I was so sick of spending more money at the restaurants than I was spending on my member dues.
I have been pre-cooking at home and freezing them. I'll bring them in a cooler and stick it in the fridge or freezer at the condo. Where I say location, I mean at a local grocery store or just at the gift shop near where we are staying.
Ground Beef ideas:
Speghetti-I'll brown the meat and add the sauce. After cooled, I'll put it in a microwave. I'll boil the the noodles at eating time or I'll boil them during breakfast, put it the fridge, and heat in the micro when time to eat.
Tacos - brown, season, cool, freeze in ziploc. Freeze the cheese and tortilla. I'll buy the tomatoes & lettuce at location there and cut them at time of eating. The kids like to eat the tacos with the "Scoop" chips.
Stir fry - brown, season with garlic, soy sauce, onion, add any vegetables, cool and freeze in a Ziploc. I serve with rice which I will microwave in the morn and just reheat at the time of eating. Sometimes it may be served with mac cheese.
If we don't plan to go back to the room for meals/break, then I make sandwiches. Usually I buy this at location. Breakfast is our usual eggs, pancakes, bacon, corned beef, ... Later ont he week, it may be left overs just so food will not be wasted.
I do similar things with other meats.
If I fly, I bring 1/2 the meals frozen. Then I will buy at location a frozen lasagna, frozen chicken nuggets, fried chicken or rotiserrie. I'll buy the seasoned Hormel pork tenderloin and bake it along side with the frozen lasagna while I am unpacking. Then I just have to reheat when eating time.
Of the 7 days, we are WDW, we now maybe eat only 3 meals outside our rooms. Before we would eat out almost 1.5 times a day for 4 but now we are 5. It had to stop if we want to go every year to WDW & have another week's vacation outside of WDW.
I don't mind doing this cooking & freezing bit because I do this anyway at home.
Hope this helps,
MMCD
I have been pre-cooking at home and freezing them. I'll bring them in a cooler and stick it in the fridge or freezer at the condo. Where I say location, I mean at a local grocery store or just at the gift shop near where we are staying.
Ground Beef ideas:
Speghetti-I'll brown the meat and add the sauce. After cooled, I'll put it in a microwave. I'll boil the the noodles at eating time or I'll boil them during breakfast, put it the fridge, and heat in the micro when time to eat.
Tacos - brown, season, cool, freeze in ziploc. Freeze the cheese and tortilla. I'll buy the tomatoes & lettuce at location there and cut them at time of eating. The kids like to eat the tacos with the "Scoop" chips.
Stir fry - brown, season with garlic, soy sauce, onion, add any vegetables, cool and freeze in a Ziploc. I serve with rice which I will microwave in the morn and just reheat at the time of eating. Sometimes it may be served with mac cheese.
If we don't plan to go back to the room for meals/break, then I make sandwiches. Usually I buy this at location. Breakfast is our usual eggs, pancakes, bacon, corned beef, ... Later ont he week, it may be left overs just so food will not be wasted.
I do similar things with other meats.
If I fly, I bring 1/2 the meals frozen. Then I will buy at location a frozen lasagna, frozen chicken nuggets, fried chicken or rotiserrie. I'll buy the seasoned Hormel pork tenderloin and bake it along side with the frozen lasagna while I am unpacking. Then I just have to reheat when eating time.
Of the 7 days, we are WDW, we now maybe eat only 3 meals outside our rooms. Before we would eat out almost 1.5 times a day for 4 but now we are 5. It had to stop if we want to go every year to WDW & have another week's vacation outside of WDW.
I don't mind doing this cooking & freezing bit because I do this anyway at home.
Hope this helps,
MMCD
