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    Back to School Freezer Cooking ~ 40 Freezer Friendly Slow Cooker Meal, Breakfast, Lunch & Snack Ideas

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    Back to School Freezer Cooking

    I don’t know about you – but going from the relaxed ‘schedule’ of summer and late nights and quasi-bedtimes to being forced back onto the school routing is just plain daunting. I’m not sure if it’s the ginormous pile of papers that come home that first week of school and 87% of them need to be filled out or signed. And then you have to turn your “but I still just wanna be laying out by the pool” brain onto high gear so that you make sure to get the right papers into the right kids’ folders. And when there are 4 kids…with the mom-paperwork…and the

    There is only 1 way that I know how to survive this madness. Freezer meals.

    While they are a regular part of our routine and meal plan throughout the year…they become a daily part of the meal plan. Whether it’s a grab n go breakfast, or a slice of frozen zucchini bread that I drop into lunchboxes, or starting a freezer to slow cooker meal before whisking everyone off for a day of learning and work.

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    Every, single day…for the rest of August (and probably into September)…I will be pulling something out of the freezer.

    It’s how I stay sane and “one step ahead” of these 4 bottomless pits that never stop eating. (Or so it seems this way.)

    In order to help encourage, inspire and educate you on the benefits and how-tos of freezer cooking, I’ve come up with a list. Because lists help. They just do.

    In this case, it’s a list of my favorite goodies to have stashed in the freezer!

    Also, check out our crazy popular “31 Days of School Lunchbox Ideas” page! (Better yet, get your kids to check it out so they can tell you what they want in their lunch boxes!)

    Now, on with the freezer cooking lists…

    Facebook Live Freezer Cooking Session

    Here’s what I’m made on the Back to School Freezer Cooking on Facebook Live (<– click there to watch on Facebook)

    And here are the links to the products that were causing “muffin pan envy” or being called the MAGIC WAND…

    Now, for the list of my favorite back to school freezer meals…

    Freezer to Slow Cooker Meals

    Did you know that you can now pick your own recipes for your BTS freezer cooking session?

    Here’s how it works: You choose what your family will enjoy from the recipes in the MyFreezEasy database, and I give you a printout, complete with recipes, shopping lists, step by step meal assembly instructions and labels for your freezer meals! {Learn more here.}

    Breakfasts

    Lunches

    Snacks

    Now, get thee into the kitchen and get a few of these goodies loaded into your freezer!

    Happy BTS Freezer Cooking! *fist bump*

    Erin

    Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links to Amazon.

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    1. I want to add the BTS recipes to MyFreezEasy. I can’y find the recipes in the Library though. How do I add?

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