31 Aug 2010 Got any good meal ideas?
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I loved the idea a friend had of preparing meals ahead of time and freezing them before her baby was due. I am hoping in the next couple of weeks I’ll be able to do that and get a good week’s worth of food in the freezer so we’ll all have something delicious and healthy to eat. My problem though is I don’t know what kind of meals, or foods will freeze well, and how to go about freezing them. So if you have any recipes or even meal ideas and tips on how to freeze them I’d greatly appreciate the help. Like, do I need to go buy foil pans to freeze stuff in, or use plastic freezer bags or can I use my tupperware?

Then when I get all the meals planned out that we’ll do I’ll have to start calling up some youth girls to come help watch Hannah so I can go grocery shopping and do the cooking without having Hannah hanging on to me the whole time I’m in the kitchen.

Tomorrow is the 1st, which means time to do our budget, and I have all sorts of stuff in my head that we need to put in the budget to prepare for our little boy coming. I can’t believe we’ll be holding our new little bundle of joy in maybe less than a month!

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    Candi Thorson 

    Hi Dana,

    I don’t know if you’ve heard of the books “Once a Month Cooking” or “Don’t panic, Dinner’s in the Freezer” that is what the books are about, making and freezing meals. You could probably find them at the library.

    I like to use my pyrex glass pans, but tubberware should work or freezer bags depending on the item.

    Lasagna, Enchiladas and casseroles (not with potatoes) all freeze well. When we made some meals for a gal in our small group who just gave birth we made, chicken pot pie (put the filling in a freezer bag and then bought pie crusts), meatballs-put in freezeer bag, enchiladas, lasgana, breakfast casserole and breakfast burritos.

  2. Thanks Candi! I just requested those and the sequel to “Don’t panic…” to be sent to our public library for me to check out. Can’t wait to get them in!

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