Frozen Meal Ideas

I found the book Frozen Assets Lite & Easy: How to cook for a day and eat for a month, by Deborah Taylor-Hough, to be very helpful with ideas, planning, recipes and how-tos. I got it at my local library and highly recommend you see if your library carries it! Many of the following meals come from this book. (Amazon link)

What I made

Chicken:

• Cranberry chicken (Crock Pot)
• Chicken soup (Crock Pot)
• Chicken broccoli Noodle Bake
• Old Fashioned Chicken and Rice
• Spanish Chicken and Rice
• Chicken Pasta Italiano
• Creamy chicken casserole (Campbell's recipe)
  
• chicken in a pot, no pie (RR recipe, see left)
• Chicken Enchiladas
• Chicken Vegetable Skillet
• Chicken Tortilla Casserole

Ground Beef:

• Beef macaroni and cheese casserole
• lasagna
• baked ziti
• easy shepherd's pie
• Taco bake (crock pot)
• Pasta sauce
• Stuffed Green Peppers (crock pot)
• Taco casserole

Beef:

• Beef stew (crock pot)
• Beef Stroganoff (both prepped for crock pot and some precooked)

Other:

• Tomato tortillini soup
• BBQ Pork Roast (crock pot)
• Mexican Noodle Bake
• Couscous Bean Paella

Breakfasts:

• Streusel Bread
• Struesel Muffins
• Pumpkin Muffins
• Cinnamon Rolls

Other frozen items to keep stocked:

• Costco sized bag of frozen mixed veggies
• Costco sized bag of frozen mixed berries. Great for fruit smoothies I make w/ soy milk!
• Costco sells individually wrapped chicken breasts (both seasoned or not) that freeze and cook wonderfully!
• Costco also sells really really delicious thin pizzas (boxed packs of 3)
• Smart Ones lasagna (delicious!)
• whole wheat waffles
• whole wheat bread
  

Pantry items to keep stocked for quick meals:

• pasta and rice
  
• cream of chicken/mushroom soup
• canned tomatoes (diced or stewed are my favorites. crushed are good to have around too)
• canned peas (or frozen ~ less sodium)
• Pasta sauce
• Boxed soy milk (from Costco)
• cereal (I like Special K Red Berries)