My freezer was lacking precooked ground beef so I made it a point to restock this weekend.  I had 15 pounds of raw ground beef in the freezer already…from my shopping trip I described last weekend.  However…I never got around to cooking the meat, so into the freezer it went last Tuesday.  Sunday afternoon I cleared an hour on my calendar and made a point of getting it done.  I used my large steamer and cooked 5 pounds at a time.  While it cooked, I took advantage of time in the kitchen and straightend up a few cabinets.  All the while I couldn’t shake a chocolate craving…so I then pulled out 2 HG Chocolate Chunk cookie mixes and made some cookies (afterall…the oven was empty and I had the time while my beef cooked!).  I cooked a dozen for me and the kids and then filled a cookie sheet with preballed dough, covered it with foil and put it in the freezer.  This morning I scooped up the frozen balls and put them into a freezer back for individual cookies as needed. 

 After my beef finished cooking, my daughter helped me scoop 2 cup portions into bags for the freezer (yes…I used the cookies as a bribe!) Done! Now I have a freezer full of choices.  Fifteen pounds of ground beef, several bags of frozen chicken for quick casserole or 4 meals in 4 minutes meals, as well as a few pounds of stew meat for that day when we get our first cold front and I am inspired to make stew!  This will last me a good 30 days before I need to think about what’s for dinner.  I love having choices in the freezer with HG mixes on the pantry shelf.  I don’t know what I would do without them!  How about you?!

God Bless

Tami

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