There are times when it would be really nice to have the tankless hot water heater I dream of. (Unfortunately, they’re still quite pricey. Maybe someday.) This past week was one of those times. I ran us out of hot water on at least one occasion as I tackled all of the dishes — and handwashing — generated by preparing lots of meat for the freezer! But ground beef and boneless, skinless chicken breasts were on sale, and I had a “free” turkey in the freezer from November, waiting to be cooked. So we now have:
- 4 lbs. of ground beef, browned
- 1/2 lb. of ground beef, browned and seasoned for Beefy Cheesy Pasta (We ate the other 1/2 lb. already.)
- 1 lb. of hamburgers
- 4 lbs. of meatballs and salisbury steak
- somewhere around 10 lbs.-ish of chicken breasts, either sliced and frozen plain, diced and frozen, or cut into strips and frozen in marinade for my mom’s Italian Chicken with Pasta
- I forget how many cups of cooked turkey. I think it’s around 21.
- a bag of turkey legs/wings for making soup later
- 6 cups of condensed turkey stock
- about a quart of turkey drippings for gravy
Oh, and a dozen onions sautéed and frozen.
Not bad! (And, boy, am I glad that all of that prep is done! lol)
Wow, Rachel, I never thought about sauteing and freezing onions. Do you know if they lose much of their nutritional value in the freezing process?
Tina
Tina, I’m not sure about nutritional losses. I would guess that, since I don’t do anything to them to freeze them that I wouldn’t do before serving them, they probably don’t lose any significant nutritional value. But I’m not positive.