- Hello and welcome back. I feel like, I feel likeit's very dark in here. Now hold on, hold on, let's check. I feel like maybe I havea light out, but I don't. I guess we could turn this own. Let's work on lightingat Jamerrill's place. Okay, I don't know. I don't think that's gonna help. Anyway, kitchen's feelingespecially dark today. Don't know why. Must be where the sun is. So water's a rushing. I'm getting ready to putprobably eight to 10 pounds of some of the last of the pasture-raised ground beef I had in thefreezer in my roaster oven. We are doing about 20healthy freezer meals. So we've got about sixinstant pot, or slow-cooker, depends on any way you wanna cook it up. I'll have directions on both. Healthy freezer meals. And then we have twothat qualify for a bake. I wouldn't even call 'em. Well, it could be more of a casserole. You'll see. All of these ingredientswould qualify as gluten-free. Of course, for gluten-free,you have to really eyeball, and know your brands and read your labels, and make sure you're gettinggluten-free variations. All of them but three are dairy-free. And they're all low-carb, keto, and Trim Healthy Mama S Meals friendly. You know, I can't check all the boxes on all the food things, and I'm just a mama in my kitchen, but these large family recipeshave been highly requested. So I hope you like 'em. Let's get cookin', and we'll look at mywhite board in a minute and see what's going down, but gotta kinda get thisground beef cookin' first. Have that heating up, and we can see evidence of that. So that's why I was like, oh, I better quit chatting in my camera, and I best get this ground beef in there. It's gonna sizzle. Okay, now I'm gonna get this lid on. Okay, so I will readyou my white board list. Of course, my big freezercookin' days go so much faster when I am working off my own large family freezer meal packs. I have a whole collectionwith packs one through six. If you are interested in those, the link will be down inthe description below, and you can always usethe promo code HELLO20 to take 20% off your first purchase in my large family table shop. Any who, today theserecipes are not in a pack, but you can get all of these. Someone's messaging me. All of these recipesare available for free over on LargeFamilyTable.com, and of course the link is gonnabe in the description below to take you to all of these. Any who, what we aremaking is we are gonna do a spicy Italian sausage and peppers bake. We're gonna do peppered lemon chicken. That'll be instant pop or slow cooker. We're gonna do cilantro lime chicken, and that meat can be used for tacos, or fajita, or for wraps. Fantastic. We're gonna do a low-carbbroccoli and cheddar soup. We're gonna do a low-carbcheesy and cauliflower soup. We're gonna do red pepper meatballs. And the way that I like to do those, the meatballs will beall prepped ahead, etc., but they can be served overcauliflower rice or brown rice. My children would have it over brown rice. I'd have it over cauliflower rice. We're also gonna do low-carb taco soup, and we're gonna be doing a low-carb beef and cheesy cauliflower bake. So all of these except, it's the low-carb beef andcheese cauliflower bake, the cheesy cauliflower soup,and the broccoli cheddar soup. Obviously, those are not dairy-free, but the other ones that Ilisted, the spicy Italian. I won't read 'em for you again, but you can do the math. The other ones that are dairy-free. And also those of you who havebeen wanting a large family dairy-free recipes and helps, even though I am not a dairy-free expert, I have one of my good mamafriends doing some work for me over on LargeFamilyTable.com. She's gonna be like our dairy-free expert because she has been dairy-free herself for many, many decades,knows a lot about it. So be looking over there. We now have a dairy-free section that'll have more updates coming up. Okay, so I am cookin' this ground beef. This is gonna be for the low-carbbeef and cauliflower bake and also the taco soup. Then I have some ground beefI'm using for the meatballs. I got the chicken for the lemon chicken and the cilantro lime chicken., and I have the Italian sausages. So yeah, I'm hopeful that even though I'm doing 20 large familyhealthy freezer meals, it's not gonna take too long. Famous last words. Because I have more freezer cookin' I'm doing once I get these. I'm kinda dividing my freezercookin' videos up today so that you can have thisone with the healthy. And then if you wantanother one with the sanity, in my next video it's gonna be three different typesof freezer sandwiches. I'm looking at my list. Some sausage breakfast muffins, whole bunch of banana bread,whole bunch of protein bites, and a whole bunch of homemade granola bars that are also freezer friendly. So if you like any of thatstuff, get it all here. Come on back and see that,but let's get cookin'. (upbeat music) So what I was just doing there was getting one of thosepasture-raised chickens