Food Saver

This cooking session we added a Food Saver to our cooking tools. For
those that don't freezer cook, this probably sounds crazy but it is
the coolest thing for sealing food for the freezer. It sucks all the
air out of the bag a d then seals it. Mike and I were like kids at
Christmas. 53 meals and some odds and ends fit in the freezer with no
problem once they were vacuum sealed.

Isabelle Dancing

Check out Isabelle's dance moves!

Filling the Freezer - New Idea

I found a new idea about using magnets to indicate what's in the freezer. So, I got some of the business card magnets, cut them in half and added tags for everything in the freezer. To make it easier to find things, I used pictures and words on the tags and color-coded the letters (red for beef, blue for chicken/turkey, etc). There are multiples of each magnet depending on how many of that item is in the freezer.

Our check of the freezer inventory to make magnets let us know another cooking day is in the near future! Keep an eye on the blog for more info - I'm hoping to give a day-by-day plan of how we do it. This will be the first cooking day in our remodeled kitchen (more cabinets, more counter space and more floor space in the kitchen).

Filling the Freezer - Pictures (Part 7)

Isabelle helping out by feeding Elinor
Mike working hard
Lots of meals on the way
One of many loads of dishes for the day. You can see our new cabinets that my dad built for us on top. the new ones are in now and the floors are soon to follow.
Megan was also a big help.

An attempt to keep Elinor out of the kitchen

A failed attempt...

When she wanted in, I put her on my back and carried her around for a while. She eventually fell asleep while on my back so she stayed there for her nap.