32 Freezer Meals for Two | Easy Meal Prep Ideas

These easy meal prep ideas allow you to make 32 freezer meals for 2 in just a few hours including prep time.

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~ Spanish Rice with Chorizo
~ Chicken Fried Rice: https://freezermeals101.com/chicken-fried-rice-freezer-meal/
~ Chicken Noodle Soup Casserole: https://freezermeals101.com/chicken-noodle-soup-casserole-freezer-meal/
~ Gnocchi Sausage Skillet (in the Club) https://mealplan.freezermeals101.com/recipe/gnocchi-sausage-skillet/
~ Garlic Mashed Potatoes: https://freezermeals101.com/make-ahead-garlic-mashed-potatoes/
~ Baked Tortellini Alfredo with Chicken and Bacon: https://freezermeals101.com/baked-tortellini-alfredo-freezer-meal/
~ Lemon Pepper Chicken: https://freezermeals101.com/lemon-pepper-chicken/
~ Sloppy Joes: https://freezermeals101.com/freezer-sloppy-joes/
~ BBQ Meatballs and Teriyaki Meatballs
~ Chicken Gnocchi Soup
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This will be the year it’s the year that you’re actually going to stick to those resolutions because I know it’s that time of year where you’ve got the good intentions this is going to be the year that you’re going to get organized save money and eat healthy but if you don’t

Have a plan and a system in place in a week or two those resolutions are going to flitter off today we are here to give you that plan to show you the system so that you can stick to those resolutions and make this the year you finally make it Happen we’re here to show you how you can save money save time and save a lot of that mental space that you have been losing over the last couple of years it is really hard to cook for two people there is the planning that you have to

Do but not just that it’s the what do you buy so that you don’t have leftovers for days what do you make so that you aren’t wasting food and it’s my understanding that there’s a lot of door Dash happening when it’s just the two of

You um in Canada it skip the dishes I’m not sure what the equivalent of door Dash or skip the dishes or Uber Eats is in the UK and Australia because we know you’re watching as well but whatever that meal delivery service is we want to save you from that save you from the

Cost of that and the guilt that goes along with always eating out or ordering in so we’re going to give you the skills today stick with us and this is going to save you so much time energy and mental space you will be really really glad you

Did this the first meal that we are going to make today is a toizo Spanish rice now this was an invention it’s delicious but it came about because I was at the grocery store and they had this sale they call it plenty for 20 and they put different cuts of meat or

Vegetables on sale you can buy four packs for $20 so that’s just $5 a pack and just so happens it was also 15% off day so I also got 15% off that $20 for the four packs of meat so a lot of what we’re using here today is in that and

We’re going to also be sharing tips this whole video on how you can save that money and we’re going to make more than a month’s worth of meals today for less than $100 for both of you yay yay and that means that if you are using these

To cook for one you’ve got two months of dinners for less than $100 which is pretty amazing that is pretty amazing cuz really if you look at it and you’re honest what are you spending now on groceries and what are you spending now on takeout and delivery apps it’s

Probably more than $100 I would say so and this one is so so delicious so what you’re going to do is you’re going to mix this together in a large bowl I’ve kind of doubled this recipe if you were making it for a family so I’ve

Quadrupled it in making it for two so that you can end up with four dinners from this but because we are splitting it into individual or double portions we are making it in a bowl first so you’re going to mix all these things into a large bowl you’re going to put in there

Some sliced chorizo sausage because we had gotten our so inexpensively it wasn’t cooked so I did need to cook it first cool it and then slice it added that into the bowl then you’re going to add some diced tomatoes green chilies from a can diced red pepper some chopped

Onion some cooked rice again you’re going to allow that to cool before you mix that in chili powder cumin salt and pepper you’re going to mix that all up together in your bowl everything in here is already cooked so that on the day you

Go to make this it’s going to be so easy to reheat you’re going to divide this into four bags each bag will feed two people and then you’re going to take out as much air as you possibly can from the bags because when you’re cooking for your freezer air is the thing that

Causes your freezer burn when once you get that sealed you get this into your freezer and you can move on to the next recipe but on the day you go to cook that all you’re going to do is thaw it and you can heat it in the microwave you

