Tutorial: How to Make Frozen Burritos

So if you have been reading my blog for long, you know that I am trying to completely go back to the basics and cook/bake everything from scratch. As a result, you don't have a whole lot of "fast" foods for when you are in a hurry. So now I am working on making some things that are fast to have in the freezer for those times.

This first one is frozen burritos for on the go! So here is my pictorial tutorial (say that ten times fast!):

To start, you need tortilla shells, refried beans mixture or whatever for your filling and cheese. 

Now, we usually make our own tortilla shells from scratch. But wouldn't you know it, we were out! So I picked up some that were on sale. For our filling, I used refried beans, rice and olives.

These are small shells, so I used my small cookie scoop to put the beans on.

Two scoops...

 Then some cheese....

 Fold one...

Fold two...

 Fold three...

 Fold four...

Place on cookie sheet...

 Rereat above steps till you have a full cookie sheet...

 Place in the freezer for about 20 minutes...till they are firm.

When they come out, they should hold their form like this...

Somehow I deleted my last pic, but what I did was then place the 20 burritos in two freezer bags. Wrote the contents and the date and popped them in the freezer to be used later!! 

When you are ready to eat them, take out as many as you need, put them in the microwave or toaster oven and Enjoy!!!

See how our seedlings are doing:

We are having SO much fun watching our plants come up! Starting work on the backyard raised beds on Saturday, Lord Willing...

Tonight's Menu: Homemade Chicken and Bean Soup

Yesterday I tried making a new recipe with my Crockpot chicken. I poured a can of Tomato Bisque Soup over my chicken breasts and cooked them up. They were a hit! After taking the chicken out, there was the lovely soup base leftover, so I decided to try my hand at soup. Here is what we did:

1. Took the the leftover chicken breasts, broke them up and put them in with the soup base.
2. Then put the Crockpot on low all night.
3. This morning, I took some beans leftover from making refried beans for tomorrow night's meal, they had not been mushed yet, and added that.
4. I also took the black beans I had soaking all night, boiled them on the stove and added them.
5. An hour or so before dinner, I am going to add some lentils. As well as some leftover corn and rice from last night's dinner. 

This meal is smelling good already!!! Not sure how we will last till dinner, but we will try! I figure this meal will cost us about $.50 for the whole meal, for seven people! Top that!!! I would say free as it is mostly leftovers, but we did add the lentils and beans, so it cost a little something. 

All in all, feeling happy about feeding my family in a frugal yummy way!