Freezer Cooking Day!

I had my first freezer cooking day in the new house yesterday and it went pretty smooth aside from the part where I had to run to the store for more tortillas, peanut butter and brown sugar!

Here's the room where I spent my entire day (or at least what felt like it...)





I spent about 6 hours cooking; the first 4 flew by, but a couple friends briefly stopped by and it was about that time I started running out of steam (and my feet were starting to hurt), but I managed to get everything done that I planned on doing plus 1 extra meal - here's what I made:

2 dinners worth w/ leftovers for lunch of homemade Macaroni & Cheese
2 dinners worth Chicken Tetrazinni
25 breakfast burritos (egg, hash browns, little bit of bacon pieces, and shredded leftover turkey)
8 dinners worth of mashed potatoes
homemade Bacon Ranch Pasta salad (ended up eating some for dinner)
homemade maple syrup
cookies
cinnamon rolls
big batch of Granola Bars
2 dinners worth of Southwest Roll-ups



I have had many baking days before, but this one officially wiped me out! This has been the largest of them all by far, but I will most likely continue to have these big cooking days if it continues to save time during the month.

I was doing really well with washing all the dishes as I used them, but somewhere near the end things started getting too hectic and I ended up with a pretty big pile of dishes to take care of (I forgot to take a picture before I cleaned up). I already knew this was hard work, but too much time must have gone by since the last one because this one felt like running a marathon!

Have you tried batch cooking? What were your experiences?