Cook with Me | Freezer Clean out Challenge Week 4 | What's for Dinner with No Grocery Haul!
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- Опубликовано: 1 апр 2020
- Hello friends, my name is Christine, and welcome to Frugal Fit Mom! Cook with me in my final week of my Clean out the Freezer challenge! We are in self-isolation or lockdown or whatever it's called due to the pandemic and didn't go shopping this week. So this episode of what's for dinner is for sure on a budget! I hope you enjoy!
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Christine, I believe there's a reason your subscribers skyrocketed in the months leading up to this pandemic. You are helping so many people right now through your channel. Hope you and your family are staying safe. 💓
I found her Chanel just some days before pandemic time such a wonderful Chanel!
I'm convinced the contents of Christine's freezer/pantry are multiplying as we sleep at night 😂 endless supply
Billie's home life * 😂😂😂😂😂😂
So true 😂😂
i think the food is mating lol
🤔 I think you're onto something here 😂
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Tip: dont use up everything in your freezers, just the oldest/most freezerburned stuff. Shuffle your pantry/freezer but dont deplete all your stock. And if things fit, you could move stuff from freezer to freezer to save electricity and to defrost a freezer.
^^this^^ because a partially full freezer uses more power to cool than a full one. Definitely move the food to fill other freezers.
Good tip! I knew to use oldest first, but moving it to other freezers, I never thought of. Thanks ;)
Good tip
But she isint she has an Other freezer
I try to keep mine full but there's times we have to eat it out because it's so old it needs defrosted usually every 6 months
This channel is like a guilty pleasure for me. Not my lifestyle, since we're a family of three.... but I love your real-life adventures and how your husband gushes all over your cooking.
We are a family of three too! I love her meals. I just make them smaller.😁
I have 0 kids and no hubby. I still watch
Same! I’m a dog mom of two (my pups say hello) and I’m not even in the US so these grocery haul techniques aren’t applicable to me - but I am obsessed with all her videos 😂
I'm a college student and I can't imagine have 4 kids but I find her so enjoyable to watch and I hope I can be frugal and a good cook when I have my own family!
You should move the stuff left in the freezer to your other freezers and defrost the big one and really scrub it down and then you can refill it again.
Probably the best plan is eat up the „old“ food in the freezer and move everything else in the other freezer and defrost it... because all the ice isn’t good for the energy sufficiency ☺️
I like a man who is complimentary of his wife's cooking - think you have a keeper there !
I think that every time I watch her videos! He’s sooo nice about the meals always!
I swear it makes me want ti watch her vidéos even more. He is no Nice To her
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You kind of can eat roast everyday. Slice thin for fajitas or stir fry, cube for meat and potatoes, I forget the recipe (my parents used to just say a little of this a little of that but it was always the same 🤷♀️) but they’d do it two different ways 1) red sauce 2)brown sauce you just cube potatoes and roast and cook in a cast iron skillet make a roux/gravy or add tomato sauce. (that’s as far as I can remember). You could try keeping it half frozen and slice/shave it with the mandolin and make french dips, make a breakfast steak with it. Really it’s a versatile piece of meat. 😃
E B if she would slice it thin and chop it up a bit and make an omelette with it adding onions and jalapeños it’s so good. Of course with cheese better 😋 I did with shaved rib eye
"Dave says I'm not thinking clearly..." Story of my life🙃
I now say 'micro-wah-vay' and giggle a little every time!🤣You just don't know how what you say will impact people❤
instead of shredding cheese by hand I stick the bricks in the freezer just long enough to firm up, chop into chunks and thrown in my blender and It turns into little crumbles that melts the same as shredded cheese. It's so much easier in my opinion to do it this way
Really smart.
This is MY level of smart and lazy. 😁
I bought a salad shooter at a garage sale and use that to shred cheese. I do it all at once and store the shredded cheese in the fridge to use as necessary.
Always better to freeze before you cup or slice or shred.
Empty it and defrost it while you have the time on lockdown...if you do it now it won't interfear when regular life returns whenever that may be
Haley's look is priceless when she likes something!!!
So I enjoy your personality SO MUCH! Therefore, I am watching videos again and from a year ago. I need my daily fix of Christine and fabulous family! 🌻🌷🌻
I had some old catfish in my freezer. I've made both fish stew and fish chowder. Both turned out great.
Penny Yager Share the recipe, please?
Yes, please continue the freezer meals, and showing us the freezer clean progress. We need that inspiration to do the same. For me, the freezer becomes a black hole. I love your ideas for meal planning.
