Baking Day(s) Part 1

When I say baking I actually mean more like cooking for the freezer. We had our muffin party last week so I am stocked well with muffins (more about that in another post) but I had a bunch of lean ground turkey from the Kroger sale (got 1 lb 93% ff ground turkey for $1-- bought 6 of them) so I decided to turn some of it into other things to freeze.

Here are two things you can do with these ingredients. A bag of carrots, celery, and a couple onions.

Task #1 Stretching your money out of ground turkey:

This is a trick I learned not too long ago, and one of the best ones ever for me personally. It allows my ground turkey to stretch farther, to have easy add ins to foods like taco's or pasta sauce, and it is a healthy option.

I chopped about 5 good sized carrots, 1 medium onion, and about 6 or so celery stalks. Saute' on medium for about 8 minutes then add the pound of ground turkey. Cook through, drain and let cool. It nearly doubled the size and you can add as little or lot you want of the veggies.

The results: measure them out into whatevr size portions you want. Put them into freezer bags and they are ready to go! I divided mine into four bags which is a good size for serving 1 or 2 people.

Each bag cost about $0.50 to make!

Task 2: Soup Starter

Using the same 3 ingredients, onion, carrots, and celery you can chop for a soup starter that you would have paid $3 for in the store. Chop a cup or so each of carrots, celery, and onion. I also chopped 2 garlic cloves. I tossed them into a container to stick in the fridge for making soup. Im going to add chicken broth, a bag of frozen veggies that I have, and maybe some rice or noodles. While you are chopping veggies might as well take an extra few minutes for this!

I made mine for about $0.50....why pay $3 at the store?

Next Steps:

-Make soup with starter

-Make pan of baked oatmeal

-Make meatballs to freeze

-Make pan of party potatoes