in my 14 quart GoWISE pressure cooker. The reason that I'm doing that is for a few of these meals I need chicken broth, and I don't have any other chicken broth. So I need to cook a chickenand make some chicken broth, but that will be fine because then the meat from that chicken I will bag up, and I will use that, orI have different kids that will use that chicken for snacks or to go along with lunchwith some fruits and veggies. And it'll get used don't worry, but I also went ahead and put12 cups of water in there, 'cause I need at least12 cups of chicken broth. It'll make more than that. We'll have some good healthychicken broth in the works. So now, I have a bazillion peppers, whole lot of colored peppersthat need chopped up. I could have got a better dealon this pepper trio at Aldi, or Costco even has a prettygood deal most of the time. But got 'em at Walmart. I feel like I paid just a little more, but that's okay because Walmart put my groceries in my trunk for me, and that's what matters. So we're gong to chop all of these. I know several ladieshave asked me recently about using a food processor. See, we're gonna sit,and chat, and chop, okay? And I have one. It's in my cabinet. Thing is, I just like tosit and chop my vegetables. It's therapeutic. Some ladies like to iron. Some ladies like to dolaundry in general or garden. Sorry that noise is probablyoverpowering my voice there. We just have differentthings we like to do. Some like to dust. Some like to vacuum. We have many things we have to do, but then there's some things you just really get a kick out of doing. I just like sitting here and chopping. I like sitting. Sitting is my favorite. So (laughs) we are going tosit and chop all these peppers, and then we need to chop upsome onion and some cilantro. And I went ahead, and you know I've donethis in different videos, I wrote down what I thinkmy timeframe is going to be for the actions I need to do. And I'm thinking I'm going to come in about three hours, start to finish. Hopefully Jamerrill will not double that. But three hour start to finish. And if I don't get too chatty, but that also includes the process of, I'm batch cookin' ground beeffor a few of these meals, and I'm cookin' a chicken. I'm chopping all my veggies. Certainly ways you can streamline it, but if I really do come out with 20 large family healthy freezer meals at the end of this time inthree hours, that's great. Oh, I didn't tell you yet. So the total cost ofeverything that I needed to make these freezer meals was $175. So that breaks down to,let's see, do my little math, about $8.75 per meal. And so for my family of 10, to have a healthy freezer meal for $8.75, that's really good. There are some things I had on hand. Like I did already, and I knowthat this will impact price. I know it also depends on where you live as far as what youractual grocery prices are. Again, in the blog post thatgoes with all this cookin', I've wrote down all my nerdy math. Any who, I already had the ground beef. Now, the chicken broth I'm making, I'm not counting that chicken meat 'cause I'm not using it for these meals. I could of bought a coupleboxes of organic chicken broth. I could of bough the best deal on ground beef that Icould find at Walmart. I did have to buy bonelessskinless chicken breast, and all my veggies, and lotsof cheese, and other items. So I felt like the $175 is a pretty fair amount across the board because you might havechicken that you could use for these healthy freezermeals in your freezer. You might have groundbeef in your freezer. You might have one andneed to buy the other. You might need to buy every single thing. I had to buy broccoliand a ton of cauliflower. Maybe you have somecauliflower in your freezer. Anyway, I'm gonna wash these peppers, and then we'll get to chopping. Don't spill. - [Kids] Oh, no we did not. We were having trouble-- - Good, I'm glad you found him. You know what we're gonna make? - [Kid] What? - We're gonna make homemade granola bars. That's what I needed raisins, and chocolate chips, and stuff for. Doesn't that sound fun? Travis and the kids are home. Lots of people ask, where are the kids while you're doing all this cookin'? Well, again, they've been outin Walmart, bake, post office, doing many things. Most of the kids. Some of 'em were home doing other things. Any who, the little ones and a T were out. And so, they got items forin my next freezer meal video and for our family for our freezer. We're gonna do homemade granola bars. I needed Travis to pick up some more like dried coconut flakes and somecraisins, as we call them. So they were bringingall those groceries in. A classic YouTube kid's question. I know, excellent. Put 'em in the pantry, honey. (kids talking) When they brought all the groceries in, they wanted to know ifwe had to put 'em out on the table so I can film 'em. So no, just put 'em away for now. There were a few more baking type items, just odds and ends