Make Ahead Meals: Easy Freezer Recipes to Make Ahead for Cooking Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Including Crockpot Freezer Meals

by Peggy Annear

This is a freezer recipe book packed with delicious make ahead meal ideas. It is also a complete guide to freezing foods. The freezer recipes will have you covered for breakfast, lunch, dinner with a few snacks and smoothies included too. Each recipe is accompanied by a picture so you can see what the finished recipe will look like. Measurements are in both imperial and metric so the book is user friendly, no matter where you live in the world! I have also included charts and links to guidelines giving more information on freezer cooking, freezer organization and freezer thawing. Make ahead meals can give us more precious time, they can save us money when we buy in bulk, and there isn't cooking and clean up at each meal time! You get more time to spend with your family or do the things you want to do. There are many ways to preserve food, freezing is just one of them. You can freeze individual foods or make ahead meals including pastries, soups and stews. Unexpected guests arriving on the door step can be stressful...not if you have some freezer recipes handy in the fridge. Life in the kitchen can be made a whole lot easier when you plan ahead. Cooking larger quantities of foods at once then freezing into smaller quantities and portions has many benefits. It's especially helpful if you have young children, are a shift worker or live on your own. It's wonderful getting home after a busy day and having a meal already prepared and ready to go. Instead of cooking every night, you can choose to cook double or triple every second or third night. Your kitchen will be a whole lot cleaner too! There will be far less mess and fewer dishes. If you think smart and think ahead, you can be putting up your feet more often. Here is a look at what's inside the complete guide to cooking and freezing recipes book. I hope you like it! Tips for Freezing Foods Foods That Freeze Well Foods That Don't Freeze Well Freezing Tips and Guidelines How to Pack and Organize the Freezer Freezing Small Quantities How to Thaw Foods Correctly Apple Puree Pancakes Berry Acacia Smoothie Gluten Free Healthy Granola Crockpot Bean & Chicken Chili Easy Pizza Lentil Soup with Lemon Cream Creamy Broccoli Soup Pumpkin and Potato Soup Gluten Free Fish Sticks Quick Quinoa Salad Green Power Sauce Crockpot Olive & Chicken Soup Salmon & Zucchini Patties Meatballs in Tomato Sauce Chicken & Bacon Casserole Easy Beef Jerky Tuna Pasta Casserole Tasty Cheese Waffles Easy Salsa Chicken Beef Stroganoff Chicken Noodle Soup Meal Potstickers Crockpot Pork Ragù Quick Vegetable Pizza Cashew Crumbed Chicken Slow Cooker Creamy Beef Vegetarian Tortellini Macaroni Cheese Mushroom and Capsicum Frittata Moroccan Kebabs Basic Beef Bolognaise Sauce Hearty Hungarian Goulash Teriyaki Pineapple Chicken Carob Health Truffles Banana Bender Muffins Cherry Chocolate Balls

Genres: Cookbooks, Reference, Nonfiction, Cooking

102 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 16, 2014

Reviews

[Lisa Ks Book Reviews · Rating 4 out of 5]

36 MAKE AHEAD MEALS is a great book for anyone who likes to get all of their cooking for the week done in one day. It’s also perfect for making plan ahead meals to take to parties, give to a neighbors, or send home with a family members.

With chapters like, Tips for Freezing Foods, Foods That Don’t Freeze Well, How to Thaw Foods Correctly, and many more helpful chapters in between, I now feel like I know everything I need to know about freezing wonderful meals.

36 MAKE AHEAD MEALS is also filled with many fantastic recipes perfect for freezing. Apple Puree Pancakes, Gluten Free Healthy Granola, Easy Pizza, Lentil Soup with Lemon Cream, Salmon & Zucchini Patties, Easy Salsa Chicken, Potstickers, Vegetarian Tortelli, Hearty Hungarian Goulash, Banana Bender Muffins, just to name a few!

I found a nice pro and a con in this book. Pro: Measurements are in both imperial and metric, making the book reader friendly no matter where you live. Con: There are color photos so you can see what the finished dish looks like. However, this book is made for Kindle. The photos are so small you have to zoom in to get a decent view of them, which makes the recipe disappear from the page.

Other than my one con, which won’t be a big deal to everyone, I found 36 MAKE AHEAD MEALS: EASY FREEZER RECIPES, to be an informative book that I will use over and over. Author Peggy Anner has many other helpful books such as this one, and I will be checking them out.

Note: I was lucky enough to get book when it was featured for free. It is free to those with Amazon Unlimited, but at the time of this posting, the cost was only $2.99 which is well worth the price.

[Julie Barrett · Rating 3 out of 5]

Make Ahead Meals: Easy Freezer Recipes to Make Ahead for Cooking Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Including Crockpot Freezer Meals by Peggy Annear
This book starts out with a talb eof contents and what you will need to preserve the meals you make. The recipes are n no particular order.
Intro talks about why you should freeze meals and tips for foods along with a chart telling you how long they'd be ok in the freezer. Listing of foods that freeze well and another chapter of ones that do not freeze well.
Tips and guidleines are included. Organizing the freezer and how to thaw food properly.
Each recipe has a title, small color photo and list of ingredients whic you should be able to subsittute for your healier dietary needs: low sodium, low sugar, low fat products.
Directions are included and also how to freeze the extra for another week.
Quite a large variety of foods to prepare even international dishes. Only a few desert recipes.
There is NO nutritonal information.
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[DeAnn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tasty

I really enjoyed recipes in this book. It had freezer ideas for all meals of the day. Freezing breakfast items is perfect.

[mary anne gdowik · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great time saver

This book was well organized. It provided a nice way to prepare your freezer for many meals . There were quite a few recipes offered for your convenience and for your eating pleasure at a later time .

[Almudena Aguirre · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good book

Good book with a lot of good and simple recipes. It tells you a lot of things you can freeze , some of them I had no idea.