Honey Chicken

Ingredients:
10 boneless, skinless chicken thighs OR 8 breasts, chunked
1 cup honey
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup ketchup
2-3 cloves garlic, crushed
1 tsp. ginger
1/2 cup pineapple juice
2 Tbsp. cornstarch
1/4 cup water

Directions:
Place all ingredients in a crock pot and cook over low heat for 8 hours or high heat for 4-6 hours. Serve over rice.

To Freeze:
Label freezer bags with a name, date, and directions. Divide the chunked chicken between 2 quart sized freezer bags. Mix together remaining ingredients for the sauce and divide between the two bags. To reheat, thaw ingredients overnight in the fridge, or under warm water and then cook in a crock pot (low heat for 8 hours or high heat for 4-6 hours). Serve over rice.

Time to Make: 4-8 hours depending on heat of crock pot
Difficulty: Easy
Recipe Origin: http://www.six-cents.com/2012/06/crockpot-freezer-cooking-101.html
Number of Servings: makes 2 quart sized bags of 4 servings each.

Scalloped Potatoes

Ingredients:

12 large potatoes, cut into 1/4 inch round slices OR a large bag of frozen potatoes

2 cans of cream of something soup (cream of celery, mushroom, etc)

2 cans water

2 ham steaks, cubed

8 ounces cheddar cheese, grated

4 cups of frozen broccoli

salt and pepper, to taste once cooked

Directions:

Place all ingredients in a crock pot and cook over low heat for 8 hours or high heat for 4-6 hours. 

To Freeze:

Label freezer bags with a name, date, and directions. Be sure to include a direction to add soup and water to the recipe when cooking. Divide all ingredients except soup, water, and salt and pepper into gallon sized bags. Freeze bags in the freezer. I froze the potatoes and broccoli in one quart sized bag and the ham and cheese in another and then taped the bags together.

Time to Make: 4 - 8 hours depending on your crock pot temperature

Difficulty: Easy

Recipe Origin: http://www.six-cents.com/2012/06/crockpot-freezer-cooking-101.html

Number of Servings: I got 3 freezer meals from these ingredients. Each meal included 2 quart sized bags of ingredients or enough to serve 4.

Spaghetti Sauce

Ingredients:
1/2 lb - 1 lb Italian Sausage
1-2 lbs. lean ground beef
2 small onions, chopped
2-3 cloves garlic, chopped
1 tsp. Italian herb seasoning
2 - 29 ounce cans tomato sauce
2 - 6 ounce tomato paste
2 - 14.5 ounce cans Italian-style diced tomatoes
1/2 tsp. dried thyme leaves
1/2 tsp. dried basil
1 tsp. dried oregano
2 tsp. sugar

Directions:
Brown sausage and ground beef in a large pot over medium heat. Once browned, drain off the grease. Add onions and garlic and continue cooking a few minutes until onions are translucent. Add seasonings and tomatoes and simmer over medium heat for 10 minutes until hot.

To Freeze:
Chill the sauce in the refrigerator until cool. Label freezer bags and then distribute the sauce into the freezer bags. A quart size freezer bags will give 4 adult size servings. To reheat you can either thaw the bags over night in the fridge and then heat in a crockpot (low 8 hours or high 4-6 hours) or stove top, or you can thaw bags in warm water until mostly thawed and then heat over a stove top or in crockpot.

Time to Make: about 30 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Recipe Origin: http://www.six-cents.com/2012/09/freezer-cooking-away.html
Number of Servings: