Favorite Frozen Meals?

I like to make my own frozen meals. I made a big pot of chili the other day and put about half in the freezer for later. Amazing! Another favorite is making my own lasagna, or freezing portions of beans and rice.

I'm loving Evol's Fire Roasted Steak and Lyfe's Mango Chicken. Oh and Kashi has a Lemongrass chicken!

Awesome tip! Do you need to do anything special to freeze foods properly?

I suggest going on line and searching for a website that talks about freezing meals. Some foods don't freeze well, and some foods that do freeze well just don't last as long as others in the freezer. You definitely want to invest in good freezer containers or bags, maybe even a vacuum sealing system for best results. You always want to freeze food at it's freshest, not after it's already been in the refrigerator several days.

I don't use anything special, but as a previous poster said, you do need to research what can and cannot be frozen, or what vegetables need to be blanched before being frozen (if freezing from raw). For a lot of meals, I use my pyrex storage bowls, but my freezer meals don't last that long, maybe a week or two at most. I read somewhere that glad makes freezer-safe containers, but a lot of websites address that question.

For beans/rice, I freeze in sandwich bags (flattened on a cookie sheet in the freezer to make it easier to store) then put those bags in a freezer-safe bag. I suppose you could also just use the freezer bag to begin with, but I freeze in small portions since there is only two of us (one at the moment).

At first glance, here is a good link to freezer meals. She seems to cover a lot of important topics!
http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2013/07/freezer-cooking/

My favorites are the Healthy Choice steamers, particularly ravioli with chicken and a marinara sauce for 260 cal. The red pepper alfredo and chicken margarita ones are good, too... and I liked the "baked taste" ziti. I also like Smart Ones veggie lasagna quite a bit! It's dense and very satisfying. Smart Ones pasta with ricotta and spinach is tasty, too. My all-time favorite is Trader Joe's reduced guilt mac and cheese. 270 calories and soooo cheesy. I don't eat much pasta, but I allow myself to have it in the frozen meals, since it's so portion controlled!

I'm in the UK so wouldn't have access to vacuum thingies. I just batch cook whenever possible. It means we eat better when watching the kcals. We choose nice recipes we may have avoided as there are only 2 of us. We then freeze back 2 - 4 meals of the 'leftovers'. So lasgane, curry, chilli, stews, leftover roast meat and gravy - ready for making into a pie or topped with mash, and loads of other wet dishes are always sat waiting for us to defrost on nights we just can't be bothered to cook.

For lunch I tend to go veggy so I make a big batch of roast veggies, another thing it is hard to make a small amount of... 1 squash goes a very long way. I usually add couscous and freeze back in sandwhich bags ready to take to work. I never freeze rice, as I am very aware of the problems it can cause if not cooled/reheated properly. The only food poisoning I have ever experienced was due to poorly kept rice (thanks to my stupid and stubborn SIL who always knows better).

I also make soups out of leftovers, the slightly rubber veg that hide until they look a bit too sad to use, the bits of chicken that don't easily carve off the carcasse - often after I have used it to make stock, anything at all really. They too freeze quite well, ordinary freezer bags hold just about anything.

Once you start thinking about it you can get a bit carried away... you have been warned, measure your freezer space carefully :-)