I feel many of us leave home with limited cooking skills. I was watching you and realised, a perfect wedding gift would be a Freezer Meal 101 Club membership. The newly weds could spend quality time selecting recipes, shopping, prepping and making the freezer meals. Then either one could select and cook the meal on the day.
You are so right! Here is the link for the gift certificate if anyone is inspired to do so. mealplan.freezermeals101.com/product/gift-one-year-freezer-meals-101-club-membership/
Hi from wintery Tasmania, Australia 🇦🇺 Ladies! Just wanted to thank you 🙏 as you have been my teachers on freezer meals the past few months. I make freezer meals for my adult son who is single and a care worker and quite often has 24 shifts. He can cook but no longer has the time or energy. He says the freezer meals he can bake, skillet or microwave have literally saved his life!! So a HUGE thank you from both of us ❤❤ he’ll like these sir fry ones 😀🐨
Oh that is so wonderful to hear! I'm so glad freezer meals have helped him. And hooray for Tasmania! Thanks so much for watching and for your lovely comment 💕
Loved your book section, I'll hopefully give you a laugh [this story dates from the 1980's], my Mum was disparaging romance novels to one of my sisters [quote... 'they're brain rot books!'], I walked in at the end of it and she said 'what do you think about these soft porn books?'.... my answer, ... [oh Ma you walked right into that one lol] 'Ma, you get some great hints! ' - sisters fell about laughing, disparaging remarks stopped :) We are a family of book lovers - though our tastes differ lol as a side note I love your freezer meals ... yum :) .... btw this is the Ma who 'volunteered' my typing skills to one of her friends to type up their thesis on The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky! ... my 16 year old snooze fest! - toughest typing I've ever had to do lolololol
That would be a typing CHORE! That bit with your mom and sister was hilarious. I don't care what my kids read, as long as they're reading. I was reading Stephen King when I was waaaay too young, but he definitely made a contstant reader of me!
My oldest son he is fixing to be 25 years old on June the 9th he has special needs and he absolutely loves watching y'all's cooking show as he calls it he calls you all the Canadian Duos😂
LADIES! I had an idea just now! You two should do a quesadilla video! Similar to the one that is all sliders of different varieties, but quesadillas! You have multiple recipes already, but you could put them together with a new one or two in a video of its own! Now I’m curious about all the quesadilla combinations that could work!
If you have a number of bags for a particular recipe you can put all the bags into a 1.5 or 2 gal plastic bag. I even put 2 identical recipes that did not result in very large bags into one larger bag. I guess I have an odd affinity for bags. 😊
Fantastic video! So excited to try the stir fry freezer meals! Oh my Yes, please Filipino food! Sinigang, anything adobo, lumpia(savory and sweet)! Thai food as well, anything Thai basil! Love the club! I’m going to make a stir fry freezer list! 😊 Also huge book fan! Audio or written anything goes! Love all the recs!
There is a Thai recipe with ginger cut in matchsticks used in stir fry. I love love love that dish! That would be a fun one to make a freezer meal out of!
I love "The Book Club". I need to join one in my area. I'm a picky reader. If I don't get into it in the first chapter, I loose interest. I like 1860s westerns and live books. I read The Hiding Place years ago. I need to read that again.
The Hiding Place was SUCH an interesting book! We like our book club chats too. I'm picky about the books I read except for book club books. If the book has been chosen, of course I'll finish it, even if it's a slog. But like you, if it's not grabbing me, I'll ditch it for something more interesting.
My husband came into our relationship knowing how to make a jazzed up Hamburger Helper and Kraft Dinner. I was a restaurant cook when we met. Boy did he ever hit the culinary jackpot LOL
I am on my 4th time through the little house series. This time, I'm reading it to my grandsons for homeschooling. I also use mainly audio books due to arthritis in my hands. I'm listening to a new to me author, and so far, her books are definitely young adult, but it's still a really enjoyable listen. The first series is called "The Vampire Wish" by Michelle Madow. My all time favorite book is "Johnathan Livingston Seagull" I don't know the author's name but I started listening to it as a bedtime story my mom read to me. I love hearing about books so y'all's mini book club is great...I already bought "The phone book at the end of the world" on audible just from your recommendation 😊. I also have all of the J.D. Rob books along with a whole bunch of romance. I also listen to a lot of historical romance and true history books. To say the least I have a wise range of book interests but I can't really get into any of Stephen King books mainly because I'm a scardy cat at heart lol. I ❤️ your videos and the club but then that goes along with my rather large cookbook collection and the fact that I just really love cooking! Thank you for all that you do for us and "happy cooking"
Aw thanks so much! That is a very wide range of books! I (Christie) just put a hold on Jonathan Livingston Seagull a few weeks ago because I've heard about it over the years and never read it. Maybe this summer I'll get to it. If you wanted to try a Stephen King book that isn't a horror, try 11/22/63. It's about a man who goes back in time to try prevent the assassination of President Kennedy. Wonderful book. Happy cooking and happy reading!
