How it worked was a week before the party, Amy sent us an email with different shopping lists divided up. We each picked a list to buy. It also had a few items that needed to be prepped ahead of the cooking day. Here’s what my list looked like:SHOPPING LIST E
- PREP ITEM - 32 medium sliced green peppers
- 64 oz white vinegar
- 4 bottles (16 oz each) zesty Italian dressing
- 8 limes
- 7 jars (4.5 oz each) or 28 oz of minced garlic
- 1 bottle (12 oz) of ketchup
- 64 freezer bags
- 8 cans pinto beans, rinsed and drained
- 8 cans black beans, drained
- I also decided to pre-label all the bags to save us some time on the morning of
These 2 guys were adorable together and were so great throughout the morning. 
Again, each group of ladies tackled one meal at a time. We simply found the indreitent on the massive table of food and dumped it into a gallon freezer bag. Once all the bags for that meal were done, we sealed them and put one meal in each lady's laundry basket.Here was our list of the 10 meals that we prepped (can you tell we're big chicken fans?):
Taco Chili
Black Bean Chicken
Meatballs
Coconut Lime Chicken
White Chicken Chili
Chicken cacciatore
Creamy Italian Chicken
Italian Buffalo Chicken
Crock Pot Aloha Chicken
Crock Pot Philly Cheese Chicken
All in all, it took us only about an hour and half for everything. And even better, the total was $89.52 for all of it! Definitely worth doing a little of our own prep work to get our cost down.
Amy has a full run down of the meals with links to the recipes. I can’t wait to make this a monthly (or bi-monthly) tradition!
Here is the gist of it. I contacted Wendi to schedule a party. I picked 8 meals from her awesome menu and let the first 2 girls who RSVP’d pick the other two. Wendi did ALL the shopping and prep work (like chopping up the veggies and browning meat). She brought it to my house and we helped her unload everything.
Then we all got to work labeling bags. Everyone took a stack of gallon freezer bags and labeled them with the name of the meal and the cooking directions. It was easier for one person to label all the bags for one meal.
Then a group of 2-3 ladies was put in charge of each meal. They would read the recipe and dump in the ingredients into each bag.
Once all the ingredients were in the bags, they closed them up and put one bag in each lady’s laundry basket or box they brought. Then that group moved onto the next recipe.
No, we didn’t drink those. :) One of the ingredients for a chicken meal.
It was super fun and in less than 2 hours, we each had 10 meals that were ready to go into the freezer for our families. For someone who doesn’t love to cook, I love this! 
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