This past weekend my son and his family visited and I had everything made and in the freezer. Man, did that ever give me much more time with the family!

I’m crazy for casseroles. For $157 you served your family for 18 days. Wonderful job!🎉

You are so wise to get an upright freezer! I’ve been preaching this for years. In chest freezers too many things get lost and forgotten. Side note, every time I have a new grandchild I go fill their family freezer with CASSEROLES!

While I was pregnant, I literally made 28 freezer meals for after I gave birth. It was the best thing I did!! They lasted well over a month because some nights I actually felt like cooking. It was so nice to not have to stress about dinner! Thank you for the video Brooke! ❤

I love your channel. I am a grandma now, so past the stage of feeding a family very often. I appreciate how you create good food on a small budget. This is a skill our ancestors had to employ, and they did it well. My parents grew up poor in the hills of West Virginia, but because their moms were so good at stretching their food budget, they really didn’t know how truly poor they were. I love how you give dignity to the art of cooking frugally. I plan to make some of your casseroles and freeze them in smaller portions! 😊

I’ve been binge watching all your videos for the last week and a half (I’ve been healing from a c section, so I’ve been taking it easy). You’ve also gotten me in to All things Mandy. I’m grocery shopping on Sunday and I’m excited to see if I’m able to budget better!

I love this idea. My problem in cooking ahead is remembering everything so THANK YOU for posting the shopping list that goes along with these. Such a time saver . You are a blessing

WOW!!!!! When I say I am so impressed by how much food you made for your family for so little money. So much love went into those casseroles and I know that your family will taste it in every bite. Great job mama!

If you’re gonna make freezer meals a long term thing, start shopping yardsales and thrift store for casserole and glass baking dishes. That’s another double savings first by thrifting them and second by reusing them. If you haven’t watched her, Jamerille Stewart has awesome large family freezer meal prep videos

These all look delicious! Adding beans in to the meat mixtures could make them stretch further for the super tight budgets.

Just watched your video. Great ideas! When my sons were still at home (they’re 32 and 25, with their own families now), I’d make Tater Tot Casserole frequently. To mix it up a bit, I’d season the ground beef with taco seasoning and add a can of Rotel (drained) and a can of Nacho cheese soup. Top with the tots and cheese. Sooooo good! I’d do the same, but with a can of manwich sauce and a can of cheese soup. My kids are making these for their own families!

I'm not going to make 18 freezer meals - but I am going to make ONE of each of these! They look so dang good! PS: you are THISCLOSE to 50K subscribers! Whoooo Hoooo!

When I make something that can freeze, I make enough for me and a family of 5. I take my portion out and freeze the rest for emergency meals for new moms, care for a family whose mom is laid up or who is tied up with a sick family member. I have a bread maker so I always throw a loaf of homemade bread with it. I do use gluten free flour if I know there’s a need. I’ve also got together with other singles and each person brings two freezer meals with six servings. Then we each swap meals. We then have twelve different meals but only had to fix two.

i make stuffed shells, green peppers, and cabbage rolls every fall to store for winter. I flash freeze them on sheet pans. Then i put them into sandwich bags individually,and then into large freezer bags. When i pull them out to cook, i can pick by the meal how many i will need. Works great for my family

In separate jars, in my fridge, I keep all my different meat drippings that arent used for gravy. They are great clavor enhancers!!❤❤❤

Girl! I just watch you over and over!

Never heard of John Wayne casserole. Would love to see it baked up! Everything looked amazing!!

The alfredo stuffed shells look AMAZING!

O.M.G. Brooke! This was awesome! Bet you were wiped out after cooking all day but then you have all that done and ready to go. Your boys are eatin' well girl!!! Loved this.

Yahoo. I needed you. Just lost my momma and having horrible anxiety. And I just want to hear happy and watch comfort. Thank you, Brooke! ❤❤❤❤

That was a lot of work! My mom used to get in the mood to cook and bake. Our freezer was stuffed with delicious food! When she'd come home tired from work, those meals were her saving grace. You've saved so much food money, energy costs, and time and made healthy frozen meals to boot! 💐 🌹 🌸 🏵 🌼

Has anyone noticed our girl has reached 50,000 subs?!?!? Yayyyyy!!!! Go Brooke!!!!!

Great video. I’m really looking forward to the freezer cooking series. Thanks for all the great ideas Brooke.

Brooke, you are quickly becoming one of my favorite channels

This is brilliant! You are brilliant! The standing freezer is such a good idea. Man, I don't know what I'd be doing without you giving us all these wonderful ideas😊 The casseroles are an inspiration.

