Ground Beef Slow Cooker Freezer Meals

[@bethhelminiak5063]

Seriously, I needed this, 11 months later. Thank you for the mid-video pep-talk!❤

[@FreezerMeals101]

You're so welcome!

[@evelynharshbarger3674]

I also don't like laundry...but I love to cook...so I do what needs to be done. But to have meals ahead is the best. I can then knit, crochet or design cards, stationary, and stickers. That's what I love to do!!!

[@trishfriesen8943]

Some days just suck so it’s nice to have a meal prepped while you try to find a silver lining…lol. Freezer meals for the win.

[@VeronicaRonniDorval2638]

I used to love cooking, I'm now one of those you speak of, disabled and lots of pain. So on days that aren't so bad I try prepping things to make cooking easier 😉

[@FreezerMeals101]

Yes! Having those meals in your freezer is such a relief for those extra tough days. They really are a life-saver. Keep up the good work.

[@GardeningWarrior]

lol- rewatching this. I love the creativity and actual cooking-hate the doing dishes so I clean as I go and it makes things so much easier, plus, many of your recipes do not require much clean-up. thank you for all you do

[@FreezerMeals101]

Oh that's so nice to hear and yes, we hate dishes too!

[@GardeningWarrior]

My best friend who I could totally do freezer meals with is all the way down in FL in the South East, I have been stuck up in eastern WA for 7 years and this is the main rweason I sooo love watching you ladies- you remind me of my friend and I and how we click and giggle and work so well together. I actually LOOOOVE cooking and baking..i however HATE dishes and clean up.

[@FreezerMeals101]

You are a freezer mealer at heart! ❤️

[@hollycrowe6826]

I am 37 weeks pregnant with my first baby and I am not the cook of the house. My husband is a wonderful cook but I am trying freezer meals for postpartum and I am excited to have so many options and taking the pressure off of us as new parents.

[@FreezerMeals101]

That is a wonderful idea! Having those meals in your freezer when you're a new parent is going to be SO HELPFUL!! Congrats on the new baby!

[@countycalling]

As a tip on ground beef, I always buy in bulk and I cook 5 lbs at a time and freeze it ahead of time. I freeze it in 1 lb packages. I also do this with chicken if I find a deal. I will cook up 5 lbs at a time and dice it.

[@jscasecase471]

I do this as well but do it in 10lbs at a time.

[@VeronicaRonniDorval2638]

I also do this 😊

[@angelawossname]

We do this as well. I'll go to Costco and buy 4 or 5 rotisserie chickens and a 3.5 kilo bulk lot of beef or lamb mince, whatever is cheapest. Then I will remove the meat from the chickens, make stock and reduce it right down and freeze it, cook the mince and freeze it in sandwich bags and separate the chicken into sandwich bags. We get our veg from the local market on the day they sell the rejects, and I can't go to both in the same day.

[@FreezerMeals101]

Great tip!

[@mannzan]

My family doesn't eat mushrooms. I make the stroganoff with sliced onions and cream of onion soup. It's delicious.

[@FreezerMeals101]

Oooh!! I bet that's amazing!

[@nadinefrandsen6087]

A new great foodie video!! Yay!! I am in the groove to get some freezer meals done today. Thank you so much!!

[@jeannewarriner8314]

thank you we are starting to do this our way

[@gailkapusta1342]

really enjoyed this video... you two are so real..

[@FreezerMeals101]

Thank you so much 🤗

[@lisas321]

I loved this. Sharing glimpses into your lives makes this seem doable. Friends are the best.❤❤

[@CookingwithCatLover0330]

Great video. I love to do dishes. My sink has windows over it and they look out on my backyard with all my bird feeders. I even got to see a Golden-winged warbler the other day! Thanks for sharing ALL your stories.

[@FreezerMeals101]

Bird watching while doing dishes would be a much more enjoyable experience!

[@esthergraham1353]

I do all of my meals for my husband and me in quart bags. When I make meals for my son and his wife, I make them in gallon bags because he eats twice what Ray and I eat together.

[@FreezerMeals101]

That's the best, isn't it? I love that you can be versatile!

