 Hey everyone, welcome back to my kitchen and welcome to a weekly meal prep. This is kind of new I haven't done one of these in a long time. Normally I do a monthly freezer meal prep if you are new around here I pick certain things in different times of the months and I prep them for the whole month So today I'm gonna show you a little more of what I would get ready for the week This does not happen every single week. Let's just be real But this is more of the ideal situation whenever I have time to kind of get everything ready for the week so basically I'm doing a lot of cutting up of vegetables and Just getting things ready that would only last you know a handful of days versus something in the freezer And I get questions a lot about Fresh fruit and vegetables especially whenever I am showing a lot of freezer meals and yes We do eat fresh fruits and vegetables obviously. I don't put those in the freezer all the time So I don't often show that part of it So I thought I would go ahead and kind of show you how I incorporate the freezer meals along with some fresh Food as well. So stick around because here in a little bit I'm gonna be showing you how I incorporate the freezer meals along with the things I'm prepping today This little thing is probably one of my most favorite purchases that I've gotten recently and it's an oil dispenser basically all you have to do is Squeeze that little top and then you can put oil on your pan on your cookie sheet and your muffin tins It basically is going to save you from having to buy a lot of cooking spray or wasting paper towels Which I love plus you can fill it with whatever type of oil you like to use and the bottle part is glass So I feel like it's a great quality and it comes in a couple different colors Anyways, there's my little ramble on my Amazon find of the week So the first thing I'm prepping up here is some Brussels sprouts and these are so great Just roasted up in the oven on cookie sheets And then I'm also roasting up some sweet potatoes as well and to reheat these because that's always a question I have when I do big preps is how do you reheat things? How do you cook things these here I will reheat in my air fryer But you could easily throw them in your frying pan with a little bit of olive oil and heat them up really quickly Or if you have a microwave, which I don't have a microwave But if you have a microwave you could always heat them up in there as well I like to use this bag method where I put all of the vegetables in the bag And of course I added some onions as well and with the oil and just kind of mix it around that way I feel like each piece of vegetable gets coated really well Whenever I mix them up in the bag like that and I just use the same bag For both of these veggies and then I topped them with a little bit of garlic powder some salt And then I added some pepper to the sweet potatoes as well This week. I also needed some deviled eggs. That is a staple side in our house. We love them I grew up eating them all the time Especially in the summer times and at church potlucks and things like that So I'm just putting some eggs into the pan and getting them boiling While I was working on some other prep All right, and then this is always my tip with the bacon you can fry an entire pack of bacon so fast so Mess less just kind of weave the bacon with it going one way one layer And then the other way another layer and all of the splatters and everything is contained in your air fryer I needed the bacon for some broccoli salad. I love broccoli salad and the nice thing about this stuff Even if you're planning it for one meal the leftovers work great as lunch options and things like that And I just got to this food processor. 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Now, let's get back to cooking Okay, so we're still prepping the broccoli salad and I just dumped the cheese in with the broccoli and now I'm getting the bacon out of the air fryer and Just chopping it up into some big bacon bits You can put as much bacon or as little bacon as you want to in this I like a lot of bacon in it Plus it adds a little extra protein and then I just put a few spoonfuls of mayo and a little squirt of mustard And then stir it all around it really depends on how much broccoli you're gonna use with this I don't use the exact measurements. I just kind of have the list of ingredients and put them all together So that's how I'll leave it in the description box just with the amounts that you want to add into the salad Then at this point my veggies were ready to get out of the oven So I just sat them on the table to cool and I added some ice to the eggs to get them to cool down faster Okay, so I am actually making a roasted tomato soup because soup and cheese sandwiches are Definitely a great lunch option. So I decided I'm gonna go ahead and cook up a whole pot of tomato soup So that I have it ready for lunches this week and to be honest I'm kind of doing some test runs on tomato soup to figure out which one is the best that I can Can I don't really want to go ahead and can a whole bunch of tomato soup and nobody likes it So we're doing some testing and this one is really really good It would be a little bit harder to can because it does have milk in it So I may have to find