Once a month MEAL PREP that is DOABLE!!
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I absolutely love ❤️ watching you all do food prep. I’m almost 58, single, no kids and live alone on a set income but I tried this and I actually saved money last month. No waste and no searching the freezer, fridge, or cabinets to find things. Thanks so much for sharing your time with us.
Carrie
This makes me smile. Go you!!!
I love that you let your sweet daughter tell her cute and funny joke. What a doll!
Amy, thank you for having this channel. I don't think you realize how much positive impact you have on the world. I feel like you're a bit of a mommy mentor for me. 💗
This blessed me thank u
I looove what you do. I'm a mother of one but i praise god every day to be just like you and your beautiful family!! I take each video like a lesson
U are so efficient. I aspire to run my household this way. Thank u for sharing your wisdom with us.
Try cutting the bananas in half and put sticks in them. Melt the chocolate in a coffee mug and just dip it then. Can also roll them in ground nuts or coconut.
My bird was sitting on top of my head watching your video with me and when I would pause it, he would stop talking!! Lol, so now I know he really enjoys your voice and the music you play!
What you do with the veggies is something like what us puertoricans do. We chop up garlic, peppers, onions, cilantro etc and add it to flavor all types of food we make...we call it sofrito. As always love watching you and your family, thanks for sharing..😀❤👍
Yummy thank u for sharing
My step mom is Puerto Rican. So I grew up on sofrito. It's so good. When my dad and my stepmom got married it was hilarious because we were so white, corn-fed White when it came to eating. Then my stepmom started cooking and it was like where have you been my whole life? Food became so good. I always keep sofrito, adobo, and saffron in my house at all times.
Jill B. that's a wonderful story..Thank you for sharing!
Same with Haitians 🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹. We don't chop tho, we crush them using a mortar and pestle, or a blender with vinegar, salt and hot pepper and keep it in a manson jar. It's called Epis. We use that blend in everything
You can also dehydrate your veggies to make your own veggie soup mix. I puree onions and freeze them in ice cube trays and then put them in freezer bags. A tray of 12 is equal to 1 cup.
So smart idea. Can't wait to try
My freezer isn't nearly as full but I write a list of everything in the freezer and as I use stuff, I check it off so I'm not constantly having to check to see what I have 😁
I used to do this at the house. It really did save time. Not hard either. I kept by it with pen on string.
Gurl full freezers and full frig makes me a proud mama. And I feel that way about you..good job mama!!!
I am so blessed to have found your blog. Ty for being so encouraging.
The way your husband treated you was soo darn cute! 😍
Maddie is incredibly adorable in this. Loving her dress and the facial expressions when she was helping with the bags. 😍
The food dehydrator makes me so excited. We've been trying to decide if we'd use one enough to make it worth the purchase for several months now.
We had a food sealer a few years ago and after awhile it just became too much time, work, and effort for us. But I do love the idea of them. 😊
You can dehydrate things in your oven! 😊
Yes used to do that years ago but stuck to my parchment paper so badly and oven was on all night ...this was way easier :)
I have had the same vacuum sealer for about 20 years. That is one kitchen tool I wouldn't go without. You will love it.
You are so inspiring. Thank you for letting us into your life. God bless you and your beautiful family.
It't just amazing to see your energi, Amy. You are a super mom! Your family are so lucky! You really need your own cooking show because this will help so many people that are not good cooks. Hugs from Norway.
Dehydrated bell peppers are great in soups and meatloaf!🌻
We use our chopper on all are garden veggies, we have celery, peppers, onions radishes, carrots, but there veggies we like, I never would have thought to use a food processor to almost puree the veggies for picky kids, great idea.Love our food saver, food last much longer, bags are a little high, but in the long run food last so much longer. As much as you cook, you could do so much in the bags.
It is always fun to watch you do your prep! It is just three in my family and we live in a small home with limited pantry space. I take out the cereal bags out of the boxes and write the name on the bag of what kind of cereal it is. I use my vacuum sealer for all kinds of things. I have always wanted a dehydrator I would do celery, onions, bell peppers oh, ok I am rambling! :)
Love rambling
I like that the Cosori blender is just a fraction of the cost of a vitamix. Great video, Amy👍
I’m definitely interested in the Cosori dehydrator! I had an older one years back, nothing like the up to date one here!
