A Girl Guide is ALWAYS prepared!

It was a gorgeous Sunday today and I was quiet industrious. As I was feeling good, I decided to be proactive and get a start on dinners for next week or the following, whichever. Just handy to have items ready in the freezer for those days you just can't be bothered.

I got some Ground Beef and Chicken and was all gun ho! I prepared the Ground Beef dinners and our dinner for tonight, then decided to leave the Chicken till tomorrow, whew! Good intentions and all that!

For the Ground Beef dinners, I cooked up some Burgers stuffed with cheese, some Meatball sliders and also some Tostado meat. My "in-house taster" loves Tostados and we have to keep'em happy don't you know! Once cooked and cooled down, I used my handy FoodSaver handheld and vacuum sealed the lot and popped them in to the freezer. Bingo Bango, done and dusted.

As for tonight’s dinner, I couldn't be ~~as..,~~ sorry, couldn't be bothered doing the whole "Sunday Roast" production, too nice/hot of a day. So decided to do Hot Dogs and Red Beans and Rice. Now the Hot dogs are easy enough but I thought I would make the Red Beans and Rice from scratch, although technically I bought canned Red Beans but you get the gist.

So follow my link to a most awesome Red Beans and Rice recipe, in my humble opinion!

Red Beans and Rice - Spicy!

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