Freezer Follow Up.

We finally got around to having our June Freezer day today, and it was great. We followed our original plan pretty well, and I only managed to mess up one thing significantly :) When I made the clazones this time I guess I didn't crimp the edges well, because when I opened the oven there was cheese everywhere. Oops! I also forgot that I planned on making a ton of them and only made 6 for my friend, we have some more in the freezer and I figured I could make some more in a few days if I decided I wanted more.

We made 4 lasagnas, 4 dinners worth of the Southwest Roll-ups (we doubled the recipe), 6 calzones, and 4 batches of the lemon chicken. We worked over at my friends house, and she doesn't have a bread machine, so I promised to bring some butterhorns over later, and I made the sloppy joes early when I got nervous that she was going to have the baby before our cooking day, so I will bring some of those over to them later.

The lemon chicken and the southwest roll-ups are both new recipes to us, but both were easy to put together, I just hope they are yummy!

All in all, I think the our freezer cooking day was a success, and because of the choices we made, today we got it done in about 3 hrs. :) Yay!

Couponing - My system

I know that everyone has their own couponing strategy, but some of them just seem so complex, I developed my own. :) When I get coupons I go through them immediately and only keep the ones that my family may possibly use (assuming good sales come up) and toss them in one ziploc bag and toss that bag into my diaper bag. That way I have the coupons if I go to the store unexpectedly (not unplanned mind you, just unexpectedly). When I plan a shopping trip I take just a few minutes to run through the coupon bag and put the ones that I am going use on that trip in a separate bag. Tada! All ready to go...no sorting into piles or any of that. I like it, it works for me. Do you have a favorite system?