Real Food, Making Ahead

Instead of working outside yesterday,(rained off and on), I decided I to do a cooking marathon to get some gluten free meals in the freezer.  When I am cooking something for myself that LL will eat, things go great.  But I am having a harder time keeping my food from getting contaminated when cooking a gluten free and gluten meal at the same time.  Using the wrong spoon to stir can cause contamination.  So I wanted several meals in the freezer when I am making something with bread, regular pasta, etc. for the rest of the family.

I found a pasta which has only one ingredient.  Brown rice.  And it tastes good.  Now I just have to remember which store I bought it.  Was it Whole Foods, Roths, or Lifesource.  When I find it again, I will buy many packages.

I made a Mac and Cheese that the only thickening is eggs, rather then flour.  We had this for dinner last night and I froze two large dinner portions for me to eat later.

After I got back from Kathy's meeting, I continued with my cooking.  I wanted to use up most of my vegetables before they go bad.  So I browned two free range, hormone free, fresh chicken breasts, diced.  Then put  in some of the chicken in a soup that had potatoes, sweet potato, carrots, celery, onion and mushrooms.  Sent a large serving for LL's lunch and froze two large portions for my meal.  At the same time, I used the rest of my veggies and made a stir-fry and put the rest of the chicken. Made some rice.  So now I have 6 meals of real food without gluten in my freezer.

I hope to make a habit of making an extra portion of gluten free meals to put in freezer so I always have something on hand.