Naptime Blog

 I promise this post is going somewhere. We have a 14 cu ft standing freezer in the basement. I love to buy meat in bulk and food saver it. I have saved so much money this way. Since I do this I have a list of the meat I have. I knew I wanted to make pork chops. So I checked the list and I had 4 bags of 4 chops. I looked and looked and could not find ANY pork chops. So I complained to Rick and changed dinner. Rick came home from work and found the pork chops on top of the freezer. He never put them in. He must have set them down to open the freezer and forgot to put them in. No big deal lesson learned.

Here is a picture of the top two shelves of my freezer, the rest is just as filled. Do you think I have enough food? I am not sure.

So I decided for the next month we are eating out of the pantry/freezer. No more weekly grocery shopping. We are stock piling food. For what? So my cooking adventure begins. We only will have to buy things like milk, bread, and yogurt.

Since I didn’t have pork chops I made Apricot glazed chicken instead.
Ingredients

• Chicken (I used 5 thighs & 3 breasts)
• 1 cup apricot preserves
• 1 cup Russian dressing
• 1 package dry onion soup mix

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. In a medium bowl combine the jam, dressing and soup mix. Mix together.
3. Place chicken pieces in a 9×13 inch baking dish.
4. Pour apricot mixture over chicken and bake uncovered in the preheated oven for 50 to 60 minutes.

I’m also making a green giant vegetable steamer and couscous

-Chrystal