Freezer meals

[Guest guest]

Good Morning,

I have been using something called Mega Mailer from

www.savingdinner.com. I think I paid about 10 dollars for the 32 page

book you download and keep. It has the shopping list, the assembly

directions and the recipes.It is 22 meals that you assemble together

in two afternoons and keep in the freezer. There is no cream soup

recipes, but I do have to make my own catsup, BBQ sauce, and cut out

the soy sauce. Most of the meals are SCD friendly with very simple

substitutuions with SCD items I tend to have like diced, dried onion

and garlic, sesame oil, and SCD cheeses. My kids and I really enjoy

the menus. This same website has weekly email menus complete with

shopping list and recipes sent to your computer each week. I like the

monthly freezer meals, I get so busy that it is a relief to get home

and know what is for dinner and that it is ready to cook, all the

prep work is done. The lady that does the menus has crockpot menus,

frugal, vegetarian and low carb. She offers several free sample

menus. Not expensive and easy to make. She also has complete

nutritional information for all her recipes. I do not get anything

for telling you this. I just like the menus and have used them for a

long time.

Ana K.

SCD 11/30/06

IBS, Gluten and Lactose Intolerant

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[Guest guest]

Thank you. I will definitely check in to this. It just seems that most freezer

meal recipes contain those hard to replace items like the cream of...soup, but

I'll definitely check the site out if hers are very SCD friendly or easy to

adapt.

Meleah

Freezer meals

Good Morning,

I have been using something called Mega Mailer from

www.savingdinner.com. I think I paid about 10 dollars for the 32 page

book you download and keep. It has the shopping list, the assembly

directions and the recipes.It is 22 meals that you assemble together

in two afternoons and keep in the freezer. There is no cream soup

recipes, but I do have to make my own catsup, BBQ sauce, and cut out

the soy sauce. Most of the meals are SCD friendly with very simple

substitutuions with SCD items I tend to have like diced, dried onion

and garlic, sesame oil, and SCD cheeses. My kids and I really enjoy

the menus. This same website has weekly email menus complete with

shopping list and recipes sent to your computer each week. I like the

monthly freezer meals, I get so busy that it is a relief to get home

and know what is for dinner and that it is ready to cook, all the

prep work is done. The lady that does the menus has crockpot menus,

frugal, vegetarian and low carb. She offers several free sample

menus. Not expensive and easy to make. She also has complete

nutritional information for all her recipes. I do not get anything

for telling you this. I just like the menus and have used them for a

long time.

Ana K.

SCD 11/30/06

IBS, Gluten and Lactose Intolerant

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> Thank you. I will definitely check in to this. It just seems that most

freezer meal recipes

contain those hard to replace items like the cream of...soup, but I'll

definitely check the

site out if hers are very SCD friendly or easy to adapt.

> Meleah

I think if we put our heads together we could come uo with our own freezer

meals. Of

course we need to make the SCD staples, like tomato sauce, yogurt, chicken

soup, bake

breads, brownies, crackers, desserts. The cookie dough can be frozen and I'll

bet so could

muffin batter. I freeze the cheesecake. You can freeze lasagna, cabbage rolls,

meatloaf,

meat, veal or chicken balls, stir fries, stews, soups, veggie casseroles and

puddings etc. in

family size containers or individual portion paks.

BTW: For those about to celebrate passover, SCDlends itself very well since

leavened

baking is not allowed, nuts and fruit are used liberally.

Carol F.

SCD 7 years

[Guest guest]

Can you just give me a few recipe titles that your family likes that either are

already SCD compliant or easily adapted? I looked at the web site, and think it

would be a good thing. I just don't know how many things I'm going to end up

with that I can truly use with SCD because you obviously can't view all of the

recipes simply for their own business protection.

Meleah

Freezer meals

Good Morning,

I have been using something called Mega Mailer from

www.savingdinner.com. I think I paid about 10 dollars for the 32 page

book you download and keep. It has the shopping list, the assembly

directions and the recipes.It is 22 meals that you assemble together

in two afternoons and keep in the freezer. There is no cream soup

recipes, but I do have to make my own catsup, BBQ sauce, and cut out

the soy sauce. Most of the meals are SCD friendly with very simple

substitutuions with SCD items I tend to have like diced, dried onion

and garlic, sesame oil, and SCD cheeses. My kids and I really enjoy

the menus. This same website has weekly email menus complete with

shopping list and recipes sent to your computer each week. I like the

monthly freezer meals, I get so busy that it is a relief to get home

and know what is for dinner and that it is ready to cook, all the

prep work is done. The lady that does the menus has crockpot menus,

frugal, vegetarian and low carb. She offers several free sample

menus. Not expensive and easy to make. She also has complete

nutritional information for all her recipes. I do not get anything

for telling you this. I just like the menus and have used them for a

long time.

Ana K.

