Complete a month worth of COOKED meals for the freezer in one weekend.

Hubby shopped for me thursday night.  I start cooking around 4:30 friday.

cost for all about $300.00 including aluminum pans and all meats and fresh produce and dairy for a week

Goals:
4 pans cheese enchiladas w/chili sauce
4 pans chicken enchiladas w/cheese sauce
4 pans of outrageous meatball parm (http://hugsandcookiesxoxo.com/2014/07/outrageous-meatball-parm.html)
16 bean and beef burritos
12-16 personal pan pizzas (various toppings)
shredded pork for pulled pork sandwiches
taco meat for tacos
12-16 burgers


friday night:
pork roast for pulled pork went in the oven at 4:30 (http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2011/03/spicy-dr-pepper-shredded-pork/)
make ground meat for chili sauce browned off and chili sauce
make red gravy for meatball parm
chicken on to cook overnight

it's 7pm friday night and the chili is made and cooling, the red gravy is made and simmering, the pork roast is still cooking and i've cooked dinner for the family as well

saturday:

shred chicken and package leftovers after enchiladas are made
shred pork and package
roll enchiladas (cheese and chicken)
make meatballs and put together meatball parm
make pizzas

sunday:

make burgers (will cook them off so they just need heating)
make taco meat and package
make burritos from start to finish (brown ground meat and then roll)

Sunday 4:30 pm update

ground meat for burgers isn't thawed out yet so they are the only thing left unmade

so here is what i got done in one weekend ... friday and sunday were minimal and could have been done on saturday but cooking the chickens overnight and the pork roast takes hours and heats up the kitchen so did those friday night along w/some other easy peasy stuff that would make saturday go faster

all meals serve 3-4 except the personal pizzas and burritos each of those is one serving

4 pans cheese enchiladas w/chili sauce
4 pans chicken enchiladas w/cheese sauce
7 pans of outrageous meatball parm
18 bean and beef burritos
6 family size pizzas
8 personal sized pizzas
4 baggies of pulled pork
2 baggies taco meat for tacos
4 boxes of smoked sausage (we don't do anything but cook these so there was no cooking but they are in the total cost of food and meals in the freezer)

39 meals cooked and frozen ... 4 more to go and there is still some food in the freezer that can be cooked if I just feel like cooking ... in the total $$$ amount was 1 box of smoked sausage and a couple of sweet potatoes (dinner friday night) and a couple of bags of corn chips for chili and cheese nachos (leftover chili and cheese sauce from enchiladas eaten saturday and sunday)

this is what it looks like in my freezer

Red gravy with ground pork or Meat sauce or Spaghetti Sauce and baked spaghetti

Whatever you want to call this this is how I make it.

I usually make a quadruple batch of this at one time in a large stock pot.  I will cook a box of pasta (our favorite is angel hair).  When done I'll mix enough gravy with the pasta and put in aluminum pans cover with cheddar cheese and freeze. I keep one out and bake it for that night.  The rest of the gravy I put in gallon ziploc bags after it  cools and freeze.  The last time I did this I got 4 cake tins of baked spaghetti and 3 bags of red gravy for the freezer.

Ingredients

1 1/2 pounds ground pork

1 cup of seasoning blend (the frozen stuff precut - onions, peppers, celery)

1 tbsp minced garlic

2 (6-ounce) cans tomato paste1 (8-ounce) can tomato sauce

1 (14 1/2-ounce) can stewed tomatoes

1 tbsp Italian seasoning

1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce

2 tbsp sugar

1 tsp salt

1 cup water

Directions
Brown the meat in a large, heavy bottomed pot, then drain off the fat. Add the seasoning blend and garlic and saute until the onion is tender, about 10 minutes. Add the tomato paste, tomato sauce, stewed tomatoes, seasonings, and water. Simmer for 30 minutes. Let cool. The sauce will keep for several days covered and refrigerated. Serve with spaghetti or your favorite pasta.

upcoming recipes

Some of my go to meals for the freezer.  As I'm able I'll add the recipes and post pictures when I do some more freezer meal cooking.

• cheese enchiladas with chili sauce
• chicken enchiladas with cheese sauce
• meat sauce (or in our house red gravy with meat)
• baked spaghetti
• baked chicken breasts for salads
• burritos
• pizzas (cheese, sausage, pepperoni, supreme, spinach and bacon, all meat)
• beans and rice
• gumbo
• chili
• alfredo sauce with different meats like chicken or shrimp
• lasagna
• egg muffins (breakfast)
• breakfast sandwiches
• cinnamon rolls
• pancakes
• waffles
• shredded meats for tacos (pork,chicken, beef)
• chicken and artichoke pasta bake
• spinach and mozz stuffed pork chops
• ham and cheese stuffed chicken
• bacon wrapped burger dogs
• burgers
• charro beans
• spanish rice