How to Freeze Individual Dinners
/Have less mess and less stress at dinnertime with freezer meals!
But what if you don’t need an entire dinner?
Maybe you want individual servings for when your teen gets hungry late at night.
Or you want to pre-pack individual lunches for work
You can easily freeze personal sized meals with these three steps!
1. Gather your ingredients
In our example, I’m making Steak Diane.
Who is Diane? It depends on who you ask. This recipe was popular in ritzy restaurants in the first half of the 20th century. Diane could refer to the Roman goddess Diana or 1930’s beauty Lady Diana Cooper.
2. Prep the recipe
Steak Diane is beef with a savory sauce.
Undercook your meat, because you will be reheating it later, which always continues the cooking slightly.
Make double the sauce - it’s delicious!
3. Freeze in a variety of sized containers
You can use muffin tins. My favorite is a collection of smaller bread pans.
Place a variety of sizes of meat in your containers.
Add a scoop of sauce in each.
Freeze.
Once frozen, pop each meat-cicle out and place in quart-sized labeled freezer zip lock baggies.
Look at these cute little loaf pans!
Each individual dinner is like having your own personal chef!
I’ve had my mini loaf pans for so long that they don’t make them anymore. Try these from Wilton, each less than $20. If you buy by clicking the link here, I get a tiny commission. And you get cute muffin pans!
