After every grocery trip

Usually after every grocery run that involves raw meats, I will pack them into portions coz I know my family don’t use up the whole packet at one go, except for cod. I’m not very environmental friendly, I use up a lot of sandwich bags, a lot of labels and scotch tape. 

淘宝 sells these cute small ziploc bags but I won’t have the time to wash them. I prefer to open and throw the plastic away, less heart pain 🤣. 

Ever considered getting small little boxes but eh….. no space in freezer. Sometimes my portion is really so small coz I only need that little bit for porridge or whatever. Putting them into boxes will really take up the space altho I must admit it will look very neat in the freezer. 

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This grocery was done 4 days ago after my 🏃‍♀️ class but I didn’t have time to pack them. Took the mince pork and mince chicken out today to do this. 

Step (1) after washing all the same meat is to put them into different bowls and marinade them. This grocery trip I only bought one packet of mince pork coz it’s a new one from Taiwan and I’m not sure if it’ll have that yucky odour. 

(2) pack them individually and weigh them. 

even the plain non-marinated meats, I put corn starch first so when I’m cooking I just throw them into the pan. 

For the mince chicken, I marinade 3 different styles - teriyaki, oyster sauce + sesame oil and the other Japanese style

Needed to keep this pic in here coz I keep forgetting what I used to marinade the chicken, the one that lil’ one likes. 

Step (3) Packed them into a Toyogo box in the freezer, keeping everything organized. (4) Updated the list on the fridge to remind myself what I have in the fridge. I cancel out once I use them. Currently I’m using whatever paper I can find at home to write and stick on the fridge with the list of items in freezer. I’m so tempted to buy a magnetic board. Honestly I wish I have a neater system to do things, perhaps a digital stock-taking on the fridge 😂 (coz my handwriting is so ugly)

I’ve seen a lot of insta account where the person would (a) bulk meal prep, some even mixed veggies together with meat in the box 😱 (Can we even mix those together?). It looks very organized means I’ll need to meal prep (meaning I have to cook daily. Argh! No no!) However in my household sometimes I don’t cook if I was out of the house for more than half the day, I’d rather pack food home. (b) Some would marinade their meats like I do. Their portion is huge coz I suppose the family is normal. My family is abnormal, I cannot cook too much. I need to count eg. maybe lil’ one will eat 3-4 chicken, che-che 1 chicken etc…then I cook what I counted coz I don’t want leftover. BUT GUESS WHAT?! SOMETIMES SOMEBODY WOULD DECIDE THEY DON’T WANT TO EAT so I’m left with leftovers 😠. It’s not coz they’re full but they would go and open a canned food (as if the dishes are not enuf) OR eat snacks to fill up the remaining stomach space. You say cooking for the family frustrating or not?!