Cooked foods that freeze well

Roast ( pork and beef) , taco meat, spaghetti sauce, beef stew, red beans.

lasagna, ziti, manicotti, etc.
baked ham
carrot souffle
sweet potato casserole
smothered cabbage/greens
soups
chili
spaghetti sauce
gumbo
stew
grilled chicken breasts
pulled pork
calzones

Thanks for the responses. I had no idea that many foods, cooked, would be good after freezing. I am shocked about the red beans. I don't find they are too good even reheated but I guess that's a personal pref. I do love them hot off the stove.


I was thinking it had to be more along the lines of things with liquid to help keep it from tasting freezer.

Lots of soups...
Potato soups
Bean based soups
Pureed vegetable soups like roasted broccoli,cauliflower,asparagus, eggplant or carrot soups, for example. I freeze some soup bases often and add the dairy like milk, 1/2 and 1/2 or cream if they are cream based soups.

Chicken soup-I don't put the noodles in it because they soak up the broth and even undercooked, they get mushy. Rice or noodles may be easily added or frozen in a separate vac seal packet.
Vegetable beef soup-no noodles in it.

Pulled pork, beef or chicken.

Various meat casseroles like chicken tetrazzini, chicken and rice casseroles.

Grilled burger patties.

Crab, crawfish, shrimp or salmon cakes.

Crawfish pie.

Quiche-I frozen cooked quiche and it worked much better than I expected.

Stuffed eggplant-seafood or beef versions.

Stuffed bell pepper

Sweet potato casserole

Stuffed white or sweet potatoes

Beef bourguignon

Chicken cacciatore

Various mac and cheeses

Meatloaf for entree or sandwiches

Coq Au Vin

Grit cakes

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I was thinking it had to be more along the lines of things with liquid to help keep it from tasting freezer.

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As suggested above, a vac sealer would be a great purchase for you since you are freezing in portions for other folks. No freezer taste. If you freeze soups, you can even freeze and then put the blocks in the vac bags and seal. If freezing in containers, I put a piece of plastic wrap over the food and press out all the air bubbles. Same as vac sealing. Works with soups, gumbo, casseroles-just put the plastic wrap on top and press out all the air before freezing. They key is no air.

You can undercook some things like pasta casseroles, for example. I freeze lasagna before cooking and just use the no bake noodles if I'm freezing. Easy.

Hamburger patties

Red beans
White Beans
Lima Beans
Black Eyed Peas
Field Peas
Gumbo
Crawfish Bisque
Vegetable Soup
Pulled pork

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I make about 24 breakfast burritos at a time. They freeze very well and take only a minute and a half to reheat in the microwave

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She loves mexican food but I've never made burritos. I'm pretty much a boring rice and gravy coonass.

just about any meat (not referring to seafood) ... pork shoulder cooked any way will freeze well ... doesn't have to be bbq ... i have an italian roasted shoulder recipe i make every 3 months or so ... make italian nachos with it every now and then ...