CROCKPOT FREEZER MEALS / PREP WITH ME 

Thank you so much for sharing these meals! Some of them have become our absolute favorites! When covid first started I prepped a bunch of these meals in case grocery stores has shortages and to make our life easier with my husband being a nurse, now here we are 2.5 years later and I’m prepping a bunch of these same meals before our first baby arrives to make the postpartum period easier! I can’t thank you enough for this video! 💕

Great video!!! I did a few things to make it easier on myself when it comes time to make meals. First I assigned a number to each recipe, so when I go to bag the meat for a recipe I put the number of the recipe on the bag. I have the instructions with the recipes. This way I don't have to keep writing time and time again on how to cook this dish. I just pull my notebook out and read. Next I set out my blender. I place all of the seasonings, broth, gravy, etc in blender and hit mix. Just pour over meat and veg, then seal. I usually make 6 bags of a recipe at a time, so I keep using the blender for all 6 the clean it. I keep a tally sheet for my freezer meals. When I use one I record what i pulled from the freezer. This helps me to know what look for on sale at the store. Work smater not harder.

I am so happy I found your channel. I have three children. Two with autism and one with anxiety disorder. I have a really hard time finding recipe's that everyone will eat. OMG! Last night I made the chicken and gravy and put it over rice (kids don't like mashed potatoes). They ate all of it and asked for more. You are a God sent! I will be trying the chicken and dumplings tonight to see if they like it. I will be trying all of your recipes!

Here's my idea: Print out instructions, fold, insert into a snack size ziploc, seal & put in the freezer bag last before sealing the freezer meal! Then it's clean & can be reused next time you do freezer meals! Time saver!

I've GOT to start doing this Edit: the above comment was 4 days ago. Yesterday I went to the grocery store and got everything I needed for the next week. This morning it took me 45 minutes to prep and bag five freezer meals. That means that dinner will not be an issue for this coming week and that's a good thing since it's the first week of school! I couldn't have done this or had the motivation had it not been for your videos and I just wanted to tell you that! Thank you, thank you, thank you!😀😀😀😀

I pre-make meals for my hubby and I. We're retired but I haven't been well for about a year and the frozen meals are easier. It does take us a day or two to put them together but then we have them for a couple or three months. I am rethinking the meals though because we've been going through such a hot spell this summer and most of the meals I made were for the oven. The crockpot is a perfect solution to that and your meals look really yummy. Thanks for the delicious ideas.

Thank you for this! I greatly appreciate your very simple approach that was truly simple and just getting straight to your set up! (no long monologues. Expecting new baby and really wanted to do this and your recipes helped me see I don't have to be super fancy!

When I had two kids in soccer and had to race home from work, have back to back practices or games and then have extra hungry kids when we got home about 8pm, i started cooking two weeks worth of meals on Sundays and freezing them. This was before I knew how to crockpot effectively lol it was such a lifesaver!

When I was in a lot of pain, (4 yrs ago) I would bulk batch freezer meals so that anyone could dump and go if my pain got bad. Since busy season is sneaking up on us, I'm going to get back into the groove of it.

Impressed. I started doing this about a year ago and then thought to myself; why didn't I think of this years ago? It prevents wasted food and saves so much. All you have to do is pull out a bag, leave it to defrost and that's dinner done. Writing instructions on the bag is something I hadn't thought of. I'm doing that in future. Thanks for the idea.

You inspired me to do this. I made 5 of the meals, and doubled them. I have tried 4 different meals, and real like them. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Honey Romano Pork Chops. I have made a lot of crock pot meals over the years, and this is a great way to make the whole process even easier.

That Salsa Verde sauce, we use for EVERYTHING. Thanks for giving us yet again another way to enjoy it!

I just started making crock pot meals! I love the idea of having tons in the freezer for busy days!

One point that I don't think anyone has made, is that meal prepping helps the entire family. An older child or teenager can easily take a bag and place it in the crockpot and turn it on. Nurses, fireman, etc. are not always home first thing in the morning to start a crockpot. I also like to cook fresh, but when sickness or emergencies hit it's wonderful to have a pre-prepped meal, healthy or not. I enjoyed your video. I'll be trying a few of these.

