CONCLUSION
So there you have it, a range of recipes that you can make and eat, and then freeze the leftovers, or make and freeze and serve any time you need a piping hot meal in minutes. For those of you who say that they do not have time to cook, we hope we have demonstrated how easy it can be to spend a day or evening cooking up several recipes, parceling them up, and filling your freezer in preparation for a hectic week or month.
We are all busy, there is no doubt about it, but we all need to eat. Nothing is more important than good nutrition for us, and above all, our children. How can they ever learn to cook or make smart food choices if they don’t see us setting a good example at home?
We also know that what we eat fuels our bodies, and provides us with many of the essential nutrients we require to stay healthy. Thanks to the modern wonders of the freezer, we can indeed enjoy a good meal any time. However, we certainly do not need to pay top dollar for it. Nor do we need to generate the vast amounts of waste involved in the frozen food or fast food industries.
We can buy local produce from the farmer’s market, free of pesticides, all much fresher than anything that you can find in the supermarket. You can get everything from free-range chickens and eggs, turkeys and pork from kindly raised pigs, to turkey and beef, even wine and cheese to round out the meal and eat freshly. You may pay a little more than in the supermarkets or warehouse clubs, but you can also afford to because you will be throwing away a lot less food thanks to tighter meal planning and more delicious meals that everyone will love. If you shop at a farmer's market, you will also be stimulating the local economy. You will also be helping with green issues because the food at the farmer's market will be free of pesticides and will not have required a lot of gasoline to drive it to the market.
With Americans throwing away more than $26 BILLIONS in food every year, that is almost $750 per person in the U.S. That is $3,000 right there for a family of four. What could you do with that money instead? Save it in an emergency fund? Take a couple of trips to Disney World? Split it and do both, one trip, and more savings.
It is up to YOU. You CAN make it happen. Set yourself a challenge starting today to see how much you can save with better meal planning and make and freeze recipes. Then see how much happier your family will be, and less hyper, eating all natural foods that you have cooked yourself at home, hopefully with the help of this guide.
Don't forget, go to:
http://EternalSpiralBooks.com/even-more-freezer-recipes
password: fastandtasty
to download your copy of the titles of the recipes in this guide so that you can organize your freezer and know exactly what you have on hand, how long it has been there, and what you are running low of in terms of your family favorites.
Happy eating, and happy saving,
Mara M.
Erin K.
January 28, 2013