BACK TO SCHOOL FREEZER MEALS / COOK WITH ME

Hello friends, welcome

back

to She's in her apron. I'm so glad you're here today because we're getting ready to go

back

to

school

, whether your kids are going to

school

or having school at home, dinner still needs to be served. Refreshments are needed. to serve you breakfasts, lunches and today I'm going to help you prepare some snacks, frozen

meals

, breakfasts and dinners to be ready for the crazy back to school season that is approaching, are you ready? apron, come on, welcome, welcome, my children are starting school. on the 18th and I want to get ready guys I'm really excited to get ahead of the game because we all have busy lives and getting ahead makes things less stressful.

Okay, before we start, I have to tell you that I really hurt my pinky finger. You may have seen this on Instagram. I crashed it against the stairs. I stumbled going up the stairs. The stairs to the patio terrace. I don't even know if my bottom nail is still on. I know, it's gross, so you're going to see me. Honey this finger hurts so much and I need to be super gentle so the show must go on well we still have families to feed the kids so I'll move on okay let's jump into this so here's my 60 eggs that I bought at Walmart and we're going to use them for French toast and breakfast burritos, so I'm just going to crack a dozen eggs and then season them and scramble them and prepare them. our breakfast burritos are fine, so I had some sausage left over from the last time I worked with a big guy like this, so let's use this.

I thawed it out, I don't know if I'll need all that, but I'm going to

cook

it like this and have it in the

freezer

for times like this when I could just break out a pot and separate out some sausage when I need it in recipes, but I bet I'll probably need a little bit more than this, but I'm not going to make a bunch of breakfast burritos, but I want to use this first and then I'll

cook

it and then I'll freeze the rest if we don't use it or whatever, okay, just brown that sausage and the other. it's in a bowl warming up here and then we'll let it cool so we can handle it it's so loud in here with the microwave and dishwasher running it's even great to buy yourself bulk sausages like this and just cook them later. of time for anything like soups and breakfasts and all these things, just having it ready will save you a step during your crazy week.

I'm not in the mood to fry bacon, but no, that's why I love having pre-cooked bacon on hand for times like this, so I might be down to my last pound of bacon, so I have an upcoming Costco haul coming up , so it will be there, but I want some bacon in the breakfast burrito, so I'm going to heat up some of these slices, break them down and get help where I can get them, if it's pre-cooked bacon, do whatever it takes, so in this bag I'm going to put breakfast burritos and I'm going to use this bag over and over again, so, um, but when we moved, I threw the actually no, I didn't throw it away.

I gave the last ones to Callie and Felix, she took them home with her, so I don't have that one of hers anymore. bag so breakfast burritos okay so I have my saran wrap we'll wrap them in the saran wrap and then they'll go in here leave the bacon egg sausage my kids like both um you could throw in sauce here. If you want, Jonah likes to dip his in sauce. He is my 16 year old son and he likes to do that. It's been a hot minute since I made a burrito. I always wonder which way I make it, so to reheat them, I'll take them.

If you can't get them out of the foil when they're frozen, just soften it in the microwave a little bit so you can rework the saran wrap and then I'll wrap it in a paper towel and I do it for about a minute and 30 sometimes it's much faster than you guys, it really just depends on your microwave and yes, but I like to have it on a paper towel, it keeps its moisture, yes, but don't cook it with saran. wrap it, obviously some people wrap this in aluminum foil. No, I just don't see the point in them holding up beautifully like this, so I'll go ahead and throw them in this bag.

Okay, I have a package of breakfast burritos ready to go in the

freezer

, okay, I have the cooked sausage in this bag with the air vent label ready to go in the refrigerator or freezer. I'm just trying to think of something I can do with her this week. I think I'll stick with this. in the fridge for a day or two, I'll see if there's anything else, a meal plan and see if I can roll it into anything, if not I'm just going to throw this in the freezer and it can freeze again even though it came out. from the freezer frozen because we changed its date we cooked it we could freeze it again the eggs are ready the sausage is ready so while it cools a little I'm going to crack some eggs for the french toast what seasoning do you put on it Your french toast I like to make cinnamon, nutmeg and a splash of vanilla What do you like to do with your French toast?

