Hi I'm Sharla with Freezer Meals 101. Today I'm going to be doing some breakfast prep
and so come along with me while we get these things made and in the freezer to make those
mornings easier when you have things all ready to go it's so easy to get out the door in the morning
or easy to get your kids out the door and on the bus or off to school work wherever there it is
that they're going, so I really like to have at least a few options in my freezer at all times
that the kids can choose from, or I can choose from if I'm really in a rush to get out the door
and up until recently I still had breakfast sandwiches in there and breakfast quesadillas
and some egg bites, so we were all good to go, but I recently realized that we don't have anything
left that is breakfast food, so today we're just gonna whip up some really easy things to get
the freezer stocked with breakfast items first thing we're gonna make is cinnamon French Toast
I will put the recipe for this in the description down below,
but I have to tell you I have run into two fairly major issues with making this French Toast today
I bought cinnamon bread yesterday I bought two loaves specifically to make this today
this is the one loaf my family figured out that this was in the house, and obviously
they like cinnamon bread this has only been here since late yesterday afternoon, and it's gone,
so we've got two full slices left in there and then my second loaf this is kind of funny kind
of not I don't know what to say uh do you see this it's a triangle lovely little triangle
the whole thing it's a triangle I don't even know what to say uh I had this in the counter in a bag
and the cat had a nap on it, so you just can't even make this stuff up folks it's ridiculous
I could not get two loaves of bread to make it even 24 hours without incident in this house,
but we're gonna make do I did consider making like a French Toast casserole with this because
then I could just kind of put it into pieces and shred it and that's gonna be my backup plan, but
I'm hoping that I can just sort of flatten things out and cook them, and they'll be like
sort of French Toast like, so we'll see how this goes, but we're not off to the best start ever
so uh we're gonna do eggs milk nutmeg vanilla and my secret ingredient is orange zest, so
we're going to take an orange and zest that into here, and it's going to be amazing I have whisk
if you've been following my videos for a long time you know that I did not have a whisk,
but my mom watches the videos, so she gave me this for Christmas this year I now have a whisk
and I don't need to get comments about how you really should get yourself a whisk
because here we go thanks mom let's get started
now the triangle ones might not be pretty, but they're still gonna taste the same,
so I'm just cooking these on a griddle and then electric griddle,
and then I'm gonna lay them flat on a cookie sheet this is key if you're gonna make French Toast
for the freezer you need to lay them flat on a cookie sheet and freeze them and then take them
out of the freezer once they're frozen transfer them into a reusable or resealable freezer bag
and then put them back in the freezer that way they won't stick together,
so then you can take out individual French Toast slices, and you can put them in the
toaster or toaster oven to reheat okay these triangle ones are going to need a little bit
more babysitting because you know with the wonky shape they don't totally cook evenly,
so I have to make sure that I press down the parts that are not on the griddle but
other than that I mean they're gonna taste fine uh my kids might be weirded out but
yeah let this be a lesson don't let your cat sleep on your loaf of bread
okay I'm gonna get this first tray of cinnamon French Toast put in the freezer,
and then we'll get started on the next tray there won't be enough to fill it, but I have something
else that also needs to flash freeze in the freezer, so we'll just you know put as many
will fit and then when we've got the next stuff done we can put it on there, and it can all go in
cinnamon French Toast down when you have a large family like ours you really you would have needed
those full two loaves at least to make this worthwhile, but they'll still be good they'll
still be appreciated even if just by a few kids so uh yeah that's done oh I printed this off from
the Freezer Meals 101 Club the link for that will be down below as well then we're going to move on
to buttermilk waffles I'm gonna move the griddle out of the way replace it with the waffle maker
and waffles are the same idea you're gonna have to make them cook them and then freeze them flat
on a cookie sheet before you transfer them into the freezer bags if you've watched some of my
breakfast prep videos before then you know that I always used to make these teeny tiny little
waffles heart shape so cute, but now I never do that the reason is that these were not toasting
in our toaster oven they were falling and getting stuck and causing problems and lighting on fire,
so this is not something I'm going to be doing again I should probably actually get rid of that,
but I always think well I might find a use for it, or I might be able to make you know crab cakes or
something like that in there and heart-shaped crab cakes I mean who doesn't need those
anyway a friend of mine told me about this waffle maker and I have to show this to you guys I hope
you can see that it's giant, but it makes four waffles at a time and each of these waffles
are the size of a slice of bread, so they fit perfectly in the toaster not gonna cause any
fires not gonna get stuck, so this is now my go-to waffle maker I love also that I
can make four at a time and it's so much faster my only regret is that I didn't start doing it
sooner oh I will put a link in the description below for where you can get your own
waffle maker that makes the four bread size waffles okay, so the buttermilk waffles are I'm
doubling it if you were not doubling it, it's two cups flour one tablespoon sugar half a teaspoon
salt two tablespoons baking powder two large eggs lightly beaten one and a third cups buttermilk one
and a third cups milk and four tablespoons melted butter or oil we're gonna double this get this
started, and then we will have delicious buttermilk waffles at the ready anytime
now while the waffles cook I'm going to do a little bit of cleanup, but I'm also going
to make a hash brown casserole love having these in the freezer they're great for a Sunday brunch
they're even actually good for a side dish, and it just makes a weekend breakfast a lot
easier if I have them, so I'm just gonna whip one of those together put it in freezer bag
get that in the freezer in between um taking the waffles out and putting them on the cookie sheet
and then at some point I will put when this tray is full put this tray in the freezer to
flash freeze get out the tray of those other french toasts get those into a freezer bag,
so I'll kind of be doing some multitasking but that way we can get the hash brown casserole
done the waffles done the cinnamon toast done, and we will have a good start on having easy
breakfasts again in this house the recipe for the hash brown casserole will be down below
you want to make sure that you get air out of the bag just like when we put the French Toaster
waffles in bags we're gonna get all the air out of those bags too or as much as we possibly can
because when your freezer cooking air causes your freezer burn, so you avoid it at all costs.
Now I'm not sure if all ladles are exactly the same size
but to get this one which is like the perfect square I used one full ladle not heaping
but just full, so I now have figured out what the sizing is for this waffle maker
so for today's breakfast prep we only made three recipes which I know is a lot less than I usually
do, but I also want to show you that freezer cooking doesn't have to be overwhelming if
you have an extra hour sometime you can easily use that to stock your freezer and even if you haven't
planned ahead there are probably recipes that you have on hand already that you can use to create
either dinners lunches snacks or breakfasts, so today I just had this narrow window, and he knew
that we had run out of breakfast things in the freezer, so I just made these three recipes which
will now last us quite a while because this waffle recipe is making a lot which is great especially
if you have a large family like I said I did double the recipe uh, and usually I triple it,
so I'm kind of glad that I didn't triple it today because I'd be standing here for a lot longer but
as you saw I also used the time that the waffles were cooking to do my clean-up and to get some
of those French Toast into the bag and to make a hash brown casserole, so you're just multitasking
using your time the best that you can if you're out there, and you're great at multitasking
this should show you that you can get a lot done in a little bit of time and have breakfast ready
to go in your freezer thank you so much for joining me today I'm gonna put a video right
there where I do like a huge breakfast marathon where I pretty much picked for the whole day and
made breakfast for months, so I'll put that video there to give you some ideas of recipes that you
can make and all the breakfast things, but thanks again for joining me today and happy cooking.