This is so awesome and right on time for me! I'm having surgery next week so this will be great for me to do this weekend to make it easier on my husband to prepare meals for us! I thank you and my husband thanks you too! ☺️

I love this idea. I cook about 3 or 4x a week then the other days I do maybe grilled cheese and soup or breakfast for dinner to just stretch our food budget. And meat is our biggest expense so we only eat meat those 3 or 4x a week. It'd be nice to go out and do one big shopping trip for the month, prep them like you did and not have to worry about it for a month. Thanks for the video!!

Even tho there are just two of us at home (me & the hubs) I do a "batch cook" every 2 months. I make a massive pot of bolognese sauce (beef mince, veggies & a tomato based sauce) this is then bagged up and once hot it's served over pasta. Then I do the same with a beef chilli, again I just reheat and cook rice on the day. Then I make a HUGE pot of Indian curry sauce. It's based on a BIR (British Indian Restaurant) Curry recipe. I was given the recipe by a friend's mom. I bag up and freeze just the sauce, then I can choose to add anything, veggies, chicken, prawns, fish... and serve with rice and naan bread. These were a true lifesaver when I was in hospital for 3 weeks, I knew my husband could just pull out whichever he felt like on the day. I now also put all of my meats into marinades in bags in the freezer. It's easy to massage the meats in a bag (no mess or stinky garlic paws), and they're marinating while they freeze and while they defrost. I just pull a bag from the freezer the night before. Despite them being labelled, my husband refers to these as "mystery meat" lol

This makes me want to say thank you, for doing all that! That’s is a lot of work. To pack them , write every down down on the ziploc, sort them, get the ingredients from the store and prep/marinate them.....Good job lady.

This is awesome! I always wanted to prepare crockpot dinners ahead of time but didn't know where to begin. Will definitely be using this method. Thanks for this!

I so needed this. Even though I am single, I am never home. Thank you.

i used to cook my meals then freeze them..when you are ready to eat you just pop it in the oven and heat them...so good, saves lots of time..Good for when you dont want to cook either..You do it different though..enjoyed watching it..

Thank you! I want to try meal prep. Time is so limited, and we eat a lot of fast stuff. I love my instapot, but crock pot will always be my favorite way to cook. Thanks for the recipes!

Mom/wife goals🙌🏾

Hello I'm Charlotte from Denmark 🇩🇰 It looks delicious I've never had such a pot but I think I'll buy one now and try now because you've shown me how easy it is to prepare it, so maybe I can not let it go The stomach food is thrown out because I do not always have no energy and stand up and prepare to cook in the evening, because I have arthritis, it's best for me to make something just to be thrown into the pan and it suits me without me Get up for more hours and keep your eyes on it with 1000 ceilings Ps would like to apologize if you can not read what I've screamed I'm wordblind 1000 hugs from Denmark🇩🇰 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

I just found your video in my suggestions and the timing couldn't have been better. I want to make up some freezer meals for summer and your recipes look great! I can't wait to try some of them!

I have been stalking the who needs a cape recipes! Thank you so much for sharing these, they look delicious! I have been wanting to start the dump meals and this is just the motivation I needed!

Mmm these look fantastic! Love this idea. As a young girl myself, the crock pot is so easy, healthy, and simple.. how could you not love it? Thank you for sharing the recipes you found! Saving them for future use.

You explained well. I like ur realistic approach and tips when presenting an idea. I wanna try a few of these.

really impressive!! i'll have to experiment with these as it's just the two of us unless we have company.

Love these freezer meals! I like that some are simple and others are a little extra fancy. That honey ramano pork looks amazing.

I love this idea! I never used a crockpot, I think I just might get one. It would be very helpful especially these days when the kids are on vacation.

This is a wonderful idea. I dont know why I always thought of prepping meals as cooking them too and it sounded so time consuming. This is much better.

Great video! I have to try this!

I love freezer cooking! For anyone that doesn’t eat pork, you can use chicken or turkey thigh meat in place of it as this part cooks at the same consistency as pork.

Never seen your channel before but you can take that other piece of pork and put it in a crockpot with mojo, some adobo, and 2 bay leaves. Let it go on slow for 8 hours, shred up the meat, and serve as tacos or with rice and veggies. Super good

Wow, these meals look delicious. Looking forward to trying them!

