Cooking Day

Spent most of the day cooking and freezing the dinners for our camping trip next week. So now, meal times will be easier and I won't be spending a lot of time cooking on our vacation.

We made:

black bean chili
chicken curry
spaghetti sauce
white chicken chili
"gravy train"
(a hamburger gravy that we put over baked potatoes).

Tomorrow I'll cook a roast in salsa verde and then we'll have shredded beef for tacos.
We've got hamburger patties for grilling and we'll probably go in to town for
a restaurant meal for the last dinner.

While we're camping, we'll just have to thaw the dinner on the stove and cook the pasta, rice or potatoes that go with it. With older girls now, I think I'll just put one person each night in charge of dinner so I'll just have to cook one night. We keep breakfast pretty simple - usually just bagels and coffee and fruit. One morning we do a big pancake breakfast.

The last time we went camping I made a week's menu and grocery list on the computer - so this time, all I had to do was print it out and go shopping. So much easier not to have to think and plan it all out!

The kids like "tradition" - so these are the meals we do every year. :)