Marinated Grilled Chicken for the Freezer

Here's another good idea for you if you took advantage of the Kent's sale on chicken . . . Thanks Patty W. for the great idea.

You marinate 10 lbs. of chicken overnight and grill them the next day.  I then place them in zip loc freezer bags for easy removal or for longer storage, vacuum seal them.

Marinated Chicken Breasts

1 pint Wesson oil (I tried olive oil--doesn't work, use a vegetable oil)

1 qt. 7-up

1 pint soy sauce

1 T. horseradish sauce

1 T. garlic powder

Trim chicken and cut in half if large breasts.  Marinate 24 hrs.  Get your husband to do the grilling if you can. 

This already cooked chicken is soooo easy to take out of a bag, thaw or microwave for a couple of minutes, and serve with a side of vegetables and or salad.  It truly has quite a long shelf life especially if vacuum sealed.  My whole family likes this chicken especially the men and this makes a really easy dinner.  (It does look kinda of ugly in the bags, but great on a dinner plate.)

Chicken Canning, Freezing, Slow Cooking

Just a quick post for you locals - Kent's has 40 lbs of chicken for $50, making it $1.25 a pound.  I haven't seen it that low in awhile.

Yesterday I prepared 80 lbs of chicken.

Freezer meals:

Hawaiian - I can't remember where the recipe came from but it's super easy and we love it.

Hawaiian Chicken
3 1/2 chicken breasts
1/2 cup white vinegar
3 cloves garlic, minced
2 Tbsp soy sauce
1 cup large pineapple chunks (I used tidbits - large can from Sam's) so they will probably disappear in the slow cooker)
1 cup pineapple juice (I tried it with OJ this time too, we'll see how that goes.)

Low 6-7 hours

Orange Honey Teriyaki - recipe from the Yoshida's Original Gourmet Sweet and Savory sauce you buy at Costco.
It's 1 cup sauce, 1 cup orange juice, 1/2 cup honey.  (There was a lot of sauce left over, nice for over your rice but it is a little sweet so be warned).

Italian - From Over the Blue Moon

I also trimmed and froze two cookie sheets of tenders and then transferred them into freezer bags.

Canned:
I pressure canned two batches using my new Tattler lids.  I learned a few things:

• Don't over tighten the lids, they need to be 1/4 in loose to vent.
• Tighten when you take them out  - they are really HOT, use a couple of rags.
• DON'T HURRY - three of my pints didn't seal and were RUINED because when we slapped the lid on the rubber seal slipped into the jar and then that rubber cooked with the chicken - yum - NOT!! -resulting in really sour chicken that had me worried that I had just prepared 80 lbs of bad chicken.

Slow Cooker:

Orange Honey Teriyaki - with rice, not a bad dinner.

I still have once bowl left, I'm thinking General Tso's chicken!

Time for Freezer Meals

Back to School 

Back to the Craziness

I don't know about you but I'm feeling like a need more time in the day.  I decided that freezer meals might be one way to help give me that.  I tried making a few today.

The recipes are right off of the Internet but in the interest of saving you a little time I thought I'd link to a few sites that have freezer meal recipes.

Super Fast Freezer Meals found here along with  lots of other cute stuff.

Over the Big Moon

Really amazing site for recipes

Six Sisters' Stuff

50 Easy Freezer Meals from Six Sisters' 

KOJO  Design

Jake and Janessa

Miss Information

tips and trips for successful freezer meals

Once a Month Meals

101 summer freezer meals

Taste of Home

Freezer Meals for Us

Seems to have a lot of recipes but the Chicken Cordon Bleu looked especially tempting

Dukes and Duchesses

Cranberry Chicken - This is delicious and super easy even not as a freezer meal

Well that's enough for now.

Let me know your favorite.

Freezing Soup in Muffin Tins

Here is a fun way to have homemade soup in your 3-month supply from the blog The Mommy in Charge.
Freezing Soup in Muffin Tins
If you click on the link you can also try her "toddler friendly" chicken noodle soup recipe.