I'm Freezin'!!!!

Ever since I was little, I've loved being in the kitchen cooking and baking to my heart's content.  As much as I love to cook and bake, my schedule now is not nearly what it was even five years ago.  Now I'm a wife, mother, and have a full-time job, and have decided that I enjoy being involved in my church and community as well!  So I will freely admit that the thought of coming home after a long day and standing in the kitchen for an hour or two just doesn't seem to appeal as much to me anymore.

Enter the "lazy" cook's response: FREEZER MEALS!

Seriously though, as much joy as I find in slicing and dicing and coming up with new "creations," I just don't have the kind of time that I would like to devote to that type of cooking anymore.

Over the last several months, I've seen a ton of posts about freezer cooking and have found many blogs and sites that have a plethora of recipes to choose from and (yay for me!) some even include the grocery list! :)

A while back I decided to try doing a round of freezer cooking on my own.  About 3 hours and $150 later, and I had enough meals to last my family a month!  As rewarding as it was to do on my own, I decided "the more the merrier!"  So I asked a couple of friends if they wanted to try it with me and last weekend we got together and made 12 new meals EACH!  We had a blast!

The table was barely big enough to hold all of our pillage!

 36 meals total!

Here we are in all of our freezer-cooking, eyes-glazed-over, STARVING glory!

We definitely learned a few things that we'll need to change for the next round, but overall I would say that the experience was a success!

Heather