How I Threw a Freezer Meal Party & Made 50 Meals for Under $300

What’s the best way to stock your freezer with homemade meals? Throw a party and do it with friends! Here’s a look at one plan and menu for a freezer meal party with tips, resources, and recipes. Share your own tips and menu ideas in the comments!

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   1. What’s a Freezer Meal Party?

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   2. Freezer Meal Party 101: What You Need to Host a Meal-Making Party

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   3. How I Threw a Freezer Meal Party & Made 50 Meals for Under $300

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   4. 3 of My New Favorite Tools for Packaging Freezer Meals

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   5. 5 Pro Tips for a Successful Meal Party from The Retro Dinner Diva

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   6. 10 Freezer Meal Plans from Real Home Cooks

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Oh, how I love the glorious citrus season that erupts during California winter! The weather is still brisk when I go out for my walks around my neighborhood, but the trees in my neighbors yards are bursting with color. There are oranges, lemons and limes dripping off of trees, spilling over fences and begging to be used up!

That being said, I can’t curb my citrus consumption, and in the spirit of the old adage “waste not, want not”, I’ve been saving the peels and re-purposing them into a two ingredient non-toxic all purpose cleaner. You’ll be amazed at how easy this is!

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Did you catch our profile on chef Charlie Marshall this week? If you’re just tuning in now, you can read the whole series right here!

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   1. Chef Charlie Marshall’s Tiny, Well-Ordered New York City Kitchen

   Kitchen Tour

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   2. The One Thing You Should Always Keep in the Freezer

   Kitchen Tour

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   3. The Chef’s Knife That a Chef Uses at Home

   Kitchen Tour

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   4. A Great Customizable Kitchen Cart (With Drawers!) for a Small Kitchen

   Kitchen Tour

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   5. What’s Cooking This Weekend, Charlie Marshall?

   Weekend of February 21-22, 2015

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This creamy coconut curried stew is a perennial favorite in my house. It’s full of tender vegetables and chickpeas, along with the warming flavors of ginger and garlic — and it’s vegan! Yes, a batch of this stew makes it worth pulling out the slow cooker and clearing some space on the counter.

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I don’t think it’s too extreme to say that this whole concept of freezable breakfast sandwiches has changed my world. Or at least my mornings. Definitely my mornings. Suffice it to say, they are amazing.

If you love eggs in the morning, often buy breakfast on the way to work, wouldn’t mind saving a few bucks, or all of the above, then boy oh boy, freezer-friendly breakfast sandwiches are about to make you very happy. Here’s what to do.

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Our Best Tips for Freezing Fruit

The Freezer Cure Week 1: Saturday, February 21
Assignment: Stock your freezer with a few go-to ingredients, and learn our strategies for using your freezer to save money and create faster, better meals.
Sign Up: Sign up here for The Freezer Cure

You’ve cleaned out your freezer and organized it (on Valentine’s Day, no less), and today we continue our march towards the freezer of your dreams. The next step? Prep. We want to turn your freezer into a lean, mean, well-stocked, meal-inspiring machine. We want it to be so full of smart, neatly-labeled and ready-to-go ingredients that it practically sings you meal ideas every time you open the door.

Does the thought of having a freezer like that excite you? Then read on, because it’s within your grasp.

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