Freezer Cooking Day-March Results

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2 Lasagna

2 Chicken Pot Pie

2 Chicken Broccoli and Rice Casserole

1 Chicken Noodle Soup (plus 1 container lunches)

5 “Cans” Cream of Chicken Soup (I tripled recipe: made 7 “cans”, used 2 in casserole)

5 Bags of Kidney Beans

1 More Breakfast of Pancakes

1/2 Loaf of Banana Bread

School Cupcakes for “LuLu’s” 3rd birthday!! (no icing yet)

Here’s a breakdown of how my cooking days went…

I made Crock Pot Chicken (no it’s not in the picture).  We ate it on Sat. night with potatoes and corn, then made Chicken Pot Pie, Soup, and Casserole plus 2 lunches for me with the rest. 

Hubby made pancakes then I made Chicken Noodle Soup and banana bread for dinner.  I also got the lasagna ready (meat cooked and everything in the crock pot-put in fridge).

Cooked kidney beans, got lasagna cooking, made cream of chicken soup, made chicken, broccoli and rice casserole.  Cleaned kitchen.  Made cupcakes (add on-I almost forgot!), made chicken pot pies and assembled lasagna. 

She “organized” the crackers

I also assembled snacks for lunches on Sunday night. I add a few snacks into small containers to pack in the kids’ lunch. This time I included gold fish, cheez-its, and pretzels (recent sales of course).  If you read my post HERE on public school, you’ll know “Monkeyboy” attends kindergarten at our local public school 5 days a week and “LuLu” is in a local church preschool 2 days a week (hence the 7 containers). Hubby also got a bag to snack on.

You’ll notice this isn’t a months worth of meals.  That doesn’t work for me, but I do like to have items cooked ahead of time for busy days and the cream of chicken soup and kidney beans will last for a few months.

I’ve always cooked one larger chicken for my crock pot chicken.  This time I used 2 smaller birds from a Harris Teeter sale recently.  It took much longer than I expected to skin two small birds, longer to pull the meat when cooked and it didn’t yield as much meat.  I’d rather spend a little more on one larger chicken and spend less time.