12 Easy Freezer Meals To Make Returning To The Real World A Little Easier

Damn Delicious does it again with a creative, colorful, healthful and (most of all) dead-easy chicken freezer meal. How happy will future-you be when you open the freezer on a grey, cold, hectic Tuesday and one of these rainbow meals is there for you, just waiting to be dropped in a slow-cooker to do its thing?

Solve breakfast for the entire month of January (weekends included) with this smart, versatile breakfast burrito recipe from blogger Gimme Some Oven. She had us at “prep a weeks’ worth of them in under an hour.”

Chicken fajitas are a classic freezer meal — they’re as easy to cook as they are to prep, because when it’s time to eat, just dump the (thawed) meal on a sheet pan, and bake. Voila! Dinner is done. This recipe from The Modern Proper is sheer meal prep perfection.

Doesn’t just looking at this one make the type-A in you go all happy? Dull freezer meals, step aside — this freezer fried rice recipe is designed for creative meal preppers and is just bursting with color. And it’s from blogger Damn Delicious so you know it’s going to be, well, damn delicious.

If it’s good enough for Molly Yeh to meal-prep for her maternity leave, you know it’s good enough for your family, too. Treat yourself to a freezer full of creamy, comforting pesto mac-and-cheese your whole family will be so glad to dig into on a dreary day — adorable labels optional.

Over at The Family Freezer, they’ve pretty much mastered the art of recipes that make for great make-ahead freezer meals. This slow-cooker Italian pork roast proves that freezer meals can be rich and wonderful.

Blogger Feed Me Phoebe specializes in recipes that work easily around various dietary restrictions, including the very limited FODMAP considerations. Nonetheless, her recipes are beautiful, simple, and mouth-watering, and these gluten-free, FODMAP-friendly turkey meatballs are a perfect example. You can cook them, freeze them, and (when you’re ready) eat them however you want! Over pasta, with rice, or even with a simple salad on the side. Plus, you know meatballs are always a hit with the kids.

Is there anything cozier than a creamy, savory, buttery chicken pot pie? Sure you can buy something that claims to be pot pie in the freezer aisle at the grocery store, but absolutely nothing beats homemade. This classic recipe from Two Peas And Their Pod freezes well, and will feed your family for at least a couple of days.

Enchiladas freeze well, and these beauties from blogger Love and Lemons would make a fine freezer meal your whole family will be jazzed about. She suggests that you assemble and freeze them without baking them. When you’re ready to eat, let them thaw overnight in the fridge before you bake them. Grab some tortilla chips and settle in for a no-sweat weeknight feast.

An herb-flecked, lemony marinade is the secret to making this hearty chicken freezer meal from The Modern Proper radiate bright, fresh flavors — even after a month in the freezer. Fresh and filling? Yum.

Vegan by nature, these gorgeous, filling falafels will be a nice change from the norm, and your kid just might eat them because they’re crispy and fried (who could say no to that?). That said, if you’re hoping to keep your meals a little healthier in January, you can also bake them and save yourself the hassle of frying. Head over to Make It Dairy-Free to check out the recipe and instructions for freezing.

If your family doesn’t eat meat, enchiladas are still an excellent freezer meal to try, and this hearty sweet potato-and-bean enchilada recipe from Naturally Ella is made for freezing. When the days feel both long and depressingly short, this cozy meal will give you the boost you’re looking for.