Batch cooking, do you do it?

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Blessed

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I have been cleaning the fridge and giving the kitchen a good wash up. Trying to prep some different items for the next few days. I have not been eating well and I need to get back to making proper foods. Now, I realize some of these things are not proper for your diet but I like to have choices.

I have a rack of baby ribs seasoned up with dry rub. Potatoes peeled and sliced with a white onion for au gratin dish staying fresh in a bowl of water. I may or may not make the white sauce for them tonight. There is a pan of green beans simmering with some bacon and garlic. Chicken is thawing to use in some recipe, may be just a stir fry with peppers and onion. Can take that into mexican or asianThese flavors. Also thinking of a breakfast quiche, it sausage pie as my MIL called it. It freezes very well and I can just pull out a couple of slices when I want them. Some kind of pie, cobbler or brownies will provide dessert for the next few days.

These are things of my boring day to day existence, living alone, no one to cook for but myself.
 

I started out doing batch cooking, preparing and cooking a few different things at once. For me though, I hate the clean up and enjoy the cooking process. So I cook daily but start early in the day when I have more energy. Cleaning up while I go. I am finding myself preparing simpler recipes that use few ingredients and easier clean up. Sometimes I will prepare cold dishes and have those over a few days. I get tired of the same dish by the 3rd time though.
 

Yes I batch cook all the time, and freeze in single portions in bulk...... When I get something out of the freezer for dinner, I sometimes get 2 portions out.. and cook both , to have the second for dinner or lunch the following day, which means I don't have to cook on the second day

I also have no-one to cook for but myself. I do miss that.. so when my friends pop around for tea I'll often be found feeding them my latest efforts ..lol
 
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Yes. I batch cook chicken broth, pea soup, chicken & vegetable soup, butternut squash soup, spaghetti sauce, tea biscuits, and beef stew. My husband cooks and cans pork something or other and some other things I have no interest in. We sometimes have different things to eat but not always

Most batch cooking is then sealed and stored in Mason Jars
 
Blessed said:
I have been cleaning the fridge and giving the kitchen a good wash up. Trying to prep some different items for the next few days. I have not been eating well and I need to get back to making proper foods. Now, I realize some of these things are not proper for your diet but I like to have choices.

I have a rack of baby ribs seasoned up with dry rub. Potatoes peeled and sliced with a white onion for au gratin dish staying fresh in a bowl of water. I may or may not make the white sauce for them tonight. There is a pan of green beans simmering with some bacon and garlic. Chicken is thawing to use in some recipe, may be just a stir fry with peppers and onion. Can take that into mexican or asianThese flavors. Also thinking of a breakfast quiche, it sausage pie as my MIL called it. It freezes very well and I can just pull out a couple of slices when I want them. Some kind of pie, cobbler or brownies will provide dessert for the next few days.

These are things of my boring day to day existence, living alone, no one to cook for but myself.
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I do it every week. I cook everything from scratch, eat no sugar or processed foods and eat clean for the most part. I spend a day cooking and freezing food, prepping all of my work lunches and meals for the week. It saves a lot of time. I don't like getting home from work and then spending an hour preparing a meal. It has become a routine for me, now when I get home it takes me 10 minutes or less to get my food on the table. I have a large chest freezer and freeze everything I can.
 
Absolutely. I cook meat in batches. Eat some today, put one serving in the fridge, the rest in the freezer.

Things that don't lend themselves to freezing, e.g., a roast, go in the fridge and get eaten over the next few days.

One thing I learned is not to cook a huge batch. Then you end up with a huge job and a big mess. But cooking and storing 3 or 4 portions isn't hard.
 
I cook meals for 3 or 4 days in a row; "dine on" a variety of leftovers until the fridge is empty.

Lunches are frozen ethnic lunches (Chinese dim sum, Japanese gyoza, mini pizza) The meals are planned around the weekly specials.
 

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