Your Guide to Quick Freezer Meal Recipes

Don’t have enough time in your day to answer the “what’s for dinner” question? Need to make dinner time menus more than just take out or leftovers? Dinner planning can often be very tedious and the preparation for cooking a meal may take up a lot of time in your day. No need to go to that drive-thru or spend countless hours on preparing a meal. Just experiment with making a simple, delicious freezer meal.

Everyone may think putting meals in the freezer strips away the freshness and the flavor of the dish. Wrong! Freezing is actually one of the best ways to preserve and prepare food ahead of time. It helps save time and reduces the chance of throwing away leftovers. This simple plan-ahead meal time strategy is becoming more popular than ever before. Knowing what you need to purchase before entering the grocery store is a better way of controlling your spending. Making freezer meals will definitely help with your shopping list and would give you a better idea of what to purchase at the grocery store. Whether you’re getting ahead of the game or playing catch up, freezer meals are a sure fire way to answer the lingering What’s for dinner question.

When preparing a freezer meal, make sure to have the dish cool thoroughly. Also, use specialty freezer wrappings or air tight containers to reduce the risk of freezer burn or undesirable freezer odors. Here are a few suggestions on different types of freezer meals.

Freezer Meal #1: Meatloaf
Whether it’s a combination of ground beef, veal, and pork, or just ground turkey, meatloaf is the ultimate freezer meal. Not only is it simple to make, but meatloaf can go great with any side dish. You will need ground turkey, yellow onions, green bell peppers, eggs, garlic, rosemary, unflavored bread crumbs, and Worcestershire sauce. If you want to spice up the traditional meatloaf dish, add a hint of hot sauce, paprika, or black pepper to the meatloaf mixture. Add everything together, except the bacon, shape it into a small loaf before wrapping it with plastic wrap and store it in the freezer. When ready to cook, take out the meatloaf the night before to defrost in the refrigerator. The next day just place it in the oven.

Freezer Meal #2: Lasagna
Believe it or not, Lasagna is amazing as a freezer dish. It can actually be prepared in the dish you will use to bake the lasagna in. You will need lasagna noodles, hamburger or turkey meat, tomato sauce, cream of mushroom soup, hot sauce, Worcestershire sauce, sugar, singles cheese and Mozzarella Cheese. Wrap the Lasagna in the pan tightly with plastic wrap and store in the freezer.

Freezer Meal #3: Freezer to Table Pot-Roast
Your family’s all-time favorite dish has returned with a new age twist! Pot roast may seem like a time consuming and complicated dish to make, but when pre-prepared, it’s very simple to make. All you need is orange juice, salt, pepper, thyme, orange peels, boneless beef chuck cross rib, rutabaga, carrots, all-purpose flour, and water. A reasonable Table-Pot Roast dish will yield up to 12 servings and be served with a side of mashed potatoes, green beans, carrots, or even corn.