 Hey everyone! Welcome back to Six Sister Stuff. Today we're going to make 15 Instant Pot and Slow Cooker freezer meals just for you guys. So as a busy mom, freezer meals literally save my life, especially if I can prep them fast and keep them in my freezer and pull them out when I need them. When, you know, the day is crazy and you don't have time to cook. You're thinking, shoot, what's for dinner? I don't know. So having these on hand ready to go at any moment literally is a game changer. So these 15 meals, they ended up, the total for all the ingredients ended up being about $150, which comes out to be $10 a meal, which is not bad for feeding anywhere from four to six people. Yep. Plus the prep is already done. We're going to prep all 15 and you can do it too in about an hour. So if you guys are ready, let's get cooking. So we decided to make these freezer meals for you because our sweet friend Erica from Favorite Family Recipes has started something that she's doing a freezer meal class. Now Camille first introduced me to a freezer meal class and it was amazing. The world of freezer meals. Oh my gosh. Every mom's best friend. Seriously. It was wonderful. The only bad thing was it costed about $200 for 10 meals and as I went back and checked the prices of what things really cost, it really only costed me about $105, maybe $106, but I paid $200 for it and so I was a little frustrated like, man, I can do this myself. Then my friend Erica contacted me. She's like, look, this is what I want to do. She's like, I want to help ladies make these freezer meals in just a short amount of time and I want to make them with them so they can do it wearing their pajamas and the comfort of their own home and make them at a good price point that you could actually almost double your recipes So if you want to check out Erica's live freezer meal class, go ahead and click the link down below. I'll put it there in the description for you. So if you guys are ready, we're going to first make our first instant pot recipe. Now we're going to make five different recipes three times. So we're going to make 15 recipes in about an hour. And that's the way to do it. To do it in batches like this, you're going to save money and obviously you're not going to eat them back to back, but just space them out over the couple of months. It's awesome because they last about three months in the freezer, which is perfect. And then if you can even double bag it, they'll last even a little longer. So all right. Okay, let's get started. So we've already prepped our bags. Yep. So you want to be sure to write on it what it is and how long to cook it for because when it's frozen and you pull it out and it just is a big blob of nothing. You don't know what it is. So that's super important to write what it is and the cook time on there. Yes. So these are our instant pot Hawaiian meatballs. Now they cook about seven minutes in your instant pot or three to four hours in your slow cooker. Now if you guys are proud of me, so many of you recommended these things for me for freezer meals. They're the best. And I finally broke down and bought some. So I'll put a link in the description. Yeah for you. So if you're wondering what they are, just holds your bag open so that you can just load the stuff in there. You don't need two people to make it. You can just make it yourself. All right. I do sometimes use just like a big plastic pitcher that I got at the dollar store. Yeah. Yeah. And that works too. Hold it over. All right. Let's add our meatballs. First thing is just meatballs. Any kind of meatballs will work. Yep. So these ones are 32 ounce. You can have like a 22, 24 ounce too. That will work perfectly with this recipe. And you said that these meals feed four to six. Yes. This one I can even stretch to eight. Exactly. I was going to say this one makes a little bit more. It makes a lot. A lot of meatballs. Yep. Okay. Next let's do our peppers. So we chopped up a red pepper. Just one pepper. In each one. Yep. I love when you make your own freezer meals too because you can load in as many vegetables as you want and like the more that I know that my kids like and will eat. Exactly. Or take out vegetables that your kids can eat. Yes. Exactly. I also usually throw in a green pepper to these. Oh nice. Just for more pepper. Right now we're adding a 20 ounce can of pineapple chunks. Now we're adding in the liquid too because you're going to need that liquid if you're cooking it in the instant pot. I think it helps in the slow cooker too. I think so too. I like the more moist. The sweet from the pineapple as well. Yes. Okay. All right. So first thing going in we're going to do one cup of brown sugar. Just pack it in there. In each one. On to each one. And while she's doing brown sugar I'm going to do the vinegar. It's about two thirds cup of white distilled vinegar in each one too. Now I know what you're thinking vinegar that sounds disgusting but it actually makes it taste