Gordon Ramsey eat your heart out!
9 Beef lasagne
6 Lancashire Spicy Hotpot
6 Beef Curries
1 cod steak breaded portion with real chips
3 Fish Pies
2 Smoked fishcakes
6 Cottage Pies
Doesn't that sound like a night's roll call in a top restaurant?
Well it is actually what I cooked yesterday, yes the big cook for the freezer.
I was down to the last 4 chicken lasagnes so now, in total I have 37 complete meals which I will plan out over the next few weeks, but I would think I wont have to cook an evening meal for over a month, which is joy to my ears I can tell you.
It is so economical, time, fuel and ingrediant wise and I am so into the issue of no waste.
For me, often the time consuming part of the evening meal is deciding what to have...well with my meal planning system I write each meal in my diary for the coming weeks, so Jon gets a variety, beef, fish, lamb, chicken etc etc so there are no moments of deciding in the future when I am busy with something, just check the diary.
I can tell you I was quite tired at the end of the day, but know it was valuable time well spent.
Today I have Wilma at home this morning as Jon has customers over who are not keen on dogs, so Wilma's tendany to run her teeth over the backs of legs wont go down well, so Elsie is doing her stint as works dog and Wilma is here.
We do have to go out and do some prize/gift collecting and will be going over to a more industrial part of the area, Stockton (yes the Stockton as in the Stockton to Darlington Railway in 1825)
and then I am going over to Whitby around teatime. It is Biker's Night at the Whistestop Cafe and I am collecting Raffle prizes and selling raffle tickets. It will be strange being there without Jon & the bike, but he will be working late. However he is coming home to a lovely meal ! LOL!
Tomorrow is pea day and more collecting for Saturday.
Oh yes, and next week I am teaching full time Monday to Friday at Lythe Primary School.
Lythe is a lovely village on the outskirts of Whitby so it will be early morning drives, but the countryside is such an uplifting start to the day and a way to unwind on the way home. Again, meals cracked when I get in!
Our visitors continue to collect branches for the nest, here is this morning's view!
Mrs is on the nest, mr is out collecting twigs and bits.
Have a good day!
12 comments:
Lovely post MrsN, sounds like you are pretty busy. I hope everything goes well in your 'collecting' and that you have a lovely day!
For all you Gordon Ramsay fans pop over to Team SMARTies and check out the cookbook!
Great idea Batch Cooking, saves so much time.
What a busy lady you are!
Somehow I seem to have missed who Gordon Ramsey is, I shall have to check him out!
Good kitchen work Mrs N, Batch food prep is a great way to save time and effort.
How many hours did it take to make all that food? It would take me an hour to make just one of those dishes.At least you won't have to cook for awhile. Smart thinking!
Wow, that's a lot of cooking! Must have been rewarding though to see your full freezer.
Beautiful picture of the tree in bloom. What kind of tree is it?
Wow, i am so impressed!! Are you available for hire LOL?
I love the idea of cooking once and eating 39 times for the effort. One of these days dear woman, I am going to drop in for fish pie. Mark that in your journal!!
Now all I have to do is figure out how to get you to send me some of your meals so I won't have to cook. Maybe you could start a business selling prepared meals. I would be a customer. lol
Well stocked up with food!!! Now where's the wine?
Gosh you are so organised - well done you.
And I am hopeless at meal planning or diaries.
Pats asks what shall we have for dinner tomorrow and I just tell him to get anything out of the freezer and I will do something with it!
Thanks for the comments, am done in!
You seem really busy Mrs Nesbitt. Or should I say Nat. HaHa. You can't even escape me in the land of blogging. I took your advice and started my own as well so drop by and have a look. I also have a new laptop so I think I might need to get your email again unless you got the picture I sent you from Morrisons the other day.
Keep in touch.
Jo or should I say Vera =]
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