Freezer oven bags Meals. Meal prepping at its best in our house using the oven bags and slow cookers to the max , meal prep done for the next few days , I put 1 cup water in the base of each slow cooker , took me longer to write this post than to prep all 4 meals now I’m off wedding planning.
Slow cooker 1
Devilled sausages:
6 sausages, packet devilled sausage mix, 1 onion, 1 tin tomato soup cook on low 6 hours
In the same slow cooker
New potatoes cut in 1/4 with butter and salt.
Slow cooker 2
Beef Jalfrezi:
500 gram chuck steak
1 passage to India Jalfrezi mix
1 onion
Low 8 hours.
Slow cooker 3
Cottage pie base:
500 gram mince
1 cottage pie base
Onion
Peas sweet corn
Dash Worcester sauce
Low 8 hours.
In the same slow cooker
Bolognese:
500 gram mince
Mushrooms
Tub tomato paste
Onions
Bolognese mix
Low 8 hours.
Freezer Oven Bags Meals Answers & Questions:
Question: Can I ask do u cook them in the ovens bags in the slow cooker? And do u put potato in with the cottage pie?
Answer: Everything is in oven bags in the slow cookers exactly as in pic to make it easy, mash for the cottage pie will be made separately then put on top once the meat base is in an oven proof bowl.
Question: Does the mince cook in a whole clump doing it like this though ?? Just curious.
Answer: No it still cooks nicely I break it up properly before I start cooking it too. I just took them out if the slow cooker and the mince was fine.
Question: Do you need to put a hole in oven bags to allow steam I escape?
Answer: I put a small one near the tie bit.
Question: Wonder if you could meal prep in those oven bags and freeze before cooking?
Answer: I know you can freeze them after cooking , I know Pauline has a file for making up dump bags and what is best to freeze Uncooked.
Question: Just to clarify, do you put water in the bottom of the slow cooker then pop the oven bags in?
Answer: Sure do.