Cooking for a month?

Over the last year or so I've had the opportunity to visit Super Suppers here in Midland. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s basically a place that takes all of the work out of cooking homemade meals. You go there, they've got everything chopped, cleaned, and organized, you use their utensils etc. and you leave with 10 meals ready to go in the freezer. The downside is, convenience is expensive. And you have to pick your meals from their meals for that month, so if you have picky eaters, or you are a picky eater it might be hard to find things you like. Although while assembling your meals, you can leave out lets say onions if someone in your family (Matt) doesn't like onions, doesn't want an onion to come near their food, their plate, or any place their fork might touch you just omit that from your recipe. The beauty of these trips to Super Suppers was that they were paid for, not by me. (Thanks Ryan!). Anyway the point to all that is, I realized it is so nice to have dinner in the freezer, so easy to come home throw it in the oven and that’s it. No thinking of what to make, no making anything and hardly any clean up – wonderful! So I finally got the ambition to spend a few hours making up a bunch of meals for my freezer. I figured out what I was going to make, picked up what I needed from Mejier and this is what I came up with. Here's a shot, with all my ingrediants on the kitchen counter.

I made a lot of different things, but didn't think about blogging this momentous occasion until I was half way finished, so your not really getting a fully detailed account. I made Creamy Chicken and Rice, Chicken, Broccoli, Potatoes with Italian seasoning, Hobo Dinners, Ziti Pasta with Chicken, Chicken Alfredo, Cheesy Ham and Potatoes, Stuffed Shells,

and Mini Quiche's. Some of these were new recipes so not sure how we will like them. Some things I froze in these metal baking dish's but a lot of what I made I just put in Ziplocs, then when we get ready to bake it we can thaw and put it in a glass baking dish.

I'm sure your probably thinking this took me all day, but it really didn't. From start to finish it took about 4 hours, although there was occasional breaks for changing diapers and things like that. Of course when I was done I had a dishwasher (and sink) full of dish's but the way I see it, its easier to do a bunch at once than do them every night after I (or Matt) cooks. In the end I had 16 meals to go in the freezer. These will probably last us longer than a month, since we don't cook every night, and there may be some leftovers. All in all I think this might be something I keep up.