The book talk was super interesting! I've read most of the books you mentioned. I did enjoy Before the Coffee Gets Cold and read the sequels, but the writing is a bit odd.
Please, next time you do a video of freezer meals, complete the freezer meals before you jump into the books you're reading. I don't have time to read these days and would rather spend my time learning how to make more freezer meals. The stir-fry meals are a great idea. Thank you!
I love the stir fry meals and the chit chat is fabulous! I am a reader and am going to look for the 'beetle" book and the telephone one sounds worth read. Thank you for all you do.
Thanks for the staple removing tip! I lost one of my stapes in the meal once and had to go looking for it!! Note to self: Remove and throw away staple before opening the bag!
hi club is great I love it. I love watching y'all I don't cook much as I don't live on my own anymore but when my husband was alive, I used the club a lot he loved a lot of the meals in the club
Thanks so much for letting us know! Please accept our condolences for the loss of your husband. We have a lot of people follow us in the same position and after awhile they transition to making more individual servings. I hope the Club can still meet your needs that way. ♥️♥️
Stir Fry? Perfect! Healthy, light, easy, yummy...Great when the weather is hot and even when it's not! Make extra sauce - your family will thank me! Love you ladies! Keep on doing what you do! Peace!
There are a few thoughts behind this. The time doesn't matter so much as the purpose, IMO. When we are making a freezer meal with other ingredients, plus a sauce, we don't blanch. Partly because they seem to do better when there is a sauce and partly because we make so many meals, we don't have time to blanch anything. If I was harvesting my garden and planning to freeze the veggies, I would totally blanch them. If you want to blanch them, by all means, go ahead!
I am a newbie to the club. I am really loving it! It is so great! I think I will try the recipes first to make sure we like them and then the next week do the meal prep/freezer meals.
I LOVE the Hiding Place! I read the book numerous times as a teenager and have watched the movie several times as well. (Sorry, not a comment about your freezer meals...)
I feel many of us leave home with limited cooking skills. I was watching you and realised, a perfect wedding gift would be a Freezer Meal 101 Club membership. The newly weds could spend quality time selecting recipes, shopping, prepping and making the freezer meals. Then either one could select and cook the meal on the day.
You are so right! Here is the link for the gift certificate if anyone is inspired to do so.
mealplan.freezermeals101.com/product/gift-one-year-freezer-meals-101-club-membership/
Hi from wintery Tasmania, Australia 🇦🇺 Ladies! Just wanted to thank you 🙏 as you have been my teachers on freezer meals the past few months. I make freezer meals for my adult son who is single and a care worker and quite often has 24 shifts. He can cook but no longer has the time or energy. He says the freezer meals he can bake, skillet or microwave have literally saved his life!! So a HUGE thank you from both of us ❤❤ he’ll like these sir fry ones 😀🐨
Oh that is so wonderful to hear! I'm so glad freezer meals have helped him. And hooray for Tasmania! Thanks so much for watching and for your lovely comment 💕
Loved your book section, I'll hopefully give you a laugh [this story dates from the 1980's], my Mum was disparaging romance novels to one of my sisters [quote... 'they're brain rot books!'], I walked in at the end of it and she said 'what do you think about these soft porn books?'.... my answer, ... [oh Ma you walked right into that one lol] 'Ma, you get some great hints! ' - sisters fell about laughing, disparaging remarks stopped :) We are a family of book lovers - though our tastes differ lol as a side note I love your freezer meals ... yum :) .... btw this is the Ma who 'volunteered' my typing skills to one of her friends to type up their thesis on The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky! ... my 16 year old snooze fest! - toughest typing I've ever had to do lolololol
That would be a typing CHORE! That bit with your mom and sister was hilarious. I don't care what my kids read, as long as they're reading. I was reading Stephen King when I was waaaay too young, but he definitely made a contstant reader of me!
