Now you might think this is going to be a post where I enthusiastically tell you about how I started bulk cooking meals and freezing them and my life is changed forever and is now a million times better.
I mean, I’m sure it would be if that’s what I was doing (at least that’s what 345,987 websites out there tell me will happen) but no, I haven’t started purposely making meals and freezing them for later. I’ve thought about it many times. I like the idea of the finished product in the freezer. But when it comes to devoting a day to cooking those meals… well frozen pizza’s are a good emergency stand by and I can throw them in my shopping cart in 25 seconds or less.
No freezer meals for us, until today… the day that shall forever be known as AGGGHHH-the-blankity-blank-blank-freezer-died-while-we-were-out-of-town day.
Remember these guys?
They were in the freezer.
Remember these guys?
One of them was in the freezer too.
The last of that was in the freezer too.
…
Fortunately not everything thawed.
Fortunately the neighbors are letting us use their chest freezer today.
Fortunately all the freezers everywhere are on sale.
Fortunately I was able to spend the afternoon (and probably tomorrow too) cooking what did thaw and putting it back in a freezer.
And so today I accidentally fell into making freezer meals. I’m sure I will love to pull something out of our new, actually freezing-cold, freezer and heat it up for dinner. And while I’m certain this isn’t at all the way one is supposed to go about this endeavor, I can’t say that today’s experience has made me a believer in freezer meals.
I’m not sure though, maybe it will make my life a million times better, I think I’ll go cook up another ten pounds of taco meat and think it over…