Hi, I'm Tanya, I'm back. I hope you did your homework from last lesson and picked your five recipes. You'll work with your five recipes and all work with my recipes as I teach you the one day one month freezer meal method. And soon you'll be able to adapt almost any recipe for the freezer. I found a lot of fun searching through my recipes, trying to find recipes that demonstrate all the different techniques for modifying recipes for the freezer, trying to choose a variety and I took some time weighing all my options to come up with the best for you. So let's look at my sample meal chart to see what I came up with.

You'll notice that my example meal chart has the recipes assigned in categories. They pies which is like not an apple pie or fruit pie. Meat either cooked in the oven or in a crock pot soup, casseroles, which are like mixes of food all together that are bait and pasta. I make categories because otherwise I prep too much in the same type of food. It also helps me balance what's in my freezer, and categories, a sure variety. And you'll notice there's only 20 recipes.

And you may be thinking to yourself, Tanya, you said we'd have meals for a whole month. There are more than 20 days and again, I know okay. Sometimes these recipes as we're making them, they make two batches. So some of them will make two recipes. So that's two nights there are often leftovers. So at our house once a week, we have Have corn for dinner, ce o RM, clean out refrigerator night.

And we take all the leftovers and have a big buffet. And people can choose what they want. So that's another night. And then you know, often we eat together with friends. Some days we go visit mom and dad, and Sundays we go from school to rehearsal to the game to lessons to practice to youth group to class to and all I can manage is peanut butter and jelly in the car. Or I like to try new recipes.

So this actually does cover you for a month. It's going to be enough, don't worry. Your homework for this lesson is to look at those five recipes you've chosen. See how they will fit in our example meal chart, put them into categories, maybe you even need to change and make your own category. Maybe you don't pasta. So eliminate that one and choose a different category.

So, you're going to come up with five more recipes. 10 recipes for this chart. Now where are you going to get these recipes? Perhaps you're like me, and you've been clicking recipes for way too long. Perhaps you have a shelf full of cookbooks. Perhaps you are addicted to Pinterest.

We can help you with your Pinterest addiction. Joy lab, has a board for one day one month dinners with lots of great ideas. Maybe your friend is a good cook and you want to scour their cookbooks shelf. Maybe you have a box of recipe cards that has been passed down through your family. That's a good one. You can always find great cookbooks at bookstores.

There are cookbooks at the library, and they're free. Now, whatever you do come up with, I would encourage you to start entering your recipes into a recipe software. And the one that I use is Accu chef. It's very good, very easy, very user friendly. Decide on your 10 recipes, chart them. And I'll see you next lesson.

Now I have a big old pile of recipes to sort through and pre organized. That's gonna be fun. Find your 10 recipes, chart them, and I'll see you next time. It's like Pinterest in the olden days. Joy laughs learning