Move temporarily so you can clean out. Eventually organize with beef in one freezer, poultry in another, etc.
Your liberal use of butter makes my heart happy! 🤣💘
I love Alton Brown. I always recommend him, when somebody is learning to cook. Entertaining, but very educational shows.😊
Your babies are absolutely precious.
Keep doing the freezer clean outs!!! They are so much fun!! I love seeing your creativity it’s massively helped me with cooking and cleaning out my pantry and fridge/freezer!!
I would condense to fewer freezers so that you can clean out the box one. ALso with the food condensed you will have a better idea what you have to use because it will be all together.
Goodness...I wouldn’t have a problem eating roast for days. I’d eat pot roast, beef stew, beef and noodles, vegetable soup, beef fajitas, beef stroganoff, beef n cheddar...endless possibilities! I’d love to have that many roasts. There’s not a single one in my freezer.
What I love about freezer paper is that if you keep a clean chest freezer, the paper does wonders. I have beef and lamb that's two or three years old and you would never know the difference - zero freezer burn or 'off' taste. We didn't go through all our roasts for a couple of years so I've been making a concerted effort to do them more in the winter & leave the ground meat for the summer grilling when I'm trying to "clean out" the freezer for the next year's animals and summer produce. With COVID19 out there & so many meat processing plants shutting down, I'm really happy to have such a nice supply of animal protein.
all of the cleanout meals look incredible. There was a pretty good variety. I too would move that stuff to another freezer and defrost that one and get the blueberries out! hahahha!
Teri Groce -but the blueberries are a piece of this channel’s CULTURE now! When they leave, it’ll be like we lost a friend! (Okay, that may be a minor exaggeration.) ;)
@@victoriameredith629 i agree!
I use olive oil, red wine or apple cider vinegar, soy or worcetershire sauce, beef base, minced garlic, diced onions, paprika, salt and dried thyme for my marinade... I put my steaks and the marinade in a large baggie. If I'm doing it in advance, I put in the fridge overnight, if they are thawed, I put them in the bag for about 30 minutes, I have also used this method for frozen steaks and placed in a large bowl of hot water... moving the around and replacing the hot water. Every method is tried and tested from my very picky family. After the marinade process, I do lay the steaks on paper towels and remove most of the marinade before grilling on my cast iron on the stove top. We love having leftover over rice and a beef sauce the next day.
Dave was hilarious..."am I shredding or shredded?"
Your husband looked like he was going to cry tears of joy, while eating the cheesecake. lol lol lol
🤦♀️ Dave looking at the snow behind me like it was really a surprise 🤣
Yes continue freezer clean out!!!
I truly enjoy your videos so much Christine 🥺 you are the laughter and brightness to this dark time we’re all experiencing ❤️ God bless you and your family and have a great rest of the week!🙏🏽❤️
You are so kind, thank you!
YES, continue with the freezer(s) clean out. I want to see what happens with that Catfish!
Frozen clearance naan makes a cameo...
Loved your meals & family reactions! Thanks! :D
You can cut up your chuck roasts into cubes and make stew, you can also brown and braise the cut up roast in beef broth/stock till tender add a slurry of either flour or cornstarch to thicken and serve over rice, noodles or mashed potatoes. Beef Stroganoff is another dish you can make out of chuck roast. You could also slow cook the roast in bbq sauce, shred it and make bbq beef sandwiches.
Move the chest freezer stuff up to one of your main freezers so you can thaw and clean out the chest. You guys are doing so well!
I'd love to see another couple weeks of freezer clean out, any freezer. This is super inspiring!
I have an idea for some of that steak! I use meat scissors to cut steaks into steak tips and throw them in the crockpot with cream of mushroom soup for 4-6 hours. I just made this yesterday and it was DIVINE. I had mac n cheese on the side, but you could totally serve it over rice. Loving these freezer cleanout videos!!😆
That my mom's recipe for stroganoff
Your kids are so lovely about your food, they try everything on their plate and are so fabulous at complementing your cooking it is a true joy to see. I know of a number of children that are so fussy and won’t try anything that their parents tear their hair out regularly trying to feed them properly. I feel for them as it must be heartbreaking to have spent time cooking and for your food to not be appreciated. Your family is such a joy! 😁
Do you have lots of dry goods? Like beans and rice? Might be interesting to see some recipes of some shelf stable items. That’s the type of stuff I’m getting down to.
Keep doing freezer challenge, in our current climate I think this is how most people are living at the moment!
