let us be calm and wise

I'm in a similar situation these days, what with Lark still being in Tennessee, and me in Atlanta. So I bought a smallish chest freezer on sale. It works nicely for holding extra servings of stuff. Currently it has pasta sauce with turkey-based italian sausage and mushrooms, beef chili, lamb pilau, a chicken stew full of rosemary, and carbonade flamande. I often make 6-8 servings of something over the weekend, eat one serving that day, and portion the rest out in reuseable storage tubs for eating later. Warming the stuff in the microwave is about as easy as doing a commercial frozen dinner, but it's lots better food.