Come and tell me your top 10 cook-and-freeze meals - if you don't, you are condemning my family to a future of fish fingers and waffles!!!

[Greensleeves]

We just seem to have less time these days, and I am finding that I don't actually want to come in from a long day's work and start chopping bloody vegetables

I love cooking and am pretty good at it, and so is dh, and we all have very wide taste, no veggie-refusenik kids etc

So what are your top 10 freeze-for-later dishes/ Joking aside, I do cook from fresh a lot and I like doing it, but there are increasingly frequently times when dh and I just look at each other and say "fuck it, there are some fishcakes in the freezer"

I've cooked and frozen things like soups, lasagne, burgers, veggie burgers, falafels, apple pies, strudel, steak pies

but would love some inspiration and some more exciting and tempting ideas!

I've never found freezing rice works very well personally. I've tried freezing risotto but the texture changes a lot and it goes too mushy. However I sometimes cook he start of a risotto/pilaf using all the ingredients that do freeze eg i often do one with onions, chicken, chorizo, vermouth or wine, saffron, bay leaves and olives. If you then freeze that then all you need to do add rice, water or stock and cook.

I often freeze partially made recipes that I can then finish quickly. Sauces work well like this. For example, mix cumin, chopped chilli, coriander leaves, salt and pepper, spring onions and garlic and divide into an ice cube tray. Each portion makes salsa if you mix with a fresh chopped tomato.

Can someone post a good, freezable sweet and sour sauce recipe please.

I have actully just had a tidy of my freezer this afternoon. There is:
Bolognaise
Chilli
Greek lamb stew (nigella)
home made soup (various)
meatballs (no sauce)
mince (for shepherds pie or with dumplings)
chicken and veg Risotto
Chicken and chorizo stew
Lasagne
Sorry not 10, but not bad, more than I thought, was quite pleased

When I've done a roast I freeze left over meat in left over gravy and freeze the cooked veg and Yorkshires too.

Anything mashed - potatoes, carrots, swede.

Anything with a sauce, casseroles, curry etc.

Anything in pastry, pies, pasties etc.

Anything topped with mash - shepherd's pie, fish pie.

Home made versions of fishcakes, chicken nuggets, meatballs.

I always reheat these from frozen.

turkey parcels are fab! Thank you to whoever posted that one. We are eating them now with frozen mash. An MN meal. Well to complete we should probably have chocolate cake microwaved in a mug.