32 Frozen Healthy Meals for Post Partum: A Review

Well! The time has come for me to start cooking again! 32 meals have been consumed. Three and a half months they lasted us! (Reminder: I make my meals for a size 6-8 person family so that we have leftovers).

We ate them every night since Ellie was born with the exception of a true small handful of nights in which we considered date nights in and cooked steaks since we haven't really gone out much since Ellie was born. I anticipated they would last us 2 months. Thank goodness they lasted 3.5 months as we sold our house and recently moved into a rental as we prepare to build our dream forever home! I honestly do not know how they lasted this long but I am thankful for how God used them and blessed us with them in many ways. We were healthfully nourished, helped me lose baby weight very quickly, provided for, given rest as I did not have to cook for 3.5 months,  and they lasted longer than we anticipated which draws my mind to how God fed the 5000! I just believe God blessed the work I prepared. Praises to Him!!

32 meals. Only one failed. I had a turkey hamburger patty with sweet potatoes wrapped in tin-foil then wrapped in the ziplock. This meal would have been cooked in the oven. Well...I cooked it on Halloween night....and it was all tricks and no treats for this supper! I don't think it was sealed well from the freezer frost. Needless to say...it looked too bad to even try and taste it. So that one meal should be removed from my list. However, the other 31 all turned out excellently. The meat was all still tender and juicy, the veggies fresh and flavorful, and truly delicious like I had freshly prepared and cooked it that evening. One other small detail I would adjust is anything that included zucchini....add more zucchini than I had listed. For example, if I used 3 zucchinis for a zucchini "spaghetti"...use 6. They shrink up quite a lot when frozen. These are the only changes I can honestly say I would make.

Would I do this again? Heck yes. Whether it were for another pregnancy, or to prepare for a move, or even just a week I knew we would be crazy busy, I can absolutely say I would and I will do this again. Life saver, game changer.