If you really want to save yourself time, stress, and money, you will use my Freezer Takeout idea. If you’re going to take the time to cook dinner from scratch then you want something substantial to show for it. The best way to do that is to double your recipe so you get two meals for the work of one. If you put half into containers for the freezer before you serve it, you’ll create your Freezer Takeout™. The cleanup will be identical, and once you’re in the rhythm of cutting the vegetables, it only takes a few minutes more to cut up another pound, so you won’t have to double the prep time. Depending on the dish, you often won’t have to add any cooking time to the doubled version. Therefore, for a minimal amount of extra work and time, you get two meals.
If you do this consistently, your freezer will be full of meals you made weeks or months earlier. On the nights you’d normally run and get fast food, you can walk to your freezer and put something in the microwave. Add a salad if necessary, and in less than 15 minutes, a home-cooked, delicious, nutritious meal is on your table. You’ll have the speed and convenience you need, you’ll save money, and you’ll have the satisfaction that you fed your family a home-cooked nutritious meal. They didn’t have to eat something that was too salty, fatty, or sugary because you had no time to cook.
Many people don’t like leftovers and many families throw leftovers away. I can understand not wanting to eat the same dish day after day, but once it’s been in the freezer for a few weeks or months you forget about it. When you serve it weeks later, it ceases to be a leftover but is instead a completely new meal. Your Freezer Takeout™ will eliminate all stress when someone asks you “What’s for dinner?”
Cooking is easier than you think and you and your family are worth the time and effort it takes.
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