I neededfor the lunch freezer meals. Which is perfect because onFriday we are gonna go see, not tomorrow or the next day, we're going on an all daytrip to Washington D.C. We're gonna ride the metro. We haven't done that in a long time. Now, our van. Yes, I was gonna tell them. We're gonna take themetro because our old van, I could always, eventhough it was 16 passenger, I could drive right into D.C. I could park even at the bottom of the Ronald Reagan building. That's like my favorite place to park. But now with our van,the Mercedes Sprinter that has like the six footwalk around room inside, I can't park that in D.C. So we're gonna park at the Vienna Metro. That's the metro I always rode as a kid. And then we'll take that into D.C. It's been many yearssince we rode the metro. Several of these kidshave never rode the metro. This'll be a really fun experience. All that to say, we'll betaking those granola bars that I'm gonna do inmy next video on Friday when we have our D.C. field trip day. (upbeat music) Okay, here are all these chopped peppers going in lovely recipes now. (upbeat music) Well, reality check in. Here we are. It's now almost eight o'clock. The time that I thoughtI'd be done with this, and I feel like I've barely moved. We had a storm of kids comein, and they wanted to eat. Can you believe that? It happens. So, now I'm like, okay. We've done dinner. That's what happens in the middle of my freezer cookin' time, and I'm sure it happens inthe middle of yours too. So I did two taco bakes thatI had set out last night to defrost while I'm doingthese low-carb meals, of course. And we served that up for dinner. And then we got in a wholebunch of good conversation, a whole bunch of good chatting. And you know as a mama, you wanna take advantage of those times. So now, I think, after that break, I'm getting back into freezer cookin'. I've got about, it's probably about four pounds of groundbeef here looking at me. I'm going to add in,remember, we make lots, gonna add in about fourtablespoons of minced garlic. Got my minced garlic. Gonna add in a fewtablespoons of parsley flakes. Gonna add in my shaky cheese,about a cup of shaky cheese. Gonna actually add in some heavy cream and some eggs to salt andpepper and mix these up. And I'm going to precookthese meatballs this go round. (upbeat music) Still having my meatball making party. So I just got that one pan of meatballs. I didn't even count howmany I got on that pan. So I guess we'll countthem when they come out. Gonna get another pan ofmeatballs made up now. And it might even be athird pan after that. We will just line theseup and get them cooked. They only take about 20 minutesor so baking them this way, and I've got plenty of otherthings to do in the meantime. I was letting the meat that I had cooked in the roaster oven, it was about eight to 10 pounds. I was letting it drainand start to cool a bit. And we will put that in themeals we need to make with that. I know I'm doing, 'causeI've gotta remember this. I've got meat hands so I can'tgo poking around at my list. But I know I was doing a taco soup. (laughs) And I like to have the groundbeef precooked for that, and I was precooking ground beef for that beef and cheddar cauliflower bake. Several of you've been so helpful telling me about using icecream scoops for cookies and even meatballs. And I had one of those nice fancy dancy like spring loadedscoops, but kid broke it. It happens. So they thought, oh, what's this? So we do need to gocookin' utensil shopping. Maybe we will take an, I almost said an all-day field trip. That too. Maybe we will take an IKEA field trip at some point this springand go up and get some more, some fresh cookin' things. Y'all know I need some fresh baking pans. I guess, let me know in the comments below just some practical kitchentools that I might actually use. Again, I get comments oftenabout a food processor, and I have one here just a sitting. So, some things I'm justa little hard-headed. I like to just chop my peppers and roll my meatballs with my hands, but I don't mind getting different tools because sometimes those toolsbecome my favorite things. Like when I got my instantpot a few years ago, I was like, well, I love my slow cooker. I don't know. And now, I know how much I love my electric pressure cookers. I do though still find times where the slow cooker is just best. And so, case in point,let's say on a Sunday. Going to church. And I know I can put diner in,or lunch, in the slow cooker, and have it set up so thatwhen we get home it's done. Well, if I didn't dothat, when we got home, I could throw stuff in the instant pot, and we would still beeating about an hour later than we would want to. I'm done with these meatballs. That's why my hands havepaused for a moment. So I need to get another pan. Gabriel, honey, get me another baking pan, and then spray it with this spray, and set it in front of me whileI got my meat hands, okay? Now, that