Cooking meals to freeze.

Hello leigh and welcome to myLot. There's nothing wrong with making life easier. I'm not exactly what you call a busy mom but I do cook and freeze meals. For breakfast I cook and freeze steel cut oats and freeze it in serving sizes. The I do a breakfast burrito. I dice some onions bell peppers and potatoes and cook them then I add some cooked ground turkey. I then put that in serving sizes to freeze. When I want to use it I heat the mixture and add a scrambled egg and put it in a flour tortilla. I also cook and freeze spaghetti with out the sauce because the sauce separates when frozen. Ant time I cook a meal I always cook enough to freeze. I figure that if I find it in the frozen section of the grocery store i can make and freeze it at home. Check out all he TV dinners. When yo do have time to cook a nice meal from scratch just cook double and freeze the second half.

Hi leighm88 I have made up and frozen for later meals chili, pizza, macron & cheese, Pancakes, meatloaf and bean soup and much more. Really I have found that any meals you cook and serve you can freeze. Take care Snow

I never cooked and froze meals for home. BUT I did cook and freeze all my meals for camping! About 2 or 3 weeks before we were going camping, I would cook extras and freeze it to take to camp, this worked so wonderful, no cooking and draining macaroni for goulash or mac&cheese. I had it all done, even lasagna!!! Then the week of camp, it was an easy reheat. And we had some wonderful meals. At home I prefer to cook fresh. BUT we have an ever changing schedule, so sometimes thawing things out and planing ahead doesn't work for us.

I use to do the same thing when working a full time job with two girls at home. I would freeze of course a containerss of spaghetti sauce, beef stew, chili, homemade hamburgers, meatloaf and meatballs. What I would also do is if I was making chicken cutlets I would prepare them either the night before or in the morning before going to work. If I was making baked mac and cheese I would cut up the cheese ahead of time. During the summer I would prepare a big bowl of macaroni and potato salad so that would be a side dish that would last a few days. I use to do all this on a Sunday afternoon so it would make my life easier during the work week. I hope this helps you.