{"id":1830,"date":"2012-10-10T18:35:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T18:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=1830"},"modified":"2012-10-10T18:35:58","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T18:35:58","slug":"the-benefits-of-freezer-squirreling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=1830","title":{"rendered":"The Benefits of Freezer Squirreling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is about a freezer meal, y&#8217;all, and it might be something that you&#8217;re doing already. \u00a0I was reminded about blogging it today as I was squirreling away a few pieces of bacon in the freezer for later. \u00a0Where am I going with this?<\/p>\n<p>My boys are eating a lot these days. \u00a0As in, we almost never have leftovers unless I double a recipe. \u00a0Now, what I occasionally do have, is a few pieces of bacon and or possibly some leftover chicken. \u00a0What I always do when these things happen is that I always put the leftover in a small bag and freeze it &#8212; sometimes combining it (in its own small bag) with other sundry ingredients in a larger plastic bag. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Because from the little here and there leftover you can have a really awesome pizza.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, \u00a0with a cup of leftover <a href=\"http:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=1423\">Huli-Huli chicken<\/a>, crumbled bacon, barbeque sauce, some thawed pineapple and thawed onion slices, you can have a really wonderful barbeque chicken pizza.<\/p>\n<p>This is common sense, I know, but lately I&#8217;ve tried to be more purposeful about it. \u00a0So, when I come home and don&#8217;t really want to cook all that much, I can pull these things out of the freezer and have a dinner that everyone loves while using food that might have gotten lost and spoiled in the fridge.<\/p>\n<p>Other ways to categorize would be to have a bag for omelet fillers and one for stir fry, too.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve made lots of pizza crusts and there are lots of good ones out there. \u00a0I typically use <a href=\"http:\/\/tastykitchen.com\/recipes\/main-courses\/basic-pizza-crust\/\">this one from Pioneer Woman<\/a>. \u00a0I don&#8217;t refrigerate mine, though, but make it after carpool for dinner the same night.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, that&#8217;s all that I&#8217;ve got today. \u00a0I hope that y&#8217;all are having a great Wednesday!<\/p>\n<p>GO CARDS!!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is about a freezer meal, y&#8217;all, and it might be something that you&#8217;re doing already. \u00a0I was reminded about blogging it today as I was squirreling away a few pieces of bacon in the freezer for later. \u00a0Where am &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=1830\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1832,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions\/1832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}