also being said, I could put diner in the instant pot, and we can go out to TaeKwonDo, and it can be done in a much shorter time. I think, see that drawer. Oh, perfect, you found a bigger one. That's good. I think I'm pretty good onmetal mixing bowls for now, but I know these baking pans like there, they're from the farm house, and we've been here in theforest for three years. So, definitely could use. I'm not great on baking pans. And going to IKEA is always a fun idea. So with these meatballs that we are doing, of course, and I did this this fall with some turkey meatballs that I had in my other low-carb andinstant pot freezer meal videos that I did I think in October. I prepped a whole bunchof turkey parm meatballs, and then I put them inseparate little baggies. Precooked 'em, put 'em inseparate little baggies, and then I used them for likesnacks, and sauces, and such. You can also do that with these meatballs. However, I am making thesetoday with a goal in mind of doing this particularred pepper instant pot or slow cooker meal that takes meatballs. This is a good base meatball recipe that you could use in many, many things. And what I did withthe turkey meatballs is I could just set 'em out to defrost in the refrigerator over night, warm 'em up in the microwave,or drop 'em into some sauces. Lots of good ways you can use 'em. And also shared onInstagram and Facebook how we've been eyeballingnew washers and dryers. Let me know which washer and dryer sets seem to be your favorite and work well. You've seen in my recentWeek in the Life video, I shared more aboutit, and I took you out, and I showed you differentones I was looking at. But while I'm chatting making meatballs, I'm still thinking. As soon as we think of things, and then Travis and Igo out, and we research. Like I know we wanna go look at couches. So we haven't talked about dishwashers since last time we wereout looking at 'em. Our stuff is still working, functional, but we know it's a coming. And we would much rather do some research, do what you all tell us to do. We wanna do the littlebit of a quality upgrade with our next purchases. We've done really wellgetting the cheapest, and those items haveworked well over the years. But now we wanna see if wecan just do a little upgrade, and if we get a littlemore mileage out of 'em. You know how that goes. Okay, so here's a look at. These are big, thick, and hardy meatballs. A la Jamerrill, right?(laughs) These are two more pans. You can see where Gabrielwas a little generous. It's hard to figure out how to use that cookin' spray at first, but he did help his mama, and get the pan, and spray it for me,and I appreciate that. (upbeat music) So what I'm doing is I am spooning a tablespoon of oliveoil over these sausages, and then I'm gonna putpeppers, and onions, and some seasonings on here too. And I've been wittling down this tub of minced garlic from Walmart. - [Amelia] Mother. - Uh-huh. - When I took a biteof one of those peppers that you put in a bag for me-- - Yeah. Amelia was helping me. You were eating all thepeppers, weren't ya? Yes? But what about the peppers? - [Amelia] Well, I ate like some. It was not all of them, but some. But they, for some reason,they tasted like onions. - Well it could be, I didn'tchop the onions til after. Sometimes when you're chopping. Okay, mama, lessons forother little girls watching. Sometimes when you're chopping veggies, you wanna cut your onions last, right? 'Cause otherwise, if youcut your onions first and then you cut your peppers,it can get that onion taste, but I cut all those peppers first, and then I chopped the onions. But even the smell of onionscan kinda get on things. That might be why. But Amelia, she even asked for it. She had a bunch with the taco bake, and that's what's niceabout the taco bake. Although, that's not consideredone of our low-carb recipes. Because she just piled ona bunch of red peppers, yellow peppers, orange peppers, a little bit of extradollop of sour cream, and shredded cheese,and she was ready to go, but then she wanted a whole baggie of colored peppers as her snack. Okay, so here's how the pans of the sausage are looking right now. I've just done the tablespoon of olive oil and then two tablespoonseach of minced garlic. Now I'm going to shake onjust some oregano leaves very lightly. I'm just doing a few shakes. I would say that's not evena fourth of a tablespoon. (laughs) Not very much, okay, okay. And then we're gonna doabout the same amount of basil leaves, just very lightly. And then I'm gonna shake onjust a little bit of parsley. And again, all of this is very light. Now we're gonna load it upwith peppers and onions. And I'm just going to sharethis amongst the three pans. Now, I'm going to dothe same with peppers. I said in this recipe it was the equivalent of six chopped peppers. So that makes it about two in each pan. And then you can do this, of course, when you go to cook iton your cookin' day, but