Baking day #1

I title this post "baking day #1" because I can assure you that there will later be a baking day #2....and #3.....and so on and so forth. My sweet friend, Karen, and I share a love of couponing and "blog stalking." One of the blogs we love is "money saving mom." This blog is written by a godly lady who is doing her best to honor God with all of her families resources (they are just now, after like 7 years of marriage, going to buy their first house....and they are paying cash for it!). One way that "money saving mom" (I have no idea what her actual name is at the moment) saves money is by preparing meals at home from scratch. She hosts "baking days" where she prepares lots of meals at once and then freezes them for future use. Karen and I decided to give it a try. We made our menu, gathered ingredients, sent my family over to her house to hang with her family, turned on the radio, and went to work.
We got out our extra tables and spread out everything we needed to make chicken tetrazzini, chocolate chip muffins, breakfast hot pockets, meatballs, whole wheat waffles, southwestern roll ups, and stuffed shells.

Our husbands were most excited about our breakfast hotpockets. This recipe was very elaborate and involved yeast (something I have NEVER used before). It took about 3 hours to make these....you mix stuff then it has to rise.....then you add some stuff......then you let it rise.....then you knead it.....then it rises again. You get the picture. They sure are yummy though!

After about 6 hours of cooking and cleaning we were finished. My freezer is now stocked with 3 meals of chicken tettrazinni, 6 whole wheat waffles, 2 meals of southwestern chicken rollups, 2 meals of stuffed shells, extra filling for stuffed shells, a dozen chocolate chip muffins, 50 meatballs, and about 15 breakfast hot pockets.

We'll begin gathering recipes for next month's baking day soon!