This is why I *love* having a freezer. Dinner tonight was chuck roast
with gravy, mashed potatoes, Fordhook lima beans...

I cooked the meal months ago. I put the leftovers into divided freezer
plates. Tonight I didn't feel like cooking. So I looked in the
freezer. Ah, yes, this sounds good. A quick home-cooked meal. Beats
the heck out of any store-bought frozen dinner.

Jill

On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 20:17:23 -0400, jmcquown >
wrote:

>This is why I *love* having a freezer. Dinner tonight was chuck roast
>with gravy, mashed potatoes, Fordhook lima beans...
>
>I cooked the meal months ago. I put the leftovers into divided freezer
>plates. Tonight I didn't feel like cooking. So I looked in the
>freezer. Ah, yes, this sounds good. A quick home-cooked meal. Beats
>the heck out of any store-bought frozen dinner.

My freezer currently contains the following:

2 containers of Italian sausage soup
2 containers of chili
2 containers of pastitzio
1 container with some chicken, rice, and vegetables

There's always something for dinner!

Doris

On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 20:17:23 -0400, jmcquown >
wrote:

> This is why I *love* having a freezer. Dinner tonight was chuck roast
> with gravy, mashed potatoes, Fordhook lima beans...
>
> I cooked the meal months ago. I put the leftovers into divided freezer
> plates. Tonight I didn't feel like cooking. So I looked in the
> freezer. Ah, yes, this sounds good. A quick home-cooked meal. Beats
> the heck out of any store-bought frozen dinner.
>
Sorry. Home made or store bought - a premade dinner does not appeal
to me. Take components from the freezer to make a new dish, okay.
Take a complete meal out and defrost it, no thanks.



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Good Memories.

"sf" > wrote in message
...
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 20:17:23 -0400, jmcquown >
> wrote:
>
>> This is why I *love* having a freezer. Dinner tonight was chuck roast
>> with gravy, mashed potatoes, Fordhook lima beans...
>>
>> I cooked the meal months ago. I put the leftovers into divided freezer
>> plates. Tonight I didn't feel like cooking. So I looked in the
>> freezer. Ah, yes, this sounds good. A quick home-cooked meal. Beats
>> the heck out of any store-bought frozen dinner.
>>
> Sorry. Home made or store bought - a premade dinner does not appeal
> to me. Take components from the freezer to make a new dish, okay.
> Take a complete meal out and defrost it, no thanks.

Agree with that on most things. Certainly not a premade TV type dinner.
Although at one point I was forced to take containers of frozen spaghetti to
work for lunch or have no lunch, it's not something I would normally do
willingly. And then a couple of times I froze the hominy croquettes. I
lived alone and the recipe made more than I could eat before they went bad.
I did eat those with a salad though.

I also froze a ton of potstickers but those were eaten with other things.

Currently I have cooked hamburger patties, cooked chicken, the leftover
meatloaf and some Easter pie. None of these things are a complete meal. I
will also freeze leftover taco meat.

But if I were going to eat a TV type dinner, I wouldn't really care where it
came from. Homemade or store bought, both equally unappealing. That being
said, I can't remember the last time I ate such a meal but it was made by
Amy's and it was at the dance studio.

If I don't feel like cooking, I'll have whatever is around that I don't have
to cook. Salad, sandwich, hummus wrap, burrito with canned beans, frozen
White Castles, apple with peanut butter, a can of soup...

It's such a comfort to have a few meals or prepared dishes on hand.
Right now my refrigerator top freezer is pretty bare of ready-to-go items
-- just a lunch portion of spaghetti with Italian sausage and marinara
sauce next to a big batch of sausage biscuits for busy mornings. I
cooked a crockpot full of pork chops today. I will freeze the leftovers
for easy dinners later on.

Tara