something else to can but either way This is a really easy option when it comes to roasted tomato soup So while they were roasting in the oven I went ahead and cut up some fresh fruit I kind of like to pick two fruits for the week. That's just kind of the way I've done it for years So whether it's oranges and apples or whatnot so this week I did a pineapple and I did some kiwi the girls are on a major kiwi kick right now And I know this is gonna look like a lot of kiwi but literally they can eat all of this in about two days and Really gets eaten up fast. Obviously you wouldn't want to store this in the refrigerator very long Just because kiwi doesn't do well But because we eat it so fast it wasn't that big of a deal and I always look at it this way with a fruit Like this they need me to cut it and peel it and I have to kind of stop what I'm doing to go do that if they want it as a snack But if it's already cut up and in the refrigerator They can just go get it out themselves and it saves me from having to kind of interrupt the task at hand. I Just had to get this beautiful shot of all of these delicious veggies So now I'm going to make some homemade guacamole and I'm gonna be honest with you all I have not made guacamole before I've bought it A lot, but if my memory serves me right, I don't think I have ever made it before also this little tip of pushing the back of the Avocado I only learned recently to get the pit out I didn't realize you can literally just push on the back of the avocado and it will pop right out So don't hurt yourself with a knife trying to get the pit out Just take your thumbs and press on the back of the avocado and the pit should pop right out for you So this recipe was really really simple and turned out really well And you can kind of adjust some of the ingredients to your liking But I will leave the recipe link below of course with all of the others Okay, so does anyone else do this whenever you're dealing with really hot peppers like jalapenos? Do you put gloves on years ago? I canned some hot peppers and I did not use gloves and oh my goodness They made my skin burn so badly and it wouldn't go away So ever since then I do use gloves whenever I'm cutting really hot peppers just so that I don't get it on my skin And it doesn't irritate me. I just picked up this chopper It works really good for hamburger but I realized that it works for a lot of other things because I also used it to mash up strawberries to make some strawberry jelly this week and Now I'm using it to mash up guacamole. So it's definitely being very used in my kitchen Now we're going to assemble the tomato soup. So the tomatoes were done roasting So I just dumped everything into my Dutch oven and you put some cream in it and along with some Chicken bone broth and I used a little bit of feta cheese and some salt and pepper And then I used my immersion blender that I love I really love this thing if you're looking for one That is a great quality. This is a really great one I will leave the link below But it just blended it up and then I just stored it in some mason jars in the refrigerator This is another snack that if I have on hand my daughters will eat so much and that is Cucumbers and if I just have them cut up in the refrigerator, they will eat these things like potato chips They love them. I like them, but I think they definitely love them more than I do So now we're going to get started on the deviled eggs, but I have to make a comment this day was so absolutely Beautiful and I felt like this beautiful sunlight coming in that you're gonna see across the next couple of clips Was such a wonderful reward that God was just giving me a little bit of sunshine to end all of this hard work And when I was finished with this meal prep I went out and sat on the porch with a drink and just soaked in the vitamin D If you live in a place that's cold you totally understand this This is probably one of the warmest days that we've had so far and the sunshine this afternoon sunshine was just beautiful Sometimes whenever I film it can be really bright and I'll move out of the sunshine But this day I was like I have to share these rays of light for all of my northern Subscribers that are missing the sunshine as well and deviled eggs often make me think of summer and picnics And all of that so all of it together was just perfect So the other thing I like to do whenever I'm finished making my deviled eggs Which I just use a little mayo and mustard and with the yolk is I like to sprinkle them with paprika However, I was out this day. So I just use a little chili powder the next thing that I put together was some overnight oats and This is so simple and I forget about it a lot of times But all I did was shake a little bit of oats into each container and then I did use regular sugar You can use any kind of sweetener you want to you could even use honey or maple syrup And then you can top it with anything that you want I use some bananas and some blueberries and then I try to kind of guess But you want about one part oatmeal to two parts milk And you just let them sit overnight and they're ready to go the nice thing about these is they do Have a couple days that you can leave them in the refrigerator and they're a nice grab-and-go Breakfast for