Love that Montreal Steak seasoning. I use it for many things too. I make a cheeseburger mac soup and use that seasoning in it...so yummy
I would rotate food upstairs and then refill.
Yes! Continue the freezer clean out! 🙋🏼♀️
Omg ur kids eat so good!!!!!!! I'm amazed!!!!! I have 2 picky eaters, 4 and 5 years old and they drive me crazy!!!!! Most days I have to make 2 different meals!!!!
What you daughter enjoys your food so much she closes her eyes. That’s when you know it’s good! 😂
Keep going I'm loving the freezer challenge videos!I really enjoy them xx
I have seen lots of frugal videoes but none as entertaining as your. I think you are a natural in front of a camera.i love you and when you include your family.... I'm from India btw, i still watch you although I don't eat any of your recipes more so because we don't get the same ingredients as USA.
You make me frugal. 🙌🏻🤑🤑
You are my hero. 🦸🏼♀️😂
I love your cook ideas. 😋
Love from Portugal ♥️🇵🇹
I can't wait to try the shrimp dish and the cheesecake! Thank you so much for taking the time to record all of this for all of us.
You are honestly my absolute favorite channel to watch. Such a sweet family and everything is so realistic and relatable, unlike many other channels.
use up all of the chest freezer so you can unplug it and clean/ defrost it. Freezers work most efficiently when they are full of cold/ frozen items or else they take a lot more power!!! so empty one completely and stuff the others!
I'd suggest using the time to condense and organize ALL the freezers. Save one for packages that have not been opened, keep the partial packages in another and make a final push to use up the partial packages.
No bake cheesecake....premodern graham cracker pie crust block of cream cheese 1/3 cup sugar tsp vanilla container of cool whip. Mix sugar cream cheese vanilla until smooth add container of cool whip dump into pre made pie crust. If you want Oreo just crush up Oreos in the cheese sugar cool whip mixture and use an Oreo pie crust.
I swear I'm never bored when it comes to your channel! I love the recipes you make and absolutely love your attitude/enthusiasm in general! Much love from the PNW 😁
I love your family! Watching your videos always makes me happy. I love seeing your kids react to your cooking.
I really enjoy seeing all of the family in the video together! Keep the freezer meals coming.
We have a lot of roasts too. I just made beef and broccoli (minus the broccoli because I didn’t have any). I cut the roast in strips, browned each side for a minute and then put it in my slow cooker for 6-7 hours with a cup of beef neither, some sesame oil, coconut aminos and 3 garlic cloves. Served over rice and stir fry veggie. It was very good!
This was awesome to watch. On a serious note the way your husband and you interact is seriously so sweet. You can almost see the love he has for you through the camera 😭 so sweet.
My housemates are gone for two weeks so I have cleaned the fridge already (expect for eggs, ham, drinking things and seasonings). I'm slowly doing the same with the freezer, which my coworkers are loving because I'm bringing food to work.
Thanks for sharing your freezer cooking videos! They are encouraging, especially during these times!
I also pray your sister and the kids are doing well. Have a great weekend!
Omg you have to do something with the catfish!! I have to see what you do. 😁
I would make the basement freezer your meat freezer, and keep pulling the oldest stuff up into the basket/upper ledge so it gets used first. Freezer organization might be a fun video idea? I'd use the upstairs freezer for everything else. If you clean the basement freezer, please put the blueberries back because I would miss them. They're like the channel mascots or something.
What is it like to have a happy family like yours? I don’t know but it makes me calm and happy to watch you live it. ✌🏽
Quick tip for catfish: if you know it's still safe to eat but think it might be fishy, marinate it for an hour in some mustard and then fry it! The mustard covers up any fishiness and adds good flavor.
Dollar tree seasonings - Yesssss!!
I love seeing you cleaning out the freezer!
Aww your youngest is such a cutie and so sweet xoxo all your kids are so well mannered you have a lovely family
I’m always looking for your videos since we’re all home. Love watching u guys
You inspire me to make something out of next to nothing, Frugal Fit Mom! Long may you reign! 👑
Christine: ”Nothing fancy, just steak”
Me: T-bones are so fancy I’ve never had it. lol
Super Moosie FR me too!!!!