Can heat it in a skillet or a stove top pot or you could cook it on the keep warm setting in your slow cooker now if you are new to freezer cooking there are a few things you need to know to make this way easier and save a lot more time

One of them is that if you choose recipes with like ingredients then you’re going to save time you’re going to be able to save money because you can buy them in bulk yes you save time because when you prep the ingredients you can prep them all together you can

Have a night of prep and then assemble the meals the next day you can make it fun and turn on some music when you’re doing your prep and assembly and for these we have multiple meals that needed rice so we cooked all the rice up all at

The same time and had it ready to go for those meals same with if you’re using ground beef and multiple recipes you just Brown it all cool it and then it’s ready to throw into your recipes and things like chopped onion you always say if you’re going to chop one onion you

Might as well chop two or three it’s the same cutting board it’s the same knife you’re only washing the dishes once and that saves you time on the night you go to cook it cuz it’s already done absolutely Speaking of rice mhm let’s get to the next recipe using the rest of

Our rice as Charla said before she used a recipe with rice we’re going to use another recipe with rice but I promise by the end of this video stick with us because there’s going to be so much variety you are going to be shocked by what you can have in your freezer you’re

Not thinking I’m going to eat the same thing every day no you’re not I promise I promise it’s going to be really really great so this next recipe with the rice is just chicken fried rice so with the rest of the rice that we had we’re going

To put it in a large bowl we’re going to add into it some chicken that has been cooked and Cubed the night before we’re going to add in some onion some carrots and we would add celery to this but Charlotte is allergic so we skip that

When we are making meals for oursel and that is the other nice thing about freezer meals is they can be customizable they are customizable and personalized to you so if you are also allergic to celery you can skip it and that’s okay we’re going to also add in

Some chopped water chestnuts frozen peas minced garlic a little bit of oyster sauce and some soy sauce we’re going to mix that all together and then divide it evenly among our bags and I started out putting this into four bags bags and as I got looking at it and I thought you

Know that is not going to feed two people I’m going to dial it back a bit and make it for three bags so we lost a meal on one end but then the other three meals are a little bit more satisfying so again you can eyeball these and say

That doesn’t look like enough food or there’s no way we’re going to eat all that I’m going to divide it again and then you have another meal so it really is up to you based on your knowledge and what you’re comfortable using and eating to make it for yourself now that we have

Our container of cooked cubed chicken open we’re going to continue with it because when you are making freezer meals we really recommend sticking with the protein at hand and using it all up that way you’re not cross-contaminating things it’s not going to sit on your counter too long out in unsafe

Temperatures and you can use it all up and it feels like there’s a sense of accomplishment because you’re like okay we’re done with the cooked cube chicken and you’re on to the next thing what we’re going to make here is chicken noodle soup casserole and you might think that this sounds really strange

But I promise you it is so tasty it is so delicious and it’s comfort food it is it’s got vegetables and it’s got some mushroom soup in it and it’s got some pasta and of course it has chicken so to start out in our Bowl we’re going to put

In some cooked pasta now here is a big tip for cooking pasta when you’re making freezer meals and you’re going to be freezing the pasta you must undercook it these egg noodles call for being cooked for 10 to 12 minutes in boiling water that 10 minutes is that El Dente I

Cooked these for eight because if I cook them to the full term to Al Dente or even to that 12 minute Mark and then we reheat them later they’re going to be mushy so this is one of the tricks that we can give you to help you prevent your

Pasta from becoming mushy um asterisk though uh gluten-free pasta does not freeze well it does not reheat well really if you’re going to make this one make it fresh with a gluten-free pasta because it’ll work best that way so we start out in our bowl with our undercooked pasta noodles we’re going to

Add in 1 to two chicken breasts that have been cooked and cubed in our estimation about a cup of cubed chicken is about a chicken breast now we all know that breasts can vary in size size I’m just talking about chicken breast sometimes they’re gigantic sometimes

They are um teeny tiny it depends on the age of the chicken where you buy it all of those things so as a general standard we estimate about a cup is a cooked chicken breast now if you want to Mound that cup up and have it be a heavy cup

