Freezing meals

[septemberbride06]

As many of you know my SIL is pregnant, well Monday she lost her plug (sorry) and nothing has happened yet, but to help her prepare I have decided to make her some meals and freeze them...so, I need you ladies to help me figure out meals, and feel free to include a favorite recipe or whatever....THANKS! :bbmrgreen:

[NicksBride]

ohh how exciting for her! I am sure she will need all the help she can get!!

Lasgana is always a popular
Chicken Pot pie
Any pasta dish
HOmemade soups-See Receipe thread on here in General Chat
Mac and Cheese
Vegetable Caserolle
ETc. Anything easy. Good luck and you are very kind to be doing that for her!

[katieandalex]

The only things I ever freeze are soups/stews and lasagna.

[septemberbride06]

well,thanks for the compliment...I like to think I'm a very nice person.
Well, after I had my son I wish someone would have done this for me, but just because she didn't doesn't mean that I'm not going to do it for her, you know what I mean??? Prob. not....me and my sil's kinda have a weird relationship, almost love to hate type thing, but Becky is the one I'm closest to, anyway, I like doing things that help people and I am proud of myself for doing something like this...LOL!

[NicksBride]

well you should be proud of yourself, it really is wonderful of you to do it!!! Good luck with all your cooking!

[shawnsgirl]

I think it's wonderful of what you are doing...what about hamburg BBQ..That's always easy to make up then freeze..

[mariaandmanish]

Any spaghetti sauce is easy to freeze as well, so that you just have to throw the pasta in and then the sauce is ready. And, it is really incredibly sweet of you to be doing this for her as well.

[BriansBride07]

Beef stew or chicken stew, chili. Good for you for helping her out.

[septemberbride06]

okay so I finally got a list from her of the foods that they eat considering her 4 year old is a little picky I thought I would go directly to her even though I wish it were a suprise..so here is what I got...
Manicotti (w/o spinach YUK!)
Chicken & Dumplings (YUM!)
Sloppy Joe Rotini (Found this on www.bettycrocker.com (http://www.bettycrocker.com))
Spaghetti (I'm Italian so homemade sauce too of course)
Chicken Potato Casserole
Chili (non spicy)

so, what do you guys think?

The only thing I cannot figure out is HOW to freeze these..I know that sounds silly but if I fully cook the pasta and mix the sauce with it won;t it make the noodles mushy?? AHHHHH..I should have thought this through more!!!!
HELP ME GIRLS!!!! :petrified:

[mariaandmanish]

Well, you definitely won't be able to precook the noodles. That's something she'll have to do. Of course, you can definitely precook the sauce and freeze that separately. She'll definitely have to at least put the noodles on to boil. :(