{"id":18211,"date":"2017-10-25T22:52:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T03:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=18211"},"modified":"2017-10-25T22:52:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T03:52:28","slug":"time-to-stop-stockpiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2017\/20171025-18211.htm","title":{"rendered":"Time to Stop Stockpiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a while now, I&#8217;ve been doubling a recipe or two a week, stashing the second recipe in the freezer for when\/if I or baby end up in the hospital. <\/p>\n<p>Tonight, I doubled a beef enchilada recipe that was supposed to make a 9&#215;13 pan &#8211; and ended up with three 9&#215;9 pans and one 9&#215;13 pan, and a little extra. How does that work? <\/p>\n<p>So now my freezer contains&#8230; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a 9&#215;13 pan of beef enchiladas<\/li>\n<li>two 9&#215;9 pans of beef enchiladas<\/li>\n<li>a 9&#215;9 pan of turkey enchiladas<\/li>\n<li>a 9&#215;9 pan of Aztec casserole<\/li>\n<li>a 9&#215;9 pan of my mom&#8217;s meatloaf<\/li>\n<li>a 9&#215;9 pan of Cajun meatloaf<\/li>\n<li>a container of BBQ pulled pork<\/li>\n<li>a recipe of Swedish meatballs<\/li>\n<li>a recipe of Crockpot BBQ meatballs<\/li>\n<li>a recipe of ricotta gnocchi<\/li>\n<li>a recipe of turkey tortilla soup<\/li>\n<li>a recipe of oven beef stew<\/li>\n<li>a recipe of corn chowder with chilies<\/li>\n<li>a recipe of chili<\/li>\n<li>a recipe of potato corn chowder<\/li>\n<li>a recipe of West Virginia soup<\/li>\n<li>a recipe of Great Grams Spaghetti<\/li>\n<li>a couple of pizza crusts<\/li>\n<li>a few jars of pesto<\/li>\n<li>a recipe of refried beans<\/li>\n<li>a dozen or so bean and rice burritos<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s what? 3 weeks or more of meals?<\/p>\n<p>And we&#8217;re already at 33 weeks with no particular end in sight (Eeek! It&#8217;s so crazy to be HEALTHY this far into pregnancy!) Go much longer and we might not even need a NICU stay.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s time to stop stockpiling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a while now, I&#8217;ve been doubling a recipe or two a week, stashing the second recipe in the freezer for when\/if I or baby end up in the hospital. Tonight, I doubled a beef enchilada recipe that was supposed to make a 9&#215;13 pan &#8211; and ended up with three 9&#215;9 pans and one &#8230; <a title=\"Time to Stop Stockpiling\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2017\/20171025-18211.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Time to Stop Stockpiling<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18211"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18212,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18211\/revisions\/18212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}