Go right ahead that’s fine nobody’s going to count your chicken breasts okay so you put in one to two cups of your cooked chicken breasts you’re going to add in frozen peas some frozen corn a can of mushroom soup and you are going to mix that sucker up you’re going to

Put them into medium or quart size freezer bags label them up on how you would want to cook them on the day of cooking which this is really just a reheat because your corn and your peas have been parboiled and everything else is cooked so you really just need a

Really good reheat on this and this is good to go this is all of these actually this one and the rest of them are also so great for taking for work lunches yeah you’re right you just need a microwavable bowl at work and you could do this right there at the office and

It’s going to smell really good and people are going to walk by and be like oh what you got for lunch today and you’re going to be like they’re freezer meals then you’re going to show them our videos absolutely and then you’re going to tell them to subscribe you should subscribe

While we’re talking about that anyway if you’ve been considering joining the freezer meals 101 club today is the perfect day right now for a limited time we are throwing in our entire collection of meal plans that’s 27 meal plans and two digital cookbooks I absolutely free that’s a value of over

$200 and it’s yours just for joining the club today head on down to the link in the description below we can’t wait to see you there okay we are moving on when I was at the grocery store and had that awesome plenty for2 sale I also saw that

They had two for one on the huge family siiz noi packages so of course I got two for one and I got 15% off the one I did pay for so that was a score what we’re going to do with this noi is make our delicious noi sausage Skillet we are

Going to mix it together in a bowl again so that we can divide it out into bags we’re going to mix some browned Italian sausage that has cooled after Browning you can use mild or spicy depending on your preference then some of that potato noi now with what the recipe called for

Even though I was doubling it I couldn’t use both packages because they were the family size and they were giant so we’re going to save some of that aside for later and I’ll invent a recipe at the end using that then you’re going to add some chopped onion minced garlic we use

Minced garlic from a jar because it’s a lot faster and when you’re assembling these time is of the essence some diced tomatoes from a can a bit of chicken broth some basil and pepper you’re going to mix that all together in your bowl you’re going to get it divided Out Among

Four bags because we did double this and then on the day you go to serve this you are going to need a few extra ingredients you’re going to need to have some shredded mozzarella cheese some Parmesan cheese and some fresh spinach because all you’re going to do is heat

This in a skillet for only 5 or 6 minutes then you’re going to stir in some of that spinach until it wilts and then top it with those cheeses cover it so the cheeses can melt and in five more minutes your dinner is done that means

That in about 12 minutes your dinner is completely on the table and ready to go and this is a full meal because you’ve got your protein in there your carbs your vegetables and it’s really good it is so good is definitely one of our new favorites from last year

Absolutely now for these next recipes that we’re going to do they are ones that are not quite as full of meals and so we want to show you how versatile this can be and how this can Encompass like everything all the things you can even freeze your sides ahead so we’re

Going to make our garlic mashed potatoes today which are really an amazing recipe but we’re going to show you a really cool trick of how to make these so that you can make single or double portions instead of having a whole family-sized serving so what you’re going to do to

Make these is you’re going to peel and Cube your potatoes get those into a pot with some water bring those to a boil and cook them until they’re soft then you’re going to drain them and mash those potatoes with some butter and then stir in some sour cream garlic chives

Salt and pepper now that you have those ready you’re going to let them cool and then we’re going to show you what you’re going to do next so we’ve got our mashed potatoes and we’re just going to take this large cookie scoop and scoop Mounds onto a parchment paper Lin

Cookie sheet once you get this scooped they don’t have to be perfect actually nothing about freezer meals have to be perfect which is kind of the nice thing and it makes it so that everybody can do these now the trick here is to make sure you put it on parchment paper because it

Won’t stick to your tray and it can be removed easily because what we’re going to do next is put these directly into the freezer just like this and allow these to freeze rock hard and then we’re going to pop them off of the parchment paper and into a resealable freezer bag

So when you go to make your meals you are going to automatically have a side that are going to taste just like your mother’s mashed potatoes and you can take take out as little or as many as you need if you’ve got company that night and you need to take out six

Mounds go right ahead if it’s just you you take out one or two Mounds depending on how hungry you are so that’s the beauty of doing your mashed potatoes this way now if you don’t have a fancy scoop you could use any kind of measuring cup you could use an ice cream

