Nutritionally good meals for the Freezer?

Curry_Queen

raeble wrote:

I froze some cream of spinach soup and that was fine.

That's good to know then for the future, cheers

Queenie

crazyhazy wrote:

Thanks, have got a few ideas now, just need to get cooking and fill my freezer! here's what I've got so far -

Spag Bol
Burgers
Cottage Pie
Pasta Bake
Curry
Casseroles
Chicken Fajitas
Sausage casserole

That should keep me going for a while!

Don't forget:-

Pies
meatballs
Savoury Mince
Quiche
Pasties
Dahl
Stuffed jacket potatoes
Pizza
Fish Bakes
Kedgeree
Meatloaves

headchef

Cooking a few basic recipes and freezing them in small portions works well:
Cook 2 packs of mince with loads of onions, carrott and celery (chopped small in processor), garlic, tin of toms or 2, stock cube. Cook this up (no need to add fat even) for 1 hour or so. Provides a good base for turning into Cottage Pie (add more carrott, mushrooms and thicken the sauce), spag bog (more toms, oregano and red wine), spicy mince (add curry paste - home made or bought).
Tom sauce (see other threads or Jamie Oliver). Fab spread over fish and topped with cheese. Again can be used as pizza base, pasta suace on it's own, or with other stuff added.
Curry sauce - make and freeze in small amounts (baby food jar size). See Curry Queens recipes.
And thanks for whoever it was who warned everyone about defrosted mashed potato looking gruesome until it is warmed through. I defrosted leek and poatoto soup in fridge overnight. It looked most peculiar and I would have thrown it away had i not remembered reading the thread. It was on the point of boiling that it suddenly resembled what I'l made!
Frozen rice is brill for making egg fried rice.

VickyA_2

I've just got a vat of bolognese sauce on the go for the freezer. Got the minced beef from our butchers this morning and have used veggies in varying states of helplessness to bulk it out. Reckon it should last a good 4 meals for us (only 2 of us though).

Queenie

:T Sounds great, VickyA :T Bet your house smells yummy!

VickyA_2

Queenie wrote:

:T Sounds great, VickyA :T Bet your house smells yummy!

Oooh, it did. Tasted pretty good too when I tried it!

I'm going to look up Curry Queen's recipe for curry sauce now as that sounds lovely! Mmmmm.

Peter_Griffin

can i ask how long cooked rice will keep for in a fridge unfrozen, and how long in a freezer??

also does freezing things like vegetables loose their "goodness", all those vitamins etc. am thinking of making my own 'ready for wok' stir fry vegetables, if thats ok can i cook from frozen and how long do they last?


sorry about all the questions, hope you can help

raeble

I leave mine about three days before it starts to get manky - but my fridge is very cold and I always reheat it until piping hot in the microwave - about 3mins on full power.
I would think it would keep in your freezer as long as your freezer states you can keep things for - I belive 4 stars is three months?

domestic_goddess

hi

I am just wondering if anyone can help me... i have recently gone from working full time to part time and from days to evenings at work to spend more time with my kids (one year old and three year old).
I leave for work around tea time and as i am gettingready for work at the same time as helping oh with feeding them it can be a bit stressful. My OH is coming in not much before I go out so I cant ask him to do it all. Does anyone know of any recipies I could cook up and freeze so can reheat them quickly and easily. That would make feedingthe kids easier, also me and oh could eat when i come in without having to start messing about in the kitchen.

Thanks in advance

skystar

I don't get home from work most nights until after six so I make loads of stuff then freeze it so I can just reheat when I get home.

Things I make include:

any type of casserole - sausage/beef/chicken - meat and veg thrown in slow cooker with some stock or can of soup

bolognaise mince - mince, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, herbs again thrown in slow cooker

lasagne - made with the above mince

cottage pie

curries

Can't think of anything else at moment.

Hope this helps