Comfort Foods Freezer Meals
Crockpot Freezer Meals are great. I love being able to pull a meal out of the freezer, put it in the oven or crockpot and not have to slave in the kitchen all day on those busy days when you just don’t have time to cook…or don’t feel like cooking.
Busy Moms need quick, easy solutions for the every day things that we do.
If you haven’t read up on what this is all about, start at my Crockpot Freezer Cooking. Then come back and you can get going on the actual Freezer Meals.
This is the third in the Crockpot Freezer Meals series. This is the Comfort Foods series. The other two series, I gathered several of my Hamburger recipes and several of my Chicken recipes and organized my meals that way. This series happened to be the recipes left over that really didn’t fit into either…however, they all seemed to have something else in common. They could all be in the Comfort Foods category. 🙂
Freezer Bag Tips:
When prepping your Crockpot Freezer Meals, get your freezer bags out ahead of time. Write the Meal on the bag and instructions. After adding all ingredients, squeeze out as much air as you can, lay flat to freeze.
Cooking Tips:
You may have to adjust cooking times. All slow cookers/crockpots are also different so just watch your meals and adjust accordingly. Sometimes you might also just need to add a bit of water to your slow cooker or crockpot to keep it from cooking dry.
Make sure to also check out my Bulk Cooking Tips.
Crockpot Freezer Meals Comfort Foods
Recipes in this Series:
Baked Ziti
Pot Roast
Peppered Steak
Meatball Stroganoff
Honey Sesame Chicken
1. Baked Ziti
Ingredients
1 26 oz pasta sauce
1 1/2 C water
15 oz ricotta or cottage cheese
1/4 C Parmesan cheese
1 8 oz package grated mozzarella cheese (use 1/2 in the bag and half on day of cooking)
8 oz (2 Cups) ziti pasta (uncooked)
1 T Italian seasoning
Directions
Add all ingredients to bag and freeze.
Write on Freezer Bag
Thaw slightly and add to crockpot.
Cook on high 1 – 1 1/2 hours until pasta is tender.
Add 1/2 bag of mozzarella and cook until melted.
Serve.
2. Pot Roast
Ingredients
2 1/2 lb boneless beef chuck roast (uncooked)
1 packet ranch dry dressing mix
2 packets brown gravy mix
4 T dried onion flakes
2 C water
1 bag baby carrots (do not add to bag)
Directions
Add all ingredients to bag (except carrots) and freeze.
Write on Freezer Bag
Thaw slightly and add to crockpot.
Add baby carrots. (you can also cut up potatoes and add at this time as well if you’d like)
Cook on high 6-7 hours or low 8-9 hours.
3. Peppered Steak
Ingredients
1 1/2 lb boneless beef round steak (uncooked)
2 medium onions, sliced
1 clove garlic, finely chopped
1/2 finely chopped ginger or 1/4 t ground ginger
2 medium green bell peppers, cut into 3/4 in strips
1 C water
2 T beef bouillon
3 T soy sauce
2 T cornstarch (do not put in bag)
1/4 C cold water (do not put in bag)
Directions
Cut up beef into strips about 1 1/2 in long
Add beef, onion, garlic, peppers, ginger, water, beef bouillon, and soy sauce to the bag.
Write on Freezer Bag
Thaw slightly and add to crockpot.
Cook on high 3-4 hours or 6-7 hours on low
When beef is almost done, mix 2 T cornstarch and 1/4 C cold water and then mix into beef mixture.
Increase heat to high and cook 10-12 min longer or until it’s thickened.
Serve over rice.
4. Meatball Stroganoff
Ingredients
1 large bag frozen meatballs
1 C chopped onions
2 cans cream of mushroom soup
2 C sliced mushrooms
1 package cream cheese (do not put in bag)
8 oz sour cream
hot pasta or rice
Directions
Add meatballs, onions, soup and mushrooms in bag and freeze.
Write on Freezer Bag
Thaw slightly and add to crockpot.
Cook on low for 6-8 hours.
During last hour, stir in 1 package of cream cheese and 8 oz of sour cream.
Serve over hot pasta or rice.
5. Honey Sesame Chicken
Ingredients
1 lb chicken tenders (I used actual breaded chicken tenders)
3 T olive oil
1 C honey
2 T sesame seeds
1/2 C soy sauce
2 t sesame oil
1 t salt and pepper
1 package frozen broccoli
Directions
Add all ingredients to bag, toss to coat and freeze.
Write on Freezer Bag
Thaw slightly and add to crockpot.
Cook on low 4-5 hours.
Serve over rice.
*tip – do not over cook or the broccoli will be really mushy. I over cooked and the presentation of the dish did not look tasty but it was still delish!
