34 Weeks Pregnant Prepping for Baby Need FROZEN FOOD RECIPE/IDEAS

www.savingdinner.com Click on the freezer meals. They give you the meals, shopping list, and complete and easy instructions for prepping and assembling the meals. I usually do one of the "5 for the Freezer" sets, which is 5 meals with the same meat so you can buy it on sale.

taco meat
chili
meatloaf
baked mostaccioli
stuffed green peppers (not one of my favorites)
spag. sauce
perogies
beef stew
sloppy joes
pulled pork
pancakes/waffles
cabbage rolls

Here's a copy of a post I made about this a while back. Feel free to let me know if you want my specific recipes.

I do this all the time! Before our daughter was born I made a bunch of extra stuff up ahead of time and put it in our deep freeze..it has been a sanity and life saver! I always have a few things in the freezer for those nights I just don't want to cook!

Getting things packaged right is key to freezing things for longer periods of time. I have a vacuum sealer, but for many of the items I freeze, the sealer won't work. It's not good for larger items or liquids. And you can freeze something like a soup and then vacuum seal it, I don't recommend it...I have had bad outcomes. Before freezing anything, make sure it it is completely cool, this helps prevent ice crystals from forming.

Many soups freeze well. I made up a chicken cheese corn chowder, chicken noodle and spinach sausage. Chili also does well in the freezer. I put them in ziplock bags. I placed the bags in 2 qt juice pitchers and fill them with the soup. I put the pitchers in the freezer and when they were frozen solid, I removed the bags from the pitchers and stored them in the freezer. Putting them in the pitcher helped me with portions and they stored well in my deep freeze.

Baked ziti and lasagna, both do well in the freezer. The recipes I have make large batches, so I split them and got two meals out of each one.(http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Baked-Ziti-I/Detail.aspx) (http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Worlds-Best-Lasagna/Detail.a... I store these in disposable pans.I wrap in saran wrap (really wrap...all the way around) and then put tin foil over the top. The night I cook it, I reuse the tinfoil...putting tinfoil over the top will help it heat through without browning the cheese. And often I do wash the toss away pan to reuse for another time (but not when things are insane, like a new baby in the house)

Pot pies freeze well. I find these are easy to make in large batches. I make these a dozen or so at a time. They are my go to food when I don't feel like cooking. they cook better thawed, but more than once I have baked them frozen. It obviously takes a little longer, but if you keep it covered with tin foil, the crust doesn't get overly brown or burned.

I bought a variety of frozen veggies at Sam's to have on hand as side dishes. I also bought some frozen blackened Salmon from Sam's as well. It is surprisingly good for a packaged food.

I have my husband grill up a variety of meats when he has time. Then I vacuum sealed them and froze them, but a ziplock bag would also worked. They are definitely better fresh, but with this much chaos, who notices the difference really? These are easy to microwave or reheat on the stove top. I have noticed that pouring a little broth over the meat helps them reheat better, they don't get overly dried out.

Lumpia and egg rolls can also be made ahead of time and frozen. It helps to wrap them in wax paper before putting them in baggies. Fried rice, which can be served as a side or main dish, does well too - although if I am going to add shrimp I do that the night we are going to eat it, I don't freeze it with shrimp. Red beans and rice does well, but make sure to add a little water when you go to reheat it. Cajun rice is another recipe that freezes well. I store all of these in ziplock bags (vacuum bag have a tendency to rip the egg rolls apart a little bit). reheat these in the microwave usually.

Meatballs for spaghetti and sandwiches can be frozen too. We make our own spaghetti sauce and I have that in our freezer as well. I usually cook up the sauce and then reheat the meatballs by dropping them in the sauce to cook.

I also make cheese steak strombolis and calzones or strombolis using leftover lunch meats and cheeses. The trick to these is to cook them for half the time before freezing. That way the dough doesn't get overcooked when you reheat them.

I tried to freeze a spinach quiche, but it didn't do well in the freezer, it got a bit grainy. In fact non of my quiche recipes did well in the freezer

I also make up dinner rolls, garlic bread and bread bowls and froze them. You just want to bake them for about half the time, let them cool completely and then freeze. They store well in ziplock bags. When it comes time to heat them up, you can throw them in the oven frozen and cook for the remaining time.

I also stocked up on easy things that weren't necessarily frozen. Taco fixings, sausages and packaged au gratin potatoes, hot dogs, canned fruit for side dishes and prepackaged salads.

Hope this helps!

I was on bed rest for 3 months, so we had a lot of frozen meals that were made by my mom and my mother-in-law. Chicken enchiladas freeze really well--hubby just had to cook up some rice and beans and we were good to go!

We also had:

Beef Stroganoff and mashed potatoes (the MP really do freeze well)
Chicken Pot Pie
Pizza
Pizza hotdish (casserole)
Burritos
Herbed Chicken
Chicken Tetrazinni

Good luck!

I did the same thing since we lived 2 hours from the closest family, I was having a c-section and I knew my husband didn't have time to cook and everything else.

I made and froze lots of stuff:
-meatloaf
-pot roast with the potatoes and carrots
-enchiladas
-lasagna
-baked spaghetti
-chicken pot pies The next time I freeze the pot pies though I would freeze them in the glass pie plate, pop them out and wrap them up for freezing. I froze them in the aluminum (or whatever it is) tins and they had a metal-y taste
-Shepard's pie
-Southwestern chicken soup

I also kept on hand super simple quick stuff like frozen veggies, frozen ravioli and jarred sauce.

I'm sure there was more! But I let it dinner cool and then portioned it out for either one or two meals before freezing.

LOL....wow mommy where do you get all the energy???
I was going to suggest some home made chicken soup...then I realized that you live in Arizona...lol
I suppose I should just give my recipes to Wisconsin mommys..lol

Any kind of soup or chili freezes well. He can just add a salad or bread to go with it. The web site www.myrecipes.com has recipes from Cooking Light and others that are good. Look up the one for Chicken Cheddar Chowder and Baked Potato Soup.

Put the numbers to your local pizza parlor, chinese take-out, mexican restaurant, and deli in the freezer. :-)