FFH 009: Stock Your Freezer with Easy Freezer Cooking
Stocking your freezer with ready to make meal packages can be a real life saver during a busy time of year. I know in the summer I would much rather be enjoying the great weather instead of being stuck in the house in a hot kitchen cooking. To help save time and money, not only in the summer but all year round, I stock up my freezer with easy freezer cooking items.
If you’ve tried once a month freezer cooking you might be thinking, no thank you. I don’t have a whole weekend to prepare a bunch of meals for the month. I hear you. I didn’t like once a month cooking at all. I always ended up spending more money than I usually would and I would just be so tired on cooking day. I knew I needed to find a better way.
That’s when I turned to making my freezer meals in batches when I found the meat on sale. It made the process so much more manageable. I always have some sort of meal starts in the freezer for our meals. Plus I save money by stocking up when I find the meat on sale.
Stock Your Freezer with Easy Freezer Recipes for Summer
In today’s Frugal Family Home podcast, I’m sharing how I stock the freezer for summer. Making it so much easier to get dinner done during the busy summer months. After listening to the podcast if you’re inspired to try your own freezer cooking you can find the links to the recipes below.
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Here’re links to a few of the freezer cooking recipes that our family loves. They are all easy to make and are summer heat friendly, but we enjoy all year round.
8 Chicken Freezer Meals in an Hour
8 Pork Freezer Meals in an Hour
Teriyaki Chicken
Brown Sugar Steaks
Herb Rubbed Steaks
Slow Cooker Roast Beef
French Dip Sandwiches
Cheeseburger Skillet
Macaroni Skillet
Slow Cooker Beef and Bean Enchiladas
Easy Hamburger Slow Cooker Dish
Do you freezer cook? What is your favorite meal or meal start to make when you cook for the freezer?
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I love that you shared easy, practical recipes in the podcast, Shelly. I don’t really freezer cook, but I can see how these tips and recipes would be super helpful for those that buy meat more regularly than we do. 🙂
Thanks Sandra!
I used to freezer cook for a while, which was a great time saver. Unfortunately, we had several week-long power outages a few years in a row, and I lost a ton of food due to our freezer not having power. Now I’m a bit leery of filling my freezer so full, but perhaps I can try a few meals at a time this summer. It would be great to be able to pull a freezer bag out and dump it into the crockpot!
Week-long power outages are not good for a fully stocked freezer. We don’t have many outages here and we do have a backup generator if we did. But I can understand why you wouldn’t do much freezer cooking when power outages happen in your area.