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Showing posts with label Tackle It Tuesday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tackle It Tuesday. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

November Freezer Cooking/Baking Day

It looks like everyone is cooking up a storm this week!! Crystal at Money Saving Mom and Jessica at Life As Mom are hosting a Freezer cooking/Baking day today and tomorrow. While everyone else is starting their freezer cooking today, I'll begin mine tomorrow and finish Friday. I did my shopping for the month today so my pantry is stocked and ready to go. Here is a list of what I hope to accomplish.
Baking List:
  1. Pinto beans for the freezer
  2. Refried beans for the freezer
  3. Rice for the freezer
  4. Waffles for the freezer (x 2)
  5. Cooked chicken for the freezer
  6. Cooked hamburger meat for the freezer
  7. Hamburger patties for the freezer
  8. Chocolate chip cookies
  9. Heath bar cookies
  10. Peanut butter cookies
  11. Deviled eggs

Master To-Do List:

Wednesday-

  1. Soak beans overnight (Tuesday night)
  2. Soak rice overnight (Tuesday night)
  3. Put beans in crockpot
  4. Put rice in rice cooker
  5. Put chicken in crockpot
  6. Mix up waffle batter
  7. Start baking waffles
  8. Fry up hamburger meat
  9. Make up hamburger patties and flash freeze
  10. Do a quick clean up
  11. De-bone chicken and chop up
  12. Make refried beans
  13. Bag everything up for the freezer
  14. Clean up

Friday-

  1. Defrost cookie dough in freezer (Thursday night)
  2. Boil eggs
  3. Mix up chocolate chip cookie and start baking
  4. Mix up peanut butter cookies and continue baking
  5. Prepare deviled eggs
  6. Put everything in airtight containers and clean up

All of Friday's cooking is for Thanksgiving dinner with my family on Saturday.



Tuesday, August 25, 2009

15+ Meal Ideas for Menu Planning


The Happy Housewife is hosting Menu Planning 101 at her blog this month. Her first challenge was to come up with your top 15 meals that your family enjoys. I missed being able to link up to that post so I decided to show you what I do when coming up with meal ideas.


I recently compiled all of our favorite meals to one list and printed it for my Home Management Binder. I also like to use the websites like allrecipes.com and recipezaar.com when I'm needing to use certain ingredients for a meal. Here is my meal ideas master list.


Tacos
Grilled Chicken Sandwich
Fajitas (chicken, beef or mixed)
Nachos (chicken or beef)
Poppy Seed Chicken
Taco salads
Pineapple Chicken
Enchiladas (chicken or cheese)
Creamy Chicken Noodle
Mexican Chicken
Fish Sticks/Fillets
Mexican Spaghetti
Red beans and Rice w/ Polish Sausage
Fried Rice
Chicken Noodle Soup
Loaded Baked Potato
Vegetable Beef Soup
Tuna/Salmon Patties
Cheesy Potato Soup
Crock pot Chicken w/ Honey Mustard Sauce
Chicken Tortilla Soup
Beef Stew
Chicken and Rice
Chili
Chicken and Dressing
Spaghetti
Grilled Chicken Breast
Lasagna
Breaded Chicken Tenders
Parmesan Chicken
Chicken Nuggets
Pizza
Meatloaf
Chicken Alfredo
Ravioli (cheese or beef)
Chicken Tetrazzini
Sloppy Joes
Salisbury Steaks
Cube Steak
Steak
Beef BBQ
Hamburgers
Brisket
Roast
Ribs
Baked Ham
Turkey Roast
Pork Tenderloin
Turkey/Chicken Pot Pie
Sub Sandwiches
Breakfast/Waffles/Pancakes
Beans and Cornbread
Beef Stroganoff
Grilled Chicken Salad
BBQ Chicken
BBQ Pork
Chicken and Dumplings
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