Running out of my last two weeks of prepping, so I’m working on my next list…And I think I’ll utilize this as a way of showing what I do to prepare.
First, I don’t have a job, so fortunately (or unfortunately depending on how one looks at it) I’m able to allocate my time, energy, and strength a lot better. It’s still not really any easier, but at least “working” can’t make it worse, HAH!
Alrighty, lets get this under way. For these two weeks I’m going to be lazy. Most of the food will be easy, with a few very very difficult things thrown in.
My shopping list
2 jars of marinara
a block of medium cheddar (Great Value brand is the cheapest and is actually pretty darn good).
salted cream butter (Again Great Value brand, it has a pretty long fridge life, and it’s ok for the price).
3 15 oz can’s tomato sauce
a stick of pepperoni
velveeta
2 loafs of bread
red potatoes
2 medium frozen lazagnas
2 packages hot dog buns
2 large cans of chili for the hot dogs.
5 packages worth of beef hot dogs (Has to be beef as for some odd reason my body hates the other kinds).
What I’ll do with this are as follows, and when I make them depends on how I feel. So my meal prepping involves what I feel like making, heh.
Chili dogs (Now I make a fabulous chili, but to hell with that much work. I’m going to use Wolf brand chili).
When I feel up to it and get out my run down mixer, I’ll make several batches of pretzel dough and make pigs in the blankets, and a stromboli (This is one I made 2 years ago.
beef stews.
Spaghetti, or some other kind of pasta.
Frozen lasagnas.
Grilled cheese sandwiches.
And anything else I can think of.
Now since I eat a lot (more than my entire family combined, O_o), this won’t last as long as I’d like, but it will definitely be at least a week and a half. If I’m lucky, two weeks.
[After reading through this…I just don’t like it…Meh, oh well. My brain ain’t all there, so I’m not going to worry about it. I’ll touch it up later…I hope, ].
Interesting. DH requires all beef hot dogs as well, since he cannot have processed meats. He varies his grilled cheese by using burrito wraps instead of bread at times.
Half a handful of frozen carrots, celery, mushrooms & peas (both together to fill half a handful), greenbeans & corn.
One red potato diced.
1 Tbls. Better than beef boullion
1 Tbls. Dried barley.
2 Tbsp. Worth of sliced onion.
Fry meat in 1 Tbsp butter with 1 Tbsp flour until lightly browned on all sides. Mix in 1+1/2 cups water, then add vegetables, barley, and boullion. Add salt and pepper to taste, and/or a small pinch of sage. Cook til barley is tender. Serve.
Whoa! I had forgotten about this. Okily dokily! I have some idears for revamping this and making it better. So , maybe, just maybe I will do so…I hope, .
Sausage Patties:
With the cost of hamburger being so high, I’m starting to utilize other things for meat, and today is Sausage day.
Pork costs $5.12 for 1.5lb and ground Chuck costs $7.73 and $7.43 for only 1lb, so cheaper going with pork.
After mixing in the herbs and spices, I flattened the meat by hand onto my small cutting board (Perfect size to insure that each patty is as close to the same size as every other one).
Then I cut it with a knife into 4x3 sections, and bag it in large baggies, three to a row. This makes it so I can fold the patties over and store up to nine in one baggie.
Each patty is the perfect size to either fry up as a patty. Chop up for sausage and potatoes or for sausage gravy for a single person serving.
Also, by buying pork over premade sausage, means that I can adjust the seasonings depending on what I want to do. I could always half the meat for making sausage and Italian sausage, using less seasonings for using the pork with other meats, or with hispanic cooking. I could make some so hot I’m running for the milk, or so mild I wish I would have made it so hot, . There are so many options that I could do.
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, maybe, just maybe I will do so…I hope, 
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