Prepare ahead or freeze meals

[Anonymous]

Dh and I have a couple of crazy weeks of work coming up. I want to prep meals this week. What are your go to freeze or make ahead meals?

[Anonymous]

Lasagna, bolognese, and pot roast.

[Anonymous]

Chili, soup, pork BBQ, chicken pot pie, meatballs and homemade sauce
Also, I make sure I have frozen fish (shrimp, scallops, salmon) and pasta on hand, which make easy meals in very little time.

[Anonymous]

Meatballs (I have a million different ones I make - chicken parm, chicken piccata, French onion, sundried tomato chicken), meatloaf (also several different varieties), enchiladas, lasagna, bolognese sauce, chili, a dried fruit/sherry sauce that goes on chicken breasts or duck (can freeze with the meat or separately), cutlets.

[Anonymous]

We keep chicken patties in the freezer for easy sandwiches during these kind of weeks.

I’m also a big fan of frozen crock pot meal bags - assemble and freeze in advance, put the bag in the fridge the night before, crockpot the morning of.

[Anonymous]

Pinch of Yum is a good blog with a great freezer meal series!

[Anonymous]

In addition to many of the above, also red beans and rice or gumbo and rice; plus frozen cornbread.

[Anonymous]

Pozole, chicken and potato curry, chicken soup

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pozole, chicken and potato curry, chicken soup

Do you have a pozole recipe? Red.or green? I'd love to make some but it looks so labor intensive (almost a full day).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Meatballs (I have a million different ones I make - chicken parm, chicken piccata, French onion, sundried tomato chicken), meatloaf (also several different varieties), enchiladas, lasagna, bolognese sauce, chili, a dried fruit/sherry sauce that goes on chicken breasts or duck (can freeze with the meat or separately), cutlets.

Recipes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pozole, chicken and potato curry, chicken soup

Do you have a pozole recipe? Red.or green? I'd love to make some but it looks so labor intensive (almost a full day).

It is not too difficult once you get used to making the spice mix. I like this green one with pork and hominy:

https://mjskitchen.com/2017/02/pork-green-chile-posole-new-mexico/

[Anonymous]

spaghetti sauce, meatloaf, king ranch chicken, meatballs. lots of things. there are complete cookbooks for this.

you can clean and marinate chicken. freeze. then take one out to thaw the night before. pop in oven for dinner.

grill chicken beforehand to use with a bagged salad.

make breakfast sandwiches in bulk. wrap and freeze.

breakfast for dinner is a pretty easy meal. yu can also make and freeze pancakes and waffles. sausage balls. breakfast tacos.

make pulled pork, shred and freeze in portions. with it you can make sandwiches, pulled pork baked potato, tacos, bowl meals.

make a brisket and freeze in meal size portions. uses are similar to pulled pork.

there are tons of things that can make you life easier, you just have to plan ahead a little.