Food/Cooking, Self Care

Freezing Meals The Simple Way

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Lately I’ve been inspired by Youtubers that are taking a day to cook and prepare many frozen meals for later use.  This would have been really good for me to do back when I was raising my family.  Now that my family is raised and I’m single, at first I thought it would be of no use to me.  But then I started thinking it’d be a great way to have lunches on hand for work.

But I’m opting for an easier route.  The way they typically do it is spend hours preparing a few meals – it almost reminds me of Thanksgiving.  All the cooking and mess that goes with it would wear me out and I usually don’t have a large block of time to do that.

So what I’m going to do is whenever I make dinner, I’m going to make extra to freeze a few extra portions for lunches.  For dinner last night I made breakfast burritos (warmed flour tortillas with American cheese, sausage and scrambled eggs).  Rather than making one, I made four and froze three for lunches this week.

I also froze two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I know this sounds silly because it takes about 1 minute or less to make one, but some mornings I’m in such a rush that it’s actually stressful to pull it all out, make it, package it and everything else work mornings entail.  Now I can just go to the freezer and grab.  Very convenient.

I know that freezing leftovers is not a new idea.  But with me being single, many times I only cook/prepare enough for one meal and don’t have leftovers.  Now I’m consciously make extra to save stress and have a good meal at work.  I can’t tell you how many times I’ve went to work with a package of Pop Tarts for food.  Not very healthy.  Luckily we have a cafe at work and I can get something good to eat there, but this is something I want to stop because I have financial goals I’m working on.

~ Monica

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The pandemic brought a lot of awareness to me about climate change, food shortages, how quickly our hospitals could colapse and more. This has sent me on a mission of becoming self-sustainable, empowered and working to help heal the earth. That is what the focus of this blog has become. The main way I'm working at this is through building a food forest and documenting as much as possible in hopes to inspire others. The more of us that do this, the more it will help heal the earth. When we buy produce from the grocery store, it was grown through monoculture, and that leads to use of chemicals that goes onto our food and into our planet, destroying soil. If we grow our own through permaculture (a food forest), we give the soil health. We also give ourselves health by growing organic foods and herbs that contribute to our health. There's a lot more to this, but this touches the surface. I'm only one year into this but my food forest is growing. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.

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