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What do you do to prep all your meals?
 
I like cooking most of my meals in bulk for my boy friend and I…
 
 
-Brown Rice: 5 days
-Chicken: 5 days
-Beans: 4-5 days
-Veggies 4 days
-Turkey loaf 4-5 days
-Wheat pasta 5-6 days
-Sweet Potatoes
 
 
What do you cook in Bulk?
 
How long do you store your cooked food?
 

i used to cook like this too, but not usually that much food. i would cook 3-4 days worth of salmon, chicken and brown rice and supplement meals with veggies and salads. it was extremely quick and convenient, and since i just fired up my steamer and Foreman grill it was super easy too.
i don’t do this anymore but i will always make at least 2-3 servings of whatever i am making for dinner and package up the extra food for lunch or dinner within the next day or two. for example i’ll make a whole spaghetti squash and a big batch of meat sauce, use a portion for dinner and save the rest for meals over the next day or two.

why did you stop cooking in bulk?
 
ALso.. how do you make spaghetti sqaush.. I hear people rave about this all the time.. How do you shape it like spaghetti?
 
What type of squash are you using?

i stopped cooking in bulk because i got tired of eating the same things all the time and wanted to branch out to different and more complex meals. there’s only so much variety you can do with only mixing up spices. don’t get me wrong - salmon, chicken, brown rice and veggies are great, but i really wanted to explore other cooking options.
spaghetti squash is actually really easy to make. you can either bake it in the oven, boil it on the stove or chop it open and steam it in a dish of water in the microwave (not recommended). you actually don’t have to do anything to get the “string” consistency in the squash. once you open up the cooked squash, the meat of the squash is already stringy, you just have to scoop out the seeds and then use forks to pull the stringy stuff out.

 
The ultimate “cook in bulk” item is stew in the crock pot.
3lbs of stew meat
1-2lbs of baby carrots
a couple of bunches of celery, chopped
Potatoes, only a few if you want low carbs, more if you want.
Put all this in a crock pot. Fill with water up to the top of the food.  Add in a generous amount of cellery salt, a generous amount of ground peppercorns, and 10-15 beef bullion cubes.
Set the crock pot to cook for around 10 hours.
When served, season to taste with salt, pepper, and a little louisianna sauce.
Now the beauty of this is that when a crock pot gets done cooking, it doesnt turn off, it reverts to a “warm” mode.  So, for the next 3-4 days, you dont have to heat anything up, cook, or pretty much do anything.  You just take the lid off and scoop out a bowl, salt and pepper and hot sauce it and eat.  No warming up, no nothing.  Hell, if you dont let your wife or girlfriend see, y ou dont even need a bowl.  You get up to pee at 3 in the morning, go to the kitchen, get a big spoon take the lid off, and eat directly from the crock pot till yo are satisfied, then go back to bed having dirtied nothing but a spoon.  Really cuts down on the dish washing.  Just make sure you drink some milk directly from the carton before you go back to bed.

And this is why Coach has so many internet stalkers and girls following him around the walmart. It’s hard to find gyus who are this manly and sophisticated these days.

Coach took me to Costco the other day when I got paid and
bought me all the tools to make a killer stew!  He gave me his old crock
pot and after we bought all of the food needed to make the world famous stew we
went back to my place and he gave my girlfriend and I a lesson on how to make
his beef stew.  wow!  I felt like I was watching one of those cooking
shows on TV!  Holly molly! Jess and I where just standing there wide eyed
as coach turned into another person, explaining to the smallest detail possible to
each step of his stew.  Now only what goes into the stew but how, why, the
right touch, hand movement, hip movement, noises and so forth!!!  lol it
was almost like he rehearsed it.  The next day my girlfriend and I slowly
walked over to the main star of last night’s show, now just sitting there
quietly with no coach dumping food and spices into the crock pot.  we made
ourselves a bowl and it was great!!!  The best part about it was it lasted
us almost four days!  The stew was easy to make, very tasty, and last’s
you a long time!  I recommend coaches stew to everyone!  north 2012

 
Only two more days till we do samples at Costco again…

I am counting down the min tell we attack the little sample ladies again!!!  I think I even out eat you last time!

 
Maybe.  You might even out ate me this time…

 
haha.. i would have never known! i have never seen the inside of a squash before.. Cant wait to try it !!!