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Dangerous Wonder
Mar. 10, 2008
Organizing My Kitchen part 1
It has been my goal for quite some time now to get my kitchen running smoothly. I have been clipping recipes, making lists of favorite meals, trying to get a schedule for our crew together, watching mom's of large families (on t.v.) buy food for a month and reading whatever I could find on how to do it. All I have to say is that it is a lot of work and requires a lot of brain space! Some days I have more brain power than others.
One day 2 weeks ago, I decided I was just going to try buying enough food for our family of 5 for a month. With help from my kids we headed into our favorite big box wholesale club and loaded our cart with food. The next day I went to our local big box grocery store and loaded another cart full of food. With our cabinets packed, our laundry room cramped with the excess food, outside freezer and fridge full...I sat back and thought wow! It feels as though we actually have food in the house for a change! LOL! Thus begins the work of getting everything ready for a month's worth of storage.
I had never really wanted to brown large amounts of ground beef, but somewhere at sometime I had read about a woman who does this and freezes it! For a gal that had always frozen her beef, thawed and then cooked...I thought I would give it a try!
To my great joy, I can now say that I have successfully cooked 6 pounds of ground beef at one time with chopped onions and no seasoning. It is all carefully packaged in freezer bags resting in my freezer. The other 3 pounds became Swedish Meatballs right away because we hadn't done that in a long while. The meatballs smelled so good we had to eat them for supper that night. The ground beef is still safely tucked away in the freezer except for 1 bag that I used today for the world's fastest lasagna making in the west! I felt like a gun slinger for sure!
Even if I hadn't shopped for most of my groceries for the month, having a stock-pile of pre-cooked ground beef in the freezer was enough to make this mama do a victory dance because of speed and ease of the process for our latest meal! YEE-HAW can I get a HALLELUJAH!!!
Catch me next time for more on our latest victories in the kitchen!
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