Freezer Cooking

One of the websites/blogs I love to read daily is Once A Month Mom.  I am not a Mom, not  once a month cook (yet!) but I enjoy reading about new ideas and pondering how they would fit our family of two!

Because of some change in medicine, I have been having extra energy to burn after work. Usually after work involves relaxing, tv and cooking dinner.  However when you feel like you're going to jump out of your own skin, it sometimes needs to involve other activities.  Therefore I attempted freezer cooking for the first time!

Cue the happy, sparkly music! Guess what I made?!  Breakfast sandwiches.  Yes, those sandwiches you can buy in a box in the freezer and through in the microwave but I made MY OWN sandwiches, thankyouverymuch!

Super easy and super good looking...Alas I forgot mine this morning so I didn't get to taste it yet.  Dag nabbit!

This super awesome blogger shared with the world her process.  Thanks for sharing!

Basically, you cook your ingredients however you want.  I preferred to do the bacon in a frying pan on the stove because my oven tends to blow things up so I was leary.   Side note: I'm serious..I have yet to make baked buffalo wings without the smoke detectors going off in harmony around the apartment and the dog howling.  How is that possible!?

I made a small assembly line since the dog wasn't going to be much help putting them together.  But she was a fantastic bacon taster!  I only made 6 sandwiches because I wanted just test it out before I committed to more and plus it's only the two of us for breakfast.  Most mornings, just hook up my coffee IV, please.

I'm proud to say that the sandwiches looked and smelled intoxicating.  I'll have to report on taste later but for a small bit of effort, it potentially could save my hungry morning man from becoming a bear in the kitchen before work!

What about you? Did you try any new recipes?

Processed Foods

There are literally thousands of blogs, articles, posts about removing processed food from your diets.  I appreciate honesty from some of the blogs I read like 100 Day of Real Food.   Honest opinions and the ability to allow people to comment back appropriately.  Keep your cursing and shallow thoughts to yourself.  We are adults and can have an intelligent discussion. 


All this talk has had me thinking about what I can remove from our diets on a regular basis to make it a little healthier.  My first thoughts were removing dairy from our diet.  We are both lactose-intolerant to a point.  Milk and ice cream render our apartment inhabitable from my  DF (dear fiance).  However cheese is a staple in most of our recipes.  There are at least 4 bags of shredded cheese in our freezer at any time.  It seems like a daunting task to remove those items cold turkey.  So in the spirit of not giving up, I'm going to start by reducing the amount of dairy we eat regularly so that someday (read: in the future) we can remove all the dairy from our diet. 


What types of food-related challenges are you setting for you and/or your family?  Any tips for removing dairy from diets and especially recipes?