[@teabean7]

You two are so cute! I did a breakfast freezer stock and am so pleased with having something quick to grab in the morning. Also we have chickens and the eggs were starting to pile up. I now have recruited my BFF & neighbor to do a meal marathon soon. Thanks for all the great info!

[@ChallengeYourWalletAarynLynn]

I was just letting people know the other day ground beef has gotten so expensive that even the cheapest ground beef in my area which is 27% fat 73% lean is four dollars a pound and I live in Kansas City Missouri. However, a side tip and a trick as I walked over to the frozen food section at Walmart and got their 20 count. Great value hamburger patties. They are priced at $1.99 per pound making 5 pounds of ground Beef Just $10! Not only that their quarter pound hamburger patties, having no seasoning on them or anything else so it’s basically like perfect portion hamburger and 4 ounce sizes! I do know with the higher content and fat. They will shrink a little bit but it’s the best way for me to have gotten ground beef lately and I use those patties by chopping them up once they’re thawed and adding them to spaghetti, making tacos with it, adding it to my chili, and any other ground beef recipe I need to do I use these great value, 20 count beef patties for! I don’t know anywhere right now that you can get 5 pounds worth of hamburger for 10 bucks other than the method that I have discovered, and been sharing on my channel and wanted to share here as well, especially with this being a ground beef recipe 14:21

[@FreezerMeals101]

That's a great budget tip. Thanks for sharing!

[@ChallengeYourWalletAarynLynn]

@@FreezerMeals101 absolutely! I absolutely love your channel and I’m learning so much from it

[@hoosiermama3001]

I love ground beef meals and these look great! Thank you both! Have you ever considered putting the labels at the bottom of the bags so you can easily see the name of the dish before pulling it out of the freezer?

[@FreezerMeals101]

We actually were just talking about that last month. It would make it easier to see the labels when they're in their "stacks".

[@user-cookingwithNana]

I add a can of cream of mushroom or chicken soup into mine and hubby loves it

[@FreezerMeals101]

Nice! A can of soup zips up a lot of different recipes!

[@beccas588]

What can you use as a substitute for the cream of mushroom soup in the gator tot casserole?

[@AwkwardStinkerbelle]

if you don’t want to use canned soup, you can make your own 😊

[@FreezerMeals101]

Is the canned soup specifically you're wanting to replace? Or the mushrooms? You could use other cream soups that you like... Celery, cheddar, etc. Otherwise try sour cream/whipping combo and some spices and see if that works for you. This might be a trial and error sort of situation. As the other comment says, make your own soup and try it.

[@beccas588]

@@FreezerMeals101 I don’t like mushrooms but I’m looking for an easy substitute.

[@lorimaunu8822]

This is a great video about using hamburger. Because I can buy 8 10 lb rolls of hamburger where my son works which is cheap per pound. But have you two ever thought of recipes to use ground up chicken? I was gifted 30 lb of ground up chicken and 30 lb of onions that I chopped up diced up and put in freezer bags. Do you have any ideas on the ground up chicken I can use the diced up onions from the freezer in anything I cook or make.

[@FreezerMeals101]

We actually have a fair amount of recipes using ground chicken because we are often able to get it for a great price. BBQ Chicken Sloppy Joes: freezermeals101.com/bbq-chicken-sloppy-joes/ Thai Chili Chicken Lettuce Wraps: freezermeals101.com/thai-chili-chicken-lettuce-wraps/ Ground Chicken Stroganoff: freezermeals101.com/ground-chicken-stroganoff/ One of my favourites is Ground Chicken Taco Meat where you just cook up the meat, add a splash of olive oil and taco seasoning. It's great in tacos or on nachos.

[@evelynincanada]

I would like to request a stroganoff version without the canned soup. We have gluten and soy issues. I've made my own cream-of soups, but I'd love to try one that passes your taste tests.

[@FreezerMeals101]

That would be lovely, wouldn't it? I have a feeling it would entail more cooking ahead of time, such as making a roux with flour and butter. It's doable but extra work. Having food restrictions definitely makes it tougher to adapt, hey? We'll keep it in mind! Thank for watching!