My oldest son he is fixing to be 25 years old on June the 9th he has special needs and he absolutely loves watching y'all's cooking show as he calls it he calls you all the Canadian Duos😂
I love that! Please tell him that the Canadian Duos say "hi"! 👋
LADIES! I had an idea just now! You two should do a quesadilla video! Similar to the one that is all sliders of different varieties, but quesadillas! You have multiple recipes already, but you could put them together with a new one or two in a video of its own!
Now I’m curious about all the quesadilla combinations that could work!
You're so right! We COULD do that!!! Stay tuned - it might just happen. lol
I just put the multiple bags in a big bag. I would absolutely forget to check staples
That works too!
If you have a number of bags for a particular recipe you can put all the bags into a 1.5 or 2 gal plastic bag. I even put 2 identical recipes that did not result in very large bags into one larger bag. I guess I have an odd affinity for bags. 😊
Lol, that's a lot of bags but if it's not weird if it works! 🤷♀️
Fantastic video! So excited to try the stir fry freezer meals! Oh my Yes, please Filipino food! Sinigang, anything adobo, lumpia(savory and sweet)! Thai food as well, anything Thai basil! Love the club! I’m going to make a stir fry freezer list! 😊 Also huge book fan! Audio or written anything goes! Love all the recs!
Awesome! I planted regular basil and Thai basil this year in my herb garden, so maybe we can come up with some new Thai recipes and Filipino food!
There is a Thai recipe with ginger cut in matchsticks used in stir fry. I love love love that dish! That would be a fun one to make a freezer meal out of!
I just started watching u ladies! U two crack me up! Thank you for doing this!
Yay! Welcome to the channel!
Love your book club ❤
I love "The Book Club". I need to join one in my area. I'm a picky reader. If I don't get into it in the first chapter, I loose interest. I like 1860s westerns and live books. I read The Hiding Place years ago. I need to read that again.
The Hiding Place was SUCH an interesting book! We like our book club chats too. I'm picky about the books I read except for book club books. If the book has been chosen, of course I'll finish it, even if it's a slog. But like you, if it's not grabbing me, I'll ditch it for something more interesting.
Ohhh Christie... 😆 I'm gonna be that person! Peppers are actually fruits! So yes you actually do blanch your fruit! 😆 nerd nerd nerd 🤓
True! 🤣🤣
CHRISTIE! I LOVE the Parasol Protectorate, and I've never known anyone else who also read it! Such fun books!
Oh Yay! They are such fun books! I haven't read any of Carrier's other books but I really like the Soulless series.
My husband came into our relationship knowing how to make a jazzed up Hamburger Helper and Kraft Dinner. I was a restaurant cook when we met. Boy did he ever hit the culinary jackpot LOL
Yes he did!!
Although I'm very curious what his idea of "jazzed up hamburger helper" was... 😂😂
I am on my 4th time through the little house series. This time, I'm reading it to my grandsons for homeschooling. I also use mainly audio books due to arthritis in my hands. I'm listening to a new to me author, and so far, her books are definitely young adult, but it's still a really enjoyable listen. The first series is called "The Vampire Wish" by Michelle Madow. My all time favorite book is "Johnathan Livingston Seagull" I don't know the author's name but I started listening to it as a bedtime story my mom read to me.
I love hearing about books so y'all's mini book club is great...I already bought "The phone book at the end of the world" on audible just from your recommendation 😊. I also have all of the J.D. Rob books along with a whole bunch of romance. I also listen to a lot of historical romance and true history books. To say the least I have a wise range of book interests but I can't really get into any of Stephen King books mainly because I'm a scardy cat at heart lol.
I ❤️ your videos and the club but then that goes along with my rather large cookbook collection and the fact that I just really love cooking! Thank you for all that you do for us and "happy cooking"
Aw thanks so much! That is a very wide range of books! I (Christie) just put a hold on Jonathan Livingston Seagull a few weeks ago because I've heard about it over the years and never read it. Maybe this summer I'll get to it.
If you wanted to try a Stephen King book that isn't a horror, try 11/22/63. It's about a man who goes back in time to try prevent the assassination of President Kennedy. Wonderful book.
