Give freezer cooking a try it will help you from being lazy and going out to dinner when you don't feel like cooking .

You can start off as big or as small as you want.
--If you are making a casserole for dinner go ahead and make two (one to freeze) so that when you just don't feel like cooking or don't have time you can just pop it into your oven.
--make up some frozen cookie dough balls so when you are craving a sweet tooth you can just bake up some warm cookies instead of going out for something
--buy 20 pounds of hamburger when its on SALE and prepare it instead of waiting until you desperately need it and pay twice as much

There are lots of reasons besides saving money....it is just better for you and your family. It also is piece of mind....for instance if something were to happen and 'hubby' had to take care of the kids for the night you can rest at ease knowing they will all have a health home-cooked meal made with love.

This is something that I am trying to do - I feel like we waste the most money on eating out AND throwing food away. I have got to get better at this!!!

Someone posted about this a wk or so ago, and I've been checking out the websites. THere are lots of places with helpful suggestion about how to do it as well as recipes that have worked well. I'm thinking about doing it to, but in one of the "easier" ways (since I like everything easy ) Some of these people say they buy all the food and then cook all the food and then package it all up in a marathon session that can take over 13 hours and leaves them exhausted....ummmm....no thanks. But I read somewhere on another site about each time you cook a meal that would freeze well, just to make a few extras of that meal to freeze. So no daylong things, just bigger servings of what you're already cooking. I think I'm going to try it that way. Eventually you'll built up a stockpile of already frozen meals. Much more my speed. I've thought about starting it here this wk since I have a surgery coming up, and dh is the MOST cooking challenged person you've ever seen. His "big" meal he can make the kids is bacon sandwiches....yes bacon sandwiches. Otherwise he gets carry out. Since I may be out of commission for at wk or two, don't want them living off McD and BK for that time. If I start it I'll let you know how it goes.

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I know what you are talking about. I personally don't think I could do a marathon cooking session but some people would be suprised at how easy you can make freezer cooking fit into your life. Even if it is pre-frying up that bacon and keeping it either in the freezer or refridgerator it is a BIG savings from buying that instant 30 sec. stuff in the grocery store and you can have a quick BLT or omelet....whatever its within secs.

i like the ideal. I just need to start off slow first. I might get a freezer out of this.