Scoop you can use a tablespoon out of your Cutlery drawer and that would be a okay when you go to reheat these they can be reheated in the microwave they can be reheated in the oven or on the stove top you can put them back into the

Stove top and just slowly warm them stirring occasionally because if you’re having company you might take out five or six of these or if you’re feeling really hungry but really you can take out as many as you want and you may just need to stir them a bit so that they

Aren’t watery otherwise they are really easy to do and look they don’t have to be perfect on the tray we can put them wherever because they’re not going to like expand or anything in the freezer and the whole point of freezing these individually is so that they don’t stick

Together in the bag if we had put these like this into the freezer bag they would maybe touch and freeze together so there’s actually a lot of freezer meals that we freeze individually and then put them into a bag later on and that they don’t stick we do it with quesadillas uh

Waffles pancakes you can bread chicken fingers and fish sticks freeze them individually and then put them into your freezer bag because that’s how they do it in a facility you can do that in your kitchen we will do the rest off camera because we made a lot you know because

There’s never too many mashed potatoes in your life that’s true do you know my cousin had a Hollow Leg just for mashed potatoes we said that every Thanksgiving because he would just have a plate he would eat his regular meal and then he would have a whole plate of just mashed

Potatoes and we’re like where do you put all that and you know they say the Hollow Leg well his hollow leg was just for mashed potatoes there you go yeah now if you want to makee freezer meals for one whether you live on your own or you’re bringing meals to work with you

We’re going to pop a video right up there that shows how you can take something like those mashed potatoes and put them into trays that are freezer safe dishwasher safe microwave safe and you can make your whole meal in there so you can have your meat your vegetable

Your rice or your potatoes and you’ve got homemade TV dinners it’s super handy but if you’re cooking for it’s a little bit nicer to have the option to take out as many mashed potatoes as you need and pair them with something like meatballs so what I’m going to do for

The meatballs is this is almost not really a recipe it’s a bit of a cheat but it’s still saves money and time and it’s you’re cooking at home sort of because what you’re going to do is you’re going to buy pre-made meatballs now if you want to get extra credit and

Make your own that’s fine too but we have bought pre-made pre-cooked frozen meatballs we got ours at Costco in the giant container we’re just using what we had left over from some other freezer meals we made so if you are just cooking for a one or two you might not want to

Get the Costco siiz bag but there is a way because we’re going to show you right now how to get the Costco siiz bag and make use of it all and it doesn’t just mean having dinner parties every week for the for the rest of the year exactly

All we’ve done for this is we’ve divided our meatballs into quart size freezer bags we got enough four five different meals out of what we had left in the bag I put 12 or 13 meatballs in each bag figuring that that’s probably enough for two people as long as you pair that with

Some sides and then all I did was I took some barbecue sauce and dumped it into three of the bags so you’ve got barbecue meatballs voila and then some thick teriyaki sauce and poured that into the other two bags and then we’ve got Teriyaki meatballs and

There’s enough of the sauce left over to Spoon onto your mashed potatoes for either of those so as long as you pair this with a side salad or some frozen peas or steamed broccoli you have got a full meal meatballs mashed potatoes and veggies that is so super simple and

You’re not limited to barbecue sauce and Teriyaki you you could do um honey Sesame you could do um sweet and sour and pineapple do you know growing up we always had one of those cans of the VH pineapple sauce in our cupo and it was my mom’s fast way of you know throwing

It on some cubed up chicken and heating it up and Bam there was our protein and it went with rice because then you could sauce it on and there are ways to make things so super simple and get it into your freezer if you do want to make

Fancier sauces for your meat bows we have real actual recipes for sauces on our website and in our freezer meals 101 Club what the club does is it gives you a system so if you’re new here and you haven’t seen our videos before our freezer meals one1 Club is what allows

You to take our tried and true freezer meal recipes choose which ones you like depending on your preferences you can also filter for things like low carb gluten-free vegetarian you can filter by protein all different ways depending on what you’re wanting you can even type in precooked into our keyword filter and

It’ll filter all the recipes like that chicken noodle soup casserole or chicken fried rice where all the ingredients in there are already cooked and those ones divide so nicely for one or for two but you don’t even need to necessarily do that because you can also change the