You’re honestly not missing anything, it’s just a hunk of meat😂 tacos are way better 😋
Adagio Borntrager Well, it’s both strip steak and tenderloin IN ONE! Two of the most expensive cuts there is. Just sayin. I wouldn’t turn it down. Not so frugal though. lol
Super Moosie it may be EXPENSIVE but sometimes expensive isn’t better 😉
Adagio Borntrager I hear what you’re trying to say. And I completely agree that expensive DEFINITELY doesn’t have to mean yummy. It’s just that I love those cuts of meat. 😂 But they are too expensive as a T-bone imho. But one day I’d love to try one. So yeah, let’s grab some tacos instead. 😋🥰
I have ribs in my slow cooker cooking with a can of mixed fruit, onion, seasoning and water. I have never cooked ribs - they were part of a food package I purchase usually once a month through a local church and watching your videos has given me more confidence so let's be hope for the best :)
I really am enjoying these videos during this time. Great context and great receipts.
Meals were fabulous. Love your energy. You are hilarious 😂 Hope you’re feeling better
Roasts can always be cooked and made into 2, 3 or 4 other dishes for the week. Homemade "steak-um" subs (slice thin and fry with onions and peppers), beef pot pies, beef asian dishes/noodle bowls, diced or ground up and use in stuffed peppers instead of hamburger, ground up and make your own ravioli or stuffed shells or manicotti.
Head tilt kitchenaids are the cheaper smaller ones. The bowl lift are bigger and pricier, they still make both. You scored. 😉
I was looking for this comment 😂
I agree with many of the people commenting here. Clean out this deep freezer and then keep cooking through the other freezers while you slowly restock this one. That way you won’t end up with catfish that you can’t remember buying 🤪. I’ve really been looking forward to your videos. You are a bright spot in my day. I need such an optimistic friend in my life!
It's so nice to see how your family enjoys your cooking!! I'm looking forward to see the blueberries!😂 Thanks for this video. Gave me some good cooking ideas!!! Get healty!!!👍
A tip for freezing chili! Make it but don't add the broth or water. I freeze the meat, beans, tomatoes and seasonings together, then add the broth from the pantry when I am ready to heat it. Work very well and saves space.
Hi! I've been enjoying your videos. I agree with the comments of using buttermilk to remove the fishy taste from the fish, but we like to also add yellow mustard to the milk. It really works to make the fish taste delicious. Also make sure to remove any darkened sections as they will have a strong taste.
YES PLEASE! Please continue with the freezer clean out videos!
Yes! Continue!!! I love this!
Love these videos as inspo! We’re in Idaho too! I’ve been working through my freezers and pantrys for a few weeks now and your videos are keeping me inspired!
Found you by accident. We lived in Idaho for 7 years. Great state, wonderful weather where we were (Nampa), and almost all houses have a sprinkler system plugged into the canal, so you're saving on water, to boot!
Am I shredding or am I shredded. Lol you guys are sweet.
My freezer has so much unknown. I'm so glad to know yours has some too. I am procrastinating digging into my big freezer, but you are encouraging me to get it done.
❤Love watching your videos! Always waiting for your next videos! Learning a lot from your recipes! Thank you for sharing glimpse of your life to us & for keeping us entertained!👍🤗 stay safe, healthy, & well👍
Ooh yes please keep going. Love these! 😊
Thank you for all the amazing videos you share. It's been such a nice escape from all the craziness. You and your family always make me smile :)
I love watching your channel, you have an awesome family, stay safe!
Cheese cake - 1 bag white chocolate chips, 1 block cream cheese, 4 eggs. Crust optional. Mix eggs, add in softened cream cheese and gently melted and slightly cooled chocolate. Mix with a hand mixer. Pour into your pan and bake,.
Your family is soooo cute. Thanks for the visit
Please continue the freezer challenge! It’s so satisfying to watch 🙏
You are killing the freezer challenge sis!! Great job!
I honestly think the thing I appreciate the most about this is that she feeds her family reasonable portions of decently healthy meals. Growing up without an idea of what is an appropriate portion size makes adult life very very difficult
I found your channel recently, I love it! Thank you for great videos
I get this vibe that Dave wants you to leave him alone so he can just eat😂 He’s not in to the play-by-play. Your little guy who likes everything is having fun though!
There's so many things to do with the roasts. You can cook it and thinly slice it to use as lunch meat. You can also make a pulled pork type recipe but with the roast beef. Slice them into steak and have steak and eggs.
Lol my baby woke me up and I am watching this at 3am. Thanks for the upload! I read every single comment. Hope you feel better soon ❤️❤️
Love this channel ❤️ Definitely binge watching
LOL the kids’ reactions are a riot!!!- Kristy in Missouri 🤗
That roast recipe is epic! Thank you for sharing!!
I love ur freezer clean out videos. More pls haha