C section batch cooking

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Hello!

I'm having a section next week and have a few days off booked prior. I was thinking I should do some batch cooking to prep some healthy meals that can be easily defrosted and eaten.

I've already made and frozen-
A quorn bolognese
Spicy butternut squash soup
Veggie chilli
Arrabbiata sauce

Does anyone have any ideas for vegetarian batch cooking that's suitable for freezing? Thanks all!

What about a lentil cottage pie filling? Can have it on a jacket potato/with ready made mash or chips depending on how you're feeling.

Could do some egg muffins for an easy breakfast, I like them with baked beans.

Lentil dahl? A good lunch option or add halloumi/Quorn chicken to make it more like a curry. Good luck 😊

Lentil dal www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/coconut_dahl_86921#:~:text=This%20could%20not%20be%20easier,need%20a%20little%20warming%20up.
Shepherd’s pie healthylivingjames.co.uk/lentil-shepherds-pie/
Chickpea burgers https://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/curried-chickpea-burgers.html

Taming twins recipe website has some goodies!

You want things that do not require you to stand and stir at the hob. Anything you can put into an oven or microwave is best. Consider simple things too like jacket potatoes plus toppings.

Also consider any slow cooker meals that can be put on mid morning, you can use a plug in timer if your slow cooker doesn't have a delayed start, so when someone gets chance you can just dump everything in from a freezer bag/vaccum seal bag and put it on for 6-8 hours cook time. For me this was the best and easiest. There are loads of recipe ideas on Youtube for this sort of thing.

We use the double lid Sistema microwave rice cooker pot so again no hob. Literally double water to rice doesn't matter if it is long grain or basmati, reduce microwave to 750w and 15 minutes cooking. You can leave it to steam afterwards too.

I am not veggie so my veggie recipes are the usual chickpea and spinach curry or a lentil dhal.

https://tasty.co/article/hannahloewentheil/xx-meatless-dump-dinners-you-can-make-in-a-crock-p

no cooking now - just prep

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/vegetarian-slow-cooker-recipes

these could all be made into dump bags for the freezer

I made a great quorn sausage casserole, using a packet of the dried soup mix of barley, lentils, splits peas etc, onions, carrots, tomato puree and quorn sausage cute very thin. Simple, hearty and filling.

I do something similar with green lentils, veggie sausage, leeks, carrots, celery, dried dill, caraway, celery seed, mustard to make a german-style dish.

You could also make a korma sauce, I leave it thick so it takes less volume to freeze, then top up with a bit of water, and then you can add whatever you want, we usually add chickpeas.