Top Ten Reasons To Use Freezer Meals

1. Save money.  Cooking in bulk means buying in bulk, and it also means you can make sale shopping more valuable for your family. 


2. Save time.  Yes, you are investing a lot of time on one or two days, but the reality is you are investing minimal time on cooking nights, which is all the rest of the nights of the month.  And I don't know anyone who couldn't use some extra time.


3. Forces your family to branch out.  Being part of a freezer meal group means you may get recipes in your home you've never seen before...this is good.  Consider it a time to teach your family to explore.


4. Have meals ready when you need them.  It's always nice when something unexpected happens to know you have a back up plan other than McDonald's.  Not all freezer meals can be made on a moments notice, there are many things you can fully cook and you are dealing with reheating. 


5. Speaking of McDonald's, freezer meals inevitably mean you eat out less.  Knowing you have something for dinner in your freezer makes it a lot easier to avoid the fast food traps.


6. Freezer meals help you plan ahead.  Because you are cooking in bulk, you are also planning in bulk.  You can have a pretty good idea what you plan to eat over the next few weeks which is a lifesaver for those days that you don't know what to cook or just don't feel like cooking.


7.  Gives you an opportunity to cook with friends.  You can obviously do freezer meals on your own, but we're girls, we like to socialize, turn it into a Saturday cooking party, and everyone walks away with meals for their family.


8.  They help with your food storage preparation.  Because you want to have everything non perishable for the meal in advance, you'll be amazed how much of your short term food storage you can build up just from doing freezer meals.  How many side effects do you know of that are good for you?


9.  Cuts down on trips to the grocery store.  With making meals in advance, you know the perishables you need well in advance, making shopping trips a lot easier and less frequent.  We live in a snowbird infested area...keeping me out of those grocery lines. - Priceless!!


10.  Creates no excuses for dinner time with the family.  You have a plan, you have the meal, you can now adjust what your eating to that small window your family has together in the evening.  If you ask me, this is the best reason of all.