One Afternoon, 20 Freezer Suppers for Under $60

📘 Brenda Cooks: 162 recipes for every kind of week your kitchen goes through https://brendacooks.com/ It's five-thirty, nothing's thawed, and somebody says the word pizza. That's not a cooking problem. It's a five-thirty problem, and five-thirty is where the grocery money goes. I fix it one afternoon a month: one trip to the store for about sixty dollars, four hours in the kitchen with the radio on, and twenty suppers in the freezer, each one feeding four. In this one I'll walk you through the whole afternoon, start to finish: 🛒 The list and what it really costs, with store brand on everything and chicken leg quarters as the backbone ⏲️ The order of the afternoon, so the oven and all four burners work at once without anything burning 🍲 Spaghetti sauce, chili, unstuffed cabbage, potato soup, chicken soup, chicken and dumplings, chicken and gravy, and chicken and beans 🧊 What freezes and what doesn't, how to cool and bag it all flat, and how to thaw it safely …and the cheapest supper of the twenty, about a dollar fifteen for the whole table, which is the one my kids ask for. Start with one nine-dollar bag of leg quarters this Sunday, and five-thirty starts taking care of itself. If cooking from the cupboard and a smart, thrifty kitchen sound good to you, subscribe and stick around — that's what we do here every week. 💛 What's your honest five-thirty answer right now? Tell me down in the comments. #freezermeals #budgetmeals #mealprep #cheapmeals #batchcooking #frugalcooking #cookingathome #frugalliving #onceamonthcooking