Lord only knows what I'llbe doing on my cookin' day. So I'm just gonna go ahead and put some salt and pepper on the top of these. Now, what would be perfectto go along with these, of course, is steamedvegetables like broccoli, or cauli rice, for children,brown rice, quinoa. If you're doing moreof a trim healthy mama, and you wanna make it a cross over, you could have those items as well. Or if you're doing moreof whole foods, that's it. So many different ways to eat. Then you could of course mix in and serve it with quinoa or brown rice. Yes, okay, so here's ourbeautiful rainbow pans. (upbeat music) So I'm going to now hop over to do the beef and cheddar cauliflower bake. I'm washing out one of my bowls. I feel like I'm being alittle too overly optimistic about the size of this bowl, because it's one of mybowls on the smaller end that we might outgrow pretty quickly. But I'm already here,almost done rinsing it out. So we could give it a go and see if I can keep it contained. Zion is helping me. He's wrapping up thesausage and pepper bakes. I will say, whenever you do bakes, Zion's going out now to take 'em. Thanks Zion. Whenever you do bakes, the wrapping, which prep work takes time,putting it together takes time, but then you have to allow yourself time, which I always forgetthis, to actually wrap it and then get it in the freezer. And whenever you're managingmultiple meals going down, sometimes that littlebit of time is like, ah, just feels real draining. So I said, Zion, help your mama out. So he's helping his mama out. Now we have, I had that bake, and then I'm doing this beefand cheddar cauliflower bake, and then everything elseis gonna be bagged meals, but those were some prep work as well. So with this ground beef that I have here, it's about eight or so pounds. Half of the ground beef is going to be set aside for the taco soup. Half of it is going in this beef and cheddar cauliflower bake. Yes and amen. So, of course, my dishes,my dishes are a growing. That's okay. I do, I wash things as we go, but then there's someitems I don't need again, and those are what gets stacked up. That bowl there could offound its purpose again, but that's okay. So this is the ground beefthat I did in the roaster. I'm going to get this into mycute little medium size bowl. And then what else weare going to put in this is I have, it's alsoanother cute little thing. I like to get the big 52ounce bags of cauliflower from Walmart. Of course, I think Costco usually, well, they have it inbigger bags there too. But Walmart always has the broccoli, but this one Walmart whereI did my grocery pick up just had the smaller bags. So we'll use several of those. We're gonna put five eggs in it, and we're going to put some heavy cream. We're going to put cheese. We're gonna put the cauliflower. And I'll mix it all together and make wonderful things happen. Pour it in baking pans. Get it labeled. This meat has cooled now. And we'll get labeled, getit in the outside freezers. I haven't filmed a largefamily meals of the week probably for the last two weeks. And no real reason other thanI've been filming other things and sometimes it's hardto juggle multiple videos. 'Cause some of 'em I do over many days. Anyway, just with all the shopping and the freezer cookin'I've been getting done, I just said, I'll just takea two week break from doing the large family meals of the week videos, but those are coming back. And my next one that I do willbe with many of these meals. Also, with these meals, like I mentioned, all the recipes will be overon LargeFamilyTable.com, and in process pictures. Always a question I get. Well it's great when you make 'em, but what do you do with 'em ? So how I actually cook 'em and serve 'em, all of those will be over on the blog. Okay, so now I'm gonna addin my little cutie pie, as we would call 'em, bags of cauliflower. I'm going to do fourof these 12 ounce bags. So that'll be 48 ounces. But if you can get the big 52 ounce bag, then those four extraounces won't hurt a bit. Going to put in two cups of heavy cream. So obviously, this is not oneof the dairy-free recipes. This should be a gluten-free recipe, but of course you always gotta, I've heard you have towatch your cheese with that. I'm looking to see. Some cheeses I've heard they can be dusted with flour and suchto keep them from sticking. I don't know all the rational behind it. Again, in our family,we are not gluten-free, but I have some very close friends and their children who are. So, make sure that you're using a cheese, if you do this recipe, thatis truly gluten-free as well. I'm going to do four cups of,whew, shredded cheddar cheese. Now we are going to mix itall up and get it in the pans. Here is what the beef and cheddar cauliflowerbake looks all mixed up. Again, that recipe willbe over on the blog too. Now I'm going to hopefullyget two pans full here. And I'm gonna just use my measuring cup, or not, or I'm gonna dump it. We'll