Doris Night wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 18:22:04 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:
>
> > My friend Susan fixes meals for from 7-15 every time. It's a big
> > extended family and they all live within 4-5 houses of each other.
> > While some of it is a family 'pot luck style' (where others take
> > turns bring things), they also contribute to the budget.
> >
> > As a result, Susan does a lot of 'cook once, eat many' type dishes.
> > Commonly ground beef will be cooked right away and drained then
> > frozen in suitable amounts. This not only in the long run saves
> > time in her case, but it also takes up less space since the fat has
> > been drained off.
> >
> > When cooking one ham, she says she's apt to cook a second at the
> > same time then break it down and freeze the 2nd one for other
> > dishes.
>
> I do the ground beef thing. It's hard to find a package of ground beef
> less than 500 grams, and that's to much for us, so I'll fry it all up
> and freeze half for a different meal.
>
> And I sometimes will pre-cook meat if I've had it out of the freezer
> for a bit too long. I got out a package of chicken breasts a couple of
> days ago and put them in the fridge. For various reasons, I didn't use
> them. So I diced them up and sauteed them, then stuck them in ziploc
> bags and put them back in the freezer.
>
> Doris

THat makes sense doris and is similar to what Susan does. I was at her
house once as we got back from a shopping trip. It was funny to watch 3
others use both her stove tops to brown down 10lbs of ground beef as we
split up some spices (we got a bulk set with some for each of us).