One Month Large Family Meal Plan | Cleaning out the Freezers!
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- Опубліковано 5 сер 2018
- Meals for August
Fried Catfish
Turkey Burgers
Antelope Sausage Hash
Pizza
Grilled Elk Ribeye
Lasagna
Pork chops with veggies
Ham and Cheese frittata
Grilled Chicken thighs & green bean casserole
Garlic Lemon Shrimp Pasta
Blackened Catfish
Crockpot Roast
Spaghetti
Elk Tacos
Paninis
Parmesan tilapia
Burgers
Sausage and artichoke pasta
Chopped Salad
Moose Ribeye (recipe?)
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Absolutely nothing wrong with leftovers, poor or not poor, it’s responsible use of food and not creating more waste
The bottom drawer of my freezer is totally leftovers,nothing wrong with them.
Liked it so much ate it twice 😋😋
I could not stop laughing when you said "if you use it, I won’t have it anymore". I feel the same way. And leftovers are AWESOME! Usually better the next day anyway.
Words of a true couponer lol.when you partake from our stockpile
I TOTALLY get the ,"If I use it, I won't have it anymore" panic. I thought I was the only one.🤤
T M me too that is why I've had food insecurities as when I was a kid there was some times where the cupboards were bare and the fridge had empty spots now my fridge is never empty which can be a problem as well.
Always weekly meal plan Christine! It’s not lazy. Too much can change in a month to ruin the whole plan. You’re doing it right!
I love leftovers! In fact I often make enough food so that we can eat it the next day, and if I can get away with it, I dump a can of tomatoes in it and we have it a third day! Who doesn't love leftovers?!! Cheap and easy!
My 8 year old request many different dishes for dinner so she can have leftovers
in her lunch ie-meatloaf, sweet and sour chicken or meatballs etc.
My uncle HATES leftovers. My aunt used to host Thanksgiving dinner and would never have enough for everyone because she had to make sure there was nothing left....who doesn't eat Thanksgiving leftovers??
You guys are so cute together! "I'm IN the room!" Buhahahahahah!
If there’s a food shortage, I will definitely go too Christine’s freezer. Thanks again for your interesting video!! 👍🏻👍🏻
I started a 2 week meal rotation. So when week 2 ends, I just start again with week 1. I have it posted on my fridge and will probably use it for 6 weeks and get bored and make a new 2 week rotation with new foods on it. It makes life a little easier than trying to make a unique dinners for 25 nights in a month. This way I'm only making like 12 different meals and only have to have ingredients for those 12 meals which simplifies my shopping too.
Melanie Marie you need to share lol what a great idea!
Planning on buying a deep freeze this year. Would love to have 3. One for beef, one for pork, one for chicken and an upright for fruit and veggies. Christine don't forget to adjust your canning time for your altitude. Add 10 minutes for 5000 above sea level.
Love seeing you and your husband’s relationship!
Glad I am not the only one who has loads in.
Love leftovers!! It frees you up for more fun things❤️
you don't have a halo problem, you have unopened halos in your freezers..I on the other hand do. The WHOLE PINT is consumed shortly after I unpack the groceries..hence why I can't bring it into my home. LOL.
I weekly meal plan (but there is just me now so it makes it easier, and I meal prep sunday for the whole week)
Love your meal plan for the month👍💕
Accurate! Have 4 frezzers myself lol. Thank you so much Christine for the laughs as well as the inspiration! ❤️Love your channel! 🤣For the record halo top is bomb💕happy anniversary! We meal plan, weekly and monthly depending on sales and how stocked are. Whatever works I say😊
I monthly meal plan but will switch what I have on different days throughout themonth. Monthly helps when you work because you have more ideas in front of you to pick from without having to think lol! I am to tired to think after work!
We are also trying to eat off the freezer and are buying mostly produce now.
Ya'll are Soo cute. Also Great idea, eating what you have!!!Smart family!!
I do a monthly meal plan. Makes it easier with my working and the kids going back to school.
