seven hours.
August 17, 2007
done. finished. whew. it fit.
I thought when the process was over I would be thinking, I will NEVER do this again. But I wasn’t, actually I was thinking, yeah, I could do this once a month. The day was nice, Téa was my side-kick, played with her baby and the potty on the kitchen floor, had her first experience with Playdough and took two naps (which is odd for her), Dillon napped, nursed and hung out, either in his saucer or the Ergo, and the boys were in heaven, I let them play in the dirt and ride bikes all day long. And guess what, I finished, I made twenty dinners in one day, I started at 11am and ended at 6pm. So seven hours, not bad, since I was caring for four children and cooking 20 meals. On a normal night one dinner takes me close to an hour, so hey I am up 14 hours already!

All the produce cut up, this was the first step!

YAY! One down, 19 to go.

And I am done!
I wanted to tell everyone that I do not have an extra freezer or even a really big freezer. I have a normal size freezer and I had some stuff already in it, some frozen juice, two loaves of bread, frozen chicken breasts, Eggo waffles and a few other things. My freezer is filled to the brim, but in about 30 days it will be ready to be filled again.
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Annie | August 17, 2007 at 2:12 pm
You are AMAZING! I may have to try this…
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Brynna | August 17, 2007 at 3:11 pm
You freakin ROCK!!!! (Okay, I’m not supposed to say “freakin”, but seriously…I can’t think of a really good word to use…) That’s awesome. Okay, you’ve inspired me. Although my freezer here will only hold about 1/4 of that, I think I’m going to do it!
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Brynna | August 17, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Okay…just re-read your post for the 3rd time…yeah, you totally rock Steph! 4 kids, yet you accomplished that so easily. Wow….
Time to come visit me…and I’ll pay you to do that here, okay? LOL
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twistandshout | August 17, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Savingdinner.com also has “Five for the Freezer”, where you make 5 freezer meals at a time. They are only $2.95 and make 6 servings of 5 meals. So for you Bryn or Annie, you would have atleast two dinners out of each.
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Angela | August 19, 2007 at 2:41 pm
Wow good job! I have a friend that started doing the once a month cooking like 7 years ago. She started it when she had 4 girls under the age of 5. She loved it. She actually got her husband do make it all one Saturday a month so all she had to do each day was pull something out of the freezer. I kind of forgot about it till you just mentioned this. I just might have to look into it. I just made a batch of freezer jam from the blackberries in our back yard and I am hooked and want to make my own jam out of grapes and strawberries and raspberries. Although, I don’t think we could eat it all. Good job on the meals. I was amazed looking at those huge bowls of chopped up veggies that must have took some time! You are an inspiration!
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Kris | August 19, 2007 at 7:21 pm
WOWOW you rock! And you only made you and Dillon cry because of onions for a little while!!! Good job babe!!! I’m next I know! I have a feeling I should shoot for the 5 meals first though.
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Chrissy | August 22, 2007 at 11:16 am
Great! I enjoyed visiting your blog.