Tip #1 – Marinade is your friend!
Tools:
- Small ziplock freezer bags
- Sauces/Marinades of your chooing
- Sharpie magic marker
Tip:
When you come home from the grocery store marinade your beef and chicken right away. Don’t just place the packages in the refridgerator thinking you’ll do it later! You’ve only got 3 to 5 days that those suckers will keep in the fridge and chances are you’re going to forget them. Then you have spoiled meat. Nasty. Marinading right away allows the meat to better absorb the flavor, and it gives you little baggies of meat to throw in the pan and cook when you don’t have alot of prep time.
Steps:
- Place your chicken/beef out on the counter. The packages of chicken/beef usually come in servings of a little under a pound. I usually get two meals out of one package of chicken.
- Take out two ziplock bags for each pound of meat.
- Chop the meet into small chunks.
- Place divide your meat evenly into the ziplock bags
- Pour your marinade of choice into each bag. Make sure the sauce is evenly distributed in the bag.
- Squeeze any sauce down the sides so that it’s all coating the meat and not just coating the bag. (Do this as much as possible. This keeps the sauce all frozen in one chunk, and keeps the sauce on your food, not on the inside of your bag where it will get thrown away.)
- Fold the top of the bag over, pressing out as much air as possible as you go.
- Seal the bag
- Using your Sharpie, write the type of sauce and type of meat on the side of the bag
- Place in refridgerator overnight
- Place in freezer the following day
- Remove, cook and enjoy as needed!