Well today I'm using Texas toast, a thick slice made by friends, this holds up wonderfully in the freezer. In fact, I bought this bread. at friends outlet store in provo utah and I was like yeah my friend Denise told me about this store and I was so excited to go I bought a bunch of stuff for the freezer and to make things and by the way I bought two of their texas. toast for this occasion I have my griddle here sprayed with oil because I noticed it's not like that, you don't need oil for this one but I don't know if it's getting old but it does and it's funny because this isn't old, I've had this for about a year, but we use it a lot now you try not to accomplish all this in one day, take one day to have breakfast and maybe another day to prepare your snacks, lunches and dinners, you know, take one. day, especially if you're not used to making frozen

meals

and cooking in bulk, it can be overwhelming, so it doesn't have to be that way, just take a little time and plan for it.

I have my dishwasher on, it makes so much noise. Sorry guys but last night I pressed the button to start it but you're supposed to press it twice and I didn't know that so it's taking a little while so now it took longer yeah it is what it is. and get your family involved in this get your kids involved um shaylee was just over here um when I was making the sausage she was helping me brown it and shaylee is my youngest daughter and she's nine get your kids involved, especially those kids who who love to cook, my goodness, and even those who don't, it's a good learning experience, remember the video of our first leaves in our house with aprons where I forced my oldest son to help me with the meatloaf and stick my hands in there and mix the meat and he was going crazy, do you remember oh Jonah is very funny, that was very funny by the way, so every time I make meatloaf he likes it, he loves it, but he It shivers because you remember how you feel, it's so much fun, have your favorite? music or show in the background when you have a day like this one I'm watching previously on desperate housewives find something you can listen to or watch but you're really listening to it while doing things like this it just makes the time go somewhere else in your mind , so right now I'm listening to desperate housewives.

I love that series. I just do it, so I have it in the background while I do my thing. Okay, so you can speak in French. Toast in the ziploc bag too if you want, but I'm going to put them back in these bags and freeze them this way, that way the kids could come in and grab one, grab two, these won't end up sticking together. together, which is fantastic, so you could go get a couple for the toaster and put them in the toaster and cook them and brown them that way, you don't really need to like defrost them for a while.

I mean, you could put them in the microwave for a bit, but the toaster doesn't work, so you can put them in your toaster oven. Put them in the microwave. That one, let's see, I could add more on that one. Some of these are still there. a little bit warm, I feel like the ones have the other ones on top of each other, so I'm going to throw them out once it cools down a little bit more before I put them in the freezer, um, and then I'll tie them up. These you put in the freezer, of course, I'll show them to the kids because they won't know if I don't show them after we make all these meals, tell them and show them what we have and then they can go. take this and this helps them with their independence if you have little ones they can go get one or your husband or yourself if you don't want to do anything they can go in alone and get some this won't last long. in pancakes it goes so fast we love to have breakfast on the weekends especially on Sundays and um if you want French toast and I don't want to make it or I don't have bread to make it we already have it and we'll end up having one of these so there you have it French toast that go directly to the freezer ready for us to gobble them up.

Alright, next we're going to work on us for the after school snack for the kids, which is bagel pizza bites, so good that I have a bag of mini bagels, okay, and I have a bottle that I found in my pizza sauce food store. You can make your own a million times. I love it but look for help where you can get it and I'm using this and then I have a block. of parmesan cheese, I'm going to cut some up and shred it and then this is the last of my pepperoni. In my family we love pepperoni, so what I'm going for is huge, perfect for a mini bagel, but what am I going to do?

What I'm going to do is just cut this out. You can use the small round pepperonis for these. I've done it before and shared it with you, but I'm just going to cut. the pepperoni so we can use it on our bagels, grate the cheese and then I'll show you how I put them together. I thought I was recording, you guys weren't there, where were you? anyway, it's recording now, so I opened the bagel, put some in. sauce and then we're going to put our cheese on, it's going to get messy so do your best and then you'll notice that when you freeze them and take them out of the freezer to cook, a lot of the toppings and the cheese will fall off. off okay when you take them out on your cookie sheet your baking sheet just add it back in okay okay and then I'll add some pepperoni there you go what I'm doing is I'm putting them in this bake . leaf and we're going to put them in the freezer for a little while so that they harden and we can work with them to put them in the bags or whatever, you'll do it as if you were pre-freezing them.

