After spending several years on mailing lists, message boards and other resources for freezer cooking fanatics, I have seen it all. The most common thing I see, is people giving up too soon. Why? I have often wondered this myself. Why give up on something that will help so tremendously in the long run.
Sometimes, I think people forget that, there you do not have to cook for an entire month, if you do not want to. Freezer Cooking can be done for a week at a time, or could be done once during a month and then not again for several months. There is no rhyme or reason to when you as a family decide it will work for you, but I can assure you that it does.
Do not give up so easily, like some of these others have. If you get stuck, ask questions. If you mess up, try again. Mistakes happen in freezer cooking. Yes, even to someone like me, who has been doing it for awhile. Every once in awhile we will find a meal that just did not freeze quite right. But I never give up.
Freezer Cooking does not mean you cannot cook different meals during the week. We don’t eat frozen meals every single night of the week, in fact we seldom do on the weekends. Nor do we even eat frozen meals more than about three or four times a week. In fact, it varies so much from week to week, there is certainly no pattern. Some weeks we might eat a freezer meal every single night, and then other weeks, we might only eat a freezer meal once or twice.
We enjoy steaks, grilled chicken, hot dogs and fresh hamburgers on the grill, as much as the next person. Sometimes we are all craving something and it isn’t in the freezer. So we make it fresh. I love to cook, so spending some time making other meals is fun too.
Just remember, if you get stuck, get confused or just generally get burnt out, trying talking to someone else who uses freezer cooking too. You might just be surprised to learn that they feel the same way, or that they have had plenty of mishaps too! Don’t give up!
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