Happy cooking and happy reading!
The Subtle Art of Not Giving an F***
Those Empty Eyes (or anything by Charlie Donlea)
Nice!
The book talk was super interesting! I've read most of the books you mentioned. I did enjoy Before the Coffee Gets Cold and read the sequels, but the writing is a bit odd.
Hooray for Book Club! I might try it again but I have a few other books on the go at the moment. It's probably worth another try.
Please, next time you do a video of freezer meals, complete the freezer meals before you jump into the books you're reading. I don't have time to read these days and would rather spend my time learning how to make more freezer meals. The stir-fry meals are a great idea. Thank you!
Good feedback, thanks!
If you like the fantasy stuff. Read Quinn Loftis. She's funny but there is some kinda spicy stuff.
Oooh! Thanks for the recommendation!
Or it identifies as an onion
hahaha
I love the stir fry meals and the chit chat is fabulous! I am a reader and am going to look for the 'beetle" book and the telephone one sounds worth read. Thank you for all you do.
So great! Thanks for watching and I hope you enjoy the books as much as the meals. :)
Thanks for the staple removing tip! I lost one of my stapes in the meal once and had to go looking for it!! Note to self: Remove and throw away staple before opening the bag!
We've all done it! 🤣
hi club is great I love it. I love watching y'all I don't cook much as I don't live on my own anymore but when my husband was alive, I used the club a lot he loved a lot of the meals in the club
Thanks so much for letting us know! Please accept our condolences for the loss of your husband. We have a lot of people follow us in the same position and after awhile they transition to making more individual servings. I hope the Club can still meet your needs that way. ♥️♥️
Is there a place where I can find a lift of your mini book club reads including the books you discussed in this video please ?
Shoot. We haven't written any of it down or anything. Sorry.
Lol the onion masquerade ball ❤
Stir Fry? Perfect! Healthy, light, easy, yummy...Great when the weather is hot and even when it's not! Make extra sauce - your family will thank me! Love you ladies! Keep on doing what you do! Peace!
Yes ma'am! So good!!!
I have a chopper so that's not an issue for me.
ACOTAR series is a good one to read and talk about with your friends!
I've been reading it with my nieces! It's been great. It's a fun series.
Does it matter when you're going to use it depend on weather you should blanch it?
There are a few thoughts behind this. The time doesn't matter so much as the purpose, IMO. When we are making a freezer meal with other ingredients, plus a sauce, we don't blanch. Partly because they seem to do better when there is a sauce and partly because we make so many meals, we don't have time to blanch anything. If I was harvesting my garden and planning to freeze the veggies, I would totally blanch them. If you want to blanch them, by all means, go ahead!
Audio books are a huge help because of eye issues. You gave me some ideas. Thank you!!!! 💓
Please post more in the future chats.🙏
Thank you! Will do!
There is a stapler that works with no staples. I believe it’s on Amazon.
Huh! We'll have to look into that! Great idea.
Talking about being old have to give the operator a 4 digit number to call someone
Times have changed! 😂
I feel
Old. We did not have internet till the 1990’s sometime. It was dial up when we got internet net. I’m 60 I’ll be 61 this year.
Oh we all feel old sometimes. But that's ok. Older and wiser is just fine by me.
@@FreezerMeals101 yep
You girls are cracking me up-masquerading as an onion-😂😂
😂
Love you girls ❤
How do I find y’all on goodreads??!
You can follow me here: www.goodreads.com/christie_weins
Love your book club talk.
Thanks!
Yay Libby! I'm I HUGE fan of Libby because it's free audio books!
Yes!!!
I am a newbie to the club. I am really loving it! It is so great! I think I will try the recipes first to make sure we like them and then the next week do the meal prep/freezer meals.
Welcome to the Club! That's a good strategy. You can make notes in the recipe as well so you can track what your family thought of it for next time.
Project Hail Mary was SO GOOD!!! ❤
Agree! Agree! Agree! Fist my bump! Lol
I LOVE the Hiding Place! I read the book numerous times as a teenager and have watched the movie several times as well. (Sorry, not a comment about your freezer meals...)
Book club only comments are allowed! 🥳
Oh... sorry
@@crisbush2034 She said "are" allowed so you are fine. Also, I agree great book