Our week has been very busy. I am processing apples left and right. I have made a variety of applesauce in my crock pot. Unfortunately none of it has made it to the freezer but we are working on that as I write. If you are looking for a quick easy way to make homemade applesauce you can go here.
I also got a great surprise yesterday while going past the garden. I actually found more green peppers on the plants. I was very surprised since we had already had 2 deep frosts and in my foolishness figured there was nothing more in the garden. My mistake...
There are a couple a spots on them but simply cutting them out before I freeze them and it will all be just fine. This year after many years of never getting any peppers to grow I have managed to get three 1-gallon zippy bags full of them. I even had enough to make salsa.
Green Tomatoes....that is all I seem to have managed to grow this year. BUT if you pick them while still green and healthy and put them in a paper bag in the fridge and they will ripen.
I also have been checking out the reduced produce at the various grocery stores that I visit. You can get great produce at reasonable prices. I ended up with three 1-gallon zippy bags of corn that I cut the ears in half prior to freezing.
All of these little steps make it much easier to plan out my meals during the week. I have found that if I have pieces of meals set up in the freezer it makes the ability to plan out my meals more than five minutes before I need to start cooking. Even if I haven't sat down and actually committed all the meals onto papers I can open the freezer in the morning and pull things out. That will at least insure that my family is eating healthy foods and I am saving money by not having to run to a drive thru.
This weekend's plan is to actually go thru the freezer and make a complete meal plan for this coming week. I am also on the look for new recipes to change up some of the old standbys.
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