My First Meal Prep In 2020

I planned out my first meal prep session based solely on items I already had in my house.  No trip to the store required this time and that was fantastic!  I pulled a 5# package of ground turkey out of the freezer as well as a pound of ground beef.  Once thawed I got to work.

My first task was to combine half of the ground turkey with the ground beef and some spices and eggs.  I made 20 meatballs laying them out on a plate and then added some ketchup to the mixture and made it into meatloaf.  Pretty simple.  

I popped the meatloaf into the oven and the meatballs into the freezer.  Once the meatballs had firmed up I transferred them to a ziploc bag for either spaghetti and meatballs or swedish meatballs later on.

While the meatloaf baked I combined frozen broccoli and cauliflower cuts in a roasting pan, tossed it with a little olive oil and some seasoning salt.  I added the veggies to the oven about halfway through the meatloaf baking.  

While everything finished up in the oven I peeled three potatoes I had leftover in the pantry, cut them up and cooked them with a handful of baby carrots.  I whipped the cooked potatoes and carrots up together with some milk and butter as a side dish for our meatloaf supper.

The remaining ground turkey was browned up and I removed some to freeze to add to Taco Soup and then added a packet of taco seasoning to what remained.  The taco meat went into a bowl as well as the reserved ground turkey and once cooled I put it in the freezer.  Now I have components of meals that I can quickly prepare throughout the month in quantities that will leave us with plenty of leftovers for extra meals and lunches.

Start to finish I spent about an hour in the kitchen, including clean up.  Have you done any meal prepping yet this year?  What are you making these days?