Shelley and I have just finished up our very first bulk-cooking day, and it's been wonderful! Aside from the fact that my feet are KILLING me, we accomplished all that we set out to do this morning, and we now have in the freezer:

3 13x9 pans of lasagna
3 beef-potato pies
3 meat loaves
2 meals of shredded beef taco filling
2 meals of marinated round steak
2 meals of honey-mustard pork chops
3 meals of beef stroganoff

We're SO proud of ourselves! We decided early in the day, based on a couple of factors, not to try to do our chicken dishes on the same day as our beef and pork, and that was WAAAAY the right decision. We're tired but not exhausted and we still think we might actually like to do this again, which for me is the measure of whether or not we were successful!

We've put away 18 meals for use on coming school days, and in the next few days we'll do a dozen or so chicken meals...and I will for sure be scheduling these days once every couple of months. It was very satisfying, plus (for me) a very nice mother-daughter day. Shelley keeps angling for some kind of compensation (two cats), but in truth she was not only an invaluable partner but a fun companion. Not to mention that I think she learned a lot today!

Labels: Food, Homemaking, Kids