How to Batch Prep your Ground Beef in 3 Easy Steps
Let’s do a quick thought exercise…which feels easier to use for dinner tonight? Just imagine you open your freezer to pull out some meat for tonight’s dinner. Are you more likely to choose the prepped taco meat or a frozen 3lb chub of ground beef? I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that you chose the prepped taco meat, and you would be RIGHT!! One of the biggest mistakes people make while trying to stock their freezer is coming home and sticking their fresh meat straight into the freezer. WHY? Because while it’s easier on the front end of grocery shopping, it’s infinitely harder when you go to actually use it! Now you have to thaw the meat (which, let’s be honest, is where most dinner plans go awry), but you also have to season, shape, and cook it. (Which feels like a lot of work at the end of the day, am I right?!) It’s actually much easier to come home from grocery shopping and assign it a job, then you’ll know just how to use it (which gives it a better shot of not collecting freezer burn in the back of your freezer) but it also helps you feel like dinner is EASY…which is the ultimate goal we’re all going for here.
How to Shape Hamburger & Hot Dog Buns…the Easy Way!
Let’s talk for a quick second why you’d want to make your own hamburger and hot dog buns…because I totally get it…it feels like a lot of work when you can buy super cheap $0.89 cents. AND…I’m totally with you. I don’t always make my own hamburger and hot dog buns, but when I do, they’re about a billion times better.
HOW TO MAKE DONUTS THAT TASTE JUST LIKE KRISPY KREME
Here we are in quarantine week #1,482,398. Am I right? It’s feeling a little like Groundhog Day over here. However, these LIVE meet ups have been keeping me and my kids sane because we LOVE doing these (and they love to eat what I show you how to make ;). This week we’re tackling foods that most people think are too difficult or messy to make at home and outsmarting them. Monday, Kate showed how to make biscuits super easy and today is DONUTS. I mean who can resist a warm, freshly made donut? No one…unless maybe you’re Voldemort…but he wasn’t really human…so….there’s that.
HOW TO MAKE BISCUITS SO EASY YOUR KID CAN MAKE THEM!
If you’re like most people, you’ve afraid to make biscuits. After all, they take a long time to make, make a HUGE mess on your counter….and let’s be real…are they really that much better than the canned biscuits? If that’s you, it’s not your fault. Biscuits CAN be very hard to make, but as Kate showed in the LIVE meet up (if you missed it click HERE) with these tips, biscuits are super easy! Plus, you can also make one/freeze one (you know how I love that) and keep some in the freezer for next time.
TURN YOUR OWN RECIPES INTO FREEZER MEALS
Who doesn’t love the idea of freezer meals? It makes dinner seem SO easy and effortless. However, if you’ve tried doing freezer meals, you’ve probably met up with some frustration as well. Either you didn’t really like the recipe after you made it, or your frozen-flat meal didn’t fit in your slow cooker when it came time to make, or if you’re like me it took so much effort to fill the freezer with freezer meals, you never wanted to eat them!
HOMEMADE SEASONINGS
This post is based on a LIVE meet up on Instagram, if you missed it, you can rewatch it in our Facebook Group HERE. Homemade seasonings are awesome for two reasons, 1) they can be a lot cheaper and 2) they can taste a ton better! But before we go on, let’s make sure you […]