Anyone have recipes for a cheap dinner that will keep well in the freezer for 3-5 days?

Ingredients must be inexpensive. I can get pasta or ground turkey/ground beef for cheap.





The youth group I lead is meeting on Thursday evening for one hour, and we are all going to make and take home a meal to stick in the freezer until Sunday so their moms don't have to cook on Mother's Day.





Any recipes?Anyone have recipes for a cheap dinner that will keep well in the freezer for 3-5 days?
NAVY MINCED BEEF (SOS)





2 pounds ground beef


1 large onion, chopped


3 tablespoons flour


2 28 oz cans tomatoes, crushed


1/8 teaspoon ground mace, nutmeg, or cloves


1/3 teaspoon salt


1/2 teaspoon garlic powder


1/8 teaspoon pepper





Saute beef and onions until beef browns slightly.


Stir, breaking apart. Drain excess fat.





Sprinkle flour over beef. Add remaining ingredients and combine well.





Simmer an additional 10 to 15 minutes.





Serve over biscuits, toast, rice or pasta.Anyone have recipes for a cheap dinner that will keep well in the freezer for 3-5 days?
spaghetti or lasagna either one-- you can cook each like you were going to severe it, and then freeze it and reheat-- you may need to add additional sauce or cheese on sunday, but both are easy and cheap to make





for lasagna:


ground turkey or beef


get oven ready noodles (don't get the kind you have to boil)


spaghetti sauce


ricotta cheese


shredded pizza style cheese (or mozarella)


and most importantly a foil pan!!





brown meat


spread some sauce on bottom of pan.... lay one layer of noodles meat, ricotta, and more sauce-- then another layer of noodles meat, ricotta, and suace-- you can continue to do that until you have run out of ricotta-- the last layer is noodles, meat, sauce, and then top with the shredded cheese--- bake at 350 or so until cheese has melted and starts to brown on the edges-- then freeze and reheat on sunday
I like Sheperd's Pie, and it has all your basic food groups in it; plus it takes about 20-30 minutes to make.





For a 9 x 13 pan, brown 1 lb. ground beef or turkey (I use ground turkey usually) with a small chopped onion and garlic clove.





After it is cooked, add 1 bag or 2 cans of mixed vegetables, and 2 cups of beef gravy (or I use a combo of cream of whatever soup and a cup of beef boullion from powder.





Put in the casserole dish, top with instant mashed potatoes that you have made according to the package, and if you want, some shredded cheese.





Bake until hot and bubbly.





I make several of these at a time and freeze them.
BEEF STROGANOFF





1 1/2 lb ground beef


1 bag wide egg noodles


2 cans cream of mushroom soup


1 (8 oz) canister of sour cream





Brown beef, drain. Boil pasta, drain. Combine all ingredients in one pan, simmer until its hot. You're DONE! =)


EASY AND CHEAP!





Happy mothers day!!
Baked Ziti with a ground meat/tomato sauce and grated cheese.
lasagna or stuffed shells.





bbq pork.





enchiladas!

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