Feeding the Freezer - project

This is going to come out in project posts mainly because there is just no way I'll be able to keep track of weeks of feeding the freezer for one giant post. Also, the goal is to have six weeks of healthy freezer meals. That's a lot of meals!! But not only that I want to make sure I have breakfast, lunches and dinners. I probably won't focus to heavily on dinners. I'll make enough that I dont have to worry what's going on the table, but I will have help in the evening. During the day i'll be on my own! :-0

Today I worked on feeding the freezer chicken and pork taquitos! I had a few for lunch and I must say, I approve they are even better than store bought and so much healthier and cheaper! I will post the cost breakdown as I go. Then break it down and show you just the kind of savings you are looking at.

All you need is a package of corn tortillas (72ct $3.79) one roteserie chicken picked clean ($4.99 Costco) two packages of cream cheese (1pkg for each meat) ($2.50 Fred Meyer on sale) I used left over pork that I made in the Dutch oven a few days prior so we got about 3 meals out of it before I used it and had a ton left for taquitos. It cost ($7.89) for roughly a 3 lb pork roast. Then last but not least, 1 package of Mexican spiced shredded cheese ($2.50)

I spent probably an hour picking the chicken and pork this morning. The pork was more just defatting it for the dogs. They were my best friends today! Then I tossed the chicken in the skillet on low with a packet of cream cheese and 1 cup shredded cheese and let it melt and pulled the chicken so it was a nice consistency. Then when that was all blended nicely, I scooped it into a bowl and dumped the pork and cream cheese and shredded cheese and did it again. But I just left it on the stove to sit while I worked through the filling.

::huge tip:: place a wet paper towel on A plate put 2 corn tortillas in the microwave and place another wet paper towel on top. Heat for 40 seconds. They will be HOT!

Scoop filling and spread so you get an even mix of filling throughout the taquitos.

Place on a cookie sheet as you go, once filled pop it in the freezer for 1 hour to flash freeze and get extra moisture out. Then place in freezer bag!

Repeat directions for other fillings!

Total cost break down
$21.67 for ingredients
Divide that by 72 taquitos
That makes them about .30cents a taquito!

I will have to look up what 72 taquitos would cost at the store. But these are so much healthier its worth it right there to make your own

Edit: I looked it up
Store bought Taquitos - 22 per box at $12.65 a box
I'd have to buy 3 or 4 boxes to get as many taquitos as I made at home. If I bought 3 boxes I'd have to spend 37.95

Thats a huge difference of $16.28 cents. I also got 3 meals out of the pork before I used it in the taquitos and I ate some of the shredded chicken with my rice the night before. So I really got a lot out of these meals.

I got 2 bags this size!