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Taking Stock
3 Steps to Stock Your Freezer Before Baby Arrives
By Heidi Johnson
Step Two
The second step is to recognize inefficient cooking and cleaning up when you see it. Always double (preferably 
quadruple) a freezeable meal. Look at how you cook. Next time you fix a meal, see if any of the steps you are taking in preparing your meal can be done in larger quantities. Are you browning only one pound of ground beef? Are you chopping only one onion? How much harder is it to put a tablespoon of oregano in a pot as opposed to a teaspoon? I know many people double meals, but I really believe in quadrupling because the meals multiply so much faster. If you have ever doubled a meal you know how good it feels to have a meal in the freezer. On the day that you use a freezer meal, all you will have to do is put the meal in a dish and either bake it or heat it on the stove. Then when it is time to do dishes all you have to wash is the plate, silverware and serving dish. All the pots were washed at the time when you made the meal several months ago. Some people tell me that cooking really isn't that difficult or time consuming. Cooking healthy, low-fat, low-meat dishes does take more time than putting a prepared grocery store meal in the microwave or throwing a piece of meat in a deep fryer or plopping a can of cream of mushroom soup over a piece of meat and cooking it. Not to mention the inches that it can add to your waist.
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