At the end of each summer, I mark the coming new school year by spending a day or two cooking for the freezer. (I was going to insert a joke about the freezer getting hungry, but I think that's just the caffeine overdose talking.) Ever since I returned to full time work 5 years ago, I've done this, except for one year and I regretted it from August till Christmas. Our one constant and ever present family goal is to eat out less. (We have plenty of other goals, but nothing shows up as often on our list as this one.) The reason we eat out so much is lack of preparation. Freezer cooking is my attempt to keep us all at our own dinner table in the evenings.
So today I've spent the day boiling lasagna noodles and cooking up red or white sauce. There are 6 lasagnas in the freezer and I'm working on number seven. There are also two pans of a spinach/sausage/noodle bake, one of which I would love to give to a friend, but a pan of frozen food doesn't mail very well and the distance is a little much to drive for a pan of food.
The dogs have not enjoyed today all that much. The small amount of time I've spent sitting, I've done at the kitchen table. They are unhappy that there has been no nap on my bed while I fritter away time on facebook or playing solitaire. They tried going outside several times, but the smells in here were too good to resist so they'd come back. Maybe there will be something on TV tonight that I can get hooked on watching. The girls would love that.
Meanwhile, back to the bacon.
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