[@angelawossname]

I can't cook every day, and even when I can, I can't do it without assistance. Auto immune issues, chronic pain and vision impairment get in the way. I have chronic uveitis so I'm slowly going blind. I still chop veggies, though, even though there was that one time I cut off the tip of my thumb! My dil helped me bandage it and cleaned up afterwards, bless her.

[@chandratobolaski1249]

Oh my goodness!! Glad you didn't loose the whole thumb! Be careful beautiful!! Maybe you can get yourself some gadgets where you don't need a knife.

[@angelawossname]

@chandratobolaski1249 no, it was a one off mistake, and it healed up fine. Also, I'm not going to let go of yet another piece of my independence. I'm going to keep chopping veggies. I don't use a cleaver any more for meat, I use kitchen shears instead, and that was my compromise.

[@FreezerMeals101]

Oh shoot! I hope freezer meals can really help you in getting variety in your life. It's nice to have those meals squared away so you can give yourself a break on days that your really need it.

[@angelawossname]

@FreezerMeals101 doing a freezer meal tonight. I said to my son "we have orange curry, teriyaki chicken or honey mustard chicken. Choose". He chose the teriyaki chicken. The orange curry is basically the same as your red lentil curry, but we also add carrots and sweet potato or butternut pumpkin. It doesn't actually have oranges!

[@lindsayjohnson1072]

We have so much ground bison sausage ( my husband hunts). Looking for ways to use it . I can only do so much breakfast foods and spaggetti. Any ideas

[@AwkwardStinkerbelle]

pizza, stuffed shells, tater tot casserole mentioned here, anything that calls for italian sausage

[@evelynincanada]

MMM that's a good problem to have!

[@LanceMcCloskey-sq7hd]

What is veggiebeef? Is that like what we call TVP i.e. ground up firm tofu?

[@FreezerMeals101]

Yes, it's a soy product.

[@hollypowers3872]

Is there a way to substitute lentils or beans for the ground beef?

[@FreezerMeals101]

I think you could depending on which recipe. For every single one of these particular recipes, I (Sharla) substitute Yves veggie ground round which is a soy based meat substitute for the ground beef. I prefer to "brown" it first even though it's already cooked because I find I prefer the texture that way. I've heard of lentil based spaghetti sauces and for the chili, you could just add more of the beans and leave out the beef (although the Yves Mexican ground round tastes amazing in this chili).

[@countycalling]

Ok it’s official you two are a bad influence on me…….I am now a family of one…..but I just bought an upright freezer to be delivered on the 1st! I have a large chest freezer already soooooo…..let’s get cooking

[@FreezerMeals101]

😂😂😂 But we're the best kind of bad influence, right?!

[@beckywtube]

Good will always has a low cooker or 2 or 3...

[@FreezerMeals101]

Yes! I have often seen them at second hand stores. Great idea for anyone who doesn't have one!

[@VeronicaRonniDorval2638]

😋👍

[@kari-gs4eq]

Tater tots are supposed to go on top of the meat mixture NOT mixed in. Tater tot casserole is the iconic MN dish. This version is so bizarre.

[@FreezerMeals101]

Agreed. Our "usual" tater tot casserole has browned ground sausage on the bottom and the tater tot mixture on top. This beef and veggies version is a nice occasional change though.

[@kari-gs4eq]

@@FreezerMeals101 After I posted I realized I could have phrased that more nicely. Traditional recipe is ground beef mixed with cream of mushroom soup, most mix veggies in (my favorite is green beans). Then top with tater tots and bake until tots are crispy brown. Cheddar over or under the tots are optional.

[@nadinefrandsen6087]

We make it either way at our house. When making freezer meals we sometimes place the tater tots it’s own bag and place a cheese-filled sandwich baggie inside of the tater tot bag. (So could be 3 baggies). Hope that make sense. Then this recipe can be layered. And of course there’s the other option of using a foil style casserole dish in the freezer instead. Lots of options💗

[@AwkwardStinkerbelle]

i am from the midwest too and definitely prefer my tots on top and crispy! and we always add cheese 😊