Able to group them together so they don't stick together and get yucky and this is a delicious after school snack. I can't think of what exactly I heat them up. I'm sure it's here on the screen. somewhere for you and I'll have it downstairs and not only is it a good after school snack, but it also makes a good lunch. I know you love them, uh, yeah, okay, the bagel bites are ready, I'm going to get these. entire baking sheet in the freezer so they could be prefrozen. Here are the pizzas, nice and frozen. In fact, I'm putting them in this container this time and like I said, they make a great lunch or after school snack.

I have a video where I made frozen meal snacks. I think it was also a dessert video and I'll leave it below. All of my freezer meal playlists will be down there, but I made some snacks and lunches for you. I think that's all I'm going to be able to fit in and I'll put these last four in a bag. Well, I took out some ground beef. Let's get this thought out. This is a pound and these are a pound. and a half, I think, so I'm going to make sloppy coffees for dinner tonight and then the rest will be in the freezer for lunch later, so while the ground beef thaws, I'm going to work on some. hoagie sandwiches, okay, we're working on the lunch portion now, so the bagel bites could be lunch or a snack, so that was the snack for this vlog, um, um, as you saw, I'm thawing out, can you listen the microwave right now. for Sloppy Joes for lunches kids love this.

You can serve a Sloppy Joe, of course, on a burger bun. You can serve them on a hoagie bun. some ham and roast beef sandwiches and get them prepped and ready so they can pack their lunches in the morning, they can go grab a sandwich and it will be thought out and ready for when they have lunch at school, so you can do this too. Take it out in the morning, set it down and it will thaw very quickly. It's great. I also made this with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I have a video. I'll leave it below.

Tip for peanut butter. and jelly sandwiches put peanut butter on both sides of the bread and then put your jelly, the oils from the peanut butter make it so it doesn't get soggy too when you go to make like you'll see me do when you make your ham and cheese sandwiches with whatever bread you use. Put the mustard in the mayonnaise in the middle with the meat or cheese slices because if you put it on the bread, it will be soggy, so there is a tip for you. I'm using what I had left for lunch meat, this was in the freezer and then I thought about it, so I'll use theflavor with a couple different brands of um pesto and this one so you can use a packet of ranch dressing or we have this so I put three tablespoons on it and then you.

I'll need half a cup of chicken broth. Always freeze your tried and true recipes. Whatever you guys always eat. Make frozen meals with it so you don't feel so intimidated by frozen meals. I'll just mix it here like this. My finger hurts, I swear it's getting worse. I'll bandage it when we're done so I can go to sleep tonight. If you're wondering what time it is now, it's like 8:30 so I'm trying to hurry up and finish this so I can go out and start a fire with my family so it could take all day to do this and it takes me longer when I'm filming, but like I said, you don't need to do all this. in one day, okay, just throw in the chicken.

These are bone-in, skinless chicken thighs. Okay let's mix it up.take out the air and mix this you mix it I'll take out the trash thanks this is chicken pesto ranch land oh no I know I've had it for a while this is one of our favorites that I try to always keep a bag of this in the freezer and just before we moved we ate the last one, let's be honest we try to keep a lot in the freezer, we do it because frankly I'm lazy, no I keep busy but you just get lazy because you're so busy instead of ordering takeout sometimes you want a quick meal that's why I love making these take a day it completely exhausts you and I love it when you're not around what do you mean by that if you are not there?

I love the freezer, thank you, oh it's okay, I still love you, honey, thank you. We just celebrated our 22nd wedding anniversary a couple of weeks ago. Okay, ranch chicken with pesto and if you haven't tried it, you have to try this, this is a hit. Very good, okay, this goes in the freezer. I thought I had red pepper for my sweet and sour dumplings, but I don't, but I will during the week with you, you will see me prepare more meals in my day. in life videos, um, because periodically during the week I make one or two, so I'm going to make the old basic honey barbecue chicken and I'm going to put it in, just put it in a bag, pour this, seal it, put it in in the refrigerator so we can roast chicken during the week, okay, I'm going to get all the air out, mix that in and the chicken will have a lot of flavor because once it starts to thaw, it will marinate so well that it will go in the freezer, thank you.

So much for joining me on this, it was a lot of fun, just try to find some time in your schedule to be able to do something like this, it might take you a couple of days, it might take you a day, but do what you can to plan ahead. and have things ready for when life gets busy it will really take some stress off of you and right now with the way things are going a little stress off your shoulders would be nice um any tips tricks ideas ideas Please leave them below so we can all get some fresh new ideas and glide through this crazy start to the school year.

Thank you very much for joining me and see you soon, goodbye.