I'm excited to share these couple of recipes with you because this is how I really like to do freezer meals. The 10 freezer meals post I shared starting August 8, 2017 is great if you have a block of time and want to bust out a range of meals using different meat. While that's awesome - it isn't the most cost effective. I like to see what's on sale and then make meals based on that. On this day - I'm happy that was beef!
In my previous freezer meal post back in August, I mentioned there are a lot of veggies I don't like to freeze because I think it affects the flavor and texture. On the cook day the fresh veggies will be added. In the meantime - it won't be taking up room in your freezer. That's why I call these recipe starters versus freezer meals.
Recipe Starter #1 (made two meals):
Beef Roast
Cut the largest roast in half and place in two labeled freezer bags
Add to each of the bags:
1/2 envelope beefy onion lipton soup mix
1 large onion, roughly chopped
1/2 can french onion soup
Mix together. I really like this because it gives the meat a chance to soak in flavor.
Recipe Starter #2 (made three meals):
Beef Stew
Cut the other 2 roasts into 2 inch pieces for stew meat (around 8 lbs in total.) 1/4 of the meat was set aside to be used for our dinner that night. As I was cutting up the meat I was putting it in a large bowl. I used the same bowl to mix in the following:
2 envelopes onion lipton soup mix
3 medium onion, roughly chopped
1 can low sodium beef stock
Divide the 3/4 of the meat remaining between 3 freezer bags.
On cook day - roughly chop whatever veggies you like to have with you roast or stew meat. I anticipate we'll add potatoes, carrots, celery and mushrooms.
Have a great day! Thanks for stopping by!
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