Can I do this with mince?

[FindingMyselfAgain2022]

I know this is probably a stupid question but I'm ill and sleep deprived so please humour me!

Doing a cottage pie for tea, put the mince in the pan and realised there's far too much so I've split half off for tea tonight and the other half to make a lasagne on Saturday.

Haven't got all the ingredients for the Bolognese so will freeze this cooked mince, cook from frozen on Saturday morning and assemble/cook lasagne. It'll be eaten at two different times on Saturday evening, so will it then be ok to portion off what each person wants, when they want it, and heat up again in the microwave?

I hope all the makes sense 🤯

You shouldn't cook it from frozen.

Sounds like too many reheatings to me.

if the mince is all cooked through, it sounds fine. I wouldn't re-freeze any portions cooked on Saturday.

@Seeline really? Because it's already been cooked? I've cooked mince from frozen loads of times if I've forgotten to defrost, very slowly on a low heat. But yes I was worried it was too many times to reheat.

@Ifailed no nothing would be frozen again, on the off chance there's anything left I'd bin in

Cook it then keep in fridge until you can get to the shop to get ingredients for bolognese. Don't re-freeze it

Yes - because you have cooked it and frozen it, you should defrost it before reheating it, but that means you shouldn't be reheating it in the completed lasagna, let alone twice.

You could make two separate lasagnas to save one re-heat.

@Almostmenopausal

Cook it then keep in fridge until you can get to the shop to get ingredients for bolognese. Don't re-freeze it

So make the Bol tonight, then leave in the fridge until Saturday?

If you're cooking it today you don't need to freeze it.