see. See how wild and crazy I'm feeling. There's one. I think what happenedwas when Zion got busy wrapping those other three pans for me, I moved down to this corner. I'm like, why am I way over here on this little counter space? No, honey, I'm talking to myinvisible friends in my camera. Kids are asking if I'm talking to them. Okay, so here are howthe two pans of the beef and cheddar cauliflower bakes look now. I'm gonna have my handy dandywrapping assistant come out and wrap these for me andget 'em in the freezer. Yay. So it's a brand new day. Does this even surprise you? So, so, full of hope, and we had a great day yesterday. Let this just be anencouragement to you mamas that a man's mind plans his way, but the Lord directs hissteps and makes them sure. And I was telling myself that when I laid down with Benjaminlast night to nurse him and get him settled for bed. And then I just startedto go to sleep myself. So, I had Zion. I was like Zion come here. Come help your mama. And he packed up themeat I had batch cooked, and the things that I hadout, and got 'em in bags, got 'em in the refrigerator for me, and he did the dishes. These are a few dishes leftand new dishes for the day. New day, new dishes. Any who, yeah, when my nextlarge family freezer meal packs come out that have a lotof these recipes in them, cookin' those recipeswill go a little smoother, but this go-round, as I'mworking out the kinks, this is just how it goes. So yesterday became afreezer meal prep day. Mega freezer meal prep. And we batched, I'm reading my list, we batched cooked ground beef, did all the copping forthe peppers and the onions, I did those threesausage and pepper bakes, and I did those two beef andcheddar cauliflower bakes. Oh, and I did a ton of meatballs. So today, we are to the bag meals. So now we are gonna getthose bag meals going after. I've got half a cup of coffee left. And I'm gonna eat some lunch. We got our school andstuff done this morning, some household things along with that. And so, Liam, Amelia, and Daniel are on the deck playing now. Got all their stuffed animals out there. We'll think about that later. And other kids are doingstuff in the house right now, and Benjamin is down for his nap. So it's a good time toget these finished today. And that's how I do it. So because mom's will say,Jamerrill, I don't know how I'm gonna get thisfreezer cookin' done. Well, you make you plan. You list it all out on yourwhite board what you wanna do, and then as kids come in, asdiner's conversation runs long, and that's my heart as a mama, is those opportunities whenthings do go off the rails but in a positive way. You got a bunch of kids who wanna have some deep conversation, youtake those opportunities, right? Baby wants to snuggle extra snuggly. So when those times happenaround your cookin', you follow your mama heartand do what you have to do for your family, and thenyou just adapt the food. So I'm adapting this foodon this brand new day. Still gonna get it done. Still getting all thesemeals in the freezer. Go team go. (upbeat music) So the kids have beenjoking about this chicken in this container today. It looks like some kind of (laughs). I think Naomi told Gabriel itwas a chicken brain in here. So it looks like some kind ofscience experiment gone wrong. Now what this is is it's the whole hen that I batch cooked inthe pressure cooker, and then when I ran out of steam, I had Zion put it inthis lovely container. I got this at the restaurant supply store when I went there with my friend Ashley from Large Family Management. She's got a channel uphere on YouTube also. So anyway, these are superconvenient containers. So I got my chicken broth made though. Yay. I'm gonna pick the chickenoff the bones here too. I'm probably just gonna use the broth for the recipes I need, andwe'll get back that chicken. I heard so many of you ask me about these little freezer meal bag stands. These are the coolest thing. I always have my link in thedescription below for these. Anyway, you just clipyour bags on the side, and it holds 'em up nice and helpful. The bags can, dependingon how much you jam in 'em and weigh 'em down, which I'm the queen of jamming stuff up and weighing it down. The bags can start to slip. So I have clips that I put on top sometimes when I canfind 'em to reinforce. I'm just gonna take a moment here. Be a good little soldierand get my bags labeled. (upbeat music) I'm thinking we're gonnastart with the taco soup first because I have the groundbeef done for that. I have no idea why my kitchendoor is now left open, but I'm gonna close it. I got kids goin' in and out. Weather report is it lookslike it's gonna rain. So all the clothesbaskets of stuffed animals have now moved to the dining room. So I'm opening severalcans of diced tomatoes because we're gonna need those anyway. I got rid of our can opener that I know. What honey? Get what you need. They're now going back outside. You know how