Batch cooking/freezing meals

[Slippersmum]

Does anyone have any suggestions for meals which are good to cook in large quantities and freeze. There are only so many shepherds pies and chicken casseroles my dcs can cope with!! we don't really eat red meat, its mainly chicken and fish.

curry
Lasagne and bolognaise, made with turkey mince
hm meatballs again made with turkey mince
Fish pie

Something I think I should make more off for the freezer is a basic tomato pasta sauce. Then I could use sausages for meatballs and or tuna etc to add to pasta.

On occasion I've frozen chicken goujons.

Watching with interest!

Chilli con carne
Pasta bake
Chicken kieves
Cottage pie, I always pad mine out with lentils and vegetables, so don't actually use much meat.
Stew
Roasted vegetables, nice with crushed garlic and rosemary when cooked.
Yorkshire puddings freeze well, once cooked. I always make extra when cooking roast and then just use them during the week, instead of bread and butter, to go with meals.
Chicken soup, made from bones of roast chicken.
Fish cakes.

Thanks everyone. So you freeze the Yorkshire pud rather than the mixture NAR4? What a great idea. My kids love them but mine are terrible!! Any tips?

Hiya. I have a family of 6 to feed so I use my slow cooker a lot. I can throw a load of ingredients in and make enough for two or three meals - and you can make some really interesting stuff. Currently Tescos are doing a slow cooker range and I think Schwartz is as well as Bisto. Plus a lot of recipes can be adapted to cook in there. I'm suggesting it as its a huge crockpot so you can do loads at once and also not have to slave for hours - just set it off in the morning and leave for 8 hours - voila tea is cooked and you have two more meals for the freezer. I have made:
Chicken curry
Lamb Tagine
Spanish Chicken
Chicken casserole
Pot roast with veg
Mexican chicken (like chill con carne but with chicken instead)
Beef bourginon

All cheap enough to make & enjoyed by the kids.

Friend of mine 'if I do batch cooking, they do batch eating'
So my only tip would be to separate out the portions before anyone starts wondering about seconds...

I know what you mean BL00. I have cooked extra in the past and left it to cool then gone back and its all gone! So I then decided to have a cooking day where I spent the entire day cooking meals but not sure that worked very well either! I tried to make 3 different meals but it seemed like really hard work (or maybe its just me)!

What size crockpot do you have Felangie. I am feeding 3 boys who have the hunger of a of man and two others who do not take quite so much filling!

I'm not sure how big it is in litres - but it's too big to fit in my sink (always have to wash it in two halves). I'll check and get back to you.

On another note about filling bellies - my mum got us a bread maker for Christmas and the kids just tear into the fresh bread (cooks a loaf in an hour and a half) they love it! I make the healthy kinds too like seeded or malt/brown. Cheap to run once you get the knack of it ingredient wise and bread goes with everything from casseroles to chunky soup to our sandwich maker (always on hand for after school snacks/light suppers!).