My kids love chicken pot pie and it's easy to pack in vegetables. It's really a stew, so cook up the stew part and freeze in portions, and add biscuit to accompany. They sell frozen biscuits by the bag.

Not sure if this was mentioned above but i make seasoned taco meat and freeze all the time. It reheats well. He just needs cheese and tortillas/hard shells to go with it.

Enchiladas, taquitos, and quesadillas. For taquitos and quesadillas you can add beans, spinach, sweet potato, etc to the cheese.

I don’t know why this is the case, but the Shop Rite in SS carries a lot of healthy single serve frozen items. Unsure if it the whole chain. Might be worth buying them a small cube freezer to fill.

I did all the cooking for three years in HS when my mom had cancer. It was a lot of work since we also lived in what people call a food desert. We are a lot of rice and beans, scrambled eggs or omelets, chili, and pasta dishes. Not sure how good they were, but I can tell you that learning to cook rice and beans should be a required life skill.

Anonymous wrote:To add a few: homemade Mac and cheese, with veggies blended in to the bechamel if he will eat them. Bake in large pan, then chill, cut into regular portions and freeze.

BBQ chicken, breasts or thighs, freeze surprisingly well if you wrap them tightly. Can either add veggies to the meal (and rice or noodles, like a TV dinner) or he can nuke himself those things on the side.

I know this is for the kid, not the parent, but I did a bunch of single serve lobster Mac and cheese portions for the family of a friend going through chemo (used the Smitten Kitchen recipe and added lobster - if you make a béchamel, the sauce won't separate in the freezer), and my friend said it was the only thing she could eat when she was feeling the worst. I used frozen lobster from Costco.

Baked ravioli, chicken and wild rice soup, clam chowder and gumbo were also popular, although the latter may be too adventurous for a child that didn't grow up in a gumbo-eating household.

I grill extra hamburgers and hotdogs and freeze individually wrapped. Then my teens can grab one, heat in the microwave, and eat on a fresh bun whenever they need to make their own dinner.

I freeze single servings for myself with the leftovers from my evening meal. I make spicy meatballs, Belgian meatballs, butter chicken, a number of stir fries, etc. Most are paired with pasts or rice. I freeze them in Ziplocs.

To add a few: homemade Mac and cheese, with veggies blended in to the bechamel if he will eat them. Bake in large pan, then chill, cut into regular portions and freeze.

BBQ chicken, breasts or thighs, freeze surprisingly well if you wrap them tightly. Can either add veggies to the meal (and rice or noodles, like a TV dinner) or he can nuke himself those things on the side.

You have a lot of great ideas in this thread. You're a good friend, OP.

I mainly want to echo:
Chicken soup
Beef stew
Chili
Lasagna


And add:
Pork chili Verde stew
Beef picadillo with rice
Fried rice with pork and lots of veggies
Lamb curry (or any other curry)

Anonymous wrote:This is so nice of you, OP.

I think you have lots of very good suggestions.
Have you thought of making extra for your own family and then preparing a couple of frozen meals from that?

This is a good idea to keep a flow going...make him an extra serving of your family dinner and freeze it; once a week drop off a week's worth of frozen dinners to him.

This is so nice of you, OP.

I think you have lots of very good suggestions.
Have you thought of making extra for your own family and then preparing a couple of frozen meals from that?

Baked ziti/lasagna
Eggplant or chicken parm
Chili
Shredded bbq chicken
Soup (black bean, lentil, chicken)
Quiche
Salmon
Stir fry
Egg sandwiches on English muffin
Breakfast oatmeal squares


Pick a couple and package as individual meals to be frozen.