Freezer meals for after labor....

arcook0307

I plan on making a bunch of stuff so we can eat good food with little effort after LO gets here.  I plan on making chicken pot pie, enchiladas, spaghetti sauce, chili, alfredo sauce, chicken corn chowder, chicken chili, lasagna and maybe more.  What are y'all making ahead of time?  Would love to hear more inspiration!  

 

PS- I also made a list of "easy meals" that I can do in between.

StephNJohn2008

Here are the resources I've been using:

https://joelens.blogspot.com/2010/05/freezer-meals-preparations.html

https://joelens.blogspot.com/2007/01/freezer-friendlymake-ahead.html

https://annies-eats.net/2011/03/28/stocking-the-freezer-make-ahead-meals/

 

So far I made a tray of shredded crockpot salsa chicken, baked ziti (tonight actually haha), pesto chicken pasta, and a chicken soup. I've been making larger meals if it freezes well and freezing half in the containers from the first link I posted (the Glad freezer to oven dishes). I still plan to make enchiladas, waffles, a pot roast, and a few other dishes.  I started a "freezer friendly" tag in my blog (linked below) as well with the things I made so far for the baby.  

misabean16

A friend of mine told me to do this and I thought it was a great idea! The only meals I could come up with for now are meatloaf and stuffed peppers! Hope this helps

Erica92

So far in my freezer I have made:

4 lbs of pesto meatballs

2 different types of meatloaf

chicken parm turkey burgers

I plan to make this week:

Spinach lasagna roll ups

2 different types of chicken enchiladas

chicken and 3 cheese pasta bake

chili

baileyrayvalentine

Here are some more ideas for you:

 

https://www.marthastewart.com/274277/freezer-friendly-foods#/214355

 

 

earlysun

I'm praying that some of your cooking motivation rubs off on me before this LO arrives. I used to cook all the time and loved it...I haven't had the motivation to cook during this pregnancy. now I'm at the point where I have trouble reaching things in the kitchen. Uggh.

lageorgiapaperie

I made my first freezer meal tonight, Weight Watchers chicken black bean chili!

I made a post about it on my personal blog, link in siggy. We ate it for dinner tonight too, and it was awesome!

F&G777

I need to do this as well - I am going to try & do it when I go out on maternity (hopefully the beginning of December). Thanks for the suggestions.

Mrs.Greeko

I finished my freezer stocking this weekend! 

This is what I have:

- 2 chicken pot pies and a bag of extra filling that I can top with puff pastry for an additional pot pie

- 3 pans of baked mac and cheese

- 3 meatloaves (raw)

- pumpkin muffins

- 1 loaf of banana bread

- breakfast sandwiches (egg, cheese, canadian bacon on english muffins)

- 1 gallon bag of ham and bean soup

- a few rolls of chocolate chip cookie dough

- a couple rolls of oatmeal raisen cookie dough

- a roll of cowboy cookie dough

- some snickerdoodle cookie dough balls

- 4 quart bags of sloppy joes meat

- 2 gallon bags of sausage kale soup

- 1 loaf of zucchini bread

- chocolate zucchini muffins

- chicken lasagna rolls

- gallon bag of white chicken chili

I also have a bunch of steam in the bag frozen veggies and some things like rice a roni (which we normally don't eat, but DH will make) for sides. 

joelen&louis

FREEZER FRIENDLY / MAKE AHEAD