Hawaiian Haystacks

One of the other things I'm attempting this year is to batch cook our meals so that we eat out less often while making meal preparation a little easier on myself. This weekend was my first cook (and boy did I cook! I think I was cooking for 12-14 hours between two days), and tonight was the second night of eating the meals I had prepared.

Last night's meal didn't go off so well. I had read that if you were going to freeze and then reheat meatloaf that you should undercook it a little so that it doesn't dry out what you reheat. Well, I think it didn't get enough cooking time (and I'm not sure if it was the before freezing or after freezing cooking time I need to fix). While it looked cooked all the way through, the texture was of ground beef that isn't cooked all the way through. Since I didn't want to risk getting my family sick, I tossed it to be on the safe side. So we ended up eating sandwiches with green beans and cheesy scalloped potatoes.

Tonight's dish was much more successful. I found a recipe for Hawaiian Haystacks (I'm sorry, I don't remember the blog I found the recipe to, but I started my search on pinterest for freezer meals and this was one of the blogs about freezer meals), and everyone loved it. I think the kids liked that they got to choose what toppings they wanted on it too. I couldn't find the original blog I found it from, but this is the exact same recipe on this blog.

Tomorrow night is Chicken Enchiladas, hopefully they will come out well because we all love my enchiladas.