Thanks Amy, xo
Handy tip: Dip apples and pineapple in a honey water mixture. It keeps them from turning and makes a nice crust on the fruit. If you need lemon juice to stop the fruit from turning brown, honey works.
My Mom taught me to put bacon in a cold oven and cook it that way. It is way less messy and cooks pretty fast.
You and Greg are so adorable together.
I love my dehydrator, I also make a puree out of the fruits I have over and get fruitroll blends
Your daughter is so helpful!!!! I wasn’t even that sweet when I helped out! IF I helped out lol. Now I’m here hoping my kids turn out better than how I was
Amy, I truly love and appreciate your videos. I would love to add, you can get the jar attachments for the vacuum sealer if it has that feature. We dehydrate and then place in large jars and seal with the vacuum sealer. Also, you can dehydrate marshmallows which are fun. We buy large blocks of cheese and break then down into smaller 30 slices or so...then vacuum seal for the freezer. We bought a instant pot because of seeing you prep your chicken. Lol. You my lady ARE AWESOME
Thank you SOOOOOOO much!! You cook so much like I do that it finally clicked and I made my first ever batch of freezer dinners!!!!! I love your videos because it’s not 30 types of soups or dump casseroles.
No one cooks with real food anymore and I made so much variety!!
8 hours two days each (including shopping) will feed us for a month!!!
Enjoying so much the fruits on my labors and my kids are loving sit-down dinners rather than throw it together buffet style.
I always feel these bursts of cooking moods but most days I don’t have time for gourmet.
All of my meals are delish I even tried the pasta shells. We’ve never had them but so far they are a hit.
I even made up a recipe (jalapeño popper/chicken stuffed shells) hubby loved it.
8 kids it intense and this is insanely doable and fun!!
I had a Greg! Only his name was Terry! I miss him so. He was as wonderful as Greg. I so enjoy watching him love on you. It is so sweet. I love my food saver!
You are lucky, mine was anti-Greg lol
If you haven't tried dehydrating mini marshmallows, you should try it! Your kiddos will love em to munch on and to use in hot cocoa etc... when you dehydrate them they become little crunchy candies and you store them in zipper bags or big glass air tight container. They last forever and they don't stick together like when you put them in the cabinet (they get sticky and melt together).
Yes oh my goodness forgot about this thank you
Oooh! Is that like the kind of marshmallows in lucky charms or other cereals?
If you add marinade to your meat when vacuum sealing it add so much flavor to it didn't know if you knew or not
It is hard to vac seal with liquids in the bag, it will suck it all up into the seal.
My vacuum sealer has a liquid setting. You could check yours to see.
@@sketcharts mine does not.
I also found I had issues sealing liquids in in spite of the liquid setting. I froze the meat with the marinade overnight with a clip on and then took the clip off and vacuumed the next day.
I did not know that thank you for sharing
Good Morning Maryons! Madelyn had me cracking up at her little eyebrow raise when y'all were filling baggies such funny girl!
I just bought the food saver that stands up its Amazing it takes up less counter space the suction is 3x the size of the bigger ones I can use the already cut bags and it can be used on meats as well as produce. I am a coupon shopper and I love to buy in bulk which saves me a ton of money. Great video as always Amy to happy to see Greg jump in a do a little bit of filming with you. ;)
Drain a can of pineapple rings in light syrup and dehydrate them, it's delicious!
lizzyzap98 good tip! I would never think to do this! Now I will!
Have you tried it with pineapple canned in juice? That's what I usually buy so I'd like to know if you can do it with them instead of having the added sugar from the syrup.
We luv our food sealer we season our meats they when time to cook it already tenderized. Always a pleasure watching thank you for tons of inspiration as always. 💞🙏
I like seeing you and your spouse together. He’s a sweetheart and your loving ways together. Relationship goals for sure.
