Its been done a million times...

Do you want my foie gras recipe? You'll be able to eat it after the accouchement. It freezes well.
No?
How about...

Chairman Mao's braised pork

500 g belly of pork
2 tbs vegetable oil
2 tbs white sugar
1 tbs sherry
20 g ginger thinly sliced
1 star anise
1 small piece cassia bark (or cinnamon)
2 chilllllllllllis
s & p
Soy sauce

Plunge pork in boiling water for 4 or 5 minutes. Remove. When cool cut into 2.5 cm cubes.
In a casserole heat oil and add sugar. Cook until sugar is camamelised. Add pork cubes and sherry. Add enough water nearly to cover pork. Add ginger, star anise, cassia bark, chillllllllis and s & p. Cover. Bring to boil. Then simmer for 40 minutes. Take cover off and reduce sauce until it is a sticky coating - 10 minutes, 15 minutes, whatever it takes.
Take off the heat and if there is too much fat pour it away. Add a tbs or so of soy sauce. Top with chopped spring onion (I can't get that here).
Serve it hot.
But I have frozen it and it is delicious cold.

Fabulous, I have everything except the pork and it is different from any of my normal freezer recipes!

I can't belive you can get spring onions, it is funny how every day and normal they seem here. Oh well, as long as you can pork, who cares...

I will be having some fois gras soon, but will settle for buying it from the market! (I must admit that we went for dinner on our anniversary and I indulged in both a large glass of wine and some fois gras...bad, bad, bad...lucky they didn't have any squidgy blue cheese on offer while I was feeling so wild.)

"buy pork". That should have been "as long as you can buy pork".

Although really, it makes little difference ether way you read it. I'd take either over a spring onion.

Zuppa! I live alone and make a big pot of soup every weekend, freeze individual portions and heat them up every day for lunch at work. I don't get sick of the eating the same soup over and over because I make a new recipe every week.

Lasagne freezes well. You probably have your own favorite recipe, but let me know if you'd like my variation.

Sending you a PM for crock pot Italian Beef sandwiches.

Here's a recipe for an easy family favorite

Beefburgers

1 pound ground beef
½ - 1 medium onion, chopped
1 can Campbells vegetable beef soup (with alphabet pasta)
¼ - ½ can water
1 generous tablespoon prepared mustard
¼ cup – ½ cup ketchup
salt
pepper

Sprinkle salt & pepper to lightly cover the bottom of a 10-inch skillet. Brown ground beef and onions until cooked. Drain off fat. Add soup to meat mixture and use a fork to mash vegetables. Add water, mustard and ketchup. Mix. Simmer for 15 minutes.

Serve on warmed hamburger buns. Offer dill pickle chips and sweet gherkin pickles on the side.

Legumes of all sorts freeze well. You could do pinto bean or black bean soup with ham; white beans with tomatoes, carrots or chunks of squash and spinach; green lentils with some sort of sausage; red lentils with cardamom, ginger, garlic, potatoes, carrots, apples and coconut milk.

You might want to pick up a few bags of many bean soup mix at the grocery or health food store and freeze some ham hocks or turkey sausage to cook with them. You can throw it all in a pressure cooker and be ready to eat in thirty minutes or so. If you don't have a pressure cooker, you might want to buy one - it's a real time saver.

Beef stew also freezes well, although the potatoes have a slightly different texture. Stuffed baked potatoes freeze easily too (but take a long time to defrost): ham and cheese, smoked turkey and mozzarella or rosemary and garlic are all good flavorings.

...freeze pre-assembled foil packet meals?? Even the poster formerly known as "The Grecian" was able to make a few of these...

Raw Meat, spices, veggies ( & a Knob of butter) ,undercooked rice in a foil packet. Bake at about 350 F for about 1 hr.

BTW - My friend told me that even having simple sandwiches (bread, meat, cheese, spread) pre-assembled, cut into halves or quarters and frozen was helpful during the first few months with their new baby. Fast to thaw and easy to eat one-handed.

Needing to do everything one-handed (child cradled in the other arm) much of the time was one of the things they remember as most surprising. And how much time that small person required each day.

Now you're scaring me Mid West!

I think the idea of frozen sandwiches is as scary as being permanently one-handed. But thanks for the tip as I can maybe make sandwiches for the next day's lunch when dearest daddy is at home in the evenings to give me 5 minutes sans child!