40+ Freezer to Crockpot Meals

I needed to work on food storage this week. I try to keep a months worth of meals on hand in case for some crazy reason we can't leave our home to go to the grocery store. I've been totally slacking lately. So I made the kids take inventory and figure out what we need. In the process, I decided to look up some recipes for some freezer meals. I'm not a fan of casseroles except for lasagna so I don't usually like the recipes online. But I found one website for 40 meals in 4 hours. You put all the ingredients into a Ziploc bags and then freeze them and when ready plop them into the crockpot. I looked through the ingredient list since I'm a picky eater and there was only one ingredient out of all the meals that I don't like-black beans. Crazy, I know since I'm married to a Cuban.

The twins suffered through a Sam's Club visit and a very long commissary run to buy all the ingredients. Then the boys went off to the movie with friends. That left Eric and Erin and a very unlucky friend, that was at my house at the wrong time, to help me with putting together these 40 meals. I thought maybe we'd take about an hour and a half since there were 4 of us but no, 2.5-3 hours to assemble them all. I had some grumpy teens by the end. But Erin had major incentive to keep going. She wanted to get to the pool and she needed me to drive her.

Now my freezer is full and I can enjoy the pool all summer long at my friend's house while dinner is home cooking in the crockpot. I even had Eric help me put together 4 lasagnas today to add to our meals. He asked me if I planned to leave for a very long trip. He couldn't figure out why I would do something like this when I never have in the past.

I'm exhausted now because we went on a ward campout last night too. I made Eric and Erin go too which they weren't happy about either. But they survived.

It feels good to get a lot of work done. Maybe I could get a lot of work done everyday if I didn't quilt. Now I just need to prepare nursery and temple prep lessons for tomorrow and get my house clean before temple prep tomorrow night. But first, it's time for a much needed NAP.