Extreme Meal Planning

[ceejay]

I did a freezer meals thread a while ago that would probably have some useful information for you:  link

We tried one of the freezer meal plans suggested and spent about 2-3 hours preparing the 8 meals. Then we ate those over the course of about 3 months (one meal every week or two). The meals were huge, and one bag would often provide 2-3 days of meals for me, H, and our older foster son. The meals we made were okay but not great (many were too bland). If we did those same recipes again, we would tweak them and add more spices and salt and pepper.

[ceejay]

Jun 8, 2016 14:42:34 GMT -5 ****** said:

Thanks!! ceejay search never finds anything when I look for old threads.

I couldn't find it by search either! I only found it by looking through my old threads that I had created from my profile page.

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I used to have bunch of great links. I have to look around and get back to you.

[ourcrazynavylife]

***trigger warning***

My girlfriend & I did this when I was expecting DD. We cooked for probably 6 hours and made enough freezer meals to last an entire month.

***end trigger***

We tried to pick recipes that had the same main meat so we could buy the value packs at Sams club or Costco.

When we made them we froze them in ziploc bags so all I had to do was unthaw the bag enough to get it out then throw it in the crockpot for however long.

We did a couple casseroles & chicken pot pies as well. We used the throwaway aluminum pans. Those were kind of difficult and took up a ton of freezer space because of the plastic lids.

I dug through Pinterest for recipes. I'll go look on my boards and report back with my favorites.

For the planning portion I printed out a blank calendar and then picked out recipes. I wrote out each recipe for a day so I could keep track of what was left as far as quantity of meals. I made doubles of most of the recipes so I didn't have to find so many. We just spaced them apart when eating them.

[ourcrazynavylife]

hawaiin teriyaki burgers

we made almost all of these. Our fav is the black bean salsa chicken

this one has the chicken pot pie recipe

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Jun 10, 2016 0:42:10 GMT -5 ourcrazynavylife said:

***trigger warning***

My girlfriend & I did this when I was expecting DD. We cooked for probably 6 hours and made enough freezer meals to last an entire month.

***end trigger***

We tried to pick recipes that had the same main meat so we could buy the value packs at Sams club or Costco.

When we made them we froze them in ziploc bags so all I had to do was unthaw the bag enough to get it out then throw it in the crockpot for however long.

We did a couple casseroles & chicken pot pies as well. We used the throwaway aluminum pans. Those were kind of difficult and took up a ton of freezer space because of the plastic lids.

I dug through Pinterest for recipes. I'll go look on my boards and report back with my favorites.

For the planning portion I printed out a blank calendar and then picked out recipes. I wrote out each recipe for a day so I could keep track of what was left as far as quantity of meals. I made doubles of most of the recipes so I didn't have to find so many. We just spaced them apart when eating them.

My darlin', talking about extreme cooking does not require a trigger warning.

[ourcrazynavylife]

@wallflwr926 I just did it for the brief reference of me being KU

I never know who's going to get upset/offended so I did it just to be safe.

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Jun 10, 2016 10:04:02 GMT -5 ourcrazynavylife said:

@wallflwr926 I just did it for the brief reference of me being KU

I never know who's going to get upset/offended so I did it just to be safe.

I know why you did it. There is no need for you to use it in this type of thread.

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Jun 10, 2016 10:26:10 GMT -5 ****** said:

Jun 10, 2016 10:12:05 GMT -5 @wallflwr926 said:

I know why you did it. There is no need for you to use it in this type of thread.

given the temperament of this board, I can see where she would err on side of caution. We've become an unpredictable group, I think.

Total nonsense.

Raise your hand if you have an issue with people mentioning kids/previous pregnancies in a positive light on GKU (which the obvious exception of the IF and TTCAL threads)

I honestly would like this explained to me because I don't get it one little bit.

[icaughtfire]

Everybody was pretty cool with a labor thread on GKU, so I think y'all can basically throw trigger warnings out the window when it comes to baby/kid talk.

I plan my meals about 10 minutes before I eat them so I'm really no help.

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Jun 10, 2016 13:51:55 GMT -5 icaughtfire said:

Everybody was pretty cool with a labor thread on GKU, so I think y'all can basically throw trigger warnings out the window when it comes to baby/kid talk.

I plan my meals about 10 minutes before I eat them so I'm really no help.

I don't actually doing any of the cooking.

[onesweetworld]

I'm on team do not need a trigger warning. This isn't 3T/IF.

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Jun 11, 2016 8:23:34 GMT -5 @pineappleoranges said:

I've been trying to cook more as I live away from H in NY temporarily. It sucks balls trying to meal plan for 7 people who eat a lot.

I keep forgetting you are back up north.