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Cook With Me 1 Month of Freezer Meals: Postpartum Meal Prep & Freezer Dump Meals
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Feb 28, 2025
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hello you guys and welcome back to my
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channel my name is heaven if you're are
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new here and I'm a motherhood and
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homemaking vlogger today we are getting
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into all of the freezer dump meals so
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that we can get ready and have all the
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food that we need for after we have our
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baby girl I'm making a month worth of
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dinner and breakfast options a little
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bit of lunch option options for my
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family to enjoy to make sure that my
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family has easily accessible healthy
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meals so that we're not always eating
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out or spending a lot of money for
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dinner and breakfast and things like
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that while we are healing and getting
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used to being now a family of four I
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wanted to go ahead and make some meals
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ahead of time I'm hoping that it
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shouldn't take too long but that is also
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going to be very well wored it so if
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you're looking for some food recipe
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inspiration some freezer meal craft
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inspiration ation this video is going to
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be for you I just found out today that I
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am already 4 cm dilated I have no idea
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when our baby is going to come but all
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of a sudden I'm in like panic mode and I
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feel like I got to get this stuff done
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so I'm just going to go ahead and jump
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right into it and I hope that you guys
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will join me and follow along here is
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what I'm working with today I'm going to
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try and make all of this if not all of
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it then most of it I have some sweet
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Italian ground sausage for some baked
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ziti I also have some sirloin here for
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either a Teriyaki dish or a breakfast
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bake I have some skinless chicken breast
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I'm going to use for some chicken
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alfredo I also have some chicken breast
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strip and I think this is for like
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chicken pitas maybe I have a chicken
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thigh um meal that I'm planning to make
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today as well as some spaghetti and some
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taco meat over here I have some shrimp
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that I'm planning to use use for a
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shrimp fetuccini and then I also have a
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bunch of vegetables so that's what I'm
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working with today the first freezer
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meal that I am preparing is a baked ziti
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and I am using sweet Italian ground
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sausage and I'm going to go ahead and
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let that cook while I'm also
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multitasking so while I'm making this
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I'm also going to be preparing like
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other meals you guys just aren't going
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to see it because the way that I edited
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it was so that everything can kind of
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just be like a step by step process
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instead of me being everywhere so I went
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ahead and added some green peppers to
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the Italian sweet ground sausage as well
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as a can of prago sauce I actually use
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two cans of the prao sauce just to make
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sure that it doesn't dry out and then I
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mix that in there with a couple of
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seasonings I kept it pretty basic just
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salt and pepper and a little bit of
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Italian seasoning as well mix that in
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there and in the pot next to me I
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already have the pasta boiling so the
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next thing I had to do was take some
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cooked spinach and added some ricotta
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cheese to it I did this gradually just
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to make sure that it mixes up well so
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just starting with like a couple of
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spoonfuls mixing that in there and then
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gradually adding more and more and the
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fact that the spinach is still hot is
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what helps me to mix it up a little bit
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easier so once I get the ricotta cheese
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mixed up in there pretty well I also
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added in some shredded parmesan cheese
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because I love cheese on like almost
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everything but especially inside of my
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Italian dishes so not only am I going to
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be adding it on top but I also decided
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to go ahead and add some inside of the
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ricotta and spinach mixture as well and
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got that Blended in there really well
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once that was done it was time to go
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ahead and start layering everything
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inside of the pan so I started by
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putting some of that meat and sauce
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right at the very bottom of the pan not
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too much just enough to like cat the
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bottom of it and then the rest of the
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sauce and meat I mixed the peeny pasta
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noodles with it I was going to use some
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zii noodles but I decided to just go
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ahead and use the painy pasta instead so
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I mix that inside of the meat sauce as
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well and then I begin l earring so first
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the meat and the sauce and then some of
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the pasta and once the pasta was lay it
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on there nice and evenly I went ahead
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and added my spinach ricotta cheese and
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Parmesan mixture and I tried to get that
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on there nice and even as well so I'm
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only doing one layer of this I didn't
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necessarily want to worry about like
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going very light like of course I didn't
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want it too heavy but it's going to be
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the perfect amount because I'm just
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doing one layer of this and because
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again everything is hot it's kind of
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going to like melt through there that
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cheese and everything and everything
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will come together pretty well so once
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that's lay it on top of there I went
