37 Freezer Meals That Are Ready Before You Need Them

Sometimes, the spirit of meal-planning motivation finds us. When that happens, we embrace it and prepare ourselves some freezer meals—big batches of recipes that freeze well, leftovers stowed away—to make future weeknights easier.For whatever reason, freezer meals and frozen meals have come to mean different things to us. Frozen meals, such as these instant noodles and pizzas, are store-bought; freezer meal recipes are ones you cook yourself. (Dunno; just works for us.) Some of the latter, like this classic cilantro-heavy sofrito, will help future you cut down on cooking time when…