Thursday Leftovers: Breakfast Burritos

sausage and bacon breakfast burritos for the freezer

SAVE MONEY.  SAVE TIME.

If you never have time in the morning to make breakfast, try making these breakfast burritos on the weekend or day of the week when you have some time and then freeze them so you can grab them on those rushed mornings and eat them on your way to work [...]

Thursday Leftovers: Freezer Cooking- Burger Patties

how to make hamburger patties for freezing

With warmer weather on its way, I’m going to be needing to catch a sale on ground beef and make me some burger patties to freeze and have ready to throw on the grill.  Yum!  I love grilling season!

SAVE TIME.

I loooove spring/summer and warm weather.  It seems as though everything comes alive [...]

Freezer Cooking: Waffles

make waffles and freeze for later

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There’s nothing super fancy or groundbreaking about this post.  It’s simply one way I save myself time and our family money for breakfast.

Whenever I make waffles for breakfast, I always make a double or triple batch so I only have to get out the ingredients once, tools once, and [...]

Tuesday Tip: How to Keep your Pans with Freezer Cooking

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You can save yourself a lot of time and money with freezer cooking.  One of the downsides to freezer cooking is it uses up a lot of your pans if you’re making casseroles to freeze.

Nobody wants to go out and buy extra pans to do freezer cooking and you [...]

Freezer Cooking: Breakfast Burritos

sausage and bacon breakfast burritos for the freezer

SAVE MONEY.  SAVE TIME.

If you never have time in the morning to make breakfast, try making these breakfast burritos on the weekend or day of the week when you have some time and then freeze them so you can grab them on those rushed mornings and eat them on your way to work [...]

Freezer Cooking: Chicken Tetrazzini

recipe for cheese chicken tetrazzini

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Here’s a recipe for a chicken casserole dish I got from my mother-in-law.  It is easy to put together and I always get lots of compliments when I take it as a meal to someone.  This also freezes really well so I try to make a couple batches at a [...]

Tuesday Tip: Use a Straw for Added Freshness

how to freezer cook

If you’ve been doing some freezer cooking, you’ll enjoy this little tip: use a straw to suck out extra air before sealing up your freezer bags to help your food stay fresher longer.

Here are some other freezer cooking recipes you may want to check out:

Freezer Cooking: Chicken ‘N Vegetable Stir-Fry

best stir fry recipe

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This recipe was one I got from a co-worker, Jamie Kochert, at one of my bridal showers.  We’ve made a couple of changes to it because we use a bag of assorted frozen vegetables instead of just peppers.

It has been a part of our regular menu planning ever since.  What’s nice [...]

Freezer Cooking: Easy to Make Coffee Cake

yellow cake box mix coffee cake

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The couple weeks before Christmas I always looked forward to Donna’s coffee cake arriving in our home.  It was always so moist and scrumptious that I would have a hard time stopping myself from eating the whole loaf in one day.  This was when I was still in school so [...]

Cream Cheese Oreo Balls

cream cheese oreo balls

I did not discover these little bites of creamy goodness until a few years ago.  Apparently, these did not reach northeast Missouri because I had never seen or heard about them before.

A friend from Iowa is the one who introduced me to them and thought I was crazy for not ever having them [...]