A list of tasks that can be completed on one or two Food Preparation Days each month to turn your Food Storage into your convenience foods.

1. Turn you Food Storage into your Convenience Foods – Kitchen Tasks Food Preparation Day Tasks: Make a kitchen day once a week to prepare foods ahead of time for convenience Update Bag Meals and Freezer meals for the month Update egg storage Make large batch of bread – slice and freeze for later Yogurt – 1 gallon Granola – prepare and freeze in gallon zip loc bag Make Granola bars for lunches Make homemade tortillas – place in zip loc bag Baked and cubed chicken breasts – 10 meals (for chicken and broccoli casserole, Hawaiian Haystacks, chicken egg-rolls, chicken lasagna) Browned and canned or frozen hamburger (10 pints, meals) (for taco salad, spaghetti, beef stroganoff) Make turkey sausage (2 lbs – divided into ½ lb baggies) (for pizza, breakfast burritos) Sprout and freeze beans to use in salads, cold spreads Pressure can beef, chick, pork, hamburger, bans, sausage Freeze mozzarella cheese (10 jars, 3 pkgs sliced with 8 in each package) Freeze Swiss cheese (2 pkgs sliced with 8 in each package) Freeze cheddar cheese (20 jars) Alfalfa sprouts and Bean Mix sprouts Mix up some home-made Mayonnaise Make up mixes: white sauce mix beef gravy mix Waffle mix Hot Roll Mix Muffin Mix Cake Mix Sweet Bread mix Make some homemade cottage cheese Make yogurt snacks in dehydrator Dehydrate fruit and fruit leather Dehydrate vegetables – save as pieces or powdered Create some home-seasoning mixes