I have learned that by manipulating the time that it takes to cook dinner each night (by cooking only one night per week, four entrees) allows extra time to workout and loose the last 10 pounds, increases the amount of time to spend with your family, allows each night's dinner to be fresh and health, allows you to start a garden, and saves money because you are consolidating ingredients. For example, this week we are eating:
Monday - Chicken Pot Pie (previously frozen)
Tuesday - Baked Pasta with a Bolognese Sauce, making four batches of Bolognese Sauce
Wednesday - Black Bean Soup (previously frozen)
Thursday - Chicken with White Wine Sauce in the Slower Cooker, (sauce previously frozen)
Friday - A surprise yet to be determined.
My Successes: I have had apples for snacks for the last two weeks, I am down 2 pounds, the Spring Garden is planted, I was able to jog this week with the dog and the stroller, and I am not yet bankrupt for the month with payday arriving next week.
Still unsure if freezing three entrees every week will work for you? Try an alternative:
1. Only make two of every dish, 1 to eat that night and freeze the other for next week.
2. Build a group with three other friends. Each member of the group chooses a different recipe. Make your four entrees and swap three of them. Then, you are all still only cooking once a week, yet eating four different meals each night. Call yourselves The Suburban Exchange.
Recipe Coming Soon - Bolognese Sauce, not your average Pasta Sauce.
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