Once A Month Cooking?

[mrsmac]

What an awesome idea, what a shame DH refuses flat out to eat anything that has been cooked and then frozen- his mum is the same so thats where he gets it from but its SOOOOOO frustrating.
I might do the baking though, that sounds great and the kids and I and my dad will eat it LOL

[Roryrory]

I haven't looked into the links yet, but in regards to doing different meals couldn't you do basic sort of things, like say a bolegnaise/tomato style sauce and then use it for different things, liek tp put on pasta, make a shepards pie sort of meal, put onto baked potatoes, put it into some puff pastry to make savoury things...ect!

Yep, in fact to take this idea further I have a few recipes where you make a casserole base and freeze in portions, then add different things once thawed. So a chicken base makes thai green curry, chicken cacciatore and sage and mustard casserole.

what a shame DH refuses flat out to eat anything that has been cooked and then frozen

Is he home while you are preparing dinner? You could easily ambush him with a lovely, pre-cooked casserole then tell him it's been frozen once he's eaten it. For example, if you made a Moroccan lamb tagine then defrosted it and while re-heating added dried figs, fresh coriander and sprinkled slivered almonds over the top I bet he wouldn't know the difference.

As for baking, muffins and cupcakes make great snacks for kids

[mrsmac]

He gets home earlier than me Rory, he says he can "taste" frozen things, I have tried it before but he saw it so of course could taste it.
I was so inspired by this I made a big batch of pikelets tonight!

[Roryrory]

I still reckon you should give it a sneaky go

[Liviam]

I've been doing a bit of research into this at the moment because I really need to get my family eating better meals now I'm back at work. I'm exhausted and my meals are just not god enough for my family. I'm trying to think of meals that I can freeze. I'm a bit limited as DS is allergic to egg and DH refuses to eat mushroom. I'm thinking pasta bake, spag bol, lasagne, macaroni beef, chick casserole and beef casserole. What other meals can I freeze??

[Roryrory]

Generally pasta doesn't freeze well - here is a useful link

[Liviam]

Thanks for the link. I'll have to make some alterations. thinking, thinking, thinking