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Offline Coops

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Dinners and school snacks to freeze?
« on: February 05, 2011, 10:14:50 am »
I am going from part time to full time uni in a couple of weeks and I won't be able to cook as much every day as I do now. Does anyone here regulary cook meals and freeze them using their thermomix? What works well? I would love to be able to spend one day a week getting at least 3 meals in to the freezer as well as snacks for the kids for school. Any tried and true recipes would be very much appreciated.

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Re: Dinners and school snacks to freeze?
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2011, 11:01:34 am »
I frequently freeze cakes and scones - take them out in the morning to pop in lunchboxes, they're defrosted by lunchtime.  Macaroni cheese freezes well, which was useful pre tmx days but now seems barely worth the effort.  I also tend to freeze bread but I'm guessing that home made bread won't be top of your agenda.

My children are being REALLY fussy at the moment so I'm going to make some burgers and freeze those, shepherd's pie, any casserole, egg whites can be frozen for when you have time to whip them into meringues.

Am going to watch this thread with interest to get ideas of everyone else :)

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Offline judydawn

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Re: Dinners and school snacks to freeze?
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2011, 11:05:48 am »
Here's a previous thread re freezer meals which you may get some ideas from girls.

http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=1942.0
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Re: Dinners and school snacks to freeze?
« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2011, 11:26:49 am »
Erin I do snacks for the week each weekend. Muffins you could do a double batch which would last a good couple of weeks for yours.
Main meals any of the casserole/curry type dishes freeze well, as does bolognaise etc. I find that I can do most things (along with a rice cooker/microwave) in well under 30mins on a week night anyway so I don't bother freezing unless I have extra leftovers.
But a big batch of bolognaise is good to then make spaghetti/shepherds pie/lasagne/moussaka type recipes quicker.
A big portion of stroganoff/curry etc would make good freezer meals.
A lot of the TMX meals make so much sauce that you can freeze some of it and add more meat later, or add more meat and have extra portions.
What about burgers (as Nik said) or other flavoured minced meat to make sausage rolls etc
Beef stew to make into pies quickly.
I've never been a big meal freezer - never premade and froze a meal before any of the kids were born either, lol, I just find you can make many meals so quickly and just do the quick ones (20mins) when short of time and leave the longer meals for when you have time.
Though I am going to pull my slow cooker out and try to use that again for the nights we are back really late. (though I fried the UK adapter yesterday on the portable aircon unit, grrrr)
PS Think I did a post on quick meals to Regan when she was thinking of buying?
« Last Edit: February 05, 2011, 08:44:30 pm by Zan »

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Re: Dinners and school snacks to freeze?
« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2011, 08:36:41 pm »
I agree with the ladies we often have a portion left over after each meal which I have frozen eg chicken strog, butter chicken (Indian cookbook) risotto, currys good luck