SCD 11/30/06

IBS, Gluten and Lactose Intolerant

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[Guest guest]

For a cream of...soup, I have made a white gravy type thing with flour, oil,

salt and almond milk, then added extra milk to get it the right consistency and

mushrooms, celery, or chicken depending on what flavor I needed. Couldn't you

substitute cashew flour or some other nut flour for the regular flour to make it

SCD compliant?

Freezer meals

Good Morning,

I have been using something called Mega Mailer from

www.savingdinner.com. I think I paid about 10 dollars for the 32 page

book you download and keep. It has the shopping list, the assembly

directions and the recipes.It is 22 meals that you assemble together

in two afternoons and keep in the freezer. There is no cream soup

recipes, but I do have to make my own catsup, BBQ sauce, and cut out

the soy sauce. Most of the meals are SCD friendly with very simple

substitutuions with SCD items I tend to have like diced, dried onion

and garlic, sesame oil, and SCD cheeses. My kids and I really enjoy

the menus. This same website has weekly email menus complete with

shopping list and recipes sent to your computer each week. I like the

monthly freezer meals, I get so busy that it is a relief to get home

and know what is for dinner and that it is ready to cook, all the

prep work is done. The lady that does the menus has crockpot menus,

frugal, vegetarian and low carb. She offers several free sample

menus. Not expensive and easy to make. She also has complete

nutritional information for all her recipes. I do not get anything

for telling you this. I just like the menus and have used them for a

long time.

Ana K.

SCD 11/30/06

IBS, Gluten and Lactose Intolerant

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[Guest guest]

Hmm...Good thought. Worth a little experiment.

Meleah

Freezer meals

Good Morning,

I have been using something called Mega Mailer from

www.savingdinner.com. I think I paid about 10 dollars for the 32 page

book you download and keep. It has the shopping list, the assembly

directions and the recipes.It is 22 meals that you assemble together

in two afternoons and keep in the freezer. There is no cream soup

recipes, but I do have to make my own catsup, BBQ sauce, and cut out

the soy sauce. Most of the meals are SCD friendly with very simple

substitutuions with SCD items I tend to have like diced, dried onion

and garlic, sesame oil, and SCD cheeses. My kids and I really enjoy

the menus. This same website has weekly email menus complete with

shopping list and recipes sent to your computer each week. I like the

monthly freezer meals, I get so busy that it is a relief to get home

and know what is for dinner and that it is ready to cook, all the

prep work is done. The lady that does the menus has crockpot menus,

frugal, vegetarian and low carb. She offers several free sample

menus. Not expensive and easy to make. She also has complete

nutritional information for all her recipes. I do not get anything

for telling you this. I just like the menus and have used them for a

long time.

Ana K.

SCD 11/30/06

IBS, Gluten and Lactose Intolerant

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[Guest guest]

Thanks. That was so nice. So, you truly are able to use every recipe that came

in the mega mailer. Yes, I'd love for you to do this with the other mega mailer

for me if you don't mind. If you're pretty much able to use all 20 recipes from

each mailer, then you have a total of 40 freezer meals for SCD use? That would

be such a life saver for me.

Meleah

Re: Freezer meals

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> Can you just give me a few recipe titles that your family likes

that either are already SCD compliant or easily adapted? I looked at

the web site, and think it would be a good thing. I just don't know

how many things I'm going to end up with that I can truly use with

SCD because you obviously can't view all of the recipes simply for

their own business protection.

> Meleah

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On Mega Mailer 2, the pepper steak is just steak, garlic, oil and

peppers, the polynesian flank steak I did not use the soy sauce and

used honey instead of brown sugar. I couldn't find SCD stuffed green

olives but the Greek Burgers turned out fine. The only recipe that

gave me fits was the cranberry/chili sauce meatballs. I made the darn

cranberry sauce, but then left it in the crock pot 14 hours and

burned it to a big mess. The jamaican BBQ chicken you need SCD

mustard. Fajitas pollo loco, just don't serve tortillas. Apricot

Chicken, I ommited the wine, soy sauce and apricot jelly. I used real

apricots and added some honey. Crock Pot Morock Chicken I used fresh

dice tomatoes, and some SCD legal tomato juice and homemade chicken

broth then added SCD peanut butter. Ginger honey salmon needs SCD

dijon mustard. Fish cakes, use almond meal instead of bread crumbs

and use two eggs instead of 1 to keep the patties together.Cajun

salmon sandwiches you will have to season yourself since no spice

mixtures are SCD legal. Saucy pork stir fry I eliminated the soy

sauce and cornstarch, I used sesame seed oil for flavor and and honey

instead of sugar. Hawaiin pork kebabs drop the soy sauce. Tex mex

pork, use SCD tomato juice, homemade BBQ sauce and no chili powder

mix. I didn't find any SCD ham for the Glazed ham steak, I used a

london broil and SCD mustard and honey, I skipped the molasses and

brown sugar. The Caribbean turkey needs SCD mustard. Turkey stir fry

I cut out the mustard, since I was out of SCD mustard by now, and

used fresh vegetables, I cooked the brown rice for my nonSCD son.

Sloppy jose I used homemade salsa, SCD cheese and dropped the buns.