Serving size for every single recipe there and then it will print off your shopping list and your prep list for that custom meal plan and then the very best part in our opinion is is the labels because each of the labels has the recipe name on it and it has cooking

Instructions and it has little tips on it like for our Mediterranean chicken for example it lets you know that you’re going to want to put it on a sheet pan with some baby tomatoes and some feta so you will know that those are things that

You need to pick up and add to to the meal before you cook it because it’s right there on the label it really is our favorite part and the label has the date on it because freezer meals are good for between 3 and 6 months so then

You’ll know when it went into your freezer and you’ll know to eat the oldest meals first that’s a really great tip I think it’s really brilliant if I do say so myself and of course the club saves you so much money because you can

Get the club for $9 a month or $79 a year $9 a month is less than the cost of going through the drive-thru one time that month it’s less than going through and getting two coffees at Starbucks true story it really is and so what we are

Finding in our Facebook group and on YouTube uh our comments are things like I can’t believe how much money I’m saving because I can catch a sale or I can plan ahead or I’m using all of the produce that I buy and I am not throwing

It out and we are not hitting the drive-thru so really it does save money and if you get the $79 a year option it’s even less than the $9 a month so it just makes great sense especially if you’re one of those people who right now

Are eating out a lot or ordering in a lot because this is one of the fastest ways to kind of do a makeover on your budget that’s true and speaking of budget I was able in that plan 20 for20 sale to get some chicken and so they’re

Not giant packs when you get them in the plenty for2 of course but I was able to get a couple packs of chicken I didn’t know at the time what I was going to do with them but we have so many chicken recipes I knew I could just click on the

Chicken tab in the club and populate them up and so we decided to do lemon pepper chicken this lemon pepper chicken is my all-time favorite freezer meal because it does freeze really well and when you go and cook it up because it’s raw in there when you go and cook it up

It just tastes so fresh now typically this is one you could do in the oven um I really prefer to do it in a skillet and because the chicken that we have here actually came as chicken breast strips like they’re just sliced it’s not like stir fry strips it’s just sliced

Chicken breast it’s perfect for the skillet so into your bag you’re going to add your chicken strips and then you’re going to add some lemon juice a little bit of minced garlic some lemon pepper and a teeny tiny bit of cayenne pepper now this is is a killer one to make with

The mashed potatoes that we just made and then you make a salad and some steamed veg and this is your meal and it really is so fast and it’s healthy and it’s just good protein and it’s really tasty you could also do this one with full chicken breasts or chicken thighs

And you can do it for chicken wings yes you can and I’ve even done this one on the barbecue it’s awesome it is really awesome this next recipe is our baked tortillini Alfredo we’ve been making this one for a long time a really long

Time and it is it’s a staple it’s one of the ones that are just like recurring and we keep using it over and over again and when I first had this one like Charlotte introduced me to this recipe the first time we had it it was one of

Those ones that I started making in between our Mega sessions because we liked it so much and it’s so easy and it’s super super versatile because I’m going to show you how you can change this up so that even if you made this every month it would not taste like your

You’re eating the same thing over and over and over again for this you are going to mix together in a bowl your tortillini um we use the fresh tortillini that you get in a three pack at Costco but you could also use frozen if you preferred this is just a cheese

Tortillini then we are going to add in what we call your mixins now this is what I mean when I say versatility because you can use sunri Tomatoes you can use bacon you can use frozen peas sliced mushrooms what else have we done chicken um pesto spinach so many possibilities there is a

List with the recipe and the recipe will be in the description down below so you can go there for more inspiration for the mixins but you’re going to add in your mixins so today we are using some cooked cubed chicken because we have it and some crumbled bacon because bacon

And then you’re going to add in two jars of alfredo sauce and some shredded mozzarella cheese you’re going to mix that all around and then you’re going to divide this into foil containers the reason that we’re using foil containers for this one is because we’re going to sprinkle each one with some Parmesan

Cheese and then get a lid added onto that and then the day you go to cook this you can actually bake them from thaw or frozen if they’re frozen you’re just going to add a little bit of cook time the tortillini cooks up in the sauce so this is super super easy

