Hamburger Helper! Great INEXPENSIVE YUMMY FREEZER FRIENDLY recipe!

I got this recipe from my mother in law! It is a family favorite and is inexpensive and easy to make.

1 box of shell pasta
1 can of french onion soup
1 can of tomato soup
1 lb of hamburger meat
10 slices of American Cheese

We double this recipe for our family so if you have a big family like us then DOUBLE it up!!!

COOK the meat, the noodles and then mix it all in a casserole dish!
TOP with American Cheese!
Bake for 35 minutes!
OR cool and freeze. If you cook it frozen it will take 2 hours.

This is one of our favorite Once a month recipes!

Sausage Biscuits

I have been pre making our sausage and biscuits on cooking day! I use this biscuit recipe that is here on the blog! I cook them and let them cool. 

I cook up the sausage and let it cool. 

I put the sausage in the biscuits and wrap with Saran Wrap. 

On sausage and biscuit day I just pop them out of the freeze and microwave. My microwave oven is pretty fast so I only cook for one minute in the Saran Wrap. 

If you over cook the biscuits will harden 

ONCE a month cooking but HOW!!!

This is how I do it!

I simply have a piece of construction paper and I write every day on the paper for ONE month! I use the front and back! I mark off days we are going out of town. I write in breakfast every day and I rotate them every week. I have seven breakfast food that I make and freeze. 

Monday: breakfast casserole

Tuesday: breakfast burritos

Wednesday: eggs and biscuits

Thursday: sausage and biscuits

Friday: pancakes or french toast sticks and boiled eggs (not frozen but make once a week)

Saturday: oatmeal

Sunday: muffins, fruit and milk 

I do the same thing for lunch! I have seven lunches and I just rotate them. 

Dinner: I try to pick our favorite recipe and have it twice in the month. I plug it into two spots. Then I go on to pinterest  and find some good looking, filling and frugal looking recipes that we will eat! 

I add veggies every day and some times if we are lucky it is stuff from our new garden. If not I buy frozen veggies

If you look on our pinterest in once a month cooking there are some ideas there. Others ideas we eat for dinner are:

chicken and rice casserole

hamburger helper casserole (our favorite-I'll blog it tomorrow)

baked ziti

lasagna

baked spaghetti

chicken pot pie

Mexican durito chicken casserole

chicken enchiladas

bean burritos

tacos

and I'll be thinking of more and post later!

Breakfast burritos

This is super easy!

Flour tortilla 

Eggs (I plan one egg per burrito) 

Ground up sausage (I plan for 1 lb of sausage for 10 burritos) 

Cheese (I plan for 1/2 slice per burrito) 

I scramble the egg and cook the sausage  in big bulk! 

Put the eggs and sausage in the flour tortilla and add uncooked cheese on top. 

I roll the tortilla up like a burrito and wrap in Saran Wrap! When it's cooled I put it inside of a zip lock bag! 

When we are ready to eat it, throw one in the microwave with Saran Wrap. Cook for approx 1:30 (depending on microwave) 

Eat it up!