Really, I can be such a silly person.

[kyrielle]

Just did grocery shopping. I was APPALLED at the cost since I only bought enough to make two dishes.

Then I had to shake myself. Because I am not cooking two small meals. I am cooking two humongous dishes to take apart and freeze so that we can eat better when busy. It's probably 2 weeks worth of main dishes, for pity's sake, and enough veggies in for maybe 1/4 to 1/2 of those meals. Of course it cost more than my usual 3-6 serving stuff does.

I am SUCH a ditz some days.

Comments

[mdlbear]

My mom used to do that. She'd make a huge pot of spaghetti sauce or chili, or a huge pile of hamburger patties, and put almost all of it in the freezer in meal-sized packages. Then she'd haul them out over the next month or two.

Come to think of it, that wouldn't be such a bad idea for me.

[kyrielle]

It seems serviceable. And I don't really enjoy cooking although I love the results, so this gives me a better return for an acceptable-but-not-fun activity. Plus, honestly, I cook every week or two and not more no matter what I try, the rest is from the freezer. At least if I cook enough to freeze, I will be eating better food than frozen dinner trays. :P

susandennis hires someone to come in and do the same sort of thing. She probably gets a bit more variety than I'm going for initially; I'm sticking with basic and easily repurposed meals. (This time around, roast leg of lamb and an oven-cooked beef 'pot roast'. That should give me meat for other smaller recipes, meat to eat as a roast, meat for sandwiches....)

[roadskoller.livejournal.com]

That's what we're going to start doing.
While Stan was home, he'd make too much for one dinner and then freeze a single dinner's worth.
When he left, I barely had to set foot out of the house, and it was really good.
You're saving money!!

[kyrielle]

AND eating better (health-wise and taste-wise). Those commercial frozen dinners are lousy compared to this (and I say that as someone who can, absent other options, eat them quite happily - but try a lean cuisine or a stouffer's tray against home-made leg of lamb!).