Easy to freeze and eat food for post baby?

[champagnesupernova]

I'm sure I saw this thread before but I couldn't find anything in the archive - must have been looking with the wrong search terms.

Trying to make life easier post new baby due in a few weeks - looking for things that can be frozen ahead and eaten easily with a fork

Thinking
Chicken casserole?
Mince based stuff - cottage/shepherds pie, lasagne, bolognese, chilli?
Pasta bake?
But what else??
TIA

Fish pie and Ratatouille and Ragu were the ones I did

i did loads of red pasta sauce but no pasta iykwim? curry was great cos you just get so BORED with red sauce and mince, lol. and ratatouille for baked pots. get some of those wee micro bags of veggies as well, i found them great for a quick fix of green, just splashed with soy sauce.

oh yes, veg a good idea too.

with dd1 i think i ate no veg for the first fortnight... not good post-labour, need fibre.

and takeaways are your friend as well, god knows.

Lovely soups for lunchtime, leek and potato seems to freeze really well. Fresh pasta will freeze well too and cooks in minutes. I've also got a couple of bags of mash in there and some rice, meals in minutes for everyone on the days I work.

I am normally a cook from scratch type, but I think I lived off New Covent Garden soups for the first 6 weeks last time, and am intending to do the same this time. One handed eating - takes 2 mins to warm. and re warm. and re warm.

Soup, soup and more soup! Make loads and freeze it, in bags if you need to squeeze it in. Buy some supplies of that part baked bread, some cheese, and you will be all set. I also asked my friends to make me something freezable, which was nice, cos made a change from own stuff.

Anything you can consume with only one eating iron ;-) DH insisted on cooking me steak and other 'slab of meat' type food and then getting cross when I struggled to eat it/it went cold!! Will know for next time.

Also don't forget puddings, crumbles freeze nicely for example...

Anything that you can eat one-handed and that isn't too messy/sloppy. I ate an awful lot of fish fingers iirc.

Aitch were you being sarky? Cos vegggies are the best form of fibre ever (apart from prepared peeled potatoes) they are mainly starch!

no, not sarky. i didn't eat much veg, the way things worked out, for the first while after dd was born, because i was using up freezer food and had forgotten/couldn't be arsed to cook veg separately. this was not a good idea, as it turned out... hence my recommendation of frozen veg as well.