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Dinner, already made, waiting in the freezer 🧊

Published 22 days ago • 1 min read

Hey, friend.

An afternoon in the kitchen this Sunday buys you five nights you don't have to think about what’s for dinner! That’s time well spent, if you ask me.

Half of these meals go into freezer bags for the slow cooker, while the other half go into pans for the oven. In one session, you have two different kinds of easy!

This week: two hours on Sunday, five dinners in the freezer!

Bags for the Crock Pot

Assemble raw in a freezer bag, freeze flat, then dump it in frozen and walk away!

3 INGREDIENTS

Crock Pot Chicken with Gravy

Three ingredients and about five minutes to get it into the bag. Pile it over mashed potatoes or rice on a night when you've got nothing left.

FEEDS EVERYBODY

Easy Taco Soup

Thick and hearty, and it freezes better than almost anything else I make. Stovetop or slow cooker, whichever the night calls for!
I have more where these came from in my Crock Pot Freezer Meals collection.

Pans for the Oven

Assemble, cover, freeze. No thawing on any of these!

4 INGREDIENTS

Baked Ravioli Casserole

Four ingredients and five minutes of prep, and it goes straight from the freezer to the oven. No thawing, no boiling, just layer and bake.

MAKE IT TWICE

Chicken and Stuffing Casserole

Fifteen minutes of prep and it's a comfort food classic that's been on Southern tables for generations. Make one for tonight and one for the freezer while you're at it.

GRAB ONE AT A TIME

The Easiest Burrito Recipe

Wrap them individually and you can pull out exactly as many as you need. The no-soggy-tortilla trick is what makes them worth freezing.
If you want the full assembly-line version, here are 5 dump-and-bake freezer meals you can put together in about an hour.

Quick Tips

  1. Freeze the bags flat on a sheet pan, then stand them up in the freezer once they're solid. They stack like files instead of sprawling, and you can actually read the labels.​
  2. Write the cooking instructions on the bag, not just the name. In October you will not remember whether it was four hours on high or eight on low, and you won't want to go looking.

Do this once now and you'll want to do it again in October, when it's cool enough to have the oven on all afternoon anyway.

Future you is going to be very happy about this!

See you next week,

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