How to Freeze and Reheat Waffles
Mom hack: whenever you make waffles, double the batch and make extra. They freeze beautifully and make for an easy morning breakfast and will be your best friend when you need dinner in a pinch. My family loves breakfast for dinner so these waffles are a lifesaver!
You want to know another mom hack? Stop trying to get an A in life. Do you follow me on Instagram? I often talk on my Insta-stories about being B+ at things. It started a a joke. As a way to make myself feel better because I constantly feel like I’m falling short at life. Usually I’m referring to parenthood or my work. Too often we mamas compare ourselves to one another and judge ourselves unfairly and quite honestly it’s kind of exhausting.
It’s no secret that I have a love/hate with social media. It’s too often a place that I leave feeling worse about myself. It can sometimes feel like no matter what I do, I’m just not good enough. Friends and strangers alike sharing pictures of their perfect white homes, organized pantries, enviable food prep, meal plans, adorable kids that are bathed and hugging each other and in clean clothes, bikini selfies on the beach 3 months after having a baby, dinner on the table every night, glowing skin, growing businesses, cookbook deals, new partnerships….the list goes on.
ps- who the eff is wearing a bikini 3 months after having baby anyway?
pps- I guarentee you that you’ll regret doing a “white house” if you’ve got kids. Just saying.
One day I just said fuck it. Sorry for the salty language but it’s the only word that’ll work, you know? I’m just so over it. At this point in my life I’m just shooting to not be terrible at life. Especially when it comes to blogging and motherhood. I don’t like to take either too seriously. Or maybe it’s because I do take both so seriously that I’ve adapted this new to me “good enough” mentality. Hence the B+.
I’m not going to win mom of the year. Though I’d totally win an award for loving the shit out of my kids. I’m never going to have the biggest or bestest blog. I’m never going to wear a bikini again (confidently, anyway) and you know what? It’s ok. In fact it’s better than ok. I blog and cater enough. I have a beautiful, messy, cozy, totally un-Pinterest worthy house. While there is no way I can pull off a bikini anymore, I can rock the hell out of my mommy one-piece. My kids are healthy. They’re mostly respectable. I have a husband who I adore most of the time. I’m loving, living and winning at life even if I’m not getting an A. Because I’m not getting an A.
I’m not sure where I’m really going with all this other than to tell you to be kind to yourself. I can be my own worst critic and it gets me nowhere. I’m over trying to be perfect because it’s just so exhausting. And lame. My life is so much better and fuller when I’m not trying to be better. Or stronger. Or skinnier. Life is better when I’m B+’ing it.
So in the spirt of B+’ing it, making extra waffles and freezing them to have for busy mornings is kind of my jam. I’m not sure who loves the toaster waffles more, me or my kids! This isn’t so much a recipe as it is a technique. You can find the recipe for my favorite waffles —-> HERE. See below on how I freeze my waffles so they’re perfect every time when I freeze them.
photos by Kelli Hatcher/ recipe by Mountain Mama Cooks
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Yaaaay!!! Real input from other moms! You made my week!
Love everything you had to say in your post! I’m feeling very down on myself and compare what I’m not doing to what others are doing. It’s sad and exhausting. Thank you!!!!!
This is the most advertising ridden blog post I’ve seen. There has to be a better way.
If you learn of a better way, please let me know!
Thanks for your blog was looking for advice on freezing waffles came away feeling good about myself ( hard to achieve) enjoy your day I know I will now ☀️
Love this post! Although, I totally feel that freezing awesome waffles is an A+ type of move 😉
🙂
I love how real you are. “Fuck it” moments sometimes outweigh everything and not a single one of us with kids has all the answers or all the time to make everything in life what I like to call “pinterest perfect” thanks for keeping it real, mama.
Here’s a tip! For anyone without a cooling rack, open up your oven and just use the racks in there like I am.
I Didn’t even think my waffles would end up soggy until about 8 waffles in.
This was the first result that came up in Google when I searched for “freeze waffle without soggy” (don’t worry that’s not how I speak, I simply understand keywords) so thanks for the page.
I make sourdough bread and pancakes regularly and this was my first time making sourdough waffles in my new waffle maker so I decided I would make a ton of them and freeze. Enter the whole soggy experience earlier.
Anyway just wanted to post the tip, and say thanks for the dad tip 😉
Just found your blog via this article while sleepily trying to figure out how to reheat my first homemade batch of waffles (a waffle maker was my Rosh Hashana gift to myself!) and the ‘good enough’ and eff-it mentality are exactly what I’m looking for, especially now with quarantine/homeschooling/working from home. Got no time for overly ‘curated’ prissy judgemental sites. I’ve found my new go-to blog!!
Husband, dad of 2 little ones and a non-stop-shitting guinea pig
*realized I spelled judgmental but don’t care enough to change it. Eff-it.
I have fallen in love with your blog. Many times I have beaten myself up because my house is never as spotless as I wish or honestly can I see of others. I looked up how to freeze waffles because my so. suggested waffles for breakfast. Usually we do pancakes or waffles in the weekends. There is no way I wi be making waffles on a school morning. Thanks for the tip