I buy a lot of chicken.
I cook with chicken a lot.
Here’s a link to all 225 slow cooker chicken recipes I’ve made. Whoa that’s a whole lot of recipes. You may or may not want to make all 225.
When chicken is on sale I like to stock up. I love the boneless, skinless chicken thighs.
This is how I freeze it so that it’s ready to go for recipes and doesn’t stick together.
1. Trim off any excess fat.
2. Place some parchment paper on top of a cookie sheet
3. Place chicken on top of parchment paper. Don’t let the pieces of chicken touch.
4. Stick the cookie sheet in the freezer for a few hours until chicken is frozen all the way through.
5. Place chicken into plastic freezer bags and label.
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I typically buy my meat in the ten pound portions at Walmart and when I get home I will portion them out into one pound and stick them in a quart sized freezer bag then flatten them out and push all the air out. I believe this is the best way to do this because all your beef is meal ready, it thaws easily, and stores neat and tight saving space in the freezer. I use milk crates to store the bags in my deep freeze. One for beef and one for chicken. Then if to the side I store approximately 20-30 pounds of frozen beef patties. This works out well to keep our family of five feed for the long term. We try to keep around 100lbs of meat at all times in the freezer. This will typically last ya about 4 months.I use my regular freezer for frozen meals veggies etc. Hope this helps all it can. Works well to do this for a larger family and allows you to eat meat almost every night if you wish.
Thanks for sharing! Love these tips.
I'm new to your website and the chicken recipes I've looked at all use thighs. Is this your preference, or is just coincidence that the recipes I've looked at so far use thighs? If you prefer thighs, why is that? Do they cook better than breasts in slow cookers?
No coincidence. They just turn out much better in the slow cooker than chicken breasts. They have more fat and collagen and therefore turn out better. You can use chicken breasts but they will need to be cooked for a little less time.
I also buy a lot of chicken and other meats on sale and individually portion and freeze them, then vacuum seal them . I put each piece in a cheap fold-over sandwich bag and lay them on a sheet to quick freeze. I then put them in larger bags and vac seal them.Now I have choice of portions and the meat lasts a long time in the freezer without burning.