I froze a meal! One of my goals is to cook more often and find a balance regarding working and caring for my home. I thought I'd try freezing meals so that when there are times that I don't have time to cook a wholesome meal I'll have some on hand.
Last night I made lasagna...x2. I used the ingredients for an entire pan but split it into two containers. I assembled the lasagnas but just did not cook them...just covered them with aluminum foil. I will just put one in the oven tonight when I get home from work (it's waiting for me in the fridge) and I froze the other one.
I am so excited about this and can't wait to see how it all turns out. I think next I'll try this when I make potato soup this weekend.
Do you freeze your meals?
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Kelli, freezing meals is near and dear to my heart. I buy 15-20 lbs. of ground beef when it's on sale and precook it all, then freeze it. Instant beef for tacos, spaghetti sauce, sloppy joes, cheeseburger bake right at my fingertips.
Sometime I make up a big batch of sloppy joes and we eat a meal that night and I freeze enough for two other meals. I do this with pulled pork too...talk about doubly easy, because you cook in the crock pot all day.
Spaghetti freezes really well, pretty much any pasta dish does, so I freeze home made mac n cheese and three cheese Italian turkey bake too.
I also make up a couple of meatloaves every so often and freeze them. Sure makes life simple when you need it.
Investing a few hours a month in building freezer meals saves you so much time later, but more importantly, lets you eat well and relieves stress.
Yay! You did it!! You will have such a feeling of accomplishment when you pull out that frozen lasagna one night when you don't feel like cooking and provide a great dinner for your family!!
What a BRILLIANT idea and I'm SO glad you got it done! :o)
I used to freeze dinners. I even used to go to a food-prep place where you could make 8 dinners for $80 and put them in the freezer. It was fabulous! Alas, all the places like that around here have closed. :o(
Enjoy that lasagna!:o)
I need to do this too...my only problem is that my freezer is way too small! I do brown hamburger meat and freeze it, which makes a lot of dinners much easier!
Wow Kelli! Good for you! That has to feel so good to have that done! I love preparing meals ahead of time. Such a sense of accomplishment and so awesome when it is time to eat them and it doesn't take any effort!
I should do this too, but I never have. I love lasagna...sounds super yummy for tonight!
I made potato soup a few days ago!!
You are adorable! So proud of you for doing this, it does make your life easier! I actually go to a local place that has a prepared monthly menu and they put all the ingredients together and freeze it for you! Then, you just let it thaw, put ingredients together and bake!
Your a businesswoman, wife, mother... something in your life needs to be easy!
That's great! It is sooooo nice to just pull something homemade out of the freezer and put in the oven. I don't make ahead often enough, but I love it when I do!
Yes, I do!!! I am so proud of you! It makes life soooooo much easier!
xoxo
I need to do this! Every once in awhile when I'm making lasagna or another casserole type dish, I'll just double it and freeze it. But I don't do it near often enough. And lately I'm always at a loss as to what to cook for dinner. It'd be so nice just to pull something from the freezer.
I have tried it in the past but always forgot about it or ended up with freezer burn - it didn't work for me....
But I know it does for tons of others so that is awesome!!!!
~Becca
Just stumbled upon your blog, it's very nice. Yes, I freeze meals to use later quite a bit. It is so nice to know that I don't "have to cook" some days.
You go, girl! Lasagna freezes so well. I should do more freezer meals, it would sure make life easier. I'm doing a pantry challenge this month, and might have to incorporate freezer meals in it, too!
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