Skip to main content

Revisiting the Frozen Dinners

The break room where I work is a dumping ground for unwanted magazines. Quite often, my co-workers will recycle the magazines they subscribe to by scattering them about the break room for people to either pick up and keep or just browse through while having lunch.

Every now and then, a Cooking Light magazine will catch my eye. One day last week, I picked up an issue because it seemed to have quite a few healthy foods that could easily be cooked in large batches. Whether they'd freeze and reheat well are another story. The recipes I'm going to try are Cheesy Canadian Bacon & Potato Casserole, Enchilada Casser-Ole! and Light-But-Hearty Tuna Casserole from the February/March 2009 issue. I'll need to modify them a little for them to appeal to my picky-eater husband, but they all sound pretty interesting.

In future posts, I'll give a recipe I've tried as a frozen dinner and review how well it did. I also welcome any suggestions from readers who also make their own frozen dinners.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

thredUP

Yesterday, I heard about a site called thredUP . Through this site, you can buy used clothes for your growing child from other parents, and sell the ones your child has outgrown. As quickly as our little girl goes through clothes at this stage, I think this sounds like a great idea. I'm constantly pulling clothes my daughter has outgrown out of her closet, and I feel like she's forever running out of clothes that fit her. I plan to look into it a little more, and I just might give it a try.

Frozen Dinner Thoughts

I've been trying to give some thought to what kinds of foods would make good homemade frozen dinners.  (My first post on the topic is here .) Tomorrow is grocery day, so I'd like to have an idea what kinds of things I can make to make sure I have all the ingredients. So far, I'm planning stew (per my husband's request) and a crustless cheeseburger quiche. Hopefully, I can think of another seven options between today and tomorrow.

Marking a Milestone; Saving on Internet

I just noticed this is post number 100. Whoo hooo! I found an even cheaper solution to my home Internet. Currently, we pay $110 a month to the phone company for our home phone and Internet service and $28 a month to the cable company for basic cable. My plan was to switch our Internet to the cable company, which would cost about $65 a month for the level of Internet speed I'd like to get, then cut out TV cable service and the home phone. That would eliminate the $110 phone bill all together, but what we pay to the cable company would a little more than double. To get TV service, I bought this: I love the Roku, which streams TV shows and movies to the TV. It doesn't require a subscription to a service to stream -- there are quite a few free options -- but to increase variety and to have access to new TV shows, I sprang for subscriptions to Netflix and HuluPlus. (Until my membership to Amazon Prime expires this coming December, I also have a whole additional set of shows ...