so good. Yep. It's just kind of the acidity with the sweetness like it all comes together. Right. All right. I give you the hard job. No it's brown sugar. I do. It smells of vinegar which reminds me of Easter eggs. Easter eggs. I am shaky. I am shaky. There we go. And then while she finishes up brown sugar I'm just going to add two tablespoons of soy sauce to each one too. All right. We got all the ingredients in. Yep. No. Now we just get to zip them up and then kind of stir around the flavors. That's what I do. Is that what you do? I usually do too just so they're kind of all incorporated. Now here's the thing when you're making these freezer meals you want the gallon size bags to be freezer bags otherwise they're too thin and they will break open in your freezer. Oh. So make sure you've got thick, thick freezer bags. All right. Trying to get that brown sugar in there. Yeah. Right. And I mean you can I mean you don't have to do it too much. Right. I know just enough. It's all going to cook together. Yeah. Exactly. We're good. So you can see these bags are pretty chuck full. If you have just a little bit of freezer space that's the great thing about these is they're not going to take up a ton. No. I would recommend laying them flat and stacking them up. However if you've got the room freeze them kind of standing up because it's going to be so much easier to pop that in when it's frozen in that shape pop it into your instant pot. Instead of like a square that you're trying to shove in which I do do sometimes. I know and that works too and you can thought and microwave a little bit and you're going to be fine. Perfect. But yeah. Okay. Okay. We're done with these three. We're going to move on to the next recipe. Okay. So this next recipe is our three ingredient chicken tacos and these are so versatile. You can put them like of course on tacos. I like to put them on salad. Yeah. I like to mix them in just all kinds of stuff. Wrap it in a burrito. Make enchiladas. Nacho topping. There we go. There's something for everybody. Okay. So great thing about doing freeze meals you can use frozen chicken. So if you're grossed out by raw chicken this is perfect. Yeah. So we just bought a big huge bag of like three pounds of chicken. So I'm just going to divide it between the three. So one pound of chicken will feed about four people. If you want to make this a little bit more I mean there's going to be plenty of seasonings you can add more chicken as needed. Perfect. Now before we get too far into it you can make this in the instant pot and slow cooker. Okay. In the instant pot if it's frozen we'll cook about 25 minutes. If it's thawed about 20 minutes and then if you cook it in the slow cooker I like to cook it for about six to eight hours. Yeah. On low. Not high. You go ahead. On low. So we're going to put a can of salsa into each bag. So this is just a 16 ounce can. Yep. And I love crudes. Do you like crudes? It is. It is. I don't know. But it's my favorite. I do too and it's actually a really good price and start. Exactly. That's just really like. That's why I tried it at first because I have also made this before with homemade salsa. It was amazing. You can also if you want to do a homemade taco seasoning because the next thing we're throwing in is just a packet of taco seasoning. It's so easy to make a homemade version. Yeah. But if you're short on time just throw in a packet. And a lot of these ingredients I just got like the cheapest price of most of the items so I could kind of stay within my budget. So these are just the Kroger brand taco seasonings. You saved about a dollar because it's Kroger. Yep. Okay. All right. That's it. And so when you serve these we just usually do them on like hard taco shells. Yeah. With cheese. Super simple with kids. They don't need a lot more. But like we talked about this chicken's so versatile. Exactly. You can use it for whatever you need. If you're cooking these in your Instant Pot you might want to add about a half a cup of water just to give it just a little bit more liquid in it. But if you're cooking in a slow cooker you don't need to add anything else. Yeah you're good. All right. Grab this one off. I love these little things. I know. I love them. Make it so easy. All right. Another one down. Okay. All right. The next recipe that we're making are country style ribs. And these are boneless ribs. You can get them just over in your butcher area. They usually say country style right on them. That's how I know. Okay. These are country style. So they're boneless. They're not very fatty. And that's why I like them. They're also usually really inexpensive. So if this is a cut of meat you haven't used before I highly recommend it. And this recipe is so easy. So our mom used to make this recipe for Sunday dinners I swear like once a month. It was like the go-to Sunday dinner. And all of us just love it. So you guys got to try it. These just fall apart after they cook. If you can't find them