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August 1, 2011 by: Hodgepodgemom

Back to School Big Cook # 2 + Two Week Menu

This past Saturday was another impromptu batch cooking day. Saturday morning I made a double batch of pancakes while we were having an easy-going morning. The benefits of the batch resulted in two gallon-sized freezer bags stacked full of pancakes.

Then, after Hodgepodgedad’s trip to the grocery, I found myself blessed with six pounds of ground turkey. I slid one package into the slow cooker. That is because slow cooker batch cooking is the super supper saver.

With the other three pound package, I rolled up a cookie sheet packed full of turkey meatballs. Meatball subs!

I timed it. It took about 20 minutes to roll them all by hand.

A little bit of batch cooking seems to fit nicely into part of my Saturdays.

The Two Week Menu

Simple suppers supplemented with garden veggies, fruits and Cooking Fun desserts:

  • not-your-average sloppy joes (meat from freezer)
  • bean burritos + any leftover sloppy joe meat (beans from another batch cooking session)
  • pigs in a blanket (cooking fun)
  • breakfast for supper: ezekiel bread or pancakes from the freezer, yogurt smoothies

  • french bread pizzas for a Friday night

  • meatball subs

  • Fast Food for Slow Sundays: whole chicken in slow cooker – rotisserie style
  • spaghetti, homemade bread

  • Southern Living’s slow cooker king ranch chicken with leftover chicken from rotisserie
  • $5 Dinners slow cooker mac and cheese, veggies
  • breakfast for supper – biscuits and gravy, turkey bacon, iced coffee

pizza bites

  • pizza bites on a Friday night
  • Requested BD supper – black-eyed peas, slow cooker mac and cheese, watermelon
  • spaghetti with Jenny’s Pink Sauce, salad, garlic bread

  • slow cooker foil packet tilapia, rice

Cooking Fun: For a birthday – funfetti cake w/ strawberry icing; SunButter dip to go with – anything! plus other selections from a Month of Cooking Fun.

So, do you like to tuck meals in your freezer to be ready for back to school time?

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About Hodgepodgemom

Tricia faces a daily dose of chaos homeschooling five children. The biggest lesson she’s learned? At the end of the day – when the dishes are put away and the children are tucked in bed – truly what matters is each child’s relationship with the Lord. Raising children is a God-given privilege and, folks, the time is short.

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