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ahead and added more cheese because like
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I said earlier I love the cheese and
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then topped it off with the rest of the
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pasta and meat sauce and Grand peppers
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and then of course added the rest of my
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parmesan cheese so top it off and this
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one is just so that once we take it out
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of the freezer and put it in the oven
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that cheese will pretty much just like
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melt on top of there and everything is
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going to taste really really delicious
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so that was like really easy and really
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simple this is one of my favorite
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freezer dump meals that's very easy to
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make and also really delicious of course
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I had to make sure that this is the
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first thing that I made then I went
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ahead and put a piece of thin foil on it
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just so that it can cool and then once
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it was cool I added another thicker
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piece of
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foil now now I am doing an Italian
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spaghetti for my second meal this one is
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just as easy just as simple but instead
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of the sweet Italian ground sausage I am
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using the Italian ground turkey and it's
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a little more zesty than it is sweet
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adding more green peppers I purchased
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all of the stuff in advance so I'm not
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using fresh green peppers it was a bag
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of frozen green peppers and I'm just
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mixing that in there with more pasta
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sauce I always use two cans but this one
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could not fit two cans so after I mixed
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in this pasta SAU I had to take the meat
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out of the pan and then make just a
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separate pan of just the sauce and let
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that heat and then add it later but for
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most of my Italian dishes you'll see me
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just using salt pepper and some Italian
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seasoning for this one I also added a
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half can of diced tomato that was inside
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of basil and oregano so while I was
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waiting for the other sauce to be done I
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got started on my third Meal which was
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the chicken and broccoli alfredo this
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one just required some thin cut chicken
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breast or you can use chicken strips
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whichever you know is easier they're
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pretty much the same thing I just like
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to use the thin one because they're
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easier to cook they cook faster and
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they're easier to chop so I'm went ahead
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and just saute that on the stove and
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then added in some frozen broccoli as
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well as some Alfredo cream sauce and
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made some fetuccini noodles in the pot
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that's inside of the back added some
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salt to it a little bit of pepper no
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Italian seasoning for this one just the
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salt and pepper as you can see the sauce
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for this one is really thick so later I
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did take the can that I used because I
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did use caned pasta added some milk and
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shook it up and warm that up to make it
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a little bit less thick so now I'm going
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to put both of those meals inside of a
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pan and one of them I just went ahead
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and poured the spaghetti sauce with the
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meat and the green peppers into a pan
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and I'm topping it off with the
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spaghetti noodles and pretty much just
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mixing it in for this one I'm not going
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to add any cheese on top of it I'm just
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going to leave it as is I like this one
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with the can of diced tomatoes and I
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prefer that this one actually doesn't
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have like that layer of hard or baked or
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melted cheese on the top of it if I am
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doing like a spaghetti bake then
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normally I would at the cheese on top
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this one is just a simple meal to last
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my family about 2 to 3 days this is
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actually a lot of spaghetti for us
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because my son who is five eats very
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small portions and I don't eat a ton of
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it either
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the same thing for the broccoli and
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chicken alfredo just poured the sauce
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the chicken the broccoli into the bottom
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of the pan and stirred in some fetuccini
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noodles and just like that you guys I
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now have two more freezer Dum meals so
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three of them in total super easy and
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like I said all three of these are going
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last us about 2 to 3 days a piece so
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basically about 6 to 9 days hopefully
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about 9 days for all three of these
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meals together is what I am going for
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give or take I did decide to top the
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Alfredo pasta off with a little bit of
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Parmesan shredded cheese as well you can
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use parmesan cheese Mozzarella Italian
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cheese whatever you like I typically
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stick with Parmesan and Italian and
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shredded cheese with my Alfredo now this
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fourth freezer meal is probably the
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easiest one yet all I did was took some
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ground taco flavored turkey it's like
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ground turkey that's already seasoned
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with the taco flavor basically and I
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cooked it on the stove you can add more
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seasoning if you want or you can leave
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the taste as is I also added a bit more
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water than I normally would just so that
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once we reheated it doesn't dry out and
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then once we take it out of the freezer
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and reheat it then we'll just go ahead
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and serve it with some vegetables on
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some taco shells so easy meal number
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five is another Italian pasta dish this
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one is a shrimp fetuccini so I'm just
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boiling some fetuccini noodles with a
