Freezer Meal Recipes save so much time and money!
We love freezer meal cooking!
{Pin This}
It is fun to get a group together to cook freezer meals. Sometimes I just double or triple a favorite recipe so I can put some in the freezer for a busy night.
You can see that I cooked the noodles here, but you can get away with baking your lasagna with hard noodles if you add extra water to the sauce. So that is the way I wrote the recipe. I will save you time, dishes and hassle!
Ingredients
- 24 pieces lasagna noodles, uncooked
- 2 pounds ground beef
- 1 pound sausage
- 2 jars (28 oz.) spaghetti sauce (I like Prego)
- 32 ounces ricotta cheese
- 4 cups shredded mozzarella cheese Cheese Coupons
- 1 Cup Water
- 4 eggs
- 4 teaspoons oregano
- 4 teaspoons basil
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
Instructions
This recipes is for two 13x9 pans of Lasagna.
Heat oven to 350°F.
Brown meat in large skillet on medium-high heat.
Mix 2-1/2 cups mozzarella, ricotta cheese, parsley and egg until well blended; set aside.
Drain meat; return to skillet. Stir in spaghetti sauce. Add 1 cup water to empty sauce jar; cover with lid and shake well. Add to meat mixture; stir until well blended. Spread 1 cup meat sauce onto bottom of 13x9-inch baking dish; top with layers of 3 lasagna noodles, 1/3 of the ricotta cheese mixture and 1 cup meat sauce. Repeat layers twice. Top with remaining noodles, meat sauce and cheeses. Cover with foil sprayed with cooking spray.
Bake 1 lasagna right away for 1 hour or until heated through, removing foil after 45 min. Let stand 15 min. before cutting to serve. Serve that night.
Cover the second lasagna with plastic wrap and then foil and put in your freezer. To prepare after freezing let thaw and cook for 1 hour or cook from frozen for 1.5 - 2 hours.
TIP: We added extra water to the sauce so we would not have to cook the noodles and the extra water would allow them to cook while baking. My picture shows pre-coooked noodles because I forgot about this tip the day I made these.
http://fabulesslyfrugal.com/2013/01/freezer-meal-recipes-homemade-lasagna.html
Freezer Cooking Links
- Benefits of making freezer meals
- Freezer Recipes
- How to start a Freezer Meal Group
- How to Shop for Freezer Meal Recipes
- How to Prepare Freezer Meals
- What Foods Don’t Freeze Well
More Lasagna Recipes
- Skillet Lasagna
- Lasagna Soup
- Lasagna Cupcakes
- Zucchini Lasagna
- Garlic Toasted Open Faced Lasagna Ciabattas
- Pepperoni Lasagna Roll-Ups
- Lasagna and My Frugal Lasagna
- Mexican Style Lasagna
{Pin This}
Pin It
About Monica
It all began on October 8th, 2008. Cathy and Monica started this coupon blog to help friends and family learn about their new money saving hobby couponing! Since then they have taught thousands of women (and men) 
I NEVER make only one lasagna! Since I often give the extras to hungry young nephews or friends with newborns, I stock up on the foil 1/2 steam tray pans from Smart & Final (a restaurant supply-style store). They are fairly inexpensive so I don’t worry about getting pans back. *Just be sure to start the instructions for reheating with “Place on a cookie sheet” because they can warp a bit when heavy.
Great ideas, thanks Tina!
This recipe is similar to my mom’s famous recipe. I have never cooked lasagna noodles in my life, don’t know why anyone would.
Never really thought I could freeze a lasagna but makes sense. I’ll have to try this. Thanks!!
You are welcome Justine. You are going to love the time it saves!
do the oregano, basil, garlic, salt & pepper go into the ricotta mixture or into the meat?
They go in the ricotta.
So I decided to give this ago as I’ve never made lasagna before and thought what the heck, what’s the worst that could happen. A LOT, I followed this recipe to a T even though I spotted a booboo right away. Parsley is not in the ingredients list yet states it should be mixed into the Ricotta mixture. What the hell, I’ll throw it in anyway. Because I followed the recipe I used extra water to cook noodles in the baking process. When I pulled it out after the hour It looked beautiful, I really mean it too! HOWEVER, the noodles were NOT cooked at all. I just put the foil back on it and threw it back into the oven in hopes of salvaging dinner otherwise we’ll have nothing but garlic bread. A lot of home made sauce went into this recipe and I’m unsure how this recipe (as listed) could possibly work. So disappointed
Sonia- I am so sad to hear that this did not work out for you? I have been trying to figure out why? Maybe your sauce was too dry? Maybe it was the type of pasta that you bought? This has worked for me dozens of times. I am so sorry that it did not work for you.
Sorry if I missed it. But how much water would this recipe for two lasagna pans have if you used uncooked noodles? Thanks!
You could add 1/2 – 1 cup of water to your sauce.