soup! you can make veggie soup fairly easy. cut up spuds,carrot, celery and add some dried split peas (or alike) and leave to slowly cook on the stove for a few hours. allow to cool down and put into containers and freeze. if you want to add some meat to it lamb shanks or some cheap cuts of meat go a long way! plus also geting alot of mince and making spag bowl/lasagne/ i even made some hambugers and rice. uncooked but its something DH could manage along with cooking the pasta lol. its never too late! i did 90% of my cooking while i was overdue - anything to make the time go faster LOL!
I agree with the others on the lasagne .... just make sure you do cut it up into portions rather than one whole lasagne as you can just defrost however much you want.
Other than that, I love my woolies home shop - they even bring the groceries inside and put them on the kitchen bench plus you can place your order at anytime of they day/night!
I did alot of frozen meals for my mum and dad when my mum was having radium. I found frozen quiche was good, just cook it and freeze individual pieces. Also I found freezing a stirfry a great option to, sounds bizar I know but it works, just make sure you have a little excess liquid ie, sauce so when you microwave it, it does not dry out. It is also light in summer. I also did up some light chicken dishes and froze them like honey soy chicken pieces and just heat very well and serve with steamed veges. I hope this helps you out darl, good luck with bubby.
Beef stroganoff is another good one that freezes well - if you have a slow cooker easy to make up a huge batch and the freeze portion sizes. I just add the sour cream when I reheat and make the rice.
Also not so much a bulk up & store meal but in summer we love our BBQ and do most things on it - standard sausages / rissoles / chops / chicken / shashlicks / veggies etc so if you end up at butcher and do bulk meat buy. Easy to defrost & whack on BBQ , a quick salad - YUM.......plus something you can con DH into doing/cooking
how about something like zucchini slice - its full of veggies and goes great with salad. otherwise, quiche and maybe even some sort of pie.
I found that I didn't cook much in the first 3-4 months anyway - DD feed hourly in the evening from 5-9 so I didn't get too far from the couch, but DH would cook and clean up.
Just another thought - what about buying packs of ravioli when they are on offer - I think you can get them with long expiry dates, or just freeze them, and heat up a jar of sauce when cooking (i find buying the fresh sauces expensice so just buy the home brand pasta sauce in a jar - tastes just as good).
Another thing have packs of those savoury rice and pasta sauces in - the ones that you just add milk or water too and pop in microwave - I'll do these instead of bothering with potatos - along with some frozen veg and something that you can pull out of the freezer and pop in the oven, like frozen fish or chicken kievs or something.
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