As Life Simplified enters its second year, we thought we'd celebrate with the launch of our DO LIFE SIMPLIFIED blog!
What will you find here?
- Life Simplified news from Cheryl & Dawn
- Tips and Tricks to help you simplify your home and life.
- Links to cool stuff we see related to organizing, cleaning, managing home and life.
- Other fun stuff that amuses us.
We'll kick it off with a super simple meal saving idea:
MAKE MEATBALLS... BY THE HUNDREDS!
To make a batch of meatballs, you only need to dirty one big bowl and some baking pans.Just mix up 2 large containers of lean ground beef with a couple of eggs, a cup or so of breadcrumbs, some onions soup mix, other seasoning, worchestershire sauce, whatever you like into one big meaty concoction. Rather than forming and rolling the meatballs, just use a scooper, (I like the pampered chef ones) and crank those meatballs out faster than they can be eaten.
Don't worry about fussing with the frying pan... just throw them in a glass baking dish or other pan you like, (I prefer my Pampered Chef Bar Pan---no, I'm not getting anything for this endorsement :-) and let them bake away. All you have to do is take out the last batch, set them on some paper towel, quickly wipe out the pan, and scoop the next batch out and let them bake. It's the perfect way to get several meals made while you have an evening at home doing other things... possibly things that are more fun that whipping up a dinner from scratch every night!
Just throw your baked meatballs into freezer bags and take out what you need as you need them. Throw them into spaghetti sauce, sweet & sour sauce, cream of mushroom soup-type sauce... or waram them up and serve them with bbq sauce or Tzaziki for dipping. My kids favorite dinner these days is greek salad with pita and meatballs dipped in tzaziki.
One evening of "meat-balling" can probably get me through 8-10 family meals and are great to have on hand when we've got friends coming.
Simple enough for ya?
Check back regularly for inspiraton and ideas.
Leave us a comment so we know you found us!Best Fall Wishes to you from us!
Dawn & Cheryl
