So I recently had a baby, and I’m about to go back to work (back to school because I am an administrator at an elementary school).  I am happy to get back in the routine, but I want to spend much less time preparing dinner so I will have more time to spend with my family!  I found the perfect solution and I can’t wait to try it!

Check out this blog – it has great ideas for preparing 5 meals on the weekend (the author claims it takes just 1 hour to prepare all 5), and then store them in the freezer until the day you want to make that meal.  All you have to do is put the frozen prepared meal in the crockpot, and by the time I get home my dinner will be ready!  How perfect is that??  Here’s the link:

http://baked-inthesouth.blogspot.com/search/label/freezer%20meals

I saw this on a mommy message board, and printed out all the recipes!  I might even get super ambitious and prepare several weeks’ worth off food since I have the time now.  The only catch is that it takes about 6-8 hours on low to cook the food, and I leave at 7:00 and we don’t eat until 5:45 when my husband gets home (over 10 hours).  I need to either get a new crock pot that I can set the start time, or ask Florence’s nanny to put dinner in the crock pot around 10:30.  Both good options :)!!