I have a confessiong to make…last night there was not a single Homemade Gourmet item on my dinner table (GASP!!!).  My daughter called me at work around 5:00 to ask if there was something she was supposed to be doing for dinner.  It was only at that moment that I realized I had not taken a meal from the freezer to put in the slow cooker.  I had just come home from a 4 day business trip and it was the last thing on my mind that morning.  She was wanting to make open faced meatball sandwiches…but we were out of precooked Italian Mozzarella Meatballs in the freezer.  So I told her that she could use the shredded roast in the freezer to make open faced French dip sandwiches.  Great…problem solved. 

 Ring…it’s my sweet daughter on the phone again, “Mom, we don’t have any shredded roast in the freezer”.  Ugh…when did we eat that!?  I was sure we had some.  Ok…I’m out of ideas so I tell her to be creative and surprise me when I get home. 

I arrive home about 2 hours later to a teenage daughter on the phone with the latest social crisis on her hands (any of you with teenage girls knows exactly what I came home to !).   Off to the kitchen I go…surely I, the founder of Homemade Gourmet, have something to serve my family fast and easy!!! 

 Now…it is still HOT here in Texas, so soup just wasn’t something our family wanted for dinner.  In fact…salad was all I could think of that sounded good this hot Texas night.  So I go to the freezer to find some sort of precooked meat to toss with a refreshing salad.  TAco meat, cooked chicken, left over steak…something.  Alas…with all my traveling these last few weeks…my freezer has been depleted.  All except for a package of precooked breaded chicken patties from Swansons.  Into the oven they went as I prepared a salad to top with slices of the breaded chicken breasts.  Dinner was delightful, but as I sat listening to my family chat about their days since I had been gone…I was lamenting the fact that I did not have Homemade Gourmet Italian Mozzarella breaded chicken breasts in my freezer to top this salad. 

I’m off to Colorado for the rest of the week…but you can be sure the next week will be a fill your freezer weekend at the VanHoy household!!! So help me out…tell me your favorite freezer stocking ideas that I can use when I get back in town!!! 

 God Bless and Keep You!

Tami

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