I love making yogurt. . When I make it and it is finished I take 1/4 cup of the finished yogurt and freeze it. The next time I make yogurt I place the frozen yogurt in the fridge for a day and use it for the next batch I make. You never have to buy yogurt again. Save the whey to use in so many other recipes.
We are only 2 but I like meal prepping too! We prefer home cooked meals but I don’t want to do it (or clean up) every day! Sometimes you’re home late or tired or sick or had a wild day/week, or just don’t feel like doing dishes and cleaning the kitchen. I find it much more efficient to mess the kitchen once and make a few different meals to have ready in the freezer. It’s a gift to my future self!
I have also been able to give friends and family members some ready meals in times of need without skipping a beat, because they were all ready to go in the freezer!
I make regular portions recipes and we eat 1/3 and I freeze the other 2 meals for later. I keep a running list on our freezer of what's available when I just don't want to cook a full meal. Adding sides as needed to those meals make my life so much easier. Thank you for sharing these ideas. I will definitely be making them.
We're also empty nesters. I started pre-prepping our meals to (shhhhhh) keep my husband out of the store pre-made burritos box. I use TV trays and they are sized perfect for us. I find if there're different choices they all go. We also love one dish meals like American goulash, Shepard's pie for a quick meal. I make Salisbury steak with mashed potatoes, veggies and chicken fried steak with mashed potatoes and veggies. My chicken recipes are lemon herb thighs with chicken rice , carrots or veggies and teriyaki chicken with rice. I make my spaghetti sauce in the crockpot then package it in sandwich baggies for a quick dinner. Thanks for more options 🎉
Okay so I was just checking your video out for the 1st time and once I saw that beautiful dog I HAD to subscribe!!!!! OMG there are TWO OF THEM!!!??? ADORABLE!!!
I prep ahead every summer before our 115° stretch gets here. I'm not cooking when it's that hot. I had done an unusual amount this year and thank goodness. I have lived off them through almost 3 months of one serious illness after another. Now I'm recovering and have been advised to take it easy. Food already prepped, ready to warm in a small crockpot with a liner and few dishes is helping me to behave.
Thanks so much for doing this video. I’m a single mom with two kids and the oldest left for college this year. Cooking for just my daughter and me has been quite an adjustment. You really wouldn’t have thought just one less person would make a big difference but it really has. I’m using my air fryer a lot more, and going to start small-scale canning of pint sized jars to help with the issue of making too much food and then being stuck eating it for a week. 😂
I have several sizes of casserole dishes and when I make casseroles I split the recipe into two Pyrex dishes that are 7 x 6 and freeze one. Some faves are Mexican style like enchilada casserole which freezes casseroles stack nicely in the freezer. So nice to have that second meal at the ready. I came across a recipe for basic meat, potato, veg leftovers in a church cookbook. Its genius. The first layer is 1” pasta, rice or potato. Second layer is 1.5” meat, the third layer is 1” veg. Then cover with a cream soup either home made or canned, and perhaps cheese if it makes sense. Cover and bake 350 for 45 mins. Great for leftover ham, pot roast, ground meat, chicken or turkey. The casserole size depends on the leftovers on hand. Certainly great got holiday leftovers.
Hey, look at you with that pre-cooked ground "beef"; I hope that helps you! Having a bag of that thawed and waiting in your fridge, a jar of your homegrown tomatoes and a box of no-boil noodles will make tackling a pan of lasagna so much less overwhelming! Loving your meal-prep videos for two!!!
After laughing at your dog lapping up water while you were trying to talk, he walked into the kitchen and lay down in the middle of the floor. So funny. Imagine you step over both dogs all day long. Great recipes. Your breads look delicious. Debi in Vicksburg, MS. 🥰🥰
I know exactly what you mean about cooking for 2. We became empty nesters a couple years ago and it was like I had to relearn how to cook. Sometimes I make the full recipe, and split it in half and we eat one half and make a freezer meal of the other half. Thanks for the ideas. I think I’ll make French toast but try to make French toast sticks instead.
I always make extra and put in freezer for another meal. Saves so much time and money. I also take some and give it to my 91 year old mom - she loves to just heat and eat.
There is only two of us as well. I found a meat loaf recipe on you tube and made it. First night meatloaf. Second night, Tacos. 3rd night beef stroganoff. I should have known better when it called for 3 pounds of meat! LOL Thank you for sharing your recipes!
