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Freezer Meals : { Sausage Hash }

April 1, 2012 - 4 Comments

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Sausage Hash is one of the favorite freezer meals in our group. Everyone seems to love it, even the picky eaters! If you do not have time to start a freezer meal group you DO have time to cook this meal triple and freeze two for later! This recipe is so easy…

I love that this recipe calls for carrots! Sneak some veggies in my families diet! Doesn’t that orange color look beautiful?

In order to make Sausage Hash triple batch for freezer meals, you will need…

3 lbs ground sausage

3 c. shredded carrots (about 3 carrots)

1½ c. finely chopped onion (or 1½ t onion powder if you do not have onion on hand)

9 c. frozen potatoes cubes (this is the easy way, you can also bake potatoes and cube them, that is the frugal way!)

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Cook ground sausage thoroughly in pan. Add onion and carrots and cook for 5 more minutes.

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Add potatoes and simmer for 20 minute. Check and stir often. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Set aside 2/3 or your meat mixture and let it cool.

Sprinkle sausage and potatoes with cheese.

Let melt and serve.

After the sausage had cooled divide it equally and put it in freezer bags or vacuum seal in a Foodsaver.

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Crock Pot Freezer Meals : { Pineapple Pepper Chicken }

March 25, 2012 - 5 Comments

Do you have all of these ingredients in your pantry to make this delicious Make Ahead Crock Pot Meal? Pineapple Pepper Chicken is one of our families favorites and I always like to make enough to freeze any time I make it for dinner. We have had this recipe in our in our Freezer Meals series for a few years. Since I do not always have time for group freezer meal cooking I thought I would show you how I like to make dinner for now and dinner for later with barely any effort.

Here are the ingredients you will need:

Imagine that there is ketchup in that photo. I made this with out ketchup because I was forgetful, but it actually still turned out fab so if you decide to forget the ketchup like I did you will still have a fab meal!

You will need:

2 cups unsweetened pineapple juice
1 cup sugar sugar coupons
1 cup vinegar
3/4 cup water
1/2 cup packed brown sugar sugar coupons
1/3 cup cornstarch
1/4 cup ketchup
3 Tbls soy sauce
1 tsp. chicken bouillon granules
1/2 tsp. ground ginger
6 chicken breasts {Zaycon chicken is my favorite}
1 can (8 oz.) pineapple chunks, drained Pineapple Coupons
1 medium green pepper or half red and half green for more color and flavor
1 medium onion chopped {optional}

Get conversions to make Pineapple Pepper Chicken for 6 families!

To Prepare:

Combine the first 10 ingredients, then add chicken. Place in crock pot. Cook on low for 5-6 hours. Set aside pineapple onion and pepper. 30 minutes before you’re ready to serve add pineapple onion and peppers, cook an additional 30 minutes. Serve over rice.

If you remember to use ketchup your sauce will have a deeper red color. You will serve half of this meal tonight and save the other half for later in your freezer. Zaycon Chicken breasts are quite large and I can easily feed my family of four with only 3 breasts and still have a little left over for lunch the next day. I will save the remaining sauce and other three breasts for my freezer. You can cook with a few more chicken breasts if you need to for your family size. The sauce measurements can all stay the same.

multiple freezer meal tip

Freezer Cooking for a group tip: Place freezer bags in a large bowl so you can fill more than one at a time and keep them from spilling.

This night I served over brown rice. This crock pot chicken is great on white or brown rice. It is personal preference. I alternate with my family. They like the taste of white rice better, but brown rice is healthier.

Eat half for dinner tonight. Bag the remaining chicken and sauce in a 1 gallon freezer bag.

To Prepare after freezing: Thaw ingredients enough to place chicken in a 13x 9 pan. Place pan in oven at 350° and bake for 30-40 minutes.

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FabuLESS Freezer Meals : BBQ Chicken Pizza Recipe!

March 7, 2009 - 6 Comments

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This pizza is soooo yummy! And I was so excited to learn about the crust! For $1.50, you can purchase some already made pizza dough back near the deli at Winco (or use thawed out Rhodes bread loaves and split in half). It makes a fabuless crust and is makes making homemade pizza sooo much easier (or try these homemade pizza crust recipes)!

So here is the recipe!

BBQ Chicken Pizza Recipe

1 FAMILY

1 pizza crust (store bought or homemade)
2 c. mozzarella cheese
½ Red onion
2 Chicken breasts
2-3 c. BBQ Sauce
Cilantro

6 FAMILIES

6 pizza crusts
12 c. mozzarella cheese
3 Red onions
12 Chicken breasts
12-18 c. BBQ Sauce
Cilantro

freezer meal pizza dough

TO FREEZE

Cook chicken and cut into small slices or shred.
If you got a store bought dough let it warm to room temperature.
Roll out your store bought or homemade pizza dough, or hand press onto foil pizza pan.
Spread BBQ sauce over pizza, top with cheese, chicken, onion; and cilantro. Add a little more cheese on top.
Wrap with plastic wrap and then with foil.

TO PREPARE AFTER FREEZING

It was super easy to take my pizza off the disposable foil pan and put it on my pizza stone. Bake @ 400 for 20 min (from frozen).
I just loved it! When we prep the pizzas as as group, we each put our own together, as some don’t want cilantro (this makes it delish though!), or I’ll only put onions on half, and so on.

This one is right before baking!