freezer meals...

Do you make freezer meals?

I have done some...making an extra dish here and there to throw in the freezer. But I have never made any like the lady does at once a month mom. But I have wanted to.

I am not the type of person who LOVES to cook. I like it sometimes. Other times I loath it.

I especially don't love it now that the weather is getting a little nicer, and it's staying light later. Marlee wants to play outside later, but she's still hungry around 5-5:30. We live near a play ground, so we can go over there frequently in the afternoons after school gets out. But if we do that, then I don't start cooking until we get back...sometimes 5 or later. Then we are all starving and we are in that time of day that life is not fun.

With this little man coming, I figured there were def. going to be days that I was going to be too tired to cook much. So I wanted to be a little prepared.

I am so excited to say that between Heidi and myself doing it together, we made lasagna, green chili, chicken enchiladas, a chicken taco thing that you can eat by itself, or with tortillas, a chicken/rice/broccoli bake and meat balls. It was awesome. I used 5 chicken breasts and she had baked a whole chicken, and then we used 2 pork roasts, hamburger and sausage. All in all, it wasn't a lot of money...and we made so many meals. We packaged the enchiladas 3 in a bag...so we can make 3 or 6 depending on what we need/feel like that day.

The rest of the recipes were either ones we new in our brains, or ones that we kinda combined together. :) 

I have been trying to get Heidi to do this with me for a while, because seriously making all those meals by yourself would take all day. She has been a little leary of cooking with someone else, because cooking with her mom, isn't fun at all (she told me yesterday) and I in some ways feel the same. I like to learn from my mom, but it's her way or nothing...most of the time. Also making food for two different families can be a little crazy because sometimes families don't eat the same things...but we made it totally work, and it was awesome!

 We tag teamed everything, and have decided there are some things we would do differently next time....like trying to do it as an all day thing instead of just a half a day. Mainly because some of the things we made, or want to make next time, will require some of them simmering all day or longer than we had.

We have decided that we def. want to do it again. We just aren't sure when we will be able to do it again. Hopefully in March we can find a day. :) 

So have you done anything like this before? I can say if you have someone that you like to hang out with, and can find some recipes that you both like/want to try, it's totally worth it!