Just got a chest feezer - what shall I fill it with?

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Just bought a medium sized chest freezer and I'm looking for ideas for things to make and freeze. I'll do homemade chicken nuggets for the kids, and maybe a few tins of mac and cheese. What else would you be really pleased to find in your freezer, ready to cook?

I realise that they are cheaper to run when kept fairly full, so any ideas for things to fill it up with while I get into the swing on batch cooking?

Chips
Aunt bessies everything
Smiley faces
Iceland gregs sausage rolls
Ben & gerrys

Well, ice cream, obviously!

Bulk buy meat from the butchers - we got £24 chicken breasts for £20 and they're huge!

We keep meat, milk, bread loaves. Pick fruit in Autumn and freeze big batches.

Try not to put anything smelly in that chest freezer or it will taint. We have a small kitchen freezer for anything like leftover cooked food.

Fresh pasta
Partbake rolls/garlic bread
Bread/rolls/crumpets/muffins/teacakes
Frozen veg esp onions, mixed peppers & med roasted veg for easy pasta sauce to go with fresh pasta!
Soup.

Soups/curries/stews/falafels.
Homemade tomato sauce for pasta/pizza.
Couple of bought pizzas.
Frozen veg. I always have spinach, peas, sweetcorn and green beans.
Curry pastes frozen into ice cube trays.
Meat/fish.
Bread/rolls/wraps/naan/chapatis etc.
Fruit mixes for crumbles/smoothies.

I have a really big upright freezer and love it.

I've got masses of beans from my dads garden in mine, plus batches of cooked apples, and apple and blackberry. Frozen pastry is a good one, I fished a block of puff pastry out of mine today and made apple strudel for lunch!

Get an allotment, grow your own lovely veg and freeze it!

Any bodies that you need to dispose of?

Garlic bread
Pizza
Homemade lasagne, shepherd's pie, burgers, soup
Frozen veg
Fruit picked earlier in the year
Pies made from said fruit
Ice pops/lollies
Meat (tend to buy a whole pig and/or lamb and share it out with the rest of our families)
Ice cream
Fish fingers
potato waffles
Chips
Garlic mushrooms
Breaded onion rings
And last but not least, ice packs for any sporting injuries we might come home with!

I love my freezer!

My mum has two freezers she fills them up with anything freezable from the reduced aisle

Unless you live in the wilderness and have to trudge through snow and ice 6 months of the year, I really do not get the point of filling a freezer with the above mentioned processed carbs. Yes to anything homemade in a big batch such as:
Stewed apples, from the annual glut or anything else home grown.
pasta sauce
quiches/pies
bargin buys of meat and fish (I bought a whole salmon and had it filleted and then made individual en croutes.) Instant meal.
Portions of home made curry etc. ditto.
Some good peas/petit pois.
Anything that is good quality to go with the usual groceries.
Obviously depends on your household...
Chicken nuggets are essential though!

snow.

Lovely ideas! Thanks chaps! Especially love the curry paste idea, and MiL has loads of fruit trees/bushes. Love the idea of getting a whole pig in. Pasta sauce is a good one, could be used for pizza base, lasagne, chilli, etc, etc.
Any more?

Going to get down Makro for some frozen croissants I think!

This is more a willpower one than a freezer necessity but if I make a huge batch of cookies, I store them in the freezer in bags of 4 so they don't all get scoffed at once (by me), and I always have fresh biscuits to pull out if people come round.

Don't forget the obligatory bag of frozen peas that may or may not have been used several times for a cold compress and is now leaking green bobbles along the bottom of the freezer.