Make ahead recipe ideas???

Does anyone have any make ahead or crockpot recipes that they can share?  I'm having a hard time trying to eat better because all the good for me foods seem to take so long to make.  By the time I get home from work and spend a little time with Brady, it's so late and I don't have time for anything decent.

Sorry, I didn't finish that before I posted.  I'm at work and got interupted.  lol  BTW  Brady is my 21 month old son.

I'm trying to find recipes that I can just toss in the oven when I get home, so I can spend some time with my son and still have a decent dinner cooking.

I can suggest a Book - Fix it and Forget it Lightly - it's got alot of Crockpot Recipes in it, relatively healthy :)

well not really. but salome give me this website

www.allrecipes.com and they have TONS AND TONS of cool things to make.

Casseroles are always good.  Pretty much anything can be put into one, and you can bake it whenever you want.  Spaghetti, beef stew, bean soup, chili(!!!!) and others are also good recipes to throw in a pot and walk away for a few hours.

ehehe, finewine, you are such a guy lol. What is it with guys and chili??

This is a awesome sight for crockpot meals... and lots of other great recipes..

http://www.recipezaar.com/

Another trick is to make bigger batches of things you are cooking, and then freeze them into serving sizes for you and Brady ( if he is eating the same foods as you) and then a week or two later, all you have to do is reheat, add a salad or something and you have a quick meal. 

When I was an active Mom, Saturday was my shopping for food and cooking for the week day. I'd check the ads for meat sales and find recipes that we liked (example: chicken on sale - we like chicken soup, chicken and rice cassarole, chicken salad) Then I'd list all the ingredients I need to make those dishes... shop, return and turn on some music that I love, or cooking shows..and get to cookin'....I'd boil the chicken to make broth... separate the meat for the cassarole and salad..finish the soup and cassarole and salad.. then freeze the soup and cassarole, keep the salad for Saturday dinner or Sunday lunch.. and voila... meals to microwave from the freezer are ready to be served.

I found that my grocery cycled poultry, beef and pork sales, so when I did this every week, I added dishes with different meats to the freezer....then I made a weekly calendar posted on the refrig for what to thaw/microwave. ...

Once a month, I'd do a look-over of what was lingering in the freezer, and make a week of just cleaning it out.. then, back to the routine.

That is brilliant!!  I don't even know what is at the bottom of my freezer!!  I'm gonna try that, first I will inventory what I have, then I will post a calendar and start getting rid of it, so I have more room for ice cream.......NO !!......the good stuff!!