Tasty Tuesday

Freezer Meals

(No, this is not my freezer. I wish. It is just an image of the Internet.)

Over at Life as Mom Fishmama is posting about her freezer cooking day for the month. She has recipes, short cuts ,and hilarious updates on her cooking day. To see more of her posts on freezer cooking go here.

If you want a chance to win a book on freezer cooking go check out The Bargain Jargon. Christy is having a give away. The book is Fix, Freeze, Feast: Prepare in Bulk and Enjoy by the Serving by Kati Neville and Lindsay Tkacsik.

As for me I am hoping to make some yummy potato soup and freeze it. I know BIG huh? LOL!

What do you like to make ahead and freeze? What works for you and what didn't work out so well?

Thrifty Thursday

I have got nothing this week so I am sending you over to Christy's wonderful blog!!

The Bargain Jargon

Also check out ALL the blogs in the frugal living catagory on the left hand side bar!!

Tasty Tuesday

What's in your freezer?

We recently did a little freezer stock up. In the top picture you will see our meat supply. On the top right is my sadly dwindling ground beef supply. Next to that is two freezer bags that have 4 vacuum sealed bags of cubed up ham. Next to that are 12 or so vacuum sealed bags of ham slices.

The lower shelf is my chicken shelf. I did two huge chicken breast per bag. I portion all my vacuum sealed bags out to a dinner size. Here is some great information on freezing meat.

This is my cheese drawer. I recently got a little stock of pepper jack. So I cut it into 1lb. blocks and sealed it up. For more info on freezing cheese go here.

I LOVE reusing boxes to organize all my food storage why should the freezer be different. :) I do NOT consider my freezer food storage. 3 month maybe but nothing more. I however do not can meat as of this moment so I gotta have it some where. I buy my meat and most cheeses in bulk and then use my handy dandy food saver to vacuum seal it for my freezer.

If you are interested in learning more about a Food Saver check out this post on Christy's Bargain Jargon blog. YES she found a great deal on these!!

All About Food Storage also has a great post about using your food saver for more than your freezer. I forgot mine could do this!!

Food Storage Friday

More than Food Storage

Organize yourselves; prepare every needful thing;

Doctrine and Covenants 88:119

I have been wanting to talk about other items to store for a while and as I was reading Christy's blog today I thought, "PERFECTION". So for today go here.

Money Monday

Budgets

This was my goal this week to make a budget to begin using in March. So last night I sat down and did it. I realised we had more money to use than we thought and now I have found a home for it. Sadly it will go to reducing our debt (evil debt grrr!). So there you go. If you do not have a budget get one. If you have one revise it, unless you were smarter than me and did this in January. Either way live by it!!

Here is a great budget guide to get you started.

bills.com has a free download and some great information on understanding how budgets can work for you.

And of course The bargain Jargon has these treats of budgeting wisdom to offer. Do you have a budget? & More on budgets !