Food Crime!

So in the attempt to survive the disaster that is my exams, work and volunteer schedule, I have attempted ways to make sure I had healthy organic, gluten free meals to eat. Because seriously, cereal was getting old, and so was the yogurt. It dawns on me that its so easy to skip meals, over eat and indulge in the junk of all junk gluten free foods because of time constraints and pure laziness. So taking one from Amy's page, I am whipping up some frozen meals. One flaw! Gluten free does not freeze well. At least the pasta doesn't. Its gross when you thaw it out. Really really gross. I forced myself to eat it, but man was it just gross. I think anything with cheese is kind of gross also. So here are the following items I made recently:

Gluten Free Linman Lasagna

Gluten Free Pasta and Meat Sauce

Gluten Free Amy's Chicken Pot Pie Filling

Gluten Free Biscuits

Gluten Free Brownie Truffle Cheesecake

Everything I made turned out pretty well at first go, but the following items should not be frozen.

Gluten Free Pasta

Gluten free pasta gets really mushy, really fast normally, so when you freeze it with sauce, I feel like it just becomes strained peas after you thaw and reheat. I prefer al dente pasta, which means that I prefer the expensive corn pasta, but rice pasta tastes good if cooked right and ice bathed out of the pot. Still though... frozen sucks.

I am a little iffy on if the Brownie truffle cheesecake turned out well, but thats also because I kind of overcooked the brownie layer. We will see how the biscuits turn out in the next entry on food. I am trying different things here, but for some reason, I have this inkling that gluten free alfredo isn't going to work frozen. Which is cool, I think that is something I can whip up fairly quickly.

So the dilemma this week is, I have to eat another 5-8 meals this week before going back home to my family where I will suffer a different torture, I have 4 single servings of pot pie in the freezer, 2 servings of lasagna in the freezer, 2 servings of salad and have a scheduled lunch on Wednesday. I can substitute 3 of those meals with cereal and yogurt. Should I make anything else to eat this week, or should I just eat my leftovers and get it over with? I am wondering if I will survive eating healthy for the last 3 days of this week or if I will cave and make See's Candy and a box of juice count as a meal. I did however purchase 3 bananas today, so my goal is to eat those. The salad and three bananas are going to be the most vegetable I get in a month I am betting. Geez, I am worse off than a picky 5 year old.