Depending on what your mixins are this can be a full meal if you’ve got a lot of vegetables mixed in there then it can be your full meal as we have it here today you might want to add a side salad or some kind of green but eat something

Green but it is very colorful on its own it is very pretty it is we used the tricolor tortillini so you’re right it is very colorful it’s very pretty and it is something that you could serve to company because it is that good you could serve it like if your parents are

In town and you could serve it you know like or another one you could take for lunch um not as easily because you do need an oven for it but your husband’s work as an oven yeah they have a full kitchen at he works at a plant and it’s

Shift work and they do they have a full kitchen and a barbecue and a smoker like it’s oh my oh yeah they they treat themselves well that part I didn’t know no and it’s nice because then they even have like barbecue days or there’s been s where he’s like yeah for Christmas

We’re having um a breakfast so is there like a casserole I can take so of course we have hash brown we have breakfast casseres in the freezer meals website and in the club yes of course I’ll make you a casserole cuz we already have one here take this one um but yeah sometimes

He’s like okay I need like six packs of bacon or I need six dozen eggs and they go and make they make breakfast for the whole crew that’s very cool cuz it’s it’s really like community and bonding and all the things yeah I like that so

If you have an oven at work you can do do this with your baked tortillini now sometimes when we’re making a whole lot of meals at once we end up with prepped things left over a lot of times that’s because I was able to get things on sale

In certain quantities as was the case this time because we were able to get a really large quantity of chicken for a very good price which we cooked up in cubed so I knew that we would end up having leftover cooked cubed chicken I also had prep some extra onion because

Onion’s always going to come in handy but yeah when we do our big Mega sessions I’ll pop a video right there recently did 129 family siiz meals and if you’re cooking for two you can take a lot of those and break them down and just split them up so that just like

We’re showing you today totally you just want to do yours maybe in a bowl first and mix it and then transfer it into a bag rather than doing it directly in the bag but anyway um so I I don’t know if you realize this but Charla is really

Great at creating these meals that these recipes because we really do have stuff left over at the end because there was a deal or we have half a can of diced tomatoes left we have you know oh look at all these chopped carrots I’m done

We’ve been doing this for 3 days and I’m tired and I would like to go home and she’s like no no we got more meals to make and I’m like okay let’s do it so if you’re doing a lot of prep here’s a tip for you wear

Shoes we learned early wear shoes on the day that you’re doing the prep and wear shoes on the day that you’re doing the assembly because you are on your feet a lot and if you’re not used to it it’s a lot so this is one of the brain things that

Charotte made because you had leftover chicken you had leftover and Yoki mhm and so leftover and Yoki is not a problem we’ve ever had before we’ve always used all the Yoki because it was specifically for those recipes but this time because they’re meals for two I did

Run into that problem so it’s not really much of a problem when you can make more meals out of it is it no no no so all I did is mixed together in a bowl some of that cooked Cub chicken that was left over as well as all the leftover nooi

And then I added some chicken broth because there was a recipe that used a tiny little bit of chicken broth so then I had a lot of chicken broth I also used diced tomatoes cuz we buy those in the qu lot sales and always have them on

Hand I had some frozen peas in the freezer I threw those in if we had prepped extra carrots when we did the chicken fried rice I would have thrown carrots in this and I’m going to tell you something when I prepped the carrots for the chicken fried rice I knew I only

Needed like about a cup and I thought that’s an awfully heavy cup ah it’s okay we can put them all in I really might have had it would have just been a couple of tablespoons but I did think about it I’m like ah if I did another

Carrot I bet you Charlotte would have something to do with it totally so here in this bowl you’re going to add some of that cooked cube chicken I had left over all the noi I had left some fresh parsley that I just happened to have laying around the kitchen

Tomato sauce diced onion frozen peas chicken broth minced garlic because we always have a lot of that on hand Italian seasoning salt and pepper I also added a bay leaf and then when I was stirring it I realized that actually each bag was going to need its own baay

Leaf so I added bay leaves into the other two bags to make sure that everybody was equally baed and then got those sealed up and into the freezer so these of course are going to be super simple to cook up you just bring them to a boil simmer them a