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stick of butter some garlic butter
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shrimp scampy seasoning in a packet as
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well as some olive oil and this is how I
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make like my sauce for the fetuccini
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it's not like a thick cream sauce more
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so just like a butter olive oil and
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seasoning mixture and then I'm sautéing
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some shrimp inside of a pan adding that
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right on top of the noodles and mixing
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that in there and that is it you guys I
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kept this one nice and simple as well
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the purpose of this freezer dump series
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is just so that I can make as many
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freezer dump meals as I possibly can for
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my family to enjoy after we bring our
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baby home so I didn't want them to be
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really difficult to make or fancy I just
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wanted us to have some dinners that we
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could eat so of course I did add some
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Parmesan and it's high and shredded
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cheese to that fetuccini mixture as well
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next up is a chicken and potato bake so
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for this one I am adding some Tha
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boneless chicken thighs right into a pan
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seasoning it with some salt some pepper
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and some roasted chicken seasoning and
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then I'm going to be adding some green
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beans the green beans are already
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cleaned you guys the meat for the
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chicken was already cleaned as well
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cleaned and Tha so I went ahead and got
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that done beforehand so that prep would
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be easier and then added those to the
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pan next I am just cutting up some
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yellow potatoes and some small cubes not
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a ton of them just enough of them to go
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inside of the chicken baked so that
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we'll have like the size the vegetables
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and the chicken all inside of one pan so
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I just went ahead and chopped up just a
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few of them so that the pan wouldn't
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overflow and then I also added in some
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grape tomatoes I think cherry tomatoes
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would have been a little bit easier I'm
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not sure which one is like a little bit
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firmer or a little bit bigger but
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basically I just wanted to add some half
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like cherry or grape tomatoes inside of
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this as well and then cut up some onion
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specifically or mostly for flavoring not
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necessarily to eat just for taste so not
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too many of those either then I took a
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can of cream of mushroom soup mixed it
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in with some hot water until it had like
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a soupy texture to it and I'm using this
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as a chicken broth basically so pouring
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in that cream of mushroom it has like
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small tiny like barely noticeable
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mushrooms but if you really like
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mushrooms you can add some more into it
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and then I popped that into the oven at
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425 and let that cook and bake as well
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while I am working on my next freezer
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dump Meal which is chicken fajitas
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really quick I want to apologize for my
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son that I'm sure you guys here playing
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in the background that is just Mom life
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mom life does not stop even if you're
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cooking working cleaning no matter what
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you're doing so for this chicken fajita
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I just took some Thin chicken strip
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breast and chop that up or slice that up
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and then sauteed it in the pan with some
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red and green peppers some onions and
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some chicken fajita sauce I did coat the
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bottom of the pan with some olive oil so
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that nothing would stick together and
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that I didn't cook for too long those
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thin chicken strips cook really fast so
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I cooked it until it was you know just
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done and then poured it all in a pan
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covered it to let it cool and once we
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reheat it we'll serve it on top of some
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chicken fajita tortillas
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then I went ahead and moved right along
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to meal number eight which is beef
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teriyaki so for this one I took some
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Thin steak slices four thinly sliced
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steak fillets I'm cutting that up in
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cubes and then going to sauté that
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inside of a skillet with some frozen
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broccoli and some olive oil this didn't
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take long to cook as well because again
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I'm using thin slic and then once I got
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it cooked up to a nice temperature I
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went ahead and added the teriyaki sauce
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to it on the other side of the stove I
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did have some rice cooking so one side
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of the pan I poured the cooked rice and
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then on the other side of the pan I
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poured in the chicken teriyaki which is
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just the steak the broccoli and the
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teriyaki sauce and then of course I
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added some Sal and pepper to the rice
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and that one was super easy here are all
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of the meals that I prepared after they
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cool it I add added more foil to them
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and we went ahead and put them in a deep
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freezer I did label them and write on
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them so my husband would know but that
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was pretty much it it was so simple and
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so easy all right you guys and with that
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we sum up today's meal prep I hope that
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you guys enjoyed it got some inspiration
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that you may have liked let me know Down
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Below in the comments and let me know
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how I did if you have any like tips to
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make meal prep a little bit easier all
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the meal planning meal plan freezer DP
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tips and helpful information I greatly
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welcome it and encourage you down below
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in the comments section but again I hope
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