Batch Cooking FEVER!!!

Ok I know this is not teaching related. Well maybe it is... see I got into the mood to cook tons of food and freeze it so I would have ready made meals for when we start back to school. That's teaching related right??

Any way, it all started with cooking lots of chicken. I love it when chicken goes on sale (99 cents a lb or lower). It doesn't even matter what part, I like it ALL. So I bought about 27 lbs of chicken and started cooking. It took using the oven twice and slow cooker once.  This picture is all we had left after eating dinner :)

Now I don't follow a recipe to cook chicken. I just throw ingredients together that complement each other. Here's what I made:

• Garlic Salt Chicken
• Garlic Olive Oil and Vinegar 
• Chipotle Chicken
• Sweet Chicken (brown sugar and soy sauce) (there's only 1 piece left in the picture, it was obviously the favorite!)
• Plain Chicken (salt and pepper)  

Then I freezer bagged them. 

Next up was Sausage Balls.

Ingredients:

• 3 cups Bisquick
• 3 cups Shredded Cheese
• 1 lb of sausage

 Just mix together, make balls, bake at 375 for 18-20 mins.

I made this 6 times!! It produced 3 Gal bags and 3 Qt bags full.

But I wasn't done yet... oh no.

Waffles

Blueberry and Plain. I lost count and we ate a bunch of them. The picture is what was left for the freezer. I will definitely need to make more!





And finally....

Bell Peppers

 

We went to the local farmer's market and bought a bushel (the whole box full).  In order to freeze all you have to do is cut them up without the membrane and seeds. If you are careful, you can cut the pieces off without having to scoop out the seeds and membrane.

 Then you proceed to slice them and spread them out on a pan to freeze individually before putting them into freezer bags.

 

I gave some bell peppers away and used some fresh. The we were able to freeze 12 QT bags full!!!

I also cut up some cabbage but I didn't take any pictures of that. I still need to do more chicken meals and maybe some other things too. If you have any ideas please post below!!!