Thank u for watching
So much love with you and Greg. So sweet.
I use my foodsaver for more then food. I do old pictures, dolls from my kid's younger years you know such as Mr. El e phant and blue bunny, lol. Autograph books a bunch of things. It preserves so much. And vacuum packing those dehydrated snacks is a god send. I have done it with individual bags for trips, etc. I absolutely love the amount of garlic you use and you could use a 5 gallon bucket of it, love it!!
Once it become watermelon season and you can get them really cheap, you should try dehydrating watermelon. I was given some once and it’s great; it tastes just like watermelon candy. It doesn’t get completely hard or crunch, it stays s little chewy but it’s really good!
Oh delicious I will definitely be trying
U-Line has the Freezer bags and the rolls of make your own size Bags Cheaper than anywhere for the food saver, You can dehydrate Marshmallows and they are like the marshmallows in the cereal , they do need to cool off to get hard.
Oh we get our boxes from them. Thank u
I had a food saver but the bags were so expensive to replace, I donated the saver and used freezer bags.
I buy my bags on amazon, way cheaper than food saver bags and work just as well.
Your little helpers are so adorable :)
Hi Amy. I had to slow down playback as you were speaking so fast for me.
Good to see you getting ahead with meals. I understand why. Lots of people in your house!
Hi from Australia 🌸☀️
You. Are. Amazing! Thank you for sharing your inspirations :)
Cut bananas in half and insert a popcycle stick in cut end. Put your melted chocolate in a tall glass and dip your bananas. Works also for homemade corn dogs.
Those large square clear plastic containers from Walmart with the white lids hold about 2-3 boxes of cereal and almost 5 lb. of sugar or flour. You can probably fit 2 or 3 deep on your shelves. Enjoyed the video as always.
Great ideas, Thanks ❤️❤️❤️
The meat masher also works great for bananas. I just did 20 loaves of banana bread for my family and it worked great.
Amy Thank you for sharing at the same time you look exhausted 😞 but I know in the end you feel accomplished and it makes making Breakfast Lunch or Dinner easy.💜💙💛💗💖❤💚your video's 💯Blessings Prayers from ours to yours.Christina
Love your videos, thanks for sharing!
Thanks Amy! Love your meal prep videos! Always get a lot of new ideas! Have a wonderful day!
Turn the top of the bag down while you put food in it so you don't get anything on it or it will not seal. This saves alot of wiping off the top
Oh thanks for that
I do this with bags also. Fold out enough to move the zipper while filling then fold back and zip closed.
I adore your family we love to watch your family.
The veggie mixture you made is something similar to what Family makes. My Family is from Panama. Many Latin and Caribbean Countries makes this. I call it Sofrito. But there are many names for it. Overall it’s Fresh Seasoning. We use Onion, Garlic, Bell Peppers, Scallion, Cilantro, and other fresh herbs depending on who is making it and what works for them. But!!! We DON’T cook it. You can store it in a canning jar or put it in those deli containers and store it in the freezer. Mine usually last a month or so depending on how much I make. Search for Green seasoning and sofrito. There are so many recipes. You’ll love it!!!
Called Epis in Haiti 🇭🇹🇭🇹
Try the kale chips with a spray of oil and seasonings that you enjoy. They'll totally replace chips. They are so delicious.
Also besides saving space and preventing freezer burn it pushes the flavors into the meats if you marinate
You need the plastic trays for fruit, it will stick to regular trays. They can be used for small items like peas.
With food saver you can also do sliced cheese and you could also freezer seal the veggies you cooked too. It will take less room than the plastic containers.
If ur trying to save room, u can put the hamburger mixture either in ziplock bags and flatten or in the food saver bags.
Thank you for sharing this video, I enjoyed watching it. It is quite a job the way you have to run a household with 11 people!
I dehydrate mushrooms that are markdowns. Doesn’t take long. Try bell peppers too. I store them in clean repurposed jars. When I’m cooking for grandkids I add mushrooms, they can be powdered in your hands. I use peppers by putting them in spaghetti sauce, or stirfrys. They taste so sweet and are full of vitamins.
