Maximizing Your Investment: Cooking Tips for Budget-Savvy Customers

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Discussion Overview

The thread discusses various cooking tips aimed at helping customers maximize their use of Pampered Chef products while being budget-savvy. Participants share personal experiences and ideas related to cooking ahead, freezing meals, and utilizing specific products effectively.

Discussion Character

  • Anecdotal
  • Opinion-based

Main Points Raised

  • One participant, identifying as a consultant, seeks ideas for helping customers maximize their product use, specifically through cooking ahead and keeping food fresh.
  • Another participant mentions the new Roasting Pan's capability to brown large quantities of ground beef, suggesting it as a method for investment cooking.
  • One user shares their plan to make and freeze Cookie Kisses for later use, highlighting the convenience of freezing baked goods.
  • A participant discusses a recipe from the new stoneware cookbook for a meat sauce that can be used in multiple meals, emphasizing the benefits of cooking in bulk.
  • Another participant notes a tip about freezing mashed potatoes in muffin pans for easy portioning and defrosting.
  • One user shares an idea from their hospitality director about using the Roasting Pan to cook different meats simultaneously without mixing juices, allowing for versatile meal preparation.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

No clear consensus emerges, as participants share a variety of individual experiences and suggestions without indicating agreement or disagreement on specific methods.

Contextual Notes

The discussion reflects personal cooking experiences and tips related to using Pampered Chef products, focusing on budget-friendly meal preparation strategies.

Who May Find This Useful

Consultants and community members interested in cooking tips that enhance product usage and promote budget-conscious meal planning may find this discussion relevant.

jhummel
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I'm looking for ways to help customers use our products to help them get more bang out of their buck. i/e Cooking ahead ideas or how to keep things fresher. I already cook chicken ahead of time and cut up or shred as well as ground beef. Any other ideas out there?
Julie
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I've heard that the new Roasting Pan can be used on the stovetop for things like ground beef. I think I heard somewhere that it can brown 7 POUNDS of ground beef at once! This is a great way to do investment cooking. Once it cools, people can package it up in ziplock freezer bags in 1 lb portions and have it all ready to go for recipes. The Roasting Pan can also be used for lasagne, rice krispie treats, big casseroles, etc.

Those were the ideas that came to mind.
 
Cookie Kisses can be made so quickly! I plan to make a million and freeze for later use. Bet the pecan tassies & mini-quich can be frozen too.

:)
 
The new stoneware cookbook has a recipe for a meat sauce that you can make ahead and freeze, then defrost when you need to make three completely different recipes: Chili, Tostadas and Pasta Rollups....we did this last week and all three of them were so yummy!

There's another cookbook that we have w/ a section "Cook Once, Eat twice" that has several recipes you make for one meal and have enough for leftovers to make another meal.

Another tip I learned was to make mashed potatoes, put them in muffin pan and freeze them. After they're frozen, put 2-3 each into ziploc bags and you can defrost them when you need them, plus they're already in individually portioned sizes.
 
This was an idea from my hospitality director...you can use the Roasting Pan to cook several different meats (such as pork tenderloin, chicken, beef) at once. Since they're all on the rack and not in the pan, the juices won't mix. Once they're cooked you can freeze the cooked meat or use for the week in tacos, lasagna, sandwiches, etc.

I'm not sure about cooking temp/time, though!
 
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Investment Cooking Tips con'tSusan- Could you e-mail me your cookie recipes?
[email protected] or www.pamperedchef.biz/shopping

Also does anyone know a tip for keeping potatoes from turning brown/black?

Thanks for your help!
Julie
 

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