicken (carried over from last week), egg noodles, applesauce, homemade biscuits (doubling and freezing extra biscuits and egg noodles, leftover chicken is used for enchiladas)
- Sante Fe chili, cornbread (doubling and freezing extra chili)
- Santa Fe Chimichangas (new recipe coming soon), tortilla chips, salad
- Bulgogi dinner from the freezer, dark chocolate ice-cream cake(my daughter’s 11th birthday)
- Chicken enchiladas in the crock pot, salad
- Breakfast for dinner, waffles, blueberry compote and whipped cream, scrambled eggs.