Ideas for home-made frozen ready meals & snacks

[GentlyDidIt]

When next baby arrives in a couple of months I'd love to have a freezer full of home-made, healthy ready meals.

Casseroles and the like are fine, but I'm really looking for snacks - things I can defrost a single portion of, and eat one-handed while I breastfeed.

I like a lot of readymade frozen veggie stuff - nut cutlets, veggie burgers etc, but expect homemade would be healthier and tastier.

Thanks in anticipation...

[GentlyDidIt]

Should add I'm not a vegetarian, but hoping to keep my fibre levels and 5-a-day up!

[BlueChampagne]

How about making a pizza and freezing it in slices?

Do you think you could cope with soup in a mug while BFing? Get some nice bread in the freezer too.

Single portions of macaroni cheese with broccoli?

Our kitchen was being rebuilt when I had DS so many's the meal I had out with him in the sling and a paper napkin on his head!

[GentlyDidIt]

Thank you BlueChampagne, I particularly like the pizza idea. You made me chuckle as my first baby spent quite a bit of time with a clean teatowel on her head - not for modesty, but so that I wouldn't lose any of the bigger bits of cake

Any more lunchtime brainwaves out there?

[cyteen]

I make these savoury flapjacks for my DS and freeze them in bars...they're really tasty and defrost pretty quickly too. Good out-and-about food for adults and kids.

[cyteen]

You could also make big batches of various pasta sauces (spicy tomato, bolognese, salsa verde or whatever you like) and freeze them in portions - I always found cooking pasta one handed fairly manageable and you can just chuck the defrosted sauce over it and stir through.

[GrimmaTheNome]

If you like bagels, slice them before freezing. Its easy enought to stuff and eat a bagel one-handed but impossible to wield a breadknife.

[milkmoustache]

Savoury muffins? Sweetcorn fritters - make a cheese batter, add sweetcorn and spring onions, fry a spoonful and freeze.

[CMOTdibbler]

Calzone - cut circle of bread dough, spread with pizza sauce, add some veggies and cheese, fold and seal, bake. Nuke from frozen

Mini quiches freeze well

[GentlyDidIt]

Ooh cyteen the flapjacks look lovely!

Anyone know whether cooked pancakes freeze well? I have an experimental one in the frrezer at the moment and it looks a bit sad.

[cyteen]

They should do - freeze them between sheets of greaseproof paper so they don't freeze into one big mass.

Drop scones also freeze well this way. I make these all the time for indulgent weekend breakfasts, they're gorgeous with Greek yoghurt and berries (or just maple syrup as DP prefers)

[GentlyDidIt]

oh my goodness what a great idea - tell you what cyteen, can I just come round to yours after the baby arrives and watch you cook for a bit, say a couple of months