What Do You Freeze?

Hi! I buy meat, mostly chicken in Restaurant Depot, almost everything comes in 40 lb cases. We have a crazy schedule. I can talk freezing and quick.
Poach your chicken, cube it for salad, stir fry, quick casserole, whatever. Then freeze it on cookie sheets and then bag it. You can pour out the amount you need and use it almost immediately.
I grind my own meat, you don't have to but the principle is still the same. Pull out your scale and make 1/4 lb patties (they thaw quicker). Freeze them on cookie sheets and then bag. You can pull out as many or as few as you want and do whatever with the meat, it's just quicker and easier than a giant frozen lump. And if you are going to make burgers you can put them in George frozen!
I also make my own sausage. Ladies, the hard part about sausage is the stupid casing. Skip that part and you can quickly make the best sausage in the world. Sausage does not have to be full of fat. or made of pork, I use chicken a lot!
Cube meat and marinate, then freeze on sheets and bag.
Okay, everything here is separated, frozen individually, then bagged, even the leek quiche gets cut up and frozen individually.
Veggie lasagna
Spinach pies, or broccoli/cauliflower pies (I live in a mixed household)
When you make meatloaf (half beans, loaded with veggies) make three or four. When they are cool cut into slices and individually freeze. My DH loves taking a slice for lunch, he put it on bread frozen and by lunchtime it's good to go. In winter he warms it on his defroster, but that's another story!
I'm not big on freezing things like peppers, onions, etc. but I make a big pan of caramelized onion and peppers (separately, that mixed house thing again) at least once a week. They make everything better!
I use frozen veggies but we go to Haymarket every week for fresh. You never know what is going to be there at what price so we try to take advantage of the better deals while they are there.
I make whole wheat waffles, pancakes, and muffins and freeze them too.
My best advice---try it! Freeze a small portion over night and eat it the next day, see if you like how it turns out.
Good luck!

I would cook the chicken, then slice and freeze it.
Same with beef (for steak salads, stir fry, etc.

You can also wash, cut & freeze veggies, like celery, green, red or yellow peppers, etc.

I freeze everything, in fact, my friends are always kidding me about it. I freeze lunch portions of spiral ham, chunks of mexican and mozzarella cheese, and every kind of cooked/uncooked meat you can imagine. We make a lot of strews, that can then be put on rice, etc.

I make double batches of waffles and pancakes, big dishes of mac and cheese, lasagna, ravioli's, meatballs, pasta sauce, enchilada sauce, mexican rice, etc.

As far as meat, I buy the big packages and freeze in dinner size portions. As long as you remember to pull it out earlier in the day then you're set. I don't really cook stuff in advance and freeze. I usually have waffles made in advance though. All you do is toast them when you need to. http://thehappyhousewife.com/cooking/whole-wheat-corn-waf...
A also freeze fruit such as sliced strawberries, blueberries, grapes. Another thing we've been doing is watermelon. Throw it into the blender with some sugar and lime then either pour them into pop molds or a bowl.

Meatballs
Meatloaf
lazagna
stuffed shells
taco meat (usually just what is leftover)
I buy "family packs" of chicken and divide it up before freezing.
tamales
trays of enchiladas freeze well
Left over BBQ pork for future sandwiches

Everything that we don't can.

Invest in one of those FoodSavers that vacuum pack your food. Completely worth it.

We buy 1/4 cow and 1/4 pig from the farm and freeze.
We buy chicken and seafood on sale and freeze.
We also freeze veggies from the garden

I freeze almost everything! I shop for a month at a time so our food won't keep if it is not frozen. When we got our tax money this year we bought a 5 cubic ft deep freezer for $133. Well worth it. You can freeze almost any meal. Anything with noodles though will get a little mushy. I have frozen soups, low fat sugar free muffins, all kinds of veggies, meats, tika marsala, curried vegtables, black bean burgers, stuffed shells. I could go on but you get the point.