Here's what I ended up with:
From the Betty Crocker's Fix-It-Fast: Family Favorites Cookbook:
- Super-Easy Chicken Manicotti
- Gingered Apricot Chicken Breasts
- Almond-Stuffed Pork Chops (1 recipe = 2 meals for us)
- Rice and Onion Chicken Casserole
- Creamy Pork Chops
- Spicy Pork Chops
- Generic pork chops - for broiling with seasoned salt, steak seasoning, salt & pepper
- 2 meal/servings of cut chicken breast - for all those recipes that call for "canned chicken breast" that my frugalness & natural tendency gets freaked out about.
- Pancakes - the green tub has an extra batch I made at breakfast time for my hubby to eat in the mornings if he so chooses.
My kitchen during the cooking - Yikes!
With all of this food, it will probably take us a good 3 weeks to get through the 10 meals. I plan to supplement these pre-prepped meals with easy-to-cook standards like spaghetti, chicken nuggets, and burritos. Additionally, I already had a meal of chicken spaghetti in the freezer and am in the process of making baked potato soup (with extra to freeze). This should limit our eating out to 1-2 times per week instead of 4-5. Love it!
This really was super easy, but I learned a few things:
- I need to organize my freezer and pantry - they have become way out-of-hand and we got the call from the "random" licensing inspector (took care of the pantry today!). As you can see, the freezer space is limited.
- My freezer doesn't hold a 13 x 9 inch pan. Note the top shelf of the freezer - not sure that's safe but I'm planning to use on Friday, which meant thaw on Thursday night so we should be ok.
- I had way too much fundraiser cookie dough in the refrigerator! You can see one shelf with two tubs and some more in the door. This doesn't count the box I went through during the day when I made cookies for my husband to take to work to share with his buddies who had to go out in the cold.
And here's the kitchen before I was done - remember I mentioned clean-up time was included in the total-time I spent cooking. I had a paper to write before midnight so I had to leave it as it was here, but as you can see it wasn't too bad! Now, if only I can be cool enough to keep this up.
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