Often, making a multiple batch of a recipe is not much more work than making a single batch. There are certain things that are easier to make in big batches than others. Whenever I make my low fat chili, I make a huge batch of it, pour it into tupperware containers, and freeze them. It doesn’t take that much more work to do it. Then we will have a bunch of chili in the freezer ready to pull out and heat up when we don’t feel like cooking.
This last weekend, I made a 6x batch of low-fat meatloaf. I mixed the stuff in a big salad bowl, divided it among 6 loaf pans, and baked them. We ate one for dinner, and we froze the other 5. That was on Saturday.
On Sunday, I made three low-fat lasagnas! Now this took longer. It took a while to get the big pot of water to boil so I cook the noodles. And it took forever to get that much lean ground beef to brown! But I baked the lasagnas, and then we divided them, and froze them
Our FoodSaver allows us to vacuum pack our food in the freezer. This is really cool beause we can have the food in the freezer much longer without worrying about freezer-burn. It would suck to make batches, store them in the freezer, only to have to throw them away later!

Posted by Rob in Whatever on May 2nd, 2007 |