this works. It's not raining. The sun's shining. And I'm like, no, hold up. Hold up, wait a minute. We're gonna be in theband for hours tomorrow. Get your little selvesback out in the sunshine until I see considerable rain. You okay? You got your puppy? You got your bananas? And I gave him a whole bunch of bananas. We got a bunch of bananas, but he left it. Take those bananas. Daddy's back and outside too. So let mama open these cans. Oh, I know, that's whatI was gonna tell ya. So I got rid of the white can opener that was in all my oldvideos that Travis and I got. Think we got it like rightafter we got married. I remember going to Walmartwith like little wedding checks, little wedding gift money, and getting a few starterapartment type things we needed. We got that can opener. It looked grubby after over 20 years, but it still worked, stillgot all my little cans, my big cans. So I got this Black &Decker about a year ago, and it fights me. And sometimes I just. And I got rid of my old,good, trusty can opener, and I hate it when I dolittle things like that. Like, even though it lookedgrubby, I should have done that. And I remember my, onegranddad in particular, having can openers andkitchen appliances that, I don't know, had to have been30 or so years old or older. The things still worked, but I remember 'em looking grubby. So I was just trying to not look grubby. But on days like today, I'm like, I should of kept my goodold trusty can opener. Because this ground beefwas cooked yesterday and put in the refrigerator, it just needs broken up a little bit. Then I'm gonna put it in these bags here. This is four pounds ofprecooked ground beef. That way, the idea with this is that, whenever we want to haveslow cooker taco soup or instant pot taco soup,the meat is already done, everything else is already in there, and it's just one of thoselike dump-and-go meals. And that is always helpful. And you think you don't need 'em, but then when you have 'em. I know that's how I'll be. Oh, I don't need 'em. Oh, I'll cook every night. And I'm always so thankful tohave a ton of meals prepped and ready to go. Okay, I might be able to justdump the rest of this in. It took a long time yesterday to get the ground beefdone in the roaster oven. I honestly could of done itquicker on the stove top, but then I would of hadto of stood there with it and babysat it, and I. Babysat it, baby sit it. And didn't wanna do that either. Oh, I'm gonna need to watch my time. So, the roaster oven was passive, and I like to use thatespecially if I'm doing like 20 or 30 pounds of ground beef, or a bunch of chicken,or something at one time. It's really helpful for that. So we got in about twopounds of ground beef in each of these bags. Now I'm going to put in a canof diced tomatoes in each. Actually, I was going to use, I had some of the dicedtomatoes with green chilies. You can use, of course,any diced tomatoes will do. And then I did have some beef broth, yay. Ready to go. I could of just pouredhalf of this in one bag and half of it in the other. I only realized that once I'm almost done. I'm gonna do a second can ofdiced tomatoes in each bag. Shoot, I had something mix together I did not want mixed together. Well, it won't hurt. During our pick up last night, the cilantro and theonions got mixed together. Oops. So, might end up with some, a little cilantro in my tacosoup, but I won't complain. We'll pick around it, 'cause I had a totally differentrecipe for that cilantro. That's what happens in a reallife mama kitchen, right? Whoopsie. Gotta do my dry spices first before I get my minced garlic going. I'm doing a tablespoon of cumin in each. And then a tablespoonof chili powder in each. That'll make it very close to homemade taco seasoning flavor. And then I'm going to do a tablespoon of minced garlic in each. Then I'm gonna put abunch of these in each. And so, yes, this cheese will just melt all in the taco soup, but once the taco soup is done you could then put onfor each individual bowl, or on the pot of taco soup, you could put a littlebit more shredded cheese, and you could put on some sour cream. So here are both bagsof low-carb taco soup that'll go in the freezer. So now, I'm looking at mymeatballs, and I'm thinking, I must be missing a pack of meatballs, or I didn't make as many as I needed to. So, I'm only going to get one of these red pepper meatball meals done, because we like a lot of meatballs, and I'm eyeballing these and I'm thinking, well that's only enough for one bag. Now I just realized Iwrote on another bag, and I'm removing themeatballs from one bag and putting them in another bag. I guess I could of used the same bag. Oh well, that's how thecookie crumbles sometimes. - [Kid] Mommy? - Yes. (kid talking) Is that your banana peels. - [Kid] Yeah, do banana peels melt? - No they don't melt, sweetie. - Okay. Oh, look like milk. - What you doin'? Oh, yeah, does it look yummy? The heavy cream, it's got a picture