at your grocery store. I've also made this with pork chops. And it's worked just as well. So. Right. Well she's adding meat. I'm going to add one onion that we've already chopped and gotten ready. So we'll just dump it right in. I'll switch yeah. Okay. Put in our onions. It does make it go by a lot faster if there's two people. Yes. Prepping the instant pot. This is a good thing to do with girlfriends or even get your kids involved and say okay your job is to add the onion. Your job support in the sauce. That's a great idea. Yeah. All right. So now we're going to add a whole container of barbecue sauce. We're just going to dump the whole thing in. And you can use your favorite kind whatever. Yes. Again I went for whatever was like least expensive but actually Kroger or Smith's or whatever your Kroger is by you. They make really good sauces. Yeah they have really good sauces. I was I was impressed with the flavor. There's also you can usually find really good cells. Our favorite is sweet baby rays. That's usually my go to. Stubbs makes a really good one. Yes. All right. While you're finishing that up we're going to stick about a half cup of brown sugar in each one. If you want to cut back on sugar I feel like this is one. This is one you could do. Yeah. A quarter cup of brown sugar. Still delicious. Okay so here is the secret ingredient to this. So this is called liquid smoke. You can find it by the barbecue sauces. Yep. Yep. Usually only like a dollar or two but it's a game changer in this recipe. It just adds this deep smoky taste which usually don't get in an instant. Exactly. You get it from the smoker. So I'm thinking we've got two tablespoons. Two tablespoons of that. Of this in each one. This is strong so if you don't want it too smoky you could cut it in half but. Exactly. And you can find liquid smoke at every grocery store like Walmart Kroger. It's on Amazon. Exactly. Yep. So if you're going to make this recipe invest in some liquid smoke. Yes. Okay. All right. I think that's it. We get the rest of the barbecue sauce. We're all good. Okay. Good to go. Close it up. Exactly. Now this one will feed I feel like it feeds closer to four people. Yeah. So just if you have more people in your family just make sure you have a few more sides and you'll be good. It'll be good. Yep. Or if you want to throw in some extra ribs you can do that. Yeah. Sometimes we get complaints that oh you used all canned ingredients it's not all healthy. Like this is just the main dish so with your side dishes you can make those all super healthy too. Yep. We always serve dinner with a vegetable and a fruit. Let's do it. Let's do it. Make your sides be healthy and you're good. Yep. You're good to go. You could also do a homemade barbecue sauce if you are that domestic. Yep. Some people are. Some people are. And there's simple recipes out there so look those out. Exactly. Okay. Next one done. All right. So the next recipe we're making is Philly Cheesesteaks. Now I love Philly Cheesesteaks. Me too. Good sandwich. Exactly. So this is super simple. If you cook it in your Instant Pot it will only cook for about eight minutes or so if you use thin meat. If you use a little bit thicker you might have to go up a little more to like 15-20. Yeah. But I mean Philly Cheesesteaks it's usually thin cut meat so it only takes about eight minutes. And then if you cook it in your slow cooker I would say probably about three to four hours on low. Okay. All right. You ready? Yeah. Let's do it. Okay. So these are bags that I got at Walmart and now you can buy all kinds of different like beef fajitas. Yeah. Just any type of thin sliced meat will work for this. Exactly. So if you didn't want to get some that are like pre-packaged like this you could get it from the butcher just by a beef roast. Right. You can even ask any slice it up. Yeah they'd slice it up for you so. But we're just going to use this. So okay. You have about what 15 ounces in each one. Yep. So we'll split these bags. Yep. Just and we're really good at eyeballing right? Yeah. Totally. And that's all you need to do for these recipes. Exactly. Cool. Okay. Now an onion one whole onion in each one. So you can have like bigger pieces of onion but I kind of like them smaller in Instant Pot. Yeah. It's totally your preference. And then one green bell pepper and you can slice it however you want. I like to keep my bell peppers big when I'm cooking in Instant Pot or soul cooker because they do shrink down. And they get really soft if they're too small. So I usually chop them pretty big. Smart. All right next thing is just one package of Italian zesty seasoning. It doesn't have to be zesty it can be just dry Italian. Again I went the cheaper route so we tried Cougar brand and it smells and tastes delicious. I've seen too you can make this from scratch as well. Oh nice. Yeah. So just Google recipe homemade Italian dressing mix. Nice. We'll pull something up and it's probably seasonings you have on