Cooking for the Freezer..

brighthair

thanks for all the advice - I have just baked some choc chip cookies and am about to start on the "trendy?!" carrot and mash topped cottage pie

Justamum

brighthair wrote: »

thanks for all the advice - I have just baked some choc chip cookies and am about to start on the "trendy?!" carrot and mash topped cottage pie

I sometimes cook some swede in with the potato for shepherd's pie.

Butterfly_Brain

My DH favourite topping with cottage pie is swede mashed with butter and pepper

maman

You could add parsnip to your mash as well to up your veg intake.

discountmummy

I love topping it with mashed potato, cauliflour and brocolli, little bit of butter milk and some grated cheese.

Savannah02K

I'm in same state and find that best thing for me is to do massive batch cook when I have a few days off work. Over long Christmas break I made big batch of veggie curry (got Hmepride curry sauces on BOGOF), ditto on veggie chilli, made two veggie lasagnas (Dolmio was on BOGOF!), masses of different kinds of soups, two different fruit crumbles, a marmalade bread and butter pudding, cheese and potato pie and some cheese sauce for pasta/fish/chicken. I portion everything up into single portions, if I need more for family/friends, I just take out another portion.

Cazza

Hi!

My Sister has been booked in to have a C section on Friday for her first baby. Her OH is lovely and does great fajitas........... but not a lot else in terms of cooking! He's got a week off work but needs to go back afterwards.

I'm planning on popping to Wilkos tomorrow and picking up some single portion size dishes and making dinners for them which I can put in their freezer, so he doesn't have to cook when he gets in from work and she doesn't try to do too much either. Ideas I've had so far are...

Shepherd's pie
Chicken Pie
Lasagna
Casserole

Any other ideas?? I thought of chilli perhaps, do you think I could part bake a potato, then put it in the dish with chilli ontop before freezing??? I seem to be quite heavy on the mince at the moment, but I'd like ideas where it's a meal in one pot as much as possible, so my sister isn't having to prepare vegtables etc. Thank you! :j

wssla00

Here are my ready meals:
Cha Han
Chilli Chicken Ramen
Butternut squash risotto
Chicken and mushroom risotto
sweet potato curry
chilli (and get some frozen rice from tesco/asda/morrissons/sainsburys)

If any of these take your fancy lemme know and I will add the recipe

The easiest way for baked pots is I microwave them then keep them in the fridge ready to be crisped up

Congrats to the family

boo81

I second risotto, chilli and soup.

You could also make pies, cook some chicken with marinade in chunks to add to salad and make a pizza base part baked - I read on here before you can do this although im not sure how.

You can cook tuna pasta bake, lasagna.

You could also get her OH to up the game and cook enchiladas instead. They are yummy :-)

CCP

Sorry for my ignorance, wssla00, but what's Cha Han?

In addition to what's already been mentioned, I freeze portions of:

Moussaka
Savoury mince (just add a jacket potato or some bread)
Pasta bakes (I've tried tomato and cheese, tuna and pesto, and roast veg and pesto, and they've all been fine)
Chicken pie and steak pie (the pastry crisps up again if it's reheated in the oven, but it's OK microwaved, too)
Fish pie and cheesy veg pie (both potato topped)
Veggie chilli
Bean and tomato bake
Chicken casserole
Chicken and / or veg curry

There's probably more as well as I like having ready made meals in the freezer - I find most things freeze pretty well for future use, tbh.