This week’s WFMW is easy-peasy since this is the kitchen edition.
I have most of my “bright ideas” in the kitchen. I think it’s because I’m naturally lazy so I find shortcuts for almost everything in there.
Anyway, back to the topic.
Whenever I buy meat, I get home and split it all up into individual portions immediately. I’m on Weigh-Less so one portion of beef is 60g and one portion of chicken (white meat) is 110g.
I get out my scale, use the small sandwich bags as a glove as I measure out the meat, scoop it up and pull the plastic bag over the meat, twist and that’s one ready. And so on and so on.
Then I put the individual portions in a plastic container like this…and into the freezer.
Aside from the meat, I do the same when I boil up legumes like chick peas, lentils and my favourite, red kidney beans. They also go into individual containers in the freezer.
And then the vegetables. I try and chop up enough veggies for the week or if I don’t get that far, then at least enough for Monday’s meal (remember every Monday we eat lots of veggies).
I always stirfry our meals individually because I use only 1 tablespoon of oil for my meal whereas I don’t deprive Dion. LOL
So while mine is cooking, here are all the ingredients for his meal.
Having all the portions ready and prepared saves a lot of time and certainly works for me with my busy lifestyle.
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3 comments:
GREAT tips! I'm going to start that method to freeze my ground meat, I love that all of the individual servings are in one container, what a space saver! Thanks so much for sharing! =)
Thanks, Larae. Glad it helped you
I do the exact same thing w/ my ground beef. It saves so much time and I always freeze it in smaller portions (usually 3/4 pound) than what is usually called for (usually 1 pound). :)
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