Last night I set to work on another set of freezer meals. I started pretty late, and spent an hour and a half cooking. I still have a bit to finish up today, but it went pretty well. Many of the recipes I was working on called for the meat to be precooked or browned. I spent a lot of my time last night cutting up and cooking the meat. There were a few preps I could do for some of the meals while the meat was cooking, but not exactly everything.
While I was cleaning up, I had a “revelation” perse…I realized how fast the meal put together was after the meats were cooked. As a working mom, I’m always trying to do the most with my time and lets face it, I don’t like spending all night in the kitchen – even though pulling meals out of the freezer is a great time saver in the end.
I’ve decided to split my freezer cooking into 3 days.
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Day 1 – shopping
Day 2 – Any meat prep/cooking
Day 3 – pull together the rest of the ingredients and add meat
Since my family is smaller and one recipe usually makes enough for 2 meals, I only cook 4 – 5 at a time. So, If I split my days up as listed above, instead of spending 3 hours or so in the kitchen in one night (which is pretty much all my time after the kids go to bed), I can spend 1 1/2 in the kitchen for 2 nights and still accomplish the same thing.
For this working mom, it’s just what I need to make freezer cooking into a doable task.
Tags: Cooking, cooking for a week, time savers, weekly cooking