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- Baked Ziti out of the freezer bag.
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- Baked Ziti after cooking.
Hope you enjoyed the Crockpot Freezer Meals Comfort Food Series. You can find the printer friendly version here with Shopping list.
Thanks, Saving You Dinero for a couple of the great recipes!
These look so good! Can’t wait to try them!
My husband loves when I do a roast in the crockpot. I’ve never tried it with the ranch seasoning but it sounds delicious. I am going to have to try it that way for him next time I make it.
I just made this the other night. It turned out very good. I actually couldn’t taste the ranch so it must have just given it a slight flavor. But it was all very good. 🙂 I love making a roast because it’s just so easy and I feel like I’ve slaved for hours. lol
I am very excited because I bought everything I need to make the roast meal when I went to the grocery store yesterday. Can’t wait to taste this new variation on it!
Thanks so much for these recipes! I love having meals like this in the freezer for when I just don’t have time to cook.
I just love freezer cooking! So awesome to have a meal ready! Thanks for visiting! 🙂
These all look really good. But I can’t see any place as to how many servings each is. Kid are all gone just the 2 of us. Anxious to try some.
Most will serve a family of 4 and could be halved or doubled. Or make as is and eat leftovers. 🙂
My husband loved the roast. We tried the ziti tonight and it was gritty. May try it differently next time.
Glad you enjoyed the roast! I’m sorry the ziti didn’t turn out. Mine wasn’t gritty at all..if anything I overcooked mine and it was a bit mushy. I have to really watch my crockpot though because it cooks really hot and I have to really adjust my cooking time. Thanks for the comments! 🙂
I was wondering when you say 4T in the recipes, do you mean 4 teaspoons? I just want to make sure the measurement is correct when I make these. Thank you!
capital T would be tablespoon and a small t would be teaspoon. 🙂 Hope you like them!
Great idea! Can’t wait to read more!
With the Honey Sesame Chicken you say to thaw it slightly but how long would you thaw it for yourself?
I just thaw it enough to get it out of the bag easily. Maybe 3-5 minutes in the microwave is all.
love these recipes and tips for freezing then cooking in crockpot. Will make my life much easier! Thanks
I love the blog site design. How do you make it. It is actually cool. What’s the theme your using?
For the honey sesame chicken, you said you used breaded chicken tenders? What type? Think frozen popcorn chicken would work? Sounds good but can’t find any other recipes with breaded chicken. Please let me know how this would come out.
I believe it was just Tyson brand. I think popcorn chicken would be very similar to what I used. I don’t think that was what was intended in the original recipe 😀 but it worked just fine.
I’ve never seen an 8 oz box of ziti. Do you really mean a 16 oz box? Just want to clarify since that would make a big difference! Thanks!
Recipe calls for 8oz (2 Cups) so half of a 16 oz box. 🙂
Just wondering how big the portions are? It’s just my husband, my toddler (who doesn’t eat much), and myself. Would I be able to half the meals before freezing or would that make them too small?
It depends on which recipe. I cook for a family of 6. Some days they eat it all up, some days I have left overs and some days I don’t have enough. I can’t ever get it right it seems. 🙂 None of these recipes are overly large. I’m expecting you’re still going to have left overs though if it’s just the 2 +1 that you’re feeding. I think you could half them – split the recipe up in 2 bags so you have double the meals. Might just have to give it a try with one and see how it goes.
Thanks for sharing these amazing recipes! I plan to prepare the Honey Sesame Chicken this week!
I’m going to try the Meatball Stroganoff tonight, but will be making homemade meatballs.
I will freeze the leftovers… is there a reason why you leave the cream cheese and sour cream out of the freezing portion? I wanted to make it tonight for dinner and then freeze the leftovers, but if you can’t freeze the dairy part.. it’s extra work, but willing to do so!! 🙂
You can freeze cream cheese but sour cream does not freeze well. So I just left both out and added during cooking. 🙂
Thank you for such a quick reply!!! I will leave them out when I freeze 🙂
Yes, absolutely! Enjoy!
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Hi! I am going to be making up some crock pot freezer meals, and I was wondering why you say not to freeze the baby carrots in the pot roast recipe? I was planning on using frozen carrots… So I didn’t know if there was some other odd reason why you specified not to freeze them! Thanks!
If you’re using frozen, I’m sure that’s fine. I just prefer to add them fresh on the day of cooking. 🙂
I made the baked ziti yesterday and it was to die for! My entire family ate it up and I know for a fact I will be making this again and again and again 🙂
Awesome! So good to hear that you all liked it. I just love how easy it is! 🙂
I’m so glad I came across your post. These dishes are going to be great for the winter nights coming soon. My husband loves to eat hearty in the winter.