Save Money and Lose Weight by Cooking Your Own Delicious Frozen Portion Control Meals
How much can you save?
When I first started using this system I did an experiment to see if the home-made meals would cost less than portion-controlled meals from the store.
I cooked an entire freezer-full of healthy Easy-Does-It frozen meals in just a few hours, added up the costs for all the ingredients, and then compared them to the cost of comparable frozen meals from the supermarket.
Here’s what the home-made meals cost, along with the cost of similar commercial meals:
Stouffer’s Lean Cuisine® Honey Roasted Pork................................$3.49
Easy-Does-It Honey Roasted Pork..............................$1.02
Save $2.47 on every meal.
Healthy Choice® Sweet and Sour Chicken..............................$2.99
Easy-Does-It Sweet and Sour Chicken............................$1.21
Healthy Choice® Country Herb Chicken.............................$2.99
Easy-Does-It Country Herb Chicken...........................$1.11
Stouffer’s Lean Cuisine® Chicken & Vegetables.......................$3.49
Easy-Does-It Chicken & Vegetables.....................$1.02
I did this experiment several years ago, before food prices started to go up. As food costs continue to rise, you will save even more by cooking your own diet meals.
Why does it cost less?
- You buy the cost-saving bulk packages of meat and other foods, even if you aren't cooking for a large family.
- You don't pay a penny for packaging you have to throw away.
- And you don't pay extra to cover the advertising costs of brand-name diet meals.
So, how much does it cost to fill your freezer with your own frozen meals?
Using only four recipes, and spending only about 2 ½ hours total, I filled my freezer with 27 meals, (enough for 5 ½ weeks-worth of lunches at the office!) for only $29.22.
The same number of brand-name meals would have cost $88.23!
And if you compare the cost of one of your own home-cooked meals with the cost of eating lunch out every day - well, you get the picture.
Are you concerned about added chemicals and preservatives in your food?
I sure am, so I looked at the ingredient list on the side of a store-bought diet meal.
Here's what's on the ingredients list for Stouffer’s Lean Cuisine® Honey Roasted Pork with Roasted Gold Potatoes:
Roasted potatoes, water, seasoned cooked pork product (pork, water, coating), dehydrated honey (sugar, honey), maltodextrin, partially hydrogenated cottonseed and soybean oil, modified food starch, dehydrated garlic, salt, fructose, corn syrup solids, dehydrated flavor (nonfat dry milk, gum Arabic), wheat soybeans, why protein concentrate, salt, flavor (canola oil, natural flavors), onion juice, potassium chloride, dextrose, honey flavor (honey, ethyl alcohol, water, propylene glycol, flavor), lemon juice powder (maltodextrin, lemon juice concentrate, lemon oil, natural flavorings), carrots, red peppers, honey, soy sauce (water, wheat, soybeans, salt, lactic acid), modified cornstarch, butter, roasted garlic concentrate (garlic, salt, natural flavoring, sesame oil, canola oil and citric acid), onions, bleached enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), garlic puree, salt, flavoring (maltodextrin, yeast extract, cultured whey, flavor, and salt), spices, potassium chloride, caramel coloring, erythorbic acid, sugar, carrageenan with dextrose.
Wow… I can't even pronounce some of that stuff.
What's in an Easy-Does-It meal that you make yourself?
Here’s the ingredients list for cooking your own honey-roasted pork diet meal, using the national labeling standard that requires the major ingredients to be listed first:
broccoli
potatoes
pork
honey
soy sauce
prepared mustard.
That sounds a little healthier, doesn’t it?
Can you change the recipes and portions to fit your own personal needs?
Yes.
The recipes in the ebook don't include specific calories per serving because you choose the portion sizes to fit your own personal needs. To customize the portion sizes for your own activity level, just follow my simple guidelines for the first few times, and then watch what happens when you get on the scale.
After just a few weeks, you'll know exactly how much of each entree to put in each individual-sized container.
You may discover that you need bigger portions, or smaller ones - after all, everyone is different. We all have different activity levels and different calorie needs. With this system, it's easy to customize your meals so they're perfect for you, without calorie charts or "points."
Can you adapt your own favorite recipes to the Easy-Does-It system?
Yes.
There are 30 delicious recipes in the ebook to get you started. But once you know how the system works you can use the guidelines in the ebook to create delicious portion-controlled meals with your own favorite recipes.
That way there's always a ready-to-eat meal waiting for you in the freezer that contains the food you know you love - with just the right amount of spices and herbs to please your taste buds, and just the right amount of calories to help you lose weight.
Will the system work if your doctor ordered special foods for your medical condition?
Yes.
If you have a medical condition, like diabetes, many of the recipes in the ebook will work just fine (but be sure to ask your doctor).
Some of the recipes might need to be altered a bit, by substituting some of the ingredients to fit your special diet.
And you can also adapt the recipes from any cookbook your doctor recommends.
That way, you get all the right foods for your medical condition, in just the right portion sizes for your activity level - with the cost-savings and convenience of once-a-month cooking.
What do you need to get started making your own portion control meals?
Click here to see exactly what you need to get started on this easy diet plan.