🎉Empty nesters here!! My issue is I cook enough for an army (it seems). I have started preparing a few things too. I vacuum seal soups, gumbo ( south Louisiana girl), and cooked ground beef, I also bake chicken breast and package them for quick chicken salads or casseroles/pot pies. My biggest issue is the hubby doesn’t eat veggies and I love them. I batch cook and freeze them in single servings. That can become a pain if I find great products At awesome prices. But the ideas you give are so good. Thank you.
Thanks for sharing your ideas...I can relate to just simplifying making meals for 2. It is so hard to think of meals to do with a teenager in the home.😊 But watching your channel has inspired me!❤
Kia ora from New Zealand. We eat venison a lot in this house and I'm always looking for new recipes. Like the sound of the ginger garlic meatballs. Take care.
Thank you so much for the ideal preps I sure will be getting my freezer filled properly now. And I just got nice griddle cook the all on. I'm going too prep stuffed French toast with cream cheese And raspberry sauce. Plus I make breaded tenderloins & breaded chicken tenders. I use a egg wash and cracker meal flash freeze then bag up for the freezer. But tenderize the meats first. I ran a small restraunt and that's how I kepted cost down. Customers loved my changes, plus I make hand pies with Tupperware molds they store well once they've been baked and flash frozen.
We use ground venison in place of ground beef! It is what we have lots of! I subscribed after you said you were going to call it that. That is our attitude here.
You are sure right about cooking for two. I would rather cook or cater for up to one hundred than to cook for my husband and I. We had five children so I went from cooking for seven or more to cooking for two. My poor husband gets sick of either not having quite enough to having way too much. Thank you for sharing!
I always love finding You Tubers who give me any kind of ideas on meal prepping for two people. Have you considered making the yogurt in your instant pot at night? Mine automatically sets for 8 hours on the yogurt setting. I cover it with a silicone 'lid' and just go to bed. In the morning I carefully take off the lid because the bottom is full of condensation. I wipe it off, and then replace it after it cools for an hour. Then it goes into the fridge in the Instant pot insert to completely cool- usually all day. If I need really thick greek style yogurt, I will then place a colander with cheese cloth inside a large bowl...dump it all in and pop it back in the fridge- usually overnight. Although it technically takes longer, it is all passive. The next morning I have super thick yogurt and whey (which I add to smoothies) Hope you give this a try.
I can’t believe how much chips cost now. Hardly buy them anyway but do like tortilla chips sometimes. I got a shock recently. We bought corn tortillas and made our own. I TOTALLY agree it’s harder to cook for only 2 people. I still tend to cook as I always did and then we have leftovers or make lunch preps for the freezer for us to take to work.
New subscriber as of today. Love your videos. Weird question, I'm curious about the pink hat hanging on the wall with the big hole in the top... Lol I'm over here wondering if one of the dogs had it for breakfast or if you put flowers in it... Lol
Welcome! Oddly enough, you're not the only person to have asked that! 😂 I cut the top out so I could wear it with my ponytail/bun out in the summer. Definitely looks better on than hanging on the hook!
@@BrownFamilyGoods ha! Brilliant! Lol it's a rainy day here today and so I've literally just been watching your channel for hours. I'm currently watching the peach cobbler coffee cake one.
Really enjoyed this video, so I just subscribed! One non-food-related question: the bracelet on your right wrist is beautiful. Do you have a link or any information on where I might purchase one? Thanks! PS: What sort of sauce do you add to the ginger meatballs when serving?
Its just my husband and I. I do the same but make a full batch and freeze half. I am at the age where I hate to cook everyday and this has worked beautifully. I just made the filling for 3 2 person size chicken pot pies and put two in the freezer. Ok, I'm nosy and totally off subject...why the hole in the top of the cute pink sun hat? 🤔
Couple of ways to check. She tells you in the video; Scrolling to the right like you are trying to advance your spot in the video tells what recipe she is on; and she put the recipes in the description area. Find the "more" button after you click on description. Good luck.
The sound of your doggies drinking is no problem for me, it is just a normal household sound and I can hear you just fine over the slurping. Could you have placed the milk in the liner in a sink of cold water too cool it faster? I do this a lot to cool things quicker to freeze etc
Glad to hear you don’t mind the boys drinking. I will try putting the pan into cold water next time, it couldn’t hurt. I really surprised me how long it took for the temp to go back down!
