#ThriveinJuly Making strides with my “shopping from my freezers & pantry” for meal prep this last week! I started with my inside freezer and simply defrosted random containers & ziploc bags of unlabeled mystery food. Managed to find a baggie of some kind of roast beef chunks and partial pkg of bacon. That made a great meal of roasted broccoli w/bacon & roast beef! There was some bacon left from the pkg after using most of it for the broccoli sooo eggs & bacon it was! I had broccoli too cuz, well it needed to be used up! The biggest success was today! I put a partially frozen chuck roast in my instant pot with a pkg of frozen onions, celery & pepper seasoning mix along with the contents of 3 different unlabeled containers of sauce (most probably marinara with ground beef) as well as some fresh veggies in the fridge begging to be used up. Cooked it for awhile, added a frozen pkg of green beans, cooked it a little more and VOILA we had stew for “Linner!” I’m also, 4 pkgs of meat, 2 pkgs of frozen veggies, 2 fresh veggies, 9 eggs & 3 containers of sauce lighter in my freezers and fridge now! 👏👏👏 Also prepped a lb of ground beef mixed with a lb of ground lamb to add with whatever happens to be in my “Chopped” box for this week to make some stuffed peppers (I already have a ziploc bag of cleaned, halved & frozen bell peppers ready to go!) More to follow! Watch this space! 😂 Oh also….since I was the only one home last night I also popped a frozen ribeye (that’s the 4th pkg of meat) into the air fryer for myself! It was delish! I cheerfully own the fact that I am selfish with my occasional ribeyes. Sorry, not sorry! 🫣😬😉

Posted by Carol at 2023-07-10 00:50:30 UTC