Cooking Timeline

So, here it goes. The cooking timeline so far (yes, I said so far) for the 2 week plan of food preparation. At 2pm, I was ready to start and eager for all the good food to be completed.

2:00 Happy start time, getting out the meat to cut up and other prep it states should be done the night before

3:00 Done with the night before prep, excited to turn the page for the real prep

4:00 Mostly done with chopping the veggies. I was tired of chopping and used everything I could to help the chopping. Salad shooter, and another chopping gizmo I have used only a few times really helped with this. They also had some more meat to chop that they stuck in this place. Also, make some spaghetti sauce

4:30 Starting on the first entree. Using dough to roll up a pizza roll up.

5:15 First entree out, cooling. It smells good and I eat three as soon as they cool enough. They are tasty! Getting some more momentum up as I start another entree.

6:30 Putting away the first entree in the freezer, cooling the second. I look at the time, shaking my head. Start some stews that take 1-2 hours to simmer.

7:00 I decide that it is break time. I take the dog for a walk, lay down for a few minutes for energy.

7:30 Munch on a snack to get energy while starting to put away a few more entrees

9:00 Through washing up, but still have more entrees left--put stuff in refrigerator for tomorrow.

So, basically, I worked almost 7 hours, expect to work about 1 more hour to finish. So, 8 total hours for 2 weeks worth of food. Could you do this with a 3 year old in the house? No. Could you do this with more than one child, even if they napped? No. You would have to think that you want to spend your down time in the constant cooking mode for a day. Yes, they meant a whole work day!

But, one thing that could be done is to buddy up with someone and split the entrees up to take home at the end of the day. One could chop this while the other either cleans or gets other things ready.

But, I am looking forward to eating these meals as they did smell really good while assembling them for the freezer. And, what else do you do on a day when it is almost 100 degrees outside?

Of course, next time I might think about going camping too!