I have done my own freezer bulk cooking before. Sometimes I did it all on one day, sometimes I spread it out over several days. I did a mixture of types of meals. Some were just bag and freeze. Others were ones that I cooked first and then froze. Last Saturday, I planned a group freezer bulk cooking day. There were 6 of us that participated. Brenda, my sister, offered to host it at her house, which was a blessing, because she has a nice big kitchen with lots of counter space. We made twice-baked potatoes, breakfast sandwiches, pork barbecue, zuppa toscana soup, sweet and sour chicken, chicken cacciatore, mongolian beef and buffalo chicken. We had a lot of fun and got a lot of meals, but we also learned what not to do. For one thing, we won't be frying 24 pounds of bite sized pieces of chicken. That took way too much time and we ended up only frying about half of it and just froze the other half raw to be cooked when we prepare the meal. All in all, I would say it was a success. We all want to do it again and we have others that said they want to join us. We will definitely be making twice-baked potatoes again and probably breakfast sandwiches, but instead of sausage, maybe use bacon or Canadian bacon this time. We will probably do more bag and freeze meals too, since they went so much faster.
I cooked the 30 pounds of pork butt with some barbecue sauce overnight in a large roaster pan at 250 degrees. Then took it to my sister's house and let it cool before bagging it. The first thing we did was get 25 pounds of potatoes baking in the oven. Then we chopped onions, peppers, potatoes, kale and carrots. After that, we prepped the chicken for the different recipes we were using it for. I wrote out a list of steps/instructions and each person just took an item and started in on it.
