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Kid-friendly freezer meals

Posted 04/16/2012

Can you please share a freezer recipe that your kids will actually eat? A lady from my MOPS group is having a baby today (woohoo!) and we're all making freezer meals for her.  She has kids who have a reputation for being kind of picky.  I'd pretty much made up my mind to make vegetable soup (mostly because it sounds really good to me) but my nephew informed me this morning, "kids don't like vegetable soup."  Ha.  I've looked on onceamonthmom, but I want to get real-life ideas from real-life moms.  Thanks in advance.

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Posted 04/16/2012

My kids love vegetable soup, but they like a lot of things that most kids don't (my ODD told her pedi at her 3yr appt that her fave foods were goat cheese and broccoli and this year at her 4yr appt it was more normal but still very healthy strawberries and grapes....her pedi always questions her a few times asking is that your very favorite thing to eat? and he usually just gets more healthy answers...haha!).

My kids love pasta (you could make spaghetti sauce (with meat or meatballs) and then also pack a box of dry spaghetti or other shaped pasta that they can cook when they reheat the sauce.


Tacos (send the meat (can mix in some black beans) to freeze and also pack shells, taco sauce, and cheese...if you think they'll eat it relatively soon you could also send some lettuce).  Recently my girls LOVE tacos!

Prep something for the crockpot that they can just thaw and put in and forget about (like chuck roast to make BBQ beef sandwiches).

Chicken Pot Pie

Baked steak with mashed potatoes (I take hamburger patties and season with a burger mix my DH makes and then sear well in a hot skillet and transfer to a baking dish.  Then I saute mushrooms and onions in the same skillet, deglaze with red wine, mediera, or brandy (the alcohol cooks out) and then make a sauce with beef stock and corn starch.  Season with salt, pepper, thyme, and worstershire sauce.  Pour over the hamburgers and at this point you could freeze and they could thaw and put in a 350 oven and bake for an hour uncovered later.  Make some mashed potatoes and pipe them into mounds and freeze on a cookie sheet then transfer to a freezer bag and they can reheat and serve wtih the baked steak.




bethnee6531 · Original Poster
Posted 04/16/2012

Thanks, LindeMama.  Chicken potpie and meatloaf both seem like contenders (the kids don't even eat sauce on their pasta, just plain noodles).  Any other suggestions, ladies?

bethnee6531 · Original Poster
Posted 04/16/2012


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