I love making yogurt. . When I make it and it is finished I take 1/4 cup of the finished yogurt and freeze it. The next time I make yogurt I place the frozen yogurt in the fridge for a day and use it for the next batch I make. You never have to buy yogurt again. Save the whey to use in so many other recipes.
We are only 2 but I like meal prepping too! We prefer home cooked meals but I don’t want to do it (or clean up) every day! Sometimes you’re home late or tired or sick or had a wild day/week, or just don’t feel like doing dishes and cleaning the kitchen. I find it much more efficient to mess the kitchen once and make a few different meals to have ready in the freezer. It’s a gift to my future self!
I have also been able to give friends and family members some ready meals in times of need without skipping a beat, because they were all ready to go in the freezer!
I make regular portions recipes and we eat 1/3 and I freeze the other 2 meals for later. I keep a running list on our freezer of what's available when I just don't want to cook a full meal. Adding sides as needed to those meals make my life so much easier. Thank you for sharing these ideas. I will definitely be making them.
Great idea to keep a running list. I should probably do that too!
Your dog is coming to see who you are talking to…. He must think you are nuts😊
I think you’re right! 😂
I am a new empty nester , too. It really is hard to adjust cooking for two! I totally feel ya!
OMG I LOVE HIM! YOU HAVE TWO BIG DOGGIES!!!! I AM SO JEALOUS! THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL!
Really enjoyed this one too! You're so right, cooking for two was a major adjustment!
Me too, rapidly from 6 to 2! I still do batch cooking and freeze. But these prepped ingredients will be so versatile.
We're also empty nesters. I started pre-prepping our meals to (shhhhhh) keep my husband out of the store pre-made burritos box. I use TV trays and they are sized perfect for us. I find if there're different choices they all go. We also love one dish meals like American goulash, Shepard's pie for a quick meal. I make Salisbury steak with mashed potatoes, veggies and chicken fried steak with mashed potatoes and veggies. My chicken recipes are lemon herb thighs with chicken rice , carrots or veggies and teriyaki chicken with rice. I make my spaghetti sauce in the crockpot then package it in sandwich baggies for a quick dinner. Thanks for more options 🎉
I am excited to see the rest of the yogurt project
Love your meal preps. Can’t wait for the next one. Thanks so very much.
More to come! Thank you so much for watching 😊
Okay so I was just checking your video out for the 1st time and once I saw that beautiful dog I HAD to subscribe!!!!! OMG there are TWO OF THEM!!!??? ADORABLE!!!
If you like dogs, you’ll see a lot of them around here! 🐾🐾
I prep ahead every summer before our 115° stretch gets here. I'm not cooking when it's that hot. I had done an unusual amount this year and thank goodness. I have lived off them through almost 3 months of one serious illness after another. Now I'm recovering and have been advised to take it easy. Food already prepped, ready to warm in a small crockpot with a liner and few dishes is helping me to behave.
Can I just tell you how much I love your dogs! I just laughed so hard!
Lol You know they push my buttons!
Love your videos and love your pups! I laughed out loud when they started to drink! 🤣 ❤️
😁
Hey, we love seeing your fur baby.❤ You just showed up on my feed. Subscribed!
Thank you so much 😊
Thanks so much for doing this video. I’m a single mom with two kids and the oldest left for college this year.
Cooking for just my daughter and me has been quite an adjustment. You really wouldn’t have thought just one less person would make a big difference but it really has.
I’m using my air fryer a lot more, and going to start small-scale canning of pint sized jars to help with the issue of making too much food and then being stuck eating it for a week. 😂
That was so funny about your dog 😂😂😂
My parents make fig jam every year. I stole some figs this year and made bacon wrapped, goat cheese stuffed figs!
That sounds incredible. I love anything with goat cheese.. yum!
Thanks for the videos on cooking for two. You gave us some great ideas, and I look forward to more!
Thanks for the video. Your dogs are adorable!
I have several sizes of casserole dishes and when I make casseroles I split the recipe into two Pyrex dishes that are 7 x 6 and freeze one. Some faves are Mexican style like enchilada casserole which freezes casseroles stack nicely in the freezer. So nice to have that second meal at the ready. I came across a recipe for basic meat, potato, veg leftovers in a church cookbook. Its genius. The first layer is 1” pasta, rice or potato. Second layer is 1.5” meat, the third layer is 1” veg. Then cover with a cream soup either home made or canned, and perhaps cheese if it makes sense. Cover and bake 350 for 45 mins. Great for leftover ham, pot roast, ground meat, chicken or turkey. The casserole size depends on the leftovers on hand. Certainly great got holiday leftovers.
