Make Ahead Meals
April 22, 2010
I must confess: I don’t always have the time or the energy to start cooking supper when I get home after a long day. I often prefer to have a light supper when I’m that busy/tired but my husband is a meat and potatoes kind of guy. So I decided to let him choose his 4 favorite recipes (that froze well) and made them all one Saturday morning. As you can see above, it made quite a few meals that were easy to freeze, and reheat in the microwave. My husband was very happy with these as they made great grab and go lunches too.
Another great advantage of this kind of make ahead cooking is that very little food goes to waste. You buy only what you need to make the recipes, and you use everything up! We could have used re-usable containers but the rinse and recycle containers pictured above were great for even more time saving cleanup. I purchased these disposable (yet recyclable) containers at Provigo Warehouse and they were about 26$ for 50 containers with lids.
These were the meals that I made and froze:
Cheesy Shrimp and Rice
Turkey Chilli Con Carne
Basic Meat Lasagna
Shepherds Pie
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