It’s official. I’m a full-time working mom! I took a break from blogging last week to get acclimated. Today, I was on a mission to fill our new chest freezer with healthy food. I made several batches of soup to freeze in single servings for work lunches. I also made a batch of Cuban-Style Pork Shoulder in the slow cooker.
As for the soups, I made:
- Provencal Seafood Bisque (pictured above)
- African Peanut Soup (subbed sunflower seed butter for peanut butter)
- Szechuan Carrot Soup
- Chipotle Pumpkin Soup (UPDATE: Discovered this was not great for freezing.)
BONUS: Choose your ingredients wisely, and these soups can easily be Whole 30 compliant. (See my Whole 30 results.)
After the soups cooled, I packaged them as single servings in freezer bags. Then I stacked the bags flat on cookie sheets, which I placed in the freezer.
Our freezer is slowly starting to fill up! I love how new freezers have nice storage bins for easier organization. Oh, and don’t worry; I’ll write the contents and dates on the bags once they’re frozen solid. (I should have written on them before I filled them.)
My goal is to have a “library” of various healthy soups and other delicious lunch options. No Lean Cuisine for this girl!
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Wow, that is super impressive. The soup packets look like orange file folders. :-) You go, girl!
Thanks! I’m determined to keep up with my healthy eating goals even while working full-time… a challenge!
I am so impressed! I look forward to smelling those delicious looking and sounding soups over lunch. :-)
Thanks Jenny! I hope you don’t mind the seafood one… maybe I’ll microwave it upstairs before heading to the lunch room. ;)
Brilliant! I think freezing soup is a stellar idea …and so healthy. :)
For the seafood bisque, did you sub coconut milk for the cream, or just skip it?
I skipped it – particularly for freezing. That is actually one I haven’t tried since freezing it, so I can’t say yet whether or not it froze well… yet!
Do you use ziplock bags once only? I can’t see how they can be washed and dried well enough to prevent mould growth. I did try clip lock plastic containers from Poundland but found that I had to remove the silicone gasket in the lid to wash and dry it – when I washed the lid, with the gasket fitted, I found that black mould soon appeared on the gasket because it was impossible to dry it in situ.
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