Little bit in a Stove Top Pot you could also cook them in a small slow cooker if you preferred this is just going to be a hearty soup and it sounds really good and it’s so simple yeah I think it’s going to be why not why not it’s kind of

An Italian yoky chicken soup and those are almost all those things that you mentioned are things that we made in used in our recipes there is a ton of variety here and we’re not even done so this next recipe is Sloppy Joe’s and you’re like what I can just open a can

Of Manwich and pour it over my um hamburger and no no you’re not going to do that anymore cuz you’re going to make this cuz it’s way better so in our Bowl we’re going to start out with our ground beef that’s already been browned and cooled cuz we did it yesterday with our

Prep right and then we’re going to add in some minced onion minced garlic now we should have added some green pepper that was chopped finally but we didn’t have any for some reason because they looked awful at the store that’s why okay cuz they looked awful at

The store and that’s a valid reason again freezer meals are really customizable and if they looked awful at the grocery store it’s okay to skip it what I probably would have done is I would have got a red or a yellow pepper but Charlotte doesn’t cuz she can actually taste the difference between

The peppers and I can’t I didn’t know that they tasted different they’re so different you’re with me I kind of see it with the green pepper and like the other three but you can t taste the difference between like a red a yellow and an orange

Yes I didn’t I don’t think you can so I would have just added that instead the sweetness intensifies the more ripe they get ripest see the things you learn on the freezer meals 101 Channel you should come back um yeah I didn’t I didn’t really know that and I don’t taste a

Whole lot of difference so I’d have I’d have picked a different pepper color and thrown it in I’m sure it wouldn’t have like ruined the recipe but this is one of our Classics and we always make it with green pepper and so I was like we’re just going to skip the green

Pepper this time and that’s totally okay so also without the green pepper we’re going to continue on we’re going to add in some salt and pepper some dry mustard powder some chili sauce some tomato sauce some ketchup brown sugar and Worster Su sauce and lemon juice we’re

Going to mix all of that together until it’s really well combined and then just divide it into our bags on the day that you go to cook this you defrost it it’s going to defrost so fast cuz it’s a nice thin bag you’re going to heat it up in

Your Skillet serve it on some toasted hamburger buns and it doesn’t get any simpler than that and that also tastes T like home for some people you know right it’s Sloppy Joe’s it’s Sloppy Joe’s now we also had some brown sausage left over again because of the pricing I decided

To buy an extra packet so you know when they’re buy one get one you you get those choices you might as well Brown it all at once because then you’re more likely to use it and not have it go to waste in your fridge you know those good

Intentions go to die there so sometimes that’s called my crisper exactly so all I did is I took some of that leftover Brown sausage put it into a quart size freezer bag of course took the air out and got it in the freezer because it’s

So nice to have on hand we like to have it you can throw it on nachos you can throw it into eggs or hash browns we also really like it when we make homemade flat pizzas MH so so good on on there so there’s lots of uses for that

It’s nice to have we also have a tater to casserole in the club that is just I mean it’s a tater tot casserole but the bottom of it you need some brown sausage so then if I ever go to make that it’s already done for me so yeah lot of

Reasons to have some sausage it is really nice to have it on hand you are absolutely right so we’ve got pastas we’ve got beef dishes sausage dishes noi we’ve got rice dishes chicken we’ve got mashed potatoes we sure do uh I don’t think we have any vegetarian dishes

Which is unlike us yes because we do have a lot of vegetarian dishes so you should stick with us you should hit that subscribe button and check back in because we do have a lot of that kind of stuff what we’re hoping for you is that

You can take what we’ve taught you today and you can transfer your own favorites onto that or go check out our website or our club to see what recipes we have there that appeal to you and then you can make your own meal plan and create

Recipes get them in your freezer do it with a friend cuz it’s more fun way more fun and then when you go to pick up the phone to call for that meal delivery hang it back up because there’s no need for that anymore you’ve got better tasting meals in your freezer and they

Are ready to go the best part about that is you order pizza when you want to not because you you have to we still order pizza don’t get me wrong there is a time and a place for Chinese food there’s a we love pizza but we don’t have to

Because we have a meal on the table every night because we make freezer meals and even if you don’t cook you can do this this is something that is so doable we have people that have been watching our videos that went from never really cooking only opening packages of

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