of strawberry shortcake on it. Red pepper meatballs. Serve it over cauli rice. Serve it over brown rice. Here you go. Now these next two soupsthat we're gonna do, one is gonna be alow-carb broccoli cheddar, and then the other one isa cheesy cauliflower soup. So with either of these, you're gonna see. We're gonna put the stuff in the bag. Then of course when you wanna cook it, like all of these meals,you're gonna thaw it in the refrigerator the night before. Dump it in my slow cooker thenext morning, the next day, at lunch time, at some point. Anyway, when it gets close toit's cooking time being done, I've been using my immersionblender more and more. I'll show you the $20 one I picked up. Then I just stick my blender in there and give it a little whirl, and it whips everything up nicely. So here's the, it's a Hamilton Beach. So far, it has worked well. It is one of those items thatI think I got over a year ago in a grocery hall or thisWalmart grocer pickup orders. I saw it, and I'm like, oh,I could probably use that. But it's really just been in recent months that I've been gettingsome good use out of it. So this is the little attachment that I've been usingwhenever I whip up soups. There is also thislittle whisk attachment, and this, as we were talkingabout kitchen items earlier, this has turned out to be convenient and useful for me so far. I've been using it. I've been talking to it. I've been getting to know it. So, I will try to link one ofthese for you guys as well. I'm gonna do thisbroccoli cheddar soup now. Okay, I'm gonna startdropping my broccoli in. So this is just half astick of butter in each bag. Then we're going to put half a block of creme cheese in each bag, and then three cups ofheavy cream in each bag, and then some chicken broth. So here is what it looks like in the bag. Gonna get it all sealed up now. Yay, we're back at it. You wouldn't know in YouTubetime, I actually took a break, went and did some other things. Now I'm back. Getting back, gonna get this done. Okay, so now we're gonnado the cheesy cauliflower. (upbeat music) Okay, so here are both of the low-carb cheesy cauliflower soups thatare goin' in the freezer too. I'm going to do the peppered lemon chicken and the chicken cilantrolime here in a moment. Since I had a little mix up with the cilantro and the onions, which I mean, I guessonions could go in that, I just haven't put onions in it before. But I'm gonna pick out thecilantro pieces from that bag. But I also have some dried cilantro. So I thought I might just get creative and mix it up a little bit. And with the chicken cilantro line, it's great to mix up and then have on, of course if you do a low-carb, it could be on low-carb wraps. It could be on lettuce wraps. It could be on salad. The kids, of course, wouldhave it on tacos, taco shells. You could have it overquinoa, rice, over cauli rice. It's just a good flavorful chicken to have and use for many different things. And then many times, thechicken that I'm working with, when I do these kind of bone, bones, yeah, do these kind of meals. It's just already frozenfrom a bag from Walmart. I don't take the time,of course, to defrost it. Sometimes I will get chicken from Aldi's that hasn't been frozen yet,and that looks prettier. But this is real life mama, throw and go, freezer meal cookin', right? But we don't mind. And this is a 10 pound bag of chicken, and I just divide it upbetween the three bags. I'm adding in the lime juice. I did have some onion inthis and the cilantro. So if something is mixed, we are saved. It's okay. So now we're gonna do ourpeppered lemon chicken. I have three kids cleaning up outside now, and then they were gonnacome in, wash their hands, and work on their bedrooms. They've been playing all day. They wanna know, what dothey have to do to come in? And I said, pick up everythingoutside, wash your hands, and go upstairs and pick up your bedrooms, and then you can be in. (upbeat music) Okay, that's it. We did it. Sun is still a shining. Well, it's 5:48, butyay to the time change and the sun's stayingout longer, right Amelia? Amelia's having some yogurts. So if you want these recipes to make these 20 healthy freezer meals, head over to LargeFamilyTable.com. The link will be down atthe description below. And you'll not only seethe end process pictures, but you'll see picturesof what it looks like when we actually cook 'em up and eat 'em. Thank you for encouragingme as I do all this cookin', and thank you for sticking with me. So now, I'm going to takea rest with Benjamin, and then we're making proteinbites and granola bars that can also go in the freezer, and a whole bunch ofmake-ahead sandwiches, getting ready for our field trip to Washington D.C. tomorrowthat you keep hearing about, and just to have in thefreezer for all those days that we really need 'em. Okay friends, I'll talk toyou in those comments below. Bye bye.
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