Well done, very enjoyable
I love the dog!
Hi, I just found your channel and enjoyed it very much.
Thank you for watching and commenting too! ☺️
Hey, look at you with that pre-cooked ground "beef"; I hope that helps you! Having a bag of that thawed and waiting in your fridge, a jar of your homegrown tomatoes and a box of no-boil noodles will make tackling a pan of lasagna so much less overwhelming! Loving your meal-prep videos for two!!!
Thank you for your tips! “Beef”- the artist formerly known as venison 😂😂😂
@@BrownFamilyGoods Hahahahaha!!!
Love having french toast ready to go in the freezer. I will cook up 6 loaves at a time, and my 2 teenagers will be set for breakfasts for a while!
After laughing at your dog lapping up water while you were trying to talk, he walked into the kitchen and lay down in the middle of the floor. So funny. Imagine you step over both dogs all day long. Great recipes. Your breads look delicious. Debi in Vicksburg, MS. 🥰🥰
you did a great jb on your video Iam still trying my video I have just started too good luck with yours
I know exactly what you mean about cooking for 2. We became empty nesters a couple years ago and it was like I had to relearn how to cook. Sometimes I make the full recipe, and split it in half and we eat one half and make a freezer meal of the other half. Thanks for the ideas. I think I’ll make French toast but try to make French toast sticks instead.
Good idea to make French toast sticks, easier to eat! Thanks so much for watching and commenting too!
I always make extra and put in freezer for another meal. Saves so much time and money. I also take some and give it to my 91 year old mom - she loves to just heat and eat.
Thanks for sharing
There is only two of us as well. I found a meat loaf recipe on you tube and made it. First night meatloaf. Second night, Tacos. 3rd night beef stroganoff. I should have known better when it called for 3 pounds of meat! LOL Thank you for sharing your recipes!
Great sound ❤
I really enjoyed your video. I subscribed,😊
Awesome! Thank you!
next time, place the pot in ice water, stir every now and then, it will cool a lot faster
🎉Empty nesters here!! My issue is I cook enough for an army (it seems). I have started preparing a few things too. I vacuum seal soups, gumbo ( south Louisiana girl), and cooked ground beef, I also bake chicken breast and package them for quick chicken salads or casseroles/pot pies. My biggest issue is the hubby doesn’t eat veggies and I love them. I batch cook and freeze them in single servings. That can become a pain if I find great products At awesome prices. But the ideas you give are so good. Thank you.
Thanks for sharing your ideas...I can relate to just simplifying making meals for 2. It is so hard to think of meals to do with a teenager in the home.😊 But watching your channel has inspired me!❤
I’m so glad! Thank you for watching and commenting 😊
Lol i appreciate you calling it ground beef. We call it mince. At least you dont call it hamburger!🤣
Same thang😂😂
Kia ora from New Zealand. We eat venison a lot in this house and I'm always looking for new recipes. Like the sound of the ginger garlic meatballs. Take care.
Thank you so much for the ideal preps I sure will be getting my freezer filled properly now. And I just got nice griddle cook the all on. I'm going too prep stuffed French toast with cream cheese And raspberry sauce. Plus I make breaded tenderloins & breaded chicken tenders. I use a egg wash and cracker meal flash freeze then bag up for the freezer. But tenderize the meats first. I ran a small restraunt and that's how I kepted cost down. Customers loved my changes, plus I make hand pies with Tupperware molds they store well once they've been baked and flash frozen.
We use ground venison in place of ground beef! It is what we have lots of! I subscribed after you said you were going to call it that. That is our attitude here.
Love the dogs! Gave me some great ideas with your recipes.
I’m so glad I found you! Great video!
Yay! Thank you!
I love your dogs….
You are sure right about cooking for two. I would rather cook or cater for up to one hundred than to cook for my husband and I. We had five children so I went from cooking for seven or more to cooking for two. My poor husband gets sick of either not having quite enough to having way too much. Thank you for sharing!
