What are the best meals/foods to cook in advance and freeze?
soups, stews and casseroles are the best and easiest to cook in large batches and freeze. And they always taste better next day or after they’ve been re-heated! I’ve also frozen pasta bakes, lasagne, spaghetti bolognese or spaghetti and meatballs. If you have a slow cooker make use of it and do some casseroles in there and just freeze the leftovers after dinner that night. Its always great for when you have a newborn in the house. I couldn’t have lived without my slow cooker in the first months after having a baby and now that my third is a fully fledged toddler and all i do is chase him all day, it is my saviour!!
Meatballs freeze very well, make them bite size and bake in the oven. You can use them on subs, in spaghetti sauce. Lasagna Spaghetti sauce, make a big batch in the crockpot and then freeze it in 2-3 portions. whole wheat pizza dough, find a recipe on allrecipes.com make it, portion it, wrap it up after the first rise and freeze it immediately (before it starts rising again). When you take it out, just leave it in the fridge or on the counter and it’ll rise while it’s defrosting, ready for you to punch out, shape and dress. You can freeze shredded cheese on a plastic wrap lined cookie sheet, when it’s stiff, put it in a freezer bag and use it as needed on pizza’s, casseroles, etc. I find the low fat mozzarella works really good for this purpose. Cut fresh fruits, bananas, any kind of berry, peaches, nectarines, pineapple, etc, freeze them on a cookie sheet like the cheese, use them in smoothies. 1 small container of yogurt, a splash of milk, frozen fruit gone through the blender. We dr
