290. Simple Meal Systems & Batch Freezer Cooking in Busy Seasons | Jamerrill Stewart of Large Family Table

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

I always love having Jamerrill Stewart on the podcast because she brings so much encouragement and practicality to the table—especially for those of us feeding a lot of people every day. In this episode, we’re talking all about freezer cooking, bulk shopping, and how to make mealtime a little less overwhelming. Jamerrill shares what meal prep looks like in her current season of life, how she keeps food on the table for her big crew, and simple ways anyone can start building more margin into their kitchen routine.

In this episode, we cover:

Life updates from Jamerrill and how homemaking looks in her current season of single motherhood
The story behind how her freezer cooking system began and why it works for families of all sizes
Tips for shopping in bulk, planning monthly grocery trips, and staying on budget with a large family
How she preps ingredients—like meats and rice—in advance to simplify daily meal routines
Her strategy for always doubling recipes and freezing extras for easy meals later
Why having a stocked freezer made all the difference during a family medical crisis
Creative ways she handles leftovers with a “choose-your-own-adventure” approach to meals
The logistics of storing bulk food with multiple fridges and freezers throughout the house
Kitchen tools and systems that help her manage daily meals for ten—like her oversized island and dual dishwashers
Encouragement to start small with meal prep—even one extra freezer meal can lighten the load

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ABOUT JAMERRILL

Jamerrill Stewart is a seasoned homeschool mom of 9 (7 boys/2girls) with children ages 2 through 22. She shares about big batch cooking, mega canning, freezer meals and more from her slow and steady developing homestead in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Jamerrill has been making a full-time income online while raising her family for over a decade and she’d like to show you how you can, too. Join the Successful Business Momma Course waitlist largefamilytable.com/business which will help you build your dream online business while raising your family, just like Jamerrill has done!

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0:00.0	I've always had people to feed. Like, you know, as the mom, they need to eat. And so we develop little systems along the way. And of course, as you get to be a more seasoned mom, you have more systems. Whenever you have some kind of basics in your freezer, it's going to help you when the unexpected happens. Or it's sports season. You got four kids doing soccer and you got ballet. And that's in the evenings. Okay. Well, that can quickly be chaotic. I started to make sure I had dinner in the slow cooker in the morning, right? But we don't get to the point to knowing how important that is until it's 4.30 and you're all leaving and you're grabbing the bread and peanut butter and trying to make it out to the soccer field. My name is Lisa, mother of eight and creator of the blog and YouTube channel Farmhouse
0:40.6	on Boone. On this podcast, I like to talk about simplifying your life so you can live out your
0:45.1	priorities. I help you learn how to cook from scratch and decorate on a budget through this podcast
0:49.6	and my courses simple sourdough in the simpleowing series. I also help people reach their goals from
0:55.4	home through my business course, YouTube Success Academy. I will leave links to these resources
0:59.7	in the show notes and description box below. Now let's get into the show.
1:07.6	Welcome back to the Simple Farmhouse Life podcast. Today we are having on Jay Morrill from Large Family Table.
1:15.7	She inspires so many of us with her tips for filling your freezer, planning ahead so that you have something to eat no matter what comes your way.
1:26.7	She's a large family mama, but plenty of
1:29.0	families that are smaller in size learn from her techniques and her wisdom. Without further ado,
1:35.1	let's jump into the interview. Jay Meryl, welcome back. When was the last time you were on this show?
1:40.7	I cannot remember. I know you were on. I just can't remember when it was. I'm not sure.
1:46.3	I think this is my third time. My thing is the first time, I have to do it by pregnancies and
1:52.6	babies and life. It's pretty solid. This is my third time. Okay. Yep. I want to say my first time,
1:59.1	like 2019 or 2020-ish. Yeah. yeah. Well, I started the podcast in early 2020, and I do think you were one of my first guests. So I think that would be accurate. Yes, almost five, no, not almost. It's been five years now that we've had the podcast. And yeah, I've had you on several times because you like me have a
2:18.9	large family. That means that you are in the kitchen all the time. There's always something to prep,
2:25.1	something to make. I always say like you can't make too much food. My sister has one child and one
2:31.0	husband. And she said, well, I get in a position where I actually, like, make too much or buy too
2:38.9	much and it goes bad.
2:39.9	I'm like, that is a different strategy.
2:41.4	I'm not very familiar with that.
2:43.0	But that's, I could see that happening.
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