anyone in the house Okay, so I wanted to show you my plan for this week and how I will use my freezer meals along with the weekly meal prep I just did on Monday We're gonna have steaks with sliced potatoes and I'll just do those fresh and soak them And then we can have some of the carrots that I'm canning right now Tuesday we will have barbecue meatballs mashed potatoes and peas and that is a freezer meal Wednesday We will have sour cream chicken enchiladas and chips with the guac and that is a freezer meal as well Thursday we will have roast beef with the sweet potatoes and peas and the roast beef is really simple I can just pull that out of the freezer then on Friday We'll have the lemon pepper chicken, which is also a freezer meal with baked beans and coleslaw that I'll just make that day Saturday we'll have burgers with the broccoli salad that I prepped today and some potato chips Sunday we'll have pulled pork sandwiches, which is a freezer meal carrots and Pickled eggs which I'm actually boiling the eggs for the pickled eggs right now to put in with the pickled beets And then here's all of my extras So I did pineapple kiwi cucumbers Doubled eggs overnight oats and then tomato soup to fill in for lunches All right, so I told you all the other day on Instagram that I'm going to start including What I'm canning every week at the end of my video every week I know it's not everybody's thing to do long-term food storage and things like that But this is what I am working on and so I figured I will just explain what I'm doing and Obviously if this isn't your thing you can click out But what I'm working on today while I've been prepping for the week is canning some carrots And honestly with this being the first thing that I'm showing you how to can It's a great starter because it's truly so so simple and I have to give a little disclaimer This is how I'm doing this. It doesn't mean it's the most recommended or safest way to do this I always have to give a disclaimer with this kind of stuff because Some people have their methods that they feel they need to do. I'm not pressure canning these But this is how like even my mother-in-law has canned carrots for years So check with your grandmothers. They may be able to give you some tips that may not be by the book But this is how I'm doing it So first of all, I'm just doing baby carrots. It saves me time on cutting up carrots You can do regular carrots as long as they're all around the same size It doesn't really matter, but this is just fast and simple. So you cold pack the jars With the cold carrots or you know just raw carrot Then you're gonna add around a teaspoon of salt to each jar now I think it's a little bit tastier to have a little less than a teaspoon per jar But that's up to you. You can do one batch taste them and see which you think these are my magnets for my lids back here I just stuck them to the side of the stove. So after I have all of my carrots in here I'm going to wipe the rims. These are clean sterile jars I just washed them in very very hot water and put them over here I have my lids back here in this pot Boiling so they're getting sterilized and then I have Purified water in here that's getting hot the next step will be to ladle in the really hot water that is in here and Once they are up here and have about an inch of headspace I will add my lids and screw on my rings back there And then I will put them over here in my canner if you hear something hissing. That's what's going on this is getting to a boiling point and So it's all very very hot. I do have some carrots over here that I just pulled out. Oh, that's hot And so I will let them sit for a couple hours to make sure that they seal Really really well and obviously test the seals and then I'll take the rings off Label them and they will be ready for storage and then right here is my labels I will link them below they are from Amazon and I actually get them in huge packs But they're great because they dissolve right off the jar when you go to wash the jar So you don't have any sticky stuff on your jar plus They're very simple to write on with just a regular pen We had some popcorn last night so it's over here But this is how the carrots look whenever they're done. They are super super simple and they can keep for you know a year Depending you may want to do a little research on how long you want to store yours I do have to show you this because I just got it today in the mail from Amazon But it's a butter dish and it says butter all the things on it and it's great You can keep soft butter right by the stove to put in the frying pan or on top of butter bread So anyways, this is the finished product. I'm gonna go ahead and load up my next batch So one more thing I do process these for three hours in my water bath canner. This is just from Walmart super cheap canner And I will leave the link for it below again You can do your own research and decide how long you want to can them for but three hours is What I do for these I hope this video was a total inspiration to you Let me know in the comments if you do canning or if you're liking this Content of canning or doing freezing and that kind of thing for long-term storage Also, don't forget to subscribe if you're new and I will see you all in my next video