Hello Rowena,
Have been in your situation myself many years ago. What I found was that
many things you cook normally for meals can be frozen. I used to cook a meal
for the family when the kids were small like yours a meal for 4 would allow
me to freeze 2 portions and still have a little to freeze for the kids
(after all most kids don't eat a meal the size an adult would). I usually
would just cook a few extra veggies when I knew I wanted to freeze some of
the meal at the end.
You can buy bulk plastic containers for takeaway meals that also freeze
well. IGA Cole's and Woollies have them in their plastic aisles but as to
any other shops you may have I am unsure about. These are are stack of 10
plain white containers. You can also buy the Glad bake white with blue top
freezer containers. The small ones come in stacks of 3 or 4 while the larger
size come in stacks of two be aware though the Glad bake ones are quite a
bit dearer and they do the same job.
Some meals that freeze well are things like savoury mince, lasagna, stews,
casseroles, soups, quiche, curried sausages, apricot chicken, beef
stroganof, just for starters (and what I can think of at this minute) if you
like to bake there are several cakes and biscuits that also freeze well. I
bake a lot but other than biscuit dough I tend to not freeze my cakes as
they don't last long enough around here anyway. Scones are another item that
i do freeze. I make my own bread and when the kids were younger as I needed
it for home and school lunches I found I would make 2 or 3 loaves a day,
keep one loaf for use, slice the others lay them out on a tray cover with
towel and freeze, once frozen (usually took less than an hour) I would pack
them in a freezer container and put them in the deep freeze. Doing it this
way I found I could easily remove as many slices as I would need.
the kids loved pizza and so I make my own pizza dough. One ball of dough is
usually enough to make a family size pizza for my family. You can freeze the
dough so if pizza is something you would like from time to time and don't
want to take the time always to wait while you make it, then make a dough
roll it into a ball and freeze it. Keeps about 3 months.
I have several freezers, a tucker box 150litre, a large F&P upright with 6
drawers, a large upside down fridge freezer with 3 deep drawers and 2
fridge freezers with usual capacity freezer tops. They are not all used
daily. Only 3 are in use at this moment although I do turn the others on for
a day here and there just to keep them active.
What you will need will depend on what amount of freezing you intend to do.
I freeze left overs but then I also freeze my surplus veggies from the
garden, those that I have not been used either fresh or in canned foods (I
home preserve)
As far as babies go I am not particularly a good person to answer this as I
never bought food for my babies. What ever we ate the babies ate though in
smaller portions of course and dependent on how old they were with each food
group.
Good luck
Kathleen
Western Australia
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