Clean Eating and Freezer Meals

After work, if I am being honest, i don't always feel like cooking dinner.  I am tired, hunger, and most often hangry.  I just want food to appear.  Well that line of thinking and feeling does not go very well with the idea of clean eating.  Clean eating calls for fresh ingredients, whole food, and made majority of the time by yourself.  To help solve this problem of exhaustion + hunger = quick food in my tummy now, I have been delving into prepping freezer meals.

I will never be that person who can spend an entire day cooking a series of meals and freezing. I get bored very often with the same meal and I like to shake things up.  So my way of preparing freezer meals is i devote 1 afternoon a week to the project, and i try to get a variety of meals out of one staple dish.  

So for instance I made a vat of my marinara sauce, I then used the sauce to make 1 pan of egg plant Parmesan, and froze 2 cans of sauce.  Those 2 cans of sauce could be used in so many ways!!! It doesn't just have to plain old spaghetti and that egg plant Parmesan we can eat for days afterwards. This is my process. It might not be the most efficient but it keeps us fed and my sanity. 

If you devote 1 afternoon a week to freezing meals, eventually you will have a nice stock pile so their is always food in the freezer to heat up.  Currently in my freezer we have 1 can of sauce, 2 cans of vegetable soup, and a pan of chicken casserole.  Not to shabby and I still plan to add 3 meals to that list later this weekend.  

I also leave cooking instructions on each of the dishes for my husband.  He usually beats me home now a days and it makes it easy for him to be able to just preheat and bake.  Viola, I come home from work with a fresh made, delicious meal waiting for me.  Sometimes I ask myself "Why haven't I been doing this all along?"