Seriously Good Freezer Meals: 150 Easy Recipes to Save Your Time, Money and Sanity

by Karrie Truman

Overview

Don't Freeze Up at Meal Time — Reach Into the Freezer Instead

Let's admit it: we all want to save time and money while still putting healthy and tasty homemade food on the table. But how? Karrie Truman, creator of the much-beloved blog Happy Money Saver, is going to let you in on a secret: the answer is freezer meals.

When she was an exhausted young mom, Karrie found herself serving processed or fast food at the end of a busy day even though she knew it wasn't what she wanted her family to be eating. Then she discovered freezer meals. Immediately, she had home-cooked, easy and delicious food at her fingertips and more time to spend with loved ones.

In Seriously Good Freezer Meals, Karrie shares 150 recipes photos that will change the way you think about freezer cooking. You won't find your mother or grandmother's freezer meals here (except lasagna, of course). Her recipes include Morning Energy Bars, Empanada Hand Pies, Coconut Cashew Basil Curry Soup, Smoky Grilled Louisiana Turkey Legs, and Layered Chocolate Mousse Cake with tons of vegetarian, gluten-free and vegan options, too. Plus, she adds a bulk-batch chart for ease in making large quantities of each freezer-meal recipe.

Karrie gives you all the tools you need to become a freezer-meal genius: information on shopping, cooking, freezing, thawing and everything in between. The book includes beginner, intermediate and advanced meal plan programs to guide you in cooking 7 to 50 meals in a day. You read that right: 50 meals in a day. No more excuses: it's time to start cooking delicious meals that will have you feeling anything but left out in the cold!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780778805915
Publisher:	Rose, Robert Incorporated
Publication date:	02/22/2018
Pages:	368
Sales rank:	166,742
Product dimensions:	7.70(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Karrie Truman is the creator of Happy Money Saver (www.happymoneysaver.com), a blog devoted to making delicious freezer meals and helping people learn ways to live life to the fullest while on a budget, which garners about 800,000 visitors per month. She has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, and Seattle Magazine. Karrie lives with her husband, and four children on five acres in Eastern Washington.

Table of Contents

Introduction 9

Getting Started 11

Freezer Cooking Basics 12

Freezer-Cooking Kitchen Essentials 15

Your BFF: The Freezer 16

Be A Freezer-Meal Genius 21

Thawing & Cooking Freezer Meals 23

Making Many Freezer Meals in a Day 24

For the Advanced Freezer Cook 27

How To Use This Book 28

7 Seriously Easy Freezer Meals in a Day: Beginner (2 to 3 Hours) 30

30 Seriously Easy Freezer Meals in a Day: Intermediate (8 to 10 Hours) 32

50 Seriously Good Freezer Meals in a Day: Advanced (12 to 15 Hours) 35

Breakfast 41

Appetizers & Snacks 67

Soups, Stews & Chilis 95

Poultry 127

Pork 173

Beef 205

Seafood 237

Meatless Mains 253

Side Dishes 283

Desserts 303

Bases & Sauces 329

Acknowledgments 356

Index 359

Editorial Reviews

05/21/2018
Truman, creator of the Happy Money Saver blog, offers a pragmatic cookbook full of great recipes and tips on preserving them to maximize the return on time invested in cooking. The freezer, she writes, is “truly your BFF: reliable, helpful and always there when you need it.” With instructions on prep, stocking up on supplies, organizing freezer space, and cooking in large quantities, Truman’s advice is straightforward and practical. For each recipe, she provides ingredient amounts to scale from four to 30 servings, and her recipes span all three major meals, snacks, and everything in between. The book is full of surprises. Readers may be surprised that a cinnamon French toast bake is freezer-friendly, that an artichoke dip can be made far ahead of time and cooked from frozen, or that a meal with complex flavors, such as hazelnut chicken wild rice soup, will preserve perfectly in the freezer. Truman’s recipes encompass a broad variety of tastes and flavors—Mongolian beef, mascarpone key lime mini pies—and the accompanying cooking instructions are easy to follow. Agent: Sally Ekus, Lisa Ekus Group. (Feb.)

Publishers Weekly

Seriously Good Freezer Meals is a super great book, if you work a lot because you can make the meals ahead of time, and freeze them for later. And lest you think these are just ho-hum basic meals, you're in for a pleasant surprise! Within the beautifully photographed full-color pages, you'll discover recipes for every meal of the day.

This Frugal Family

Karrie Truman knocked it out of the park when she wrote this freezer meals cookbook. The cool thing about this book is that the recipes are flexible. Each of the 150 recipes include a chart that shows you how to scale it into LARGE quantities (if that's your thing), or how you can just make a single batch to eat right away.

The Prairie Homestead

Who has time to cook these days? People are so busy. If there were a way to have fresh, healthy meals every day, wouldn't that be great? Karrie Truman, food blogger, mother, and very busy person has a cookbook that can help in this regard. The recipes are the heart of the book. Arranged in eleven sections, they cover breakfast, appetizers and snacks, soups, stews and chilis, poultry, pork, beef, seafood, meatless mains, side dishes, desserts, and bases and sauces. Each recipe has a paragraph about its origin or when it might be perfect to serve. The usual ingredient list and well-written instructions are followed by a bulk batch guide, which easily allows scaling the recipe for anywhere from 8 to 40 servings. Each has a mouth-watering full-color close-up photo, and they all look good. Don't miss the Cashew Basil Chicken or the Venezuelan Steak. Yum!

San Francisco Book Review Magazine