Freezer Cooking Weekend

I have been encouraged after reading about the freezer cooking days going on at the Money Saving Mom and FishMama homes to do one of my own. Nothing huge, just a good start for the month.

Yesterday, I ran by Farm Fresh to get a few extras before the big snow came (I can't believe I'm writing that, but it's real). They had an incredible deal on chicken, and I scored 9 lbs. for $15. So I have had a 3 lb. package of chicken cooking the crockpot with chicken broth and a packet of taco seasoning all day. I just shredded it, and now have 4 freezer bags with 2 cups of chicken each. I am going to refer back to the list of 58 recipes using shredded chicken that I found on recipe zzar for future ways to use my stash.

I also cooked up every grain of rice that I had in my pantry, which wasn't all that much. In all I think I probably have about 8 cups or so to freeze. Rice is just one of those foods that I often want to use in a casserole or with beans, but in a pinch don't have time to wait for it to cook. Got that taken care of for a while.

Now I'm on to making a few batches of pizza dough in the bread machine, and baking some bran muffin batter that I have refridgerated and need to bake.