Homemade Food Recipes To Freeze
Make these EASY FREEZER MEALS ahead of time and pull them out on a busy night for a delicious home-cooked meal. This is a collection of our BEST go-to freezer meal recipes that your family will love.
We love a good freezer meal, so we compiled a list of 50 Easy Freezer Meal Recipes we know you will love. One of the things that we are most known for are freezer meals! Once you see this list, you will know why.
These are perfect for new moms, busy days, and for your neighbor with a new baby. These healthy freezer meals are the best thing to happen since the crock pot – you’ll be able to get a delicious meal with healthy ingredients on the table in no time. Whether you’re looking for regular freezer meals, Instant Pot freezer meals, or Crockpot freezer meals, this list has you covered.
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After we posted our Make 8 Freezer Meals in 1 Hour back in 2012, the post went VIRAL! Thousands and thousands of you had been looking for easy freezer meals and loved the recipes that we shared.
We then went on to share 10 Freezer Meals that you could make in 90 Minutes, which you all loved as well. And who wouldn’t? They’re so perfect for the whole family.
Most of those recipes were ones that you could prep the ingredients in a resealable bag and then dump them into your slow cooker when you were ready to use them.
Make Ahead Freezer Meals
Today we wanted to share 50 Easy Freezer Meal Recipes – some are for slow cookers, some are for Instant Pot, some are casseroles, and some are just our favorite foods that you can make ahead of time and stick in the freezer for another day.
Let us give you your time back. With the Six Sisters’ Meal Plans, we do the dinner planning, grocery ordering, and then all you have to do is decide whether to pick them up or have them delivered.
Freezer meals are meals that are made in advance and then placed in the freezer to be used at a later date.
Batch Cooking Recipes
This can be done simply by doubling a recipe and freezing half for later or it can be done in bulk and stocking your freezer with a bunch of pre-made meals that only require heating up.
Just like you can buy convenient food in the freezer section of the grocery store, homemade freezer meals are the same idea – pre-made food that you can grab and heat up for a healthy, nutritious, homemade meal in a hurry.
There are some foods that do not freeze or thaw well and we would recommend that you avoid them in your freezer meals. Here are the list of foods that you should not try to freeze:
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Freezer burn is pretty much inevitable with all frozen foods, but it has a chance of lasting longer if you get as much air out of the package or ziploc bag as possible.
We prefer using resealable plastic bags to put our freezer meals in (instead of baking pans or other containers) because you can squeeze or suck almost all of the air out, which will help it to last longer in the freezer.
Most food takes 24-48 hours to thaw in the fridge, so plan accordingly! I usually pull my food out of the freezer at least 24 hours before I plan on cooking it. I place my food in the fridge to let it thaw during that time.
Actually Easy Freezer Meals (seriously!)
If you don’t have time or forget to pull it out of the freezer, you can also use the “defrost” feature on your microwave to thaw it quickly. However, if your freezer meal is in an aluminum container, you can not put it in the microwave.
I would recommend thawing it first, but if you don’t have time, you can cook your meal from frozen. In order to cook from frozen, plan on adding about 50% more time of the baking time directed in the recipe.
For example, if a recipe had me cook the casserole for 30 minutes, I would plan on cooking it for at least 45 minutes (maybe longer – you want to make sure that the entire dish is warmed through).
Homemade Freezer Meals
(You can freeze this after it’s cooked OR freeze it before by browning beef and then adding all the ingredients to a gallon-sized resealable bag. When ready to use, dump contents into slow cooker or Instant Pot and cook).
(Prepare shells and then place in a freezable container. Remove from freezer to thaw when ready to use, then cook as directed.)
(Cook and then freeze in resealable freezer bags. When ready to eat, you can microwave them or stick them in the toaster.)
Easy Homemade Dog Food Recipe
Assemble taquitos and then freeze before baking. I like to put them all rolled up in a gallon-sized resealable freezer bag. They will last up to 90 days. You can cook from frozen in the oven – you might have to add a few minutes onto the cooking time to make sure they are cooked all the way through.
(Dump all the ingredients in a gallon-sized freezer bag and freeze. Dump frozen food in your slow cooker or Instant Pot and cook).
You can freeze these after assembling them – I like to put them in an aluminum foil pan and then freeze. Pull them out and cook from frozen. You might have to add a few minutes onto the cooking time to make sure they are cooked all the way through.
Best Homemade Frozen Burritos (beef Burritos)
You can freeze this casserole after assembling them – I like to put them in an aluminum foil pan and then freeze. Pull them out and cook from frozen. You might have to add a few minutes onto the cooking time to make sure they are cooked all the way through.
Dump all the ingredients in a gallon-sized freezer bag and freeze. Dump frozen food in your slow cooker or Instant Pot and cook.
50. Cilantro Lime Chicken from Damn Delicious Watch how to make a some of our easy Freezer Meals and more easy recipes on our YouTube Channel:
Making Mayo's Recipes: 5 Meals You Can Freeze
Did you know we have a Youtube Channel? We have hundreds of simple and delicious recipes, your family is going to love. We take you through each recipe, step by step, and show you exactly how to make them.
Freezer meals can actually be tasty, and the good news is that we can show you how it’s done. Let us help you get dinner on the table for your family with way less work.
Kristen lives in northern Utah with her husband, Ammon, and her four daughters. She’s the blog’s YouTube guru and she loves running in her spare time.Easy freezer meals (like, actually easy) do indeed exist and I’ve created the best ones ever.. right here. And I’m so excited to share them with you all!
Freezer Meals For One
You ever feel like your life is just waaaaayyy too busy? That’s me most days too. There are so many things to do that I’d rather just crawl into my closet to hide rather than deal with it all. For reals.
I’m an LDS stay-at-home-mom of four kids with a full-time blogging business…. constantly trying to reevaluate what is really important, and trying to find balance. Ever trying to start new chore charts that work for about two weeks ( because I’m weak…) Trying daily to keep to a schedule, trying to ignore that messy pile of dishes I never got to today.
Trying to get through the massive to-do lists, keep a budget and pay the bills, do church callings and trying to spend quality time with my kids and husband.
Diy Homemade Dog Food
Trying not to remember last night.. when making dinner hadn’t even crossed my mind all day. Seriously, I hadn’t even thought about dinner, and around 7 pm the kids were all like..”Maaaam, what’s for dinner? And there’s me ” Ummm…I don’t know! It’s too late for me to make a big meal. How about cereal? Or the leftovers from 2 days ago? You’re on your own!” Yes, I did say that. But, to be fair, my kids at home are 12 and 13, so… it’s not total abuse, right?…ahem.
But still, in the deepest part of my soul, there is something that just gives me joy when I can make my family a really good healthy homecooked meal. And if they tell me they all love the meal? That is everything I need! I think about it for days!
The dishes, the laundry? I can ignore those if I need to, but if my family doesn’t eat well ..it’s guilt-town for me.
Healthy Freezer Meals (that You'll Actually Love)
You ever feel that way too? If you do, I’m glad. I mean, not glaaad, because well, feeling this way sucks. But glad because at least you and I are in crazy town together!
Nevertheless, I do have one thing that has helped me every single time at least with this whole dinner thing. And I promise it can help you out too.
I can take one day and make up a bunch of healthy, easy freezer meals and BAM! My life is 59% less stressed.
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I’ll have a whole
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