Well, ok, not completely empty. There are some bags of miscellaneous gravy, some acorn and butternut squash, a few quarts of chicken broth, and other various little bits of this and that. There are also a couple of packages of stew beef, a chuck roast, a rack of ribs and some raw chicken that didn't get prepped into anything. No more meals I can pull out at will, heat and serve - except for a whole sticky chicken that needs to be pulled out a day ahead of time to thaw before I can cook it. I'm rediscovering what a chore meal planning and prep can be on a daily and weekly basis. Can I say, for the record, that I do not like cooking from scratch every single day? How do you ladies do it?
Oh - I don't need to learn freezer cooking, I have my crock pot! That's what I hear from people I talk to who don't freezer cook. That's fine. My crock pot is wonderful, I love it, too! But you know what? I still have to have all the ingredients on hand, and I still have to invest some prep time to get it up and running in the morning so that dinner is ready on time.
I first realized how much I had come to depend on my freezer meals the other day I was getting ready for a wedding. I had to be at the church at 4:30 for a 5:30 ceremony. My kids weren't going, and my husband was coming with me. This would have been the 3rd time that week I told my kids to fend for themselves for dinner - I just couldn't do it again! So I was multi-tasking trying to do my hair and brown ground beef to make sloppy joes at the same time. That's right - I didn't even have any of my usual packages of precooked ground beef!!
Ugh - never again. I'm beginning to work on cleaning out, organizing, and refilling my freezer starting today. The weather's turning colder - who's with me? Now's a great time to start!
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