Omg you and your husband are so cute lol 😊😊❤
I do my meal plans about 2-3 weeks at a time, based on how many weeks it will be between shopping trips. :)
You guys have an easy 6 mos of food! I love the feeling of clearing out stock and then finding deals to restock. I do weekly hauls on my channel.
Haha I love that you mentioned Amy from everybody loves raymond! 😂 that is one of my favorite TV shows lol
I am just so happy someone recognized that reference!!!! :)
Freezer goals. One day I will get one and learn to shop for freezer foods. 😁
Hahahaha! Lol! You’ve motivated me to go see what’s in my deep freezer in my garage- I never thought to take a piece of paper and pen to inventory what I have- wow. 😆😆 brilliant!
PS I had never heard of monthly meal planning till I subscribed to your channel. I tried weekly and sometimes just the thought of being tied to a plan for food made me think- ugh I’m not in the mood for ____. I’m trying the weekly planning again but a month is too much commitment for me I guess.
Never had any of that meat. Your hubby is so funny! When he found the Halo top I laughed so hard!
Love it!! I really need to do this. I’ve got some hidden HALO deep in the abyss 😂 I also have an addiction to good deals.
Looks like a marathon cherry jelly canning session! The Halo Top and the bulk of wild game and Dave stating he didnt kill any of it😂
Not trying to be snarky or mean-spirited in any way: Could you organize your freezers and have a fruit/veg freezer and a meat freezer? Things tend to get lost if they're all jumbled together and it'd be easier to find stuff if you divide and conquer. Have a good day Christine!
Ideally, YES! I've always wanted to do something like that but never found the time. I'm having a hard time keeping up with the laundry, let alone freezer organization. Hopefully when they are emptier I can do that. :)
It doesn't have to be 1 big project though - I hate big projects. I'd rather work 2 minutes a day on something for a month than sit down and try to hammer through everything all at once. All ya gotta do is every time you open your freezer take a bag or 2 of fruit to the other freezer or vice versa - which I'm also working on organizing my own food storage. Just trying to be helpful, ain't trying to preach. You do you. I'm a work in progress as well.
I actually use my refrigerator freezer for my veggies and my deep freeze for my meat. I cannot stand to have it all piled together lol. My family won't touch my freezers because they know how anal I am about them.
This is sooo me!!! I have been eating from the freezer for 2 months and still haven't found the bottom lol!!
kelly vasquez me too I've done that a challenge basically all summer of eating low spend and not buying a lot of stuff for the freezer and I keep on eating stuff from the freezer and it makes a big batch of something and I end up having to freeze leftovers so I'm circulating the stuff in the freezer but I haven't even seen the bottom and my freezers too deep for me to really get to the bottom of a lot of effort LOL
Christine - you are crazy funny - love ya.
I have a meal for each day for 3 whole months. Feeding, my husband, myself, and 3 little boys (5,4,2). Im Italian, I naturally cook for a huge family, I did try to cook small and never works, learnt to cook from my grandmother and now it’s just her and my grandfather she still cooks for an army. I always freeze any leftovers as extra lazy day meals, or if they are also dog friendly the dogs will have it.
I can’t stand wasted food. Drives bananas.
I have 3 frezzers also need to do this also!!
Moose, antilope, and elk meats.... it makes me very nervous!!!! Hahahaha😝😝
I never even heard of anyone eating moose!!! Lol.. also, u and ur husband are so cute and funny together
Loved your freezers! I need to purchase one though not sure where I'd put it. Guess that comes first. I've been checking on FB freezer sales and so far the prices are very close to new prices, so I'll keep an eye out. We live in a very tiny home with carport so not sure where I'll keep it. Since our fridge is also very small, freezer space is limited :( What we have here is a dilemma!
Great video
I love leftovers!
I don't "meal plan" per say. Life happens too much & my plans go out the window. Even weekly plans get tossed due to life. Some weeks day to day plans get tossed which is frustrating.
So my planning tends to be based off what fresh produce I can find at the store for an acceptable price. Or what we have in the pantry that's getting old.
Some plans are based on I don't want to cook or clean pots & pans for a few days so I make a big batch of soup, spaghetti or lasagna or something & eat that for 3-4 days. Speaking of which, I need to wash my pot finally. (Last week was a I don't want to cook or clean & we had pasta that needs using week - 2 birds, 1 stone!)
