Freezer Meals for New Parents: 16 Make-Ahead Dishes
16 dishes to cook before the baby comes, with freezing and reheating notes, labels, a thaw sheet, two shopping lists and a filled-in first week.
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By Whole Life HQ4 parts · about 4,300 words · printable · read online
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Who it's for
Expecting parents, and the friends and relatives who want to help, who would like dinners waiting in the freezer for the first weeks with a baby.
What you receive
- 4 written parts, about 4,300 words
- 16 make-ahead dishes, each with how to freeze it, how to reheat it and what the label should say
- Freezer and thaw rules, safe reheating to 165°F, and a page for friends who want to bring food
- Two cooking sessions with shopping lists by aisle, a thaw sheet, a label template and a filled-in first week
4 printable pages, in reading order
- Part 1: Start here, and the freezer rules
- Part 2: Dishes 1 to 8
- Part 3: Dishes 9 to 16
- Part 4: Cooking sessions, thaw sheet and your first week
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Part 1: Start here, and the freezer rules
The first weeks with a new baby are not the weeks to cook. This guide is 16 dishes you make ahead, freeze in meal-size portions and pull out one at a time, with a label on each one that tells a tired person exactly what to do. It is for parents who are expecting, for the friend or grandparent who wants to help with food, and for anyone adopting, fostering or bringing a baby home who wants dinner handled.
Each dish makes 4 adult servings, packed in two portions of 2, so you can heat just what you need. All the measurements are US: cups, ounces, pounds and °F.
How this guide works
- Part 1 (this part) covers when to cook, the freezer rules, containers and labels.
- Part 2 has dishes 1 to 8. Part 3 has dishes 9 to 16. Every dish has ingredients, steps, how to freeze it, how to reheat it and what the label should say.
- Part 4 has two cooking-session plans with shopping lists by aisle, a thaw sheet for all 16 dishes, a label template, a filled-in example of the first week home and a page for friends who want to help.
What is in each part
- Start here, and the freezer rules
- Dishes 1 to 8
- Dishes 9 to 16
- Cooking sessions, thaw sheet and your first week
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4 printable pages: see the list
- Part 1: Start here, and the freezer rules
- Part 2: Dishes 1 to 8
- Part 3: Dishes 9 to 16
- Part 4: Cooking sessions, thaw sheet and your first week
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Who wrote it
Written by the Whole Life HQ team.
Not yet reviewed by an outside expert. It is general information, not professional advice.
General information, not medical advice. Talk to your doctor before changing your exercise, eating or sleep, or if something worries you.
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