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Batch Cooking & Freezer Meals

A freezer you can see into, meals that survive freezing and reheating, a monthly cook day, a weekly pull plan, and stashes ready for a new baby, an operation or a hard week.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Batch Cooking & Freezer Meals, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

Before you start: this plan is general information to help you organise your own health. It is not medical advice and does not replace a doctor, nurse, pharmacist or other qualified professional. Check any change to treatment, medicine or diet with them first, and get urgent care if you feel unwell.

What it installs.

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Starter tasks

🥗 Food & Nutrition

Batch Cooking & Freezer Meals

Cooking in large batches and building a freezer stash of ready meals for busy weeks, new babies or times of illness.

  1. Freezer clear-out and first stock count
  2. Measuring how many meals your freezer holds
  3. Freezer container system that stacks
  4. Label standard for every frozen meal
  5. Ten freezer-friendly meals the household already eats
  6. First two-hour batch session
  7. Freezer meal list on the door
  8. Cooling and freezing large batches safely
  9. Cost per portion baseline
  10. Monthly batch cooking day
  11. Cook double, freeze half on weeknights
  12. Sunday freezer pull and defrost plan
  13. Overnight defrost habit
  14. Monthly freezer recount
  15. Quarterly freezer eat-down week
  16. Bulk protein buy and portioning
  17. Building-block components in the freezer
  18. Batch day run sheet
  19. Annual freezer defrost and deep clean
  20. What freezes well and what does not
  21. Scaling recipes up for batch volumes
  22. Open freezing and flat-bag freezing
  23. Keeping freezer burn away
  24. Reheating from frozen so it tastes fresh
  25. Cooking slightly under for the freezer
  26. Slow cooker and pressure cooker dump bags
  27. Freezer breakfasts for rushed mornings
  28. Soups and stocks by the potful
  29. Second freezer decision
  30. Vacuum sealer, worth buying or not
  31. Freezer zones and baskets
  32. Twenty-meal rotation to beat freezer fatigue
  33. More vegetables in every frozen portion
  34. Replacing shop-bought ready meals with your own
  35. Portion sizes matched to who eats them
  36. Freezer stash before a new baby arrives
  37. Recovery stash before a planned operation
  38. Late-summer freezer fill before school starts
  39. Freezer meal swap with three other households
  40. Meal train for a friend in a hard week
  41. Freezer meals for a parent living alone
  42. Batch cooking around shift work
  43. Sick-day shelf for when the household goes down
  44. Batch cooking with children as helpers
  45. One base, several versions for mixed diets
  46. Batch cooking in a small kitchen
  47. Thirty-meal production day
  48. Tested freezer recipe book with reheat notes
  49. Three-month stash rotation calendar
  50. Batch cooking for a community meal rota

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Freezer clear-out and first stock count

Most freezers hold a layer of unlabelled tubs, half bags of peas and a lasagne nobody remembers making, and that clutter hides both the space and the food you already have. Emptying it once, binning what cannot be identified and counting what is left gives you a true starting point before a single batch is cooked.

First tasks

  • Pick an evening this week when the freezer will be at its emptiest
  • Empty each drawer into cool bags and bin anything you cannot identify
  • Sort what is left into ready meals, components, raw ingredients and treats
  • Write a dated count of each group and stick it inside a cupboard door

Measuring how many meals your freezer holds

Twenty family portions from a cook day are useless if the freezer can only take twelve once the peas and ice lollies are in. Measuring the usable space in litres and testing it with your actual containers tells you the real ceiling for a cook day.

First tasks

  • Find the freezer's capacity in litres from the manual or the model number
  • Measure each drawer's width, depth and height with a tape
  • Test pack one drawer with filled containers or bags of water
  • Write the maximum number of meals on the freezer count sheet

Freezer container system that stacks

Mixed takeaway tubs, odd lids and round pots waste a third of the freezer and make every search a dig. Settling on two or three container sizes that stack, survive the freezer and go into the oven or microwave, and buying enough for a full cook day, is the single biggest upgrade to a stash.

First tasks

  • List the five meals you freeze most and the portion size each needs
  • Compare three container sets on stacking, lids, reheating and price
  • Buy enough containers in your chosen sizes for one full cook day
  • Recycle every container that has lost its lid
  • Check lids for cracks and replace the damaged ones @recurring(yearly)

Make it yours.

Install Batch Cooking & Freezer Meals, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Blueprints are general information to help you organise your own work. They are not medical, financial, legal or other professional advice. See the Terms.