I want a second fridge or freezer...but then I remind myself I only "need" it for like 2 weeks of the year. I would waste so much food with freezer burn or produce getting forgotten so I make do with our fairly good sized fridge. I don't like telling myself no on a deal for food, but I know we don't need more of whatever yet. (Unless it's like 90% off...I will MAKE room then.)
I would have loved to see the meals made, like the catfish and the exotic meats (Elk, Moose, etc.). And nothing wrong with leftovers. I love leftovers! As a single person, I portion my meals when I go out and generally end up with 1-2 servings I can eat on a different day. I do the same thing at home, it's hard to cook just 1 portion, so I make 2-4 and eat them. Of course, I am the type of person who doesn't mind eating the same thing for multiple meals.
I don't meal plan period. My youngest is about to leave for college so I'm gonna seriously try and do it when he's gone. My husband is the self proclaimed leftover eater. He will eat almost anything actually. One of my daughters never would eat leftovers. Some things are better the next day or two, like lasagna. TFS.
DONNA STRATTON
My husband is the same. Yes lasagna and some other casserole type dishes are better a day or two later.
This is so me I have a 6 foot freezer and two fridges and I have lots of food in my pantry and on my shelves in the basement. I've done a low spend June and July and I'm doing pretty much hardly spend August as I want to eat up the stuff in my fridge before we go away near the end of the month. in June I cut my 800 to $900 grocery budget to $200 and in July I cut my budget to 400-450 I believe instead of my regular budget the extra money I gave back to Hubby to put on debt period in August since one of my paydays for grocery money will be while we are away we will use that money to buy stuff away and other pay I will only be buying things like cat food and cat litter coffee and cream just stuff to tie us till the end of the month and just keep on using stuff as my garden is growing lots of veggies faster than we were eating
I don’t think it’s a problem the way the prices are we need to stock up I feel.
Oh and Amy from Everyone Loves Raymond. My favorite bedtime tv show. Especially if I watch anything scary earlier. I call it "puppy and rainbows time" after scary tv LOL.
I don't meal plan at all but really want to...just haven't yet.
I love green bean casserole
You and me both!
After you make your list of "products" available, do you go through your mental recipe list to create your recipe calendar, do you google recipes, or what? Where do you get your inspiration for your recipes? I try to "cook from the freezer" too, but I end up creating a list of grocery items that's nearly as long as if I had just created my recipes list from scratch. Thanks!
It's a little bit of both. I mostly use my mental list, but if I draw a blank I pull some of my favorite cookbooks or "the book". which is a handwritten journal of my favorite recipes I've collected over the years.
I do weekly meal plan & who doesn't like leftovers that guy has to be crazy that's commenting that on your videos and man let me just say how lucky you guys are to have Wildgame I want to move to Idaho
You guys are too cute together 💖
Can you designate one freezer for Meat, Fish; another for Fruits, Vegetables; third Dairy-Milk, Cheese,Bread, Ice Cream- Desserts
Antelope sausage yum sounds interesting and calling hubby a psycho is so like me LOL
😆 @ the elk problem your neighbour had
Is it wrong that all I can think of while watching this video is that I want to organize your freezers......lol
You and me both! :)
@frugalfitmom could you make the chest freezer all meat and bread, garage freezer fruit and kitchen freezer veggies? Maybe buy a small freezer on marketplace and hide it in the garage or closet for a secret halo stockpile?
The commentary on this video is killing me.....🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's not crazy, if you eat the food you don't have it anymore. I tell my daughter the same thing
Left-over haters don’t take into consideration, we let things marinade to absorbs & disperse flavor.
Left-overs are just a little longer marinade time.
Now freeze your leftovers, put it in another dish next time & pass it off as new. Ta Da!!!!
"I don't have a problem!"
Ummmm...ya sure? 🤔 👀
Why you got all this odd meat!?!
I want a deep freezer so badly but we’re out of room in our garage thanks to all our bicycles 😭 #firstworldproblems
we also have a bike issue :)
try some kangaroo meat :)