Crock pot turkey, I used SCD apple cider and homemande chicken broth.

Garlic lamb is fine the way it is. These are the 20 recipes for the

Mega Mailer 2. I also own Mega Mailer 1. If you want I can do the

same thing for Mega Mailer 1. My kids eat this just fine, DD5 picks

out the vegetables so I chop big pieces that are easy to remove for

her. DS18 has no problems and frequently gives compliments.

> Ana K.

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[Guest guest]

That's eactly what I did sometimes for soups and curries while gluten

and dairy free. Almond flour and milk work really well to thicken and

make things a bit " creamy " .

I'm certain other nut flours and milks would work just as well.

I did freeze my meals sometimes and they were good reheated.

I just love the idea of doing a cook-athon once a month!

Anne.

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> For a cream of...soup, I have made a white gravy type thing with

flour, oil, salt and almond milk, then added extra milk to get it the

right consistency and mushrooms, celery, or chicken depending on what

flavor I needed. Couldn't you substitute cashew flour or some other

nut flour for the regular flour to make it SCD compliant?

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> Thanks. That was so nice. So, you truly are able to use every

recipe that came in the mega mailer. Yes, I'd love for you to do

this with the other mega mailer for me if you don't mind. If you're

pretty much able to use all 20 recipes from each mailer, then you

have a total of 40 freezer meals for SCD use? That would be such a

life saver for me.

> Meleah

I think Menu Mailer 1 was her first one and it is more labor

intensive than MM2. To be succesful you need to have SCD mustard,

salsa, diced garlic, SCD cheese that is shredded, and SCD black beans

and SCD white beans already made. Plus maybe some diced cooked

mushrooms and about two cups homemade vegetable broth. This prep.

work will help with the other Menu Mailer as well. You need to have

all ingredients on hand and ready to go. It takes me two afternoons

to get 20 meals together, but I seldom have any help. Complete

instructions are included when you download the menus on how assemble

the kits.

> On Menu Mailer 1, the meatloaf recipe was hard to fix. I used

almond flour, diced garlic, homemade catsup and no buttermilk and no

worcesteshire. It tasted good, but the almond flour was grainy,

someone suggested using cooked, diced mushrooms in the meatloaf

instead for a softer more meatlife texture. Beef and Bean burritos

use almond flour instead of the oatmeal or diced, cooked mushrooms,

homemade salsa, and black beans, use SCD cheese and drop the

tortillas. The Caribbean steak needs SCD mustard. The Ground Beef

Gyros are fine as is but you need SCD yogurt for the sauce. Crock pot

beef and peppers, don't use the soy sauce or worcestershire and use

homemade beef or vegetable broth. Stuffed chicken breasts need

shredded SCD cheese, I love sundried tomatoes but my tummy doesn't.

The lemon chicken, I used almond flour and parmesan cheese for the

breading and no pine nuts. The ginger chicken is really good, no soy

sauce, use sesame oil instead. The salad dressing is good too even

without the soy sauce, but you do need two tablespoons SCD mayonaise.

The BBQ crock pot chicken is good without the soy sauce, red pepper

flakes and worcestershire. I used homemade catsup, honey, cider

vinegar, and diced garlic. Baked dill salmon, fresh, diced tomatoes,

I skipped the rice. The fish with cilantro and lime is good as is.

The lemon fish calls for white wine, but I never have any, I just add

more lemon juice. Honey apple pork chops, you need 1/2 cup homemade

BBQ sauce, catsup, and SCD mustard. I skipped the pickle relish and

used apple juice in place of the apple jelly. The orange tarragon

pork chops are good as is, I used vegetable broth instead of wine.

The spicy citrus pork chops are fine as is. Carolina pork needs SCD

tomato juice that has been thickened and just eliminate the

worcestersire sauce. The turkey and peppers is just fine too. The

bean and turkey skillet is not a favorite of mine, but you need diced

fresh tomatoes, cooked turkey breast and cooked white beans. The

honey dijon turkey needs SCD dijon mustard, and apple juice. The

turkey wraps are tricky for me. I have used sliced provolone for the

cheese and homemade roast beef for the meat and wrapped the whole

thing in lettuce, but this might the one recipe you might want to

skip. I made the layered lasagna SCD legal by using two 7.5 bricks of

DCCC, shredded havarti cheese, and thin sliced zuchinni for the

noodles and my own tomato sauce. This was lots of work, but really

yummy. Freezes well too. Crock pot lamb needs diced fresh tomatoes

and tomato juice and I don't add the olives.

The meals are good and if you get your SCD ingredients made up, the

kits come together fast. Menu Mailer 1 is more complicated than Menu

Mailer 2, but both are good and only the wraps are pointles for SCD.

Putting together one kit makes me tired, but you could do one kit,

get in the freezer and then start on another kit a few days later to

end up with 40 meals in the freezer at all times. My kids want pizza

on Fridays, so I have an almond crust pizza, and my son gets his

favorite frozen kind. Hope this helps. I love having food already to

go on the freezer.

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