14 Crock-Pot or Instant Pot Meals (Choose your adventure!)

Here’s another round of freezer meals!  I’m super excited to share these with you.  It’s a mix of new recipes with some oldie but goodie favorites from our house.  The picture below shows the 5 meals I made from a 4 pack of pork roasts from Costco. If you’re interested in tips and tricks with freezer…

14 Frozen Meals for the Instant Pot or Slow Cooker!

There are two times each year where I love to have frozen meals on hand.  The first is when school is getting up and running in the fall and the second is heading into January.  I’m a little late on my January meals – but I decided better a little late than not to have…

Beef Stew – using one of my starters!

Remember a couple weeks ago when there was a really good beef roast sale?  I used one of those beef stew starters on a busy week morning.  I threw everything in the Crock-Pot before we left to face the day.  During my son’s football practice my daughter and I ran to the grocery store and…

2 Beef Freezer Meal Starter Kits

Safeway had a pretty good sale on beef roasts over the weekend and I decided to buy 3 of them (3.5-4.5 lbs each) to cut up for stew for our dinner and use what was left for a few freezer meals.  Turns out there was enough to make 5 freezer meals and our dinner that…

10 Crock-Pot Freezer Meals

Good Morning!  These are the 10 Crock-Pot freezer recipes that I’ve posted over the last few days in one big post.  Most people liked the idea of having multiple blog posts but a few wanted one big post.    Full disclosure! In the picture above I have two recipes of zesty chicken and didn’t do…

10 Crock-Pot Freezer Meals – Beef Recipes – Part 4 of 4

Here’s Part 4 of 4.  If you’ve been asking yourself- where’s the beef?  Today is your day!  The kids are huge fans of the Mongolian Beef recipe.  There’s something about putting in the fresh ginger that really pulls it all together.    Mongolian Beef with Rice Ingredients for the freezer bag: 2 lbs. stew meat…

10 Crock-Pot Freezer Meals – Chicken Recipes – Part 2 of 4

I’m going to kick off the recipes with the 3 chicken meals included in the set of 10 recipes.  My favorite of the three is the zesty chicken.   Chicken breasts can be tricky in Crock-Pot recipes because they can end up way over-cooked and well… let’s be honest… Mushy.  Who wants mushy chicken for…

10 Crock-Pot Freezer Meals – Tips and Grocery List – Part 1 of 4

I’ve been a lover of the Crock-Pot since my early 20’s but it’s been since having my second kiddo that I started incorporating freezer cooking.  For our dinners I like to do a combination of a couple freezer meals during the workweek for the busy days and then quick cooking meals for the other weeknights….