Have you ever seen the freezer meal plans from That Mom? I bought a few of the Aldi ones. It doesn't look like you need help (you've got it down!!) but her method of "touch each ingredient once" is pretty cool. I did my first actual freezer cooking session a few weeks ago. I think it took about 3 hours total for 10 meals, doubled (so 20 bags). BUT....2 lessons learned, my Aldi bags were failing too much. And, even though the recipes said a certain amount, I had to make 2 bags every time for our family of 7. Thanks for the inspiration!!

OMGosh!! this is great I never thought of putting up the meals this way this is perfect. :)

I love your freezer meal videos!

Thank you so much for these great meal prep ideas! I know how much work goes into it, but it is SO worth the initial effort when you have those all stored and ready to go to later on! :)

Hey I just wanted to leave you a comment and let you know that this video saved my life I was wasting money on going out and not eating healthy but this was amazing you made me realize that I don't have to struggle to cook good things for my family thank you so much for the money and time you saved my family!!!!

Such great meals all ready to go! I am going to have to try some of these meals!

Thank you for sharing these great crockpot meals!! I just cooked my very first crockpot meal yesterday so that I could meal prep for work lunches for this week. I am not a cook so the crockpot, I believe, is going to become my new best friend :)

This is an awesome idea and so easy! Thanks for sharing 😉

Will definitely try looks pretty easy & good :) the main thing is to prepped I'll do my bags a day ahead thanks for the share

Saved this video a while ago. Happy I finally had time to watch it.

You need the bag holders from Amazon. They are AWESOME and you can just "go down the line" when adding ingredients.

Thank you so much! Can't wait to try them!

The chicken fiesta soup is great with sour cream! My kids and their friends ate the whole crockpot of it I made so I remade it !

Yay, I just found you, I have been looking for some new dinner ideas. Going to try these this week. Can't wait either, they all look so yummy, thank you. Looking forward to seeing what else you share.

Oh man, I love a good dump! Great food and meal prep ideas!

Awesome cooking video. I'm going to try the chicken and dumplings crock pot meal and make an extra for the freezer. Thanks for sharing..

You probably already mentioned this but could you let us know which were your favorite freezer meals and which ones you didn't like so much. Thank you, love your videos.

I do the same thing but I use glad tupperware. I pack each meal in single serve containers. I also cook all the meals before I pack them in the freezer.That way we reuse the containers and you can reheat in the microwave. I make 6 to 9 meals in a day (8 servings each meal) since I am disabled and would rather hurt, more than normal, a couple days a month rather than every day.

These are awesome, we have done this a couple time and it such a life saver. great.

I am going definitely going to try the honey Romano pork chops and the chicken with gravy. Those just sound so good 😊

Uh the meals sound so good! I am going to our beach house next week and need to prep some easy meals!!

Thanks for sharing part of your lives with others throughout our world via You Tube and Social Media. You are a beautiful family and very inspiring and entertaining! Thank you! I found You Tube and your wonderful channel a few years ago. It is like chatting with a great, precious friend. Thank you! What you share has helped me over come my anxiety. I love watching your channel when I might be feeling a little overwhelmed from having anxiety about different things, needing some mama time, doing household chores, cooking for our precious family of four and needing recipe and meal inspiration and or just wanting to relax a little. I look forward to seeing what God has for your channel in 2019. Much love, prayers and God Bless for CHRISTmas and the New Year from our family to yours. xxx

Thank you for the helpful ideas! I appreciate you!!! 😀😀😀😀

Just subscribed. Anything ro spend less time in the kitchen is great!

It is 2019 and this video is still relevant and spot on. I would consider this video and recipe an evergreen masterpiece. This will be used for years to come. Thank you, #TheRodElmoreShow

I have never even thought of doing this I think it's brilliant! I'm gonna have to try it!

seriously this was one of the best videos I've seen in a very long time - great ideas!

Omg, you're like the dream mom! Lol I'm so going to start doing this.

Your voice is so soothing!

I cooked your fiesta chicken soup tonight in my pressure cooker 30 minutes. It's very GOOD!!!

Hey from San Antonio!! 😜 I just found your channel!! Love it! I have six kids and six grand kids and some of my kiddos are younger than my grands so when we all get together it's pretty much mayhem and I hate spending all my time in the kitchen cooking and cleaning so I am def going to give these a big ole Texas try! Thanks so much!