I always love finding You Tubers who give me any kind of ideas on meal prepping for two people. Have you considered making the yogurt in your instant pot at night? Mine automatically sets for 8 hours on the yogurt setting. I cover it with a silicone 'lid' and just go to bed. In the morning I carefully take off the lid because the bottom is full of condensation. I wipe it off, and then replace it after it cools for an hour. Then it goes into the fridge in the Instant pot insert to completely cool- usually all day. If I need really thick greek style yogurt, I will then place a colander with cheese cloth inside a large bowl...dump it all in and pop it back in the fridge- usually overnight. Although it technically takes longer, it is all passive. The next morning I have super thick yogurt and whey (which I add to smoothies) Hope you give this a try.
Recipes for two…. Yay! I always do a whole package of spaghetti and brown rice and freeze, they heat up nicely!
Good ideas! Thank you for watching and commenting 😊
Love your doggies!!
Love recipes for two ❤
So glad!
Thank you tor this prep video. How do you reheat your French toast? I was thinking of putting it in my toaster, I don't have an airfryer.
The toaster works well too! I hope you’ll give it a try. Thank you for watching 😊
I can’t believe how much chips cost now. Hardly buy them anyway but do like tortilla chips sometimes. I got a shock recently. We bought corn tortillas and made our own.
I TOTALLY agree it’s harder to cook for only 2 people. I still tend to cook as I always did and then we have leftovers or make lunch preps for the freezer for us to take to work.
Great video. Do you have a recipe for your sourdough bread?
I use the recipe for Soft Sourdough from venisonfordinner.com, it’s the best!
@@BrownFamilyGoods how very kind of you to answer so promptly Thank you.
New subscriber as of today. Love your videos. Weird question, I'm curious about the pink hat hanging on the wall with the big hole in the top... Lol I'm over here wondering if one of the dogs had it for breakfast or if you put flowers in it... Lol
Welcome! Oddly enough, you're not the only person to have asked that! 😂 I cut the top out so I could wear it with my ponytail/bun out in the summer. Definitely looks better on than hanging on the hook!
@@BrownFamilyGoods ha! Brilliant! Lol it's a rainy day here today and so I've literally just been watching your channel for hours. I'm currently watching the peach cobbler coffee cake one.
I buy ultra pasteurized milk so I can just make the yogurt. I let it go for 8 hours. It is a bit thin but I really enjoy it.
Really enjoyed this video, so I just subscribed! One non-food-related question: the bracelet on your right wrist is beautiful. Do you have a link or any information on where I might purchase one? Thanks!
PS: What sort of sauce do you add to the ginger meatballs when serving?
The bracelet is from a set I got on Amazon. Search colorful enamel tile bracelet and you’ll find them! 😊
@@BrownFamilyGoods Thanks!
Typical Whole milk $5.49/gal and Horizon Organic is $7.49/half gal.
New Subscriber here 💗
Welcome!!
@@BrownFamilyGoods 🤗
Its just my husband and I. I do the same but make a full batch and freeze half. I am at the age where I hate to cook everyday and this has worked beautifully. I just made the filling for 3 2 person size chicken pot pies and put two in the freezer. Ok, I'm nosy and totally off subject...why the hole in the top of the cute pink sun hat? 🤔
Just a hole for my ponytail! Lol or maybe better described as a top bun.. I love the hat but couldn’t figure out a better solution for my hair. 😆
I got a hat off of Amazon with a hole for my ponytail. We canoe and hike and it stays on really well. @@BrownFamilyGoods
What are you making ? Please
Couple of ways to check.
She tells you in the video;
Scrolling to the right like you are trying to advance your spot in the video tells what recipe she is on;
and she put the recipes in the description area. Find the "more" button after you click on description. Good luck.
7$😮😮
The sound of your doggies drinking is no problem for me, it is just a normal household sound and I can hear you just fine over the slurping. Could you have placed the milk in the liner in a sink of cold water too cool it faster? I do this a lot to cool things quicker to freeze etc
Glad to hear you don’t mind the boys drinking. I will try putting the pan into cold water next time, it couldn’t hurt. I really surprised me how long it took for the temp to go back down!
Move the water dish
$7 for Fritos? What part of the country do you live in? That is a shocking price!
Ridiculous right!? I’m in Louisiana ☺️
😂 🐕 💦🐕😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Ty for sharing. That made my day. 🐕🐩🦮🐕🦺
So glad! Thanks for watching 😊