Well it turns out this freezer meal app actually has you make two meals out of every recipe! That is common for freezer meal plans but I didn't notice this particular plan mention it and I didn't realize I was buying double the ingredients (although the quantities did seem a little large..) I think that is because I have the app set to two servings per recipe so it's smaller quantities of stuff to buy. I will say I love that about this plan over some of the other meal planners I've used before - they tend to only go down to 4 servings per meal and since my husband doesn't eat meat and the kids don't eat.. well, anything really, that gets discouraging quickly. It feels like I'm overbuying and wasting food when I cook four servings of a meat based keto meal just for myself. Two servings is much more appealing.
So, since I've got all this extra food I'm going to go ahead and make the meals as directed and put one of each in the freezer. That way I'll have all the meals I planned for this week and I'll be covered for another week too. Maybe I'll do the same thing next week and then have two weeks worth of food stored to start off October?
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Two hours later....
I decided to get started right away before the keto flu really kicked in. Headache got stronger through the whole thing and by the end of it I felt kind of crappy but at least my fridge and freezer are stocked. Five recipes (10 meals) took a little under 2 hours including the time to clean up as I went and to make and eat a simple lunch. Not bad! When I've done this before it took 8-12 hours which of course I split over several days. I guess I've always made 15 recipes (a month worth) at a time and also 4-6 servings per meal so that's a whole lot more food to get through. It's not really something that I can do every month so I've only done it when I had a big event coming up, like having a baby or having major surgery. I can see myself doing this smaller 5 recipe thing much more often.
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