Hi I'm Sharla with Freezer Meals 101. Welcome to another edition of what's for dinner I'm going to
take you through our family's meals this week and show you how we used Freezer Meals to get
supper quickly on the table we had southern style ground beef casserole which is so easy because you
just thaw it dump it in the skillet and then towards the end of cooking you put the cheese
that's in the medium-sized bag so it's already shredded and already measured and all the things
and you just top it with the cheese stick a lid on there to help the cheese melt and then you're done
now I only covered half of ours with cheese because we've got some kids that have lactose
issues so we just you know they can take out of the section of the skillet that doesn't have
cheese on it so I do that for a lot of things that call for being topped with cheese and
for this we served it with a greek salad and like a jalapeño cheese twist bread thing that I got
from a local bakery which is delicious now this southern style ground beef casserole it's ironic
that it's named that because ours didn't actually have ground beef it had a veggie beef substitution
and I used the eaves Mexican ground round so that I get more of that south westy kind of
flavour in there but you can make it with ground beef and recipe calls for it with ground beef
so go ahead and do yours whichever way you would prefer the next meal that we made this week was
the pesto chicken and veggies sheet pan meal I love this one I don't think we're ever gonna get
tired of it the kids get excited to see it which is always really good but it's so easy because you
just take it you dump the bag onto a sheet pan you put the sheet pan into the oven and you already
have your chicken your vegetables your sauce and I did add Brussels sprouts to it sometimes we add
them right into the bag but this time when we made them we didn't so I just added some frozen
Brussels sprouts went just before I put it in and yeah full dinner now we did have it with some rice
but you can have I mean just as is has enough nutrients to be a full meal so love how easy that
one is we did that for our Sunday dinner this week when our daughter and her husband come over for
dinner every Sunday so that was just a really nice easy one but everyone loves it the sriracha rice
is maybe even easier because everything in it is already cooked the chicken is cooked the
rice is cooked so you just dump that one into a skillet to reheat it really I like to top it with
some extra sriracha before I eat it because It's love like the spicier the better for me
but either way this is so so easy it's got the eggs in there the chicken some veggies the rice
so again very full meal and done in minutes this next one tasted delicious and we've had it before
we know it's delicious but it looks gross like you can see in the pictures here that it's like got no
colour and it's yuck so it doesn't taste yet but it looks yuck now it's the spicy chipotle chicken
and I did it up in the slow cooker because that's the kind of day that I was having I needed to have
things ready for when I got home so I thought it would be easier to just dump it in the crock pot
when we have made it in the skillet in the past it does look better because you can
get a bit of a sear on there and it retains more of the colour from the chipotle peppers
but it still tastes good even if you do it up in the slow cooker and because they're thighs they
don't dry out so we serve this with rice and peas and again don't be put off by the look of
it if you want yours to look better just cook it up in the skillet and lastly this week we had oh
we love this pasta sauce it is the Italian sausage pasta sauce and it's got your little
sausage meatballs and we use the spicy Italian sausage so it's got even more kick then we've
got like salsa in there and I think there's like onions and garlic I know there's capers
because the capers just take it like over the top and just oh flavour this one is so
good so we serve that of course on pasta because it's pasta sauce topped it with some red Chili
flakes and parmesan or I think it might have been asiago but anyway topped it with some cheese
and it was as big a hit as it always is amazing so I will put a link right over here to the
video where we made all of these Freezer Meals so you can see them being assembled
and see them coming together and know how easy that was to do and then it's so awesome
to just be able to go to your freezer and like pull out what you need it is the best
feeling and I want you to have that feeling so try freezer cooking with me it's the best thanks for
joining me today on another what's for dinner I will see you again next week happy cooking.