In today’s video I’m doing a mega winter meal prep for my family of 9, getting our freezer stocked and ready for the school holidays!

I love doing a big meal prep before the children break up from school. It means we have plenty of homemade meals and snacks ready to go, and I can spend less time in the kitchen and more time enjoying the holidays with the family. ❤️

This time I prepared a big batch of curry sauce, crispy chicken bites, chicken pasties, marinated drumsticks, breakfast muffins, keema & veg spring rolls, chicken kebabs and a delicious vegetable lasagne.

🍛 Curry Sauce
9 onions
1 cup sunflower oil
12 tomatoes
4 tbsp garlic & ginger paste
2 tbsp each salt, garam masala, ground coriander & ground cumin
1 tbsp ground turmeric
2 tsp red chilli powder

Cook the onions and tomatoes until very soft and the oil separates. Add the remaining ingredients, cook through, cool and divide between freezer bags.

🥟 Chicken Pasties
500g chicken thigh pieces
1 tsp sunflower oil
1 tsp each salt, coarse black pepper & paprika
Sweetcorn
Soft cheese
Puff pastry

Cook the seasoned chicken, then mix with sweetcorn and soft cheese. Fill the pastry, shape into pasties and freeze.

🍗 Chicken Drumsticks
2kg chicken drumsticks
1 tsp salt
2 tbsp paprika
1 tbsp each red chilli flakes, oregano, onion granules & garlic/ginger paste
2 tbsp each lemon juice & sunflower oil

Combine the marinade, coat the drumsticks thoroughly and freeze.

🍳 Breakfast Muffins
8 eggs
½ tsp each salt & coarse black pepper
Breakfast muffins, cheese & salami

Whisk and bake the eggs at 180°C/160°C fan for 20 minutes. Slice and use to assemble the breakfast muffins before freezing.

🌯 Keema & Veg Spring Rolls
1kg lamb mince
500g frozen mixed veg
2 red onions
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp each garam masala, ground cumin, garlic & ginger paste & lemon juice
1 tsp each turmeric & red chilli powder
2 tbsp tomato puree
Spring roll pastry

Cook the filling, allow to cool, fill the spring roll pastry and freeze. This batch made around 30.

🍢 Chicken Kebabs
1kg chicken mince
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp each garam masala & ground coriander
½ cup plain flour
1 tsp each onion & garlic granules
1 tbsp tomato puree
½ tsp red chilli powder

Mix, shape into kebabs and freeze individually before transferring to freezer bags.

🥕 Vegetable Lasagne
1kg sweet potatoes
340g aubergine
2 courgettes
500g carrots
2 red onions
240g baby spinach
500g passata
2 tbsp sunflower oil
1 tsp each salt, paprika & coarse black pepper
1 tbsp garlic & ginger paste

White sauce: 50g butter, 50g plain flour, 500ml milk, ½ cup grated cheddar & ½ tsp salt.

Cook the vegetables until soft, add the spinach, passata and seasoning, then layer with white sauce and lasagne sheets. I actually used tortilla wraps instead of lasagne sheets and they worked brilliantly!

I also made crispy chicken bites using leftover salt & vinegar crisps as the coating — a great way of using up those packets nobody eats! 😄

I hope this gives you some ideas for filling your freezer and making the school holidays a little easier.

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