Batch cooking

[CantankerousCamel]

Hi there, my husband and I would like to start batch cooking meals, to stop us eating crap and to give us more time in the evenings.

We are interested in batch preparing/cooking our lunches and dinners, maybe for 4 nights.

Does anyone have any advice on how to get started or favourite meals?

Thanks

We're doing a pot roast (beef brisket) tomorrow in the slow cooker. The left overs will give me the meat for a cottage pie type meal and I add some passata to another portion with mushrooms and call it Bolognese. I'm lazy - cook once, eat 3 times!

The slow cooker is a godsend! Get a slow cooker book, the recipes are for 4 and you can give 2 off.

I have a slow cooker... two really as I also have a rice cooker

Our favourite is gammon in diet cola. So, first meal is gammon and salad / mash and cabbage. The leftover meat can be frozen and then used for carbonara, sandwiches, pizza topping, risotto, quesadillas...

How many are you cooking for CantankerousCamel? Is it just you did DH?

We have 4 children, so with 6 of us I'm always cooking big amounts. But if ever I'm doing a meal with mince, I always buy and cook 1kg rather than than the 500g that we need for a family meal. I then just bung more veg in and half the resulting meal - one for the freezer and one horse dinner.

If it's just you and DH, you could do the same with a 500g pack of mince. Or indeed make a massive 1kg batch like mean and portion into four or five freezer meals.

I more want to do 4 healthy meals in packets for lunches

4 healthy meals in packets for dinner

So like sweet chilli chicken, broccoli and rice

Or so on