Don't Panic - Dinner's in the Freezer: Great-Tasting Meals You Can Make Ahead

This is a very good book that gives helpful suggestions on how to prepare meals (or portions of meals) ahead of time and store them in your freezer in easy, space-saving ways. Good for people who have the ability to buy meats in bulk. It definitely takes some time out of your day to prepare all of the meals/meats ahead of time. But, then, it saves you a LOT of time the rest of the month as you are preparing dinner. You don't have to have a lot of freezer space to do some of this either. The meals/meats can be placed in freezer bags and layed flat on top of each other. Saves a lot of room! There are a lot of great recipes in this book. I have enjoyed using it very much. Sturdy and eye-appealing. Highly recommend.

This is a great cookbook. The idea is not to cook once a month or even once a week but to cook one meal at three servings- one for tonight and two to freeze. It is amazing how quickly the dinners build up in your freezer.

The recipes in this cookbook are easy to prepare, good to eat and the directions are clear and easy. There are directions for cooking, freezing, reheating. There is nothing in the way of unusual ingredients. You will most likely have all of the ingedients on hand or they are easy to find at the grocery store.

Wonderful idea and great book.

The day I bought this book I looked through and picked recipes I wanted to make, and then went to the grocery store to buy the ingredients I needed. The next day I went to work preparing 30 meals. This book has great recipes. I have tried over 10 of them now. The cranberry chicken had great reviews so I tried it too..and it is so good, as is the pumpkin chocolate chip muffins (which also had rave reviews). My family also loved the continental beef, shredded salsa beef, chicken breasts stuffed with pesto butter and lemon glazed chicken, just to name a few.
This book even gives you some information on shopping, supplies, and freezing tips.
My only gripe about the book is that there is no pictures beyond the front cover. I like to see what my dish is supposed to look like finished. Others may also want to know that there are NO seafood recipes in this book. That didn't bother me as I do not like seafood, but it may bother those who like it.
I recommend this book to anyone that is sick of trying to come up with ideas for dinner the day of. You can make as little or as many meals ahead as you like. The book also has charts to show you how to multiply the recipe x3, x6 , x9 etc. So no more trying to figure out the measurements yourself.
The recipes in this book are from basic (making marinades, adding meats, freeze) to more complex (cooking, browning, freezing). So far I haven't found anything that to much of a pain to do.
If your thinking of doing freezer meals this book is it. It's great for those who have never done this before.

I am new to the whole prepping dinner ahead philosphy but I am a believer with this cookbook!

The recipes we have tried are great whether you make them right away or freeze them. My husband is super picky and it got his seal of approval.

Our personal favorite is the Chicken Parisienne, we have made it over and over again. There is always at least one batch in the freezer so it can be thrown in the crockpot in the morning and we have a delicious meal without the fuss!

I bought this book because I wanted to mimic the recipes used by Dream Dinners and other make-ahead and freeze recipes. I expected to assemble raw ingredients for freezing and instructions on how to cook at a later time. This book is more about how to cook recipes in their entirety, and then freeze for later consumption.