Oh such a great idea!!
Nice video Amy ... You worked well👏👏👏
Apples can also be soaked in orange juice and sprinkled with cinnamon. Kids think you're giving them candy. Also bananas can be dipped in pineapple juice. I love dehydrating lots of stuff, but especially fruit.
We have banana chips here in Australia . You could do that too now you have a dehydrator . I had four kids and thought I was a busy mum . You are a Wonder Woman .
Amy I hope you had a wonderful Mother's Day! I think doing those veggies and garlic will add so much flavor and nutrition to all your dishes you use them in. YOu inspired me to take out my dehydrator and do something. I would use it more often but it kind of stays tucked away and I have to find a spot for it when I want to use it, same with my vacuum sealer. But I found some chicken for a good price the other day and I am going to vacuum seal most of it. I know what you mean about trying to make room in the freezer. Lol Oh, that blender is exactly what you needed too. So happy they sent you one. They seem like a great company with quality products that 's for sure. Maddie is so darn cute! Well, we had a good day yesterday and I also got to see my Dad. Love all the things I learn from you especially all the food prep. I get so excited! Have a wonderful day!-----------------Tressa Daigle
Oh I am so glad tressa! Have a fantastic night
I'm on my 3rd vacuum sealer in 30 years. I love it!!!
With the food saver you can also Seal candy bars for s’mores when going camping and put them in the cooler that way they stay together and in melted
I need one of those cutters in my life,love it
The dried zucchini (and other veggies) are great to add into soups and stews. A lot of packaged bean soup mixes have a bunch of dehydrated veggies like carrots onions, zucchini in them.
I’m so excited to see the Cosori dehydrator! We love dehydrated fruits-bananas, pineapples, mangos and apples are our favorites. btw Madi is so funny! Love her personality. So cute
Thank u
Thank you for all the great ideas on meal prep...btw..her red hair is absolutely gorgeous. Have a great day!
You have more dry good storage space on top of your kitchen cabinets if you want it. Also, I totally sympathize with those packed freezers. Have you considered flattening all the packages you can before you freeze them? It might make them easier to pack in or at least find.
I don't like seeing things...lol. If the cabinets were taller than great but i don't want to see stuff up there... I could.. on the freezer.i figured If it is full...then stop buying lol
You also can frozen your bananas before covering with chocolate and use a cup is easier to cover them. And put some sticks before freezze them. 😊
Awesome idea. Thanks! I never thought about blending the fruit in the yogurt (yeah I know, makes total sense now lol) I try to buy plain yogurt because I haven't gotten into the routine of making mine every few weeks/month.
I need one of those food savers. I could organize my freezer better. I love watching your videos, it gives me good ideas.
They are a little pricey but girl, you will save more money your first year...then the cost. We seriously bought ours for about $80. Saved well over 1,000 our 1st year since we didnt have to throw out meat that was freezer burned, cheese that molded etc. The bags, inexpensive on Amazon too
Did you know vacuum sealed food will keep in the refrigerator for 2-3 weeks? They’re a brilliant gadget
No. Thank u
Thank you I have a small family but you still give me some great ideals. Have a blessed day 💖
I LOVE my seal a meal. It's funny, my husband is the one that runs the bags & sealing part. I use it for liquids like soups & sauces. Saves big time space. :)
I've watched quite a few of your videos and I'm now subscribed. Although we have no children (by choice) I still get some really good ideas for meal prep (on a smaller scale) for my husband and I. Thank you so much for your vlog. I wonder if you have ever made dehydrated kale (kale chips). I've never tried them but my sisters swear by them. Also, you mentioned dehydrated apples and strawberries. I found a really easy fruit leather for the dehydrator. I blended strawberries and grated apple together to make a sort of thick slurry just like your apple leather. The apple adds enough pectin to make the strawberries work for leather. Also, good tip on the food processor. My husband has the pallet of a 5 year old to I sneak veg into some of his food this way. He has no idea. I also sacrifice canned beans sometimes to get veg in too. He doesn't like beans so I can put another vegetable he's not fond of in and the beans distract him while he's pulling them out he ends up eating the other veg without realizing. Sometimes I even disguise a veg he doesn't like with others of similar color so he doesn't suspect (like cutting butternut squash up the same size as carrots and sweet potato). This way, if he lifts up his fork and says, "what is this?" I can say, "probably a carrot" without lying (I do not like to lie ever if I can avoid it).
