Food Overload
January 8th, 2010 by Ashley
Sometimes I can be a bit impulsive.
Wait, let me back up.
I have this issue. With food. Sometimes I love it. But a lot of the time I feel like it’s such a nuisance, and I wish I didn’t need it because I’d rather not bother with it.
This side of me tends to come out a lot around dinnertime.
I want to eat. I can’t sleep when I’m hungry.
My family needs to eat.
But I’ve been busy all day, and I’m tired, and my kids are running around like a bunch of tasmanian devils.
And I just don’t want to cook.
Sometimes we’re lucky, and there’s leftovers from a night when I was in a better mood and cooked something great.
Sometimes we just eat cheese crisp for dinner. Those are the nights Hombre gets a little grouchy.
Another negative aspect of the quick and easy dinner (the other popular choice is Kraft Mac & Cheese. Or even better….Ramen.) is that my girls seem to be developing an extremely limited palette when it comes to food. Not good.
So…this has been our life for awhile.
Then yesterday, along comes Miss Impulsive…”I have a great idea. I’ll just do that once a month cooking thing and have all the meals in the freezer and that will make dinner SO easy!”
I made a month-long menu.
I made a grocery list based off of my month long menu.
We went shopping and bought a month’s worth of groceries (and Hombre may have had a flip out when we got the total at the register).
And I came home and started cooking. Last night at 9 o’clock. Started the cooking…went to bed…got up…went back to cooking…didn’t quit cooking until 4:30 this afternoon.
I’m so done with food at this point. If you want an awesome diet, I’ve got one for you: cook and cook and cook and cook until you are so sick of seeing food and smelling food and touching food and cleaning up food that you will never want to eat again. I promise it will work.
Anyway, I didn’t end up with a month’s worth of meals. I knew that was unrealistic, if for no other reason than my limited freezer space.
I’d say I have about two weeks worth of meals. And the rest of my menu plan revolves around slow-cooker recipes, so I really should not have to do any major cooking for a whole month.
I now have fully prepared:
- three chicken pot pies
- two pans of lasgna
- one pan of chicken enchiladas
- a double batch of potato soup
- a double batch of chicken soup
- a batch of spaghetti/meat sauce
- a batch of taco meat
- prepped toppings for pizza
- about a dozen servings of black beans
- ten jars of chicken broth (had to get the most out of cooking all that chicken)
My freezer is packed. Every single pot, pan,dish and large utensil I own is dirty. I took out two bags of trash today.
I’ll be back in 28 days to let you know if it was all worth it. I have serious doubts at this point. But I have to hope that it was worth it. This could not all be for nothing.
Posted in Cooking
one of my friends hates to cook…she does all her cooking a once a week. maybe that would be less overwhelming? the plus side is that you have dinner for a couple weeks
Comment by cindy — January 9, 2010 @ 2:45 pm
I’ve heard of this, but I like cooking. I do try to make lots of things like spaghetti sauce, pizza dough, and extra meat to freeze. Tell us how you like it
Comment by jennee — January 11, 2010 @ 3:42 pm