Nanci Slagle

Nanci Slagle is the President of 30 Day Gourmet, Inc. She is a graduate of Cedarville University and works as a high school English teacher and Drama Director. Meet Nanci: When I discovered freezer cooking in 1993, I had been married for 14 years and was the mother of four children ages 8, 5, 3 and 1 month. I was also a "crisis cook" who didn't think about dinner until the last possible moment. We ate fast food dinners and we ate a lot of hot dogs and boxed macaroni and cheese dinners. Sound...See more

Nanci Slagle is the President of 30 Day Gourmet, Inc. She is a graduate of Cedarville University and works as a high school English teacher and Drama Director. Meet Nanci: When I discovered freezer cooking in 1993, I had been married for 14 years and was the mother of four children ages 8, 5, 3 and 1 month. I was also a "crisis cook" who didn't think about dinner until the last possible moment. We ate fast food dinners and we ate a lot of hot dogs and boxed macaroni and cheese dinners. Sound familiar? In my early days of freezer cooking, I tackled the then-daunting task with a good friend.In the beginning, we got together once a month and assembled 25-30 entr es for each of us. Later, we began cooking every three months. Our 2-day cooking marathons netted us each about 75 freezer meals. As our family sizes, schedules and tastes changed, we found that the "system" we had developed was adaptable enough to "flex" along with us.Fast forward to 2012. I now work full-time and the kids are (mostly) gone. I no longer have long cooking marathons but instead do mini-sessions every 3-4 weeks. Freezer cooking is still the best way I have found to feed my family great home-cooked food without having to stress over the "dinner chore." See less