Did anyone food prep for yourself and DH pre-baby?

I want to food prep for DH and myself to make life a little easier once LO arrives in 5 weeks or so.

Any suggestions for recipes? I'm looking for meals we can make now, freeze and just reheat when we are ready. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks.

Even if you can link a previous thread...I tried searching but kept getting an error/timeout

Did anyone food prep for yourself and DH pre-baby?

No specific recipes, but some ideas for things that will freeze well are soup/chili/stew, lasagna and other baked pasta dishes, tomato sauce (then you just need to make some pasta), pancakes (can freeze and reheat in the toaster), muffins, cookies (you can make some with ww flour and oatmeal, so they are better as a snack and have some nutrition), banana bread, rice and beans (or just portions of rice)

Also get some good quality frozen veggies (TJs has good ones), so you can have veggies without a ton of prep, too.

Re: Did anyone food prep for yourself and DH pre-baby?

I did! What a lifesaver!!!

What kind of help are you looking for? Just recipes?

I have to admit, I almost never used my freezer before DD was born. It was mostly for 1. ice 2. ice cream 3. some frozen vegetables and 4. possibly ravioli.

Once I started food prep for the baby coming, I didn't realize how much you can freeze and how it tastes just as good as before!!

This is one of my families favorites: Turkey Sausage Bolognese Lasagna.
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/lasagna-with-turkey-sausage-bolognese-364032

I recommend even just buying a loaf of bread and slicing and freezing it, so that with all of the italian food that freezes best, you can make garlic bread easily.

Pasta sauce freezes well. So do meatballs. It was easy for my DH to heat up pasta sauce and cook a box of pasta. Then we just tossed it together really quick.

Even pizza freezes well, so if we ordered a pie and I had leftover, I froze it.

I pre-made burgers and then froze those since DH likes to grill.

We also made eggplant parm (or you can make chicken parm) because that freezes well.

I also had made vegetable soup. and froze bananas for banana ice cream.

Almost any of your usual recipes will freeze fine.

Message edited 6/29/2016 6:24:24 PM.

Did anyone food prep for yourself and DH pre-baby?

I froze a few things, but honestly I don't make gourmet dinners to begin with, so defrosting and reheating wasn't much less work!!

Maybe for a few weeks prior we made a little extra of things we cooked normally (chic cutlets, baked ziti, pulled pork) and popped them in the freezer.

Re: Did anyone food prep for yourself and DH pre-baby?

bagels - get a few dozen and freeze them. then just pop them in the toaster for breakfast. or use them to make pizza bagels for a quick lunch