Frozen Meals

You could do up some spag bol mince and freeze it, so all you would need to cook is the pasta - and DH could have it on toast or something

You could just go to your supermarket and have a look at the frozen meals there for inspiration

Soups are really easy to make and freeze well, cannelloni freezes well (although that's pasta), bacon and egg pie (although I haven't tried myself), roasts, things like savoury muffins for quick snacks...

oh and you can freeze veges with cheese sauce (like a cauliflower bake or something) to just be reheated if you want to throw a piece of steak on to fry or something.

Mexican mince with beans and veges mixed in is a great freezer meal. Then can use as wraps or as nachos or how ever you like.
Making the carbs with the veges mixed in is the easiest thing, ie with pasta bake just suate veges and add to the mix, macaroni cheese add in corn and courgette and peppers chopped up little, mince can always have heaps of veges added.

I've just done a google search for the same reason (except I'm on #1).

I made shepherds pie this morning (enough for 10 serves) and was looking for inspiration. I found a section on healthy food guide (but only through google, their website couldn't find me "freezes well" dishes).

I'm going to make some moroccan chicken, curried sausages and chicken curry, as well as little things like pizza pockets and muffins.

Will also do some bolognese sauce so all I have to do is boil up some pasta.

Bought a chest freezer in the Boxing Day sales yesterday for this very reason!

Im in the process of doing the same. I froze a couple of lasangas before having DD but found the cheese sauce didnt hold up so well (plus I think it tastes nicer freshly made and is pretty quick really).
So whats on the list this time:

- cooked mince/tomato mixes (some with onion, some without as DD tum didnt agree with onion when I ate it). These will be used to make up spag bol, lasanga, nachos, mince on toast, anything like that.
- cottage pie
- quiches
- mince & cheese pie
- casserole (you could do sausage ones, or perhap larger chunks of meat so its more steak in gravy than a casserole?)
- meatballs/beef patties
- meatloaf
- may also make some chicken meals, not sure what yet but anything in sauces should hold up well (curries etc)

The other things I am hoping to do is make a few batches of lactation cookies and other baking so I can grab out say a 6 pack of muffins for us to snack on

Also in the process of ripping out our vege garden (well most of it anyway), blanching and chopping up the veges, and freezing in portions. This is something I do pregnant or not as we always end up with a huge amount of veges (leafy ones in particular) and I dont wanna waste it!

After reading that back I think its a good thing we have a massive chest freezer

MrsH, with the lactation cookies in particular you can do either. I have some cooked ones frozen to take with me to the maternity home but will be freezing the dough in tube shapes so I can grab one out, cut into rounds and bake (mostly cause I love a warm cookie )

Muffins - I would freeze them cooked. Havent tried freezing the batter personally. Cakes would be the same.

Veges - I have done some asian greens, spinach and silverbeet so far (just because thats what was in the garden). Im sure most leafy veges would work the same. As long as you blanch and refresh it first, should freeze well (so dunk into boiled water, refresh under cold tap or in cold water, then chop up and freeze. I use them for stirfries, quiches, savory muffins etc

Just listing for easy reference

Meals
Lasagne (keep the white sauce really runny)
Cottage Pie
Shepherds Pie
Macaroni Cheese (runny white sauce)
Curry
Pasta Bake
Apricot Chicken
Chicken Cicciatore
Chicken Chasseur
Moroccan Chicken
Fish Pie
Mince and Cheese Pie
Soups
Bacon and Egg Pie
Empire Meat Loaf
Quiche
Pizza
Fish Cakes

Mince for:
Spag Bol
Mexican Mince
Meat balls annd beef patties
Rissoles


Snacks:
Savory Muffins
Pikelets
Pizza Pockets
Lactation Cookies

www.bbcgoodfood.com

www.donnahay.com
Lemon Thyme and White Wine Chicken
Basic risotto recipe

Pikelets work really well frozen once cooked Mrs H.

I've found that frozen veges are better in a stir fry Hopes if you seam them first.

Time to hunt down some more recipes.

Edited by Stoked

I've got a Jamie Oliver recipe for Fish Cakes with fresh salmon that apparently freeze well (so he says!) that I can dig out if anyone wants that.

Wow that risotto is so easy compared with standing over the stove spooning the stock in every few mins! Have you tried it before and it works the same? Thanks for the link.