The Great Crock Pot Menu Plan!

I've seen this done on other people's blogs and wanted to try it out myself.  The idea is to make A LOT of meals all at once, freeze them, and then have dinners made ahead of time for quite awhile.  Most of the meals used are crock pot meals.  Here are the meals I decided on making:

Healthy Mama's BBQ Chicken
Teriyaki Chicken
Chicken Tortilla Soup
Bean Stew
Italian Chicken
Chicken Noodle Soup
Cheesy Chicken
Mexican Dip
B's Beef Roast
B's Meatloaf


After I decided what meals I wanted to make I made a Shopping List of all the ingredients the meals call for.  (Click on the link for my shopping list.)  I wouldn't count on the prices being the same as what you would spend, because after I made my list I went through my house and only bought things I didn't have on hand.  I also didn't go to a lot of trouble to find things on sale (I just went to Costco and Maceys), so depending on what you have on hand and how good you are at finding sales you could make it cheaper than I did.

I ended up buying enough ingredients for 22 meals.  My total cost was $173.16!  Not bad for nearly a month's worth of dinners for a family of 5!

Just about all the ingredients.

Many hours later...
(potatoes weren't looking so good after being exposed for so long, but they're fine to eat)

Many, many hours later... I was done!!!
I hope all this work pays off for this next month!