Baby coming, need help with frozen meal ideas

You can freeze breast milk, no problem!

No other advice other then start sleeping now and good luck.

Congrats!!!

You won't need any "real food" for a couple months. It'll mostly be breast milk and/or formula for the time being.




But once you start having to serve "real food" (noodles, vegetables and such) most can already be bought ready to serve. I think they're called "Startables." Found near the baby food.


Try a few of those at first, when it's time for those.


Congratulations on the new addition to your family!

Thanks, but yes, this is for my wife and I, not the baby.

I know we're from Louisiana but I think it'll be a while before the baby is eating gumbo, red beans, and crawfish pies! Haha

Let me go the other way on this. With a newborn, the last thing you may have time re food for is to pull out a frozen pan of lasagna, wait a day for it to defrost, heat the oven and bake for an hour.

When we had our newborns (which newborns are relatively easy although you dont realize this with your first one), our nighttme meals often consisted of quick pasta sauces, grilled or sauteed meats, maybe a roadt chicken. Stuff that took under an hour to put together. Or would make a pot of beans or soup on a sunday and eat off it through out the week.

Yea i don't understand the frozen thing. Your sleep will be constantly interrupted, but newborns don't do anything but shite and sleep. Its a good sentiment with frozen meals but also completely unnecessary

honestly cooking might be a nice break for one of you and newborns are not that hard...

you might be tired and exhausted, but we did the frozen meal thing for maybe the first week (people will bring you food) then after we got used to our new schedule we just went from there

but if you insist, almost all pasta and soups will freeze well

Even though it's hot, I think a few dif types of soups and stews could carry you for awhile. You could even portion it out into individual plastic containers for single servings.
-Vegetable beef
-Taco soup
-Beef Stew
-Pork Stew
-Meatball Stew

Chicken curry would probably freeze OK as well. All you'd have to do is cook some jasmine rice the night you want to eat.

You could also roast a few giant trays of vegetables and freeze them in portioned quart freezer bags. At night, just take one out and roast in the oven for 15 mins to reheat from frozen. Red potatoes, sweet potatoes, squash, zucchini, broc, cauliflower, carrots, onions, peppers, asparagus, celery. While theyre reheating, you can grill a protein in a skillet. That's a hardy meal in less than 20 mins with no prep at all.

I don't know, we just had our third on the 4th and my wife's body is used to having babies now but when she had her first, she didn't want to (and couldn't really) stand for decent periods of time in front of a stove to cook, so while I think you'll have plenty of time in the beginning to cook with your first your wife may just not feel like it.

Do you have an immersion circulator by any chance? If you do, there's tons of proteins you can cook ahead of time, freeze and re-heat in the unit. If you don't have one of those, then the suggestions for lasagna and other pasta dishes were on point for us. My advice would be to stock up on items that take a long time to cook but don't have a lot of prep time, so like tenfoe said, especially roasts are great because you're at home all day and can get a roast and some baked potatoes in the oven in 10 minutes and have plenty of time to do so ahead of time.

Good luck! My advice? Swaddle that kiddo like a little baby burrito and teach him/her to sleep. And don't let anyone shame you into thinking a pacifier is a bad thing.

Here's another thread with suggestions. I couldn't link it on my phone last night for some reason.

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A roast chicken from Sam's or other grocery stores makes an easy entree and leftover chicken can be used for other things like chicken salad, quesadillas etc...

Cooking a roast on the weekend will provide some meals including poboys.

Thanks everyone for the comments and suggestions.

One thing is that I love to cook and primarily do the cooking in the house. I cook and she does the dishes so I imagine I'll be doing the dishes for at least a little while. I'm trying to limit the dishes I have to do so we hit up Costco for disposable plates and utensils too. So, it's kind of a selfish thing for me that once my 2 weeks are up and I return back to work, I'd prefer to be able to spend time with the baby instead of cooking. With the individually frozen portions, my wife can easily toss the foodsaver bag in boiling water or defrost and pop the servings in the toaster oven.

Like I said, I love to cook so I'm certainly not going to stop that and am looking forward to having my kid in the kitchen watching and eventually helping out and learning to cook.

This is more so that we have plenty of other options for a quick meal so I don't Have to cook

I'm not a huge fan of sous vide but I definitely like the idea of premade crockpot meals that can be thrown in that morning.