Big Batch Freezer Cooking: Prepping Homeschool Breakfasts & Lunches

It is the middle of July, which means I am elbow-deep in lesson planning, school area reorganization, printing curricula, taking inventory of school supplies, and ordering books.  Super exciting if you ask the cool homeschool moms.  I stopped the flurry of preparation to make lunch yesterday and thought about how wonderful it would be to have a freezer full of breakfasts, snacks, and lunches ready for our first several weeks of homeschooling while we find our new schedule.

BOOM.  I immediately decided that is absolutely something I need for a good, smooth, start to our year.  I am pretty good about having a dinner plan.  Breakfast and lunch?  I'm figuring those meals out on the fly 90% of the time.  Most of these meal ideas only include part of the meal, often the part that takes the longest time to prepare.  Frying an egg, crisping some beef bacon,  making a sandwich, or slicing some fruit and veggies will almost always accompany most of these dishes.  You could be fully prepared and have individually sized casserole portions ready in your freezer complete with the frozen garlic bread in the same pan.  Wouldn't that feel amazing? Lunch prepared, easy to heat, and if planned strategically, nothing but a fork to wash! Every mom's dream. 

Here is my all-from-scratch plan to fill my freezer!  

BREAKFASTS:

Muffins (Banana, Blueberry, Chocolate Chip, Coconut Coffee Cake) 

Waffles

Pancakes

Breakfast Quesadillas

LUNCHES:

Soup (Alphabet Beef, Chicken Noodle, Pasta e Fagioli, Tomato, Cheesy Potato, Taco)

Pizzadillas

Taco meat

Sandwich Bread

Pizzas

Chicken Tenders

Mac&Cheese

Turkey Kielbasa slices

SNACKS:

Cookie Dough (Chocolate Chip, Dishpan, Peanut Butter, Sugar Cookies, Oatmeal M&M)

DINNER PREP:

Biscuits

Crescent Rolls

Dinner Rolls

Pizza crusts

Cornbread

Ravioli Lasagna

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