....That's (T)The (W)Weekly (M)Meal (P)Plan  :-)   Good, eh?  It's up after the links.

We purchased a good sized upright freezer a few months back and shortly after that, half a pig.  Now, with the pork dwindling down in amount a bit I've been looking around t'internet for tips on freezing.  Prior to buying the large freezer we only had a small one (3 drawer) and it was mostly a case of using it for ice cream, the odd frozen pre-pack this or that and a few leftovers.  Now I'm interested in freezing a variety of foods, some fresh - some home cooked and packaged as HM 'ready meals' and really anything that I can either buy or make in bulk and portion out in single serving containers.  Here are links to the sites that I found the best/most information on, but I do have to say that there were a few cases where the information about a certain food conflicted somewhat from site to site, and I'm thinking it's a case of common sense to rule in these instances.  Should I ever just find myself completely dumfounded by something, I've plenty of blogger friends to ask!  :-))

The links:

The Great Freezer Scandal  An article from The Times Online website, with a couple of links to others.

Storing The Surplus  A good webpage from the website "Allotment Foods"

How To Prepare Foods For Your Freezer  Very detailed information on a variety of foods to freeze.

To Freeze Or Not To Freeze   Taking the guesswork out of freezing foods from the BBC Good Food website.

All About Home Preserving, Bottling, Freezing and Drying Foods In The UK  Again, lots of information here.  The 'freezing section' is about halfway down the page, but a lot of other help/hints/tips about all types of preserving.  Very interesting, and a dedicated UK section.

Hopefully these will help someone who like myself, was a bit "iffy" about freezing and not knowing what to do to prepare foods and I was surprised at all of the types of foods that can be preserved by freezing - apparently there aren't many that can't be, in one form or another!  Now on to the meal plan -

SUN-  Roast Chicken  /  HM Stuffing  /  Yorkies  /  Veg

MON-  Chicken Casserole (from Amish Cookbook)  /  Veg

TUE-  Pork slices  /  Hash Browns  /  Veg 

WED-  Out-BH day off

THU-  Macaroni Cheese  /  Roll  /  Veg

FRI-  Cheese Steak Baguettes  /  Chips  /  Garden Salad

SAT-  Hot Dogs  /  Onion Rings  /  Garden Salad

No, we don't have Macaroni Cheese every week, lol.  Once again it was left off of last weeks menu as I was a bit "off" on Sunday and not up to the allotted Sausage, Mash/Gravy & Veg, so we had something a bit blander and moved the entire menu down a day.  Seems as though the Macaroni Cheese is the one that always gets set aside, we'll see if we can't get it in this week!

I made some peanut butter fudge and an applesauce cake with caramel frosting this week, may get those posted in time.  Not sure if I'll end up doing any baking this week or not, maybe just bread.  Then again if the mood strikes and the ingredients are in the cupboards......

Everyone have a happy and safe holiday weekend!  As always - To find others who are participating in 'Buddy's Friday', or to find out more about it and participate yourself, please visit Margaret's blog at Margaret's Ramblings for all the info you need :-)