Just got our cubes + a chest freezer! Got really excited to prep before back to school.
The school year is about to start and weeknights, my husband and I always feel dead. We've both wanted to meal prep more but haven't had the freezer / fridge space. Finally got a chest freezer and some cubes, so we hit up Costco on Friday and spent the weekend prepping the haul so nothing sits in our pantry going bad. 🫠
Costco:
- 3lbs steak
- 1 rotisserie chicken
- 10lbs potatoes
- 16 Bell peppers
- 5lbs yellow onions
- 2 cans of black beans
- 1.5 cans of corn
- 1 bag shredded cheese
Recipes:
- Bone broth + Chicken and Dumplings (minus dumplings)
- Steak Fajitas with black beans and corn over roasted potatoes - no real recipe but I can drop the seasonings / proportions at the end.
- everything we didn't use was prepped and frozen for future use.
- Lazy Stuffed Peppers - will be making this tonight (cut the veggies yesterday when cutting everything else) and freezing leftovers!
There are also 4 pot roast portions and 2 chicken fajita meals that we had leftovers for and decided to test the cubes earlier in the week.
Pretty excited to start the year! And do more leftovers + big preps at the end of the month.
Steak Fajitas:
- 3 lbs flank steak, sliced + marinaded for 1+ hour
- Marinade: lime juice, cumin, olive oil, salt, pepper, smoked paprika, chili powder, garlic powder, onion powder, ancho chili powder, chipotle seasoning.
- Cooked in olive oil, more seasoning added as they cook, set aside.
- 3-4 yellow onions, 3 green peppers (they were small), 1 yellow, orange, and red pepper (they were huge).
- Cooked in the same pan, added more oil and fond scraped up. Same seasonings added as they cooked + garlic cloves. Cook until onions are translucent.
- Add steak + juices back in. Add water + corn starch slurry. Taste flavor for what you might need more of.
- Potatoes were just cubed, tossed with olive oil, salt, and pepper. Then roasted in the oven at 400°F for about 45 minutes (it was 2 pans worth.)