hand. Yeah. But for convenience sake this is a great option. Exactly. And then just about anywhere from a half a cup to a cup of some beef broth. We'll probably just do a cup in each one. Okay. And just kind of guess our way through. I'll do this one then I'll let you do the last one. Okay. Sounds good. And then to serve these. Oh are you ready? Yes. Okay. So I love bread. I love sourdough bread. So I like to get some sourdough bread and then cut them open put some provolone or other cheese on top and then put them in the broiler for a few minutes. Then I'll put these on top of it so my bread is all nice and crispy. It's awesome. And then of course if you want your special Philly cheesesteak. Super authentic. Cheese. Philly cheesesteak you gotta spread the cheese whiz on top. For those of us who don't like cheese whiz. Yeah. You don't have to. You don't have to. It's okay. It is. Every once in a while. I just like the crusty bread part of it. I do too. Oh my gosh. Yes. Nice. These also smell so good while they're cooking. Oh my gosh right. My husband comes home and he's like oh I know what's for dinner. That's the best. Okay next one down. All right we have one more recipe to make so you're ready. So the last recipe we're making today is our delicious pork chili verde. You can use this for whatever you want. It's kind of like the chicken tacos we made earlier. You can put it on. We just put it in burrito or like a tortilla. Wrap it up. Yeah um so tacos burritos nachos salads whatever you want. Exactly. I love to make little I love street tacos so make little street tacos put a little salsa on top and you're good. Or just eat it as is. It's perfect like this too. So before we get started on everything I'll tell you how to cook it cooking times. Yeah. So we put the whole pork roast in there. Now if you wanted to cook for less time you could chop up the pork roast into like three sections. If you did that it would only cook for about 30 minutes. But because we put in the whole pork roast because they were frozen. Yep. We're going to cook it anywhere from 60 to 90 minutes just to make sure that it's cooked all the way through and to make it soft so we'll just shred apart. Yeah. Now if you're cooking this in your slow cooker I highly suggest anywhere from like six to even ten hours in your slow cooker. Yeah. Low and slow. Low and slow. It's the best for this one. I love using pork roast like a lean pork roast. It is so inexpensive. It's so good for you. It's a great cut of meat. Tastes like chicken to my kids so they eat it. So so many pros going on. Awesome. Okay so we already put the roast in obviously. Yes. So the roast is ready to go. Do you want to tell them what this is? So the one ingredient that's a little bit different than all the rest and maybe some of you are not familiar with it is these are tomatillos. It basically is like a green tomato that's wrapped in leaves. So when you see that the storm it's got its leaves all wrapped around it that's the right thing. Yep. So all that you're going to do is just kind of peel back these leaves and pull them off and then just roughly chop the tomatillo. So I just did it in a quarters. It looks a little different than tomato but it adds a really good flavor. Really good flavor. Yep. So that's what that ingredient is and what's funny is the leaves are kind of sticky. Oh. So that leaves kind of makes your fingers sticky a little bit. Yeah. Two of those go in each bag. Perfect. All right then we chopped up an onion so one onion. One whole onion. For each one. Perfect. And then one whole green pepper and I chopped them up into pretty small pieces. Yeah. So obviously we're making chili verde. You want to make sure you're using salsa verde which basically is green salsa. Exactly. Oh and it's my favorite. I love it too. All right you want to pour that one in? Yep. Okay why you do that. We're also going to add some more green chili so just a small can of your green chilies and we're just leaving all the liquid in these because yes we like liquid especially if you're using an instant pot. Okay all right last thing. Well almost. Almost. Dice tomatoes. Dice tomatoes. Keep the liquid in there. Don't drain it. Now usually I don't go name brand when I'm trying to go discount but these were actually cheaper than the other brands so we got some name brand today. Okay how much cumin. So there's one teaspoon of cumin you just dump it. A lot of these recipes you can add more salt and pepper sometimes I like to add it after it's cooked. Yeah. Just to see how the flavor's doing. See what seasoning you still need. Exactly. You bet. All right this is a good deal. As we finish up here we want to know what's your favorite instant pot freezer meal. It's your go-to recipe that you can prep quickly and get it on table fast. Right and if you need more instant pot freezer meals be sure to check out our favorite instant pot freezer meals right there and we will see you guys next Monday. Bye. See you later.