I love this lol. I haven't made the kale chips...I did them in the oven one Time but the dehydrater would be great! Yes we love the fruit leather .we will do again soon..purree veges we do it all the time lol. Thanks for sharing the details!
Just a hint on the vacuum sealer if the inside of the bag is wet make sure you dry it or 1. The bag won't seal or 2. It will seal but might lose the vacuum over time.
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Lady you are so awesome to watch. It's like watching superwoman at her best. Beautiful family. God bless
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We eat a it more bacon now that I just bake multiple pans for our family, no cooking mess and easy cleanup when I line it with parchment paper!! 😋😆
Yes love that
Apples would be good with cinnamon. Melons are yum too.
We do burgers in a onion gravy and bake them in the oven. They are soft and juicey. Really yummy over mashed potatoes.
Yes. Like salsibury steak
@@amymaryon ah we don't have that in Ireland. I just looked it up. It's very similar x
I buy pineapple dehydrated, mango also. That is sooooo good. You can dehydrate mushroom when its on special and rehydrate them when you need them.If you have some herbs from the garden you can dehydrate them also.
I would love to see one of your night time routine preps! Do you wait until after your kids go to bed before you get to your prepping?
No during day usually
A really easy and tasty summer meal is chicken bacon ranch pasta salad. 1 lb box of pasta, rotini works best, 1 packet of ranch dressing mix, half cup of sour cream, half cup mayo, 8 oz. of cheese cut into small cubes, half cup real bacon bits, 2 chicken breasts cooked and cut into small cubes (or use rotisserie chicken etc (about 2 cups) and whatever veggies you like. Cook pasta, drain and cool. add the Mix sour cream, mayo and ranch mix together season with pepper to taste, mix everything together in a large bowl and enjoy. If leftovers seem a bit dry, add a splash of milk and mix.
Yummy
@@amymaryon you can sub in yogurt for sour cream as well.
I love zucchini with ranch powder on it that’s a really really really good.
Hi Amy, from your friend in Virginia Beach. I love watching your videos. I have absolutely no problem with how fast you talk. I love it. We may be related. However, your definition of easy and mine are 2 different things. I live with 2 of my adult boys and currently work 40 plus hours. I would love to start a smaller scale of food prep, even though my 2 boys probably eat like 4 of your kids! We eat out way too much simply because we're exhausted after work. Any suggestions? Keep doing the fantastic job you do. You are truly the high spot of my day. Thank you so much and sending love and prayers your way, Monica
Start small. Just pick a meal that you normally make and double it. Then freeze the second one for a later time. One suggestion is cook all your ground beef and freeze ..takes less time to cook . Separate all your chicken and put in bags with marinade and then put in slow cooker or pressure cooker . Make salad in small containers for lunches . Hope these help. Nice to meet you
Really enjoy your videos....amazing
Thank you
Amy, you need a apple corer/slicer. So easy and fast.
When i get a lot of boxes or spices (on special) i will open them and put them into a jar and throw away the packaging and tape the instructions on the jar, saves a lot of space. The food saver bags can be bought on wish or ebay in bulk. A lot cheaper!
I know i need some good ideas. Thank u. :)
Love from the Windsor UK 🇬🇧. If you get apricots try them. Love your vlog 😘🤗
I love my vacuum freezer! I use it for all kinds of things-not just meat :)
you need a mandolin slicer for those apples..so much faster and UNIFORM slices for dehydrating. Much quicker dehydrating times if they are all the same size :P
Agreed in the fall I will do that when we do tons of apples
Just be careful! I cut part of my finger off on one of those! Owie!
She husband is so cute to say love you that’s sweet 😊
I love the once s month meal prep videos!