These meals look great.

everything sounded so good but those pork tacos sounded so delicious!!!

I am new to your channel, I bumped into by accident and I love your ideas, I am a working mom and I am always looking for ways to make my home life as normal as possible and dinner by 6pm. Thanks for sharing

I have 4 crockpots in 4 different sizes. I use this to cook in my room for my boyfriend and I. I live with 7 other people who dnt pitch in for food or cook so i use my crockpots or barbecue outside when I can. last night I made pulled chicken with a homemade garlic apricot barbecue sauce in my large crockpot, homemade "baked" beans(i dnt like how sweet storebought baked beans are) cauliflower mash potatoes in a small crockpot. My bf ate with dinner rolls while I eat straight. I normally have more veggies, but I snacked on them 😅 im totally trying these recipes.

So organized great idea. I am a single mom so busy. I am trying to find good ideas to cook so looking forward to your tips!

Wow do you know that you could make moms supper happy especially working moms take like 2 bags put in freezer at work make moms happy.

I LOOOOVVVEEE this video. thank you so much for sharing your organizational skills as well as meal plans. Saving it to my favorites :)

You are SOOO organized.. and you have kids! Our Nest is empty (after raising FIVE boys!) but with just 2 of us here I just can’t seem to Martha Stewart like I used to.. it’s true: kids keep you young!! 💕

Do you thaw these meals before putting in the crock pot?

I love HEB tooo!!!!💕😍💕 Enjoyed your video

Not sure if i said already of not, but i made the Fiesta soup and it was amazing!

LOVE the wall color.

Great ideas. I gotta try this

Great Video!

Hey Vanessa! I need some new recipes! I've heard of Zaycon. Isn't that where there do a drop of in a location only a couple time a year? If it's the one I'm thinking of, they had some great deals. I never thought about freezing stuff for chicken n Dumplings. Great ideas! I'm definitely doing that pepper steak. Thanks for sharing! Hope you have a great day!🥰

Such a mom

Thanks for sharing!! Great tips

Can you make a video of meals already cooking and ready to serve???

Such great ideas V!

Those look so good. I might do this also. I've never done meal plans like this.

So glad I found this channel.

Girl you are kick ass. This was awesome. Now I'm REALLY looking forward to doing a cooking collab with you. Let's start brainstorming a theme.

What a fanatic ideal 👍

I love love love this ❤

What a great selection of meals! I am concerned because I was taught not to refreeze thawed, uncooked meats.

I love your recipes but it would be a lot better to me if you would go through and name the ingredients that go in each bag. I would find it interesting and fun. I’m going to subscribe !! I would even really enjoy watching you add the things to the freezer bags! Thanks!

Sweetheart THANK YOU FOR SHARING! I love this. Take to a loved one, esp if they need help. New mommies tooo! This is a darn good idea😊. Doing this sat, im so excited. Saves those cold Oct evenings for chocolate chip cookies from scratch. Your a doll!

hello. thank you for taking out your time to share info. Im single with no 2 legged children. (i do have some 4 legged meows). even though i probably wont use a crockpot; and thats because i live in a very old building with old wiring. BUT, what i can do is prep for 1pot meals. I have done this in the past, but i was not thorough about it; you are helping me. {lemonade lady}}}. i dont know how to double recipes though; i have tried but wasnt successful; and i think its a measuring thing; oh well. thanks again for sharing. valerie

You're adorbs!! Thank you for the great ideas! Cant wait to get going. Been wanting to do it forever but it's hard to get started.

I HATE cooking... I so need this in my life!! Thank you .. Not sure how I landed here but I've subscribed!!!!!

WOW I love freezer cooking. I do soups /stews/ pasta dishes like lasagna and stuffed shells. I also do the chicken and gravy and the chicken and dumplings. Chili and taco meats too. BTW Kristen from six sisters sent me over, I think it was her anyway. LOL thanks for reminding me how great freezer cooking is. I need to get back to doing that. Tomato sauces too. Oh and one of my kids favorites, even now as adults. Pizza kits. I make big batches of dough and put them all together to make pizzas. That one I haven't done in ages!

Yeeessssss,!! Now I can finally put my crock pot to great use!

I'm excited to try this.