Here's what I did on Saturday

For some time I have been wanting to stock my freezer with a few meals that are ready to cook. I thought this would be really nice on days I work, especially if I am working late. I have heard another reason to do this is to have meals in the freezer to bring to others when someone is sick or needs a meal for any other reason. Another benefit to this is: there is less waste - is you are making multiple meals you are more likely to use your fresh ingredients and not have them rot later. The clean up is also a little less since you are able to use things like measuring spoons, cups.. several times, and things like hamburger can all be browned together. Anyway - I have been collecting recipes from magazines and other blogs for a while. I had Saturday off and thought it was a good time to try this out. I found 4 recipes that had good reviews and started cooking. Before beginning the cooking I started defrosting my freezer. I wanted a nice clean shelf to stock my finished product on.

Here is my first dish:

This is Spaghetti Casserole. I have made this before and my family likes it. It does freeze well and tastes great after freezing.

I then put together these packages of Orange Teriyaki Chicken. This one was really quick and easy. It will need to be grilled when we are ready to try it.

This is called Crowd Pleaser Casserole. It didn't make quite as much as the other recipes but will give our small family 2 meals.

While I was working on the other recipes I started this soup simmering. It is called Cheesy Chicken Soup and it smelled really good.

Here is my nice clean freezer - it is now stocked with 8 meals that are almost ready to eat!

I was surprised by how quickly these meals went together. Because you can often have more than one thing going, it only took about 4 hours to get these done.

After finishing the meals I made some peanut butter cookies and added some chocolate kisses that were left from Christmas. I thought this was a good way to get rid of those kisses!

All the recipes for these meals are linked to their names. Hopefully they will be a hit with my family, but you never know. After we try them I will post a review with the recipes to let you know if I will be making them again.