The chicken crescents add chopped celery to the mixture… yum!!!

I am SO HERE for this series!! My freezer is nearly empty now after we ate thru most of it postpartum. Gimme all the budget recipes! 😄

Congratulations!✅ 18 casserole pans for the freezer… you must have been totally exhausted!!😞😞 But now you have tons of wonderful meals already done for your family! 😊 Thanks for sharing all of them with us and helping us to be prepared as well! ✅😊✅😊✅😊✅😊

If you microwave the cheese wiz a little in a jar it will pour over the casserole a little easier. Thanks for the ideas!

Thanks for all the great recipes! Wonderful for fall & winter coming. My total was $192 for my Walmart. The chicken was $30 & hamburger was $35 but 18 meals 👍

I always date my frozen foods to avoid having them go to long in the freezer cause the taste and texture seems to change after 6 months. Looking forward to trying some of the different casserole flavors you showed.

I made freezer meals for my son and his wife before their first baby was born. It was a very appreciated gift.

Just learned about you and I am enjoying your cooking videos. Watching from Jacksonville Florida. ❤

Upright freezers are a must for me and my family. We’ve had several chest freezers and upright freezers. The chest freezers are fine for my husband and son’s deer meat, wild turkeys and fish from their hunting and fishing trips. Great recipes and great video as usual. I enjoy watching you, Dusty, your boys and sisters when they do videos also. Thank you for posting the lists for your recipes. It really helps.

You did a great job! Not to be a downer, but the top shelf should not be filled to the top. You have to keep your items below the cooling vents in order for your freezer to work properly, otherwise you may burn up the motor. Good video.

WOW!!! You definitely deserve a round of applause 👏 👏👏 Great going, girlfriend! P.s. congratulations on your new upright freezer! We just got one a few months ago and love love LOVE it!!❤❤

What a great video with actual ingredients that people want to eat. I love your new upright freezer. It’s a beautiful sight when it’s filled with homemade meals.

Hi Brooke! Love your video and recipes. Add a pinch of cayenne pepper to your chicken when you cook it to take away the bad smell..

These look really good! An optional way to do the ritz and butter, melt the butter and then mix the crushed Ritz in it, then sprinkle. I’ve found that gets them all extra buttery!!☺️

That comes out to $7.39 per casserole. Not sure how many servings each of those casseroles are for your family. It'll be really nice to have those frozen and ready to go, especially if you catch a cold, are feeling extra tired or if you're super busy or have to leave the guys on their own. The recipes looked good but I'd have to cut down on the salt due to kidney disease. I would've added ricotta or cottage cheese to the lasagna because either of those have to be in mine. These recipes will help inspire a lot of people. I used to do meal prepping on the weekend when my son was a teenager and I worked 2 and 3 jobs. It helped a lot. Even just having hamburger meat cooked with onions or cooked chicken breasts helped saved time cooking dinner when I was exhausted from work.

I am currently redoing my whole house and doing a BIGGGG kitchen redo. I replacing all my appliances and I will be getting a upright freezer. I just fell that I will be able to be more organized with an upright and will have less food burn and food waste. Also I love doing freezer meals because I travel every 3 weeks and this helps my husband and son when I'm not home. ❤❤❤❤❤

I love the pictures in your intro. Beautiful family ❤

I'm definitely going to make these foir our freezer. You prepared all these economically and easily. I need help with some of my meals to feed my family. I have a lit of responsibilities and those days its hectic this will make it a lit easier. Congratulations on the 50k! 🎉

❤❤❤These recipes look delicious. What a time saver later.

I loved seeing your sister's video! I hope she continues to share more lunch and meal ideas. You two should do a cooking show together. It would be a blast to see the two of you together🎉❤😊.

I’m so happy for you that you got your new freezer Brooke , and you sure filled it up with some yummy casseroles , they all looked so yummy!! Great job 👏👏👏👏!! ❤️🙏🙋🏻🌈🌈

You should make a cookbook with all of your recipes. Making me hungry watching this one, and there are some I can not wait to try. Love your channel!

I love tuna casserole. 2 cans of cream of mushroom soup, 1 can of milk, 1 cup of sour cream, 2 cans of undrained tuna, 1 can of drained sweet peas, and 2 cups of cheese of your choice. Mix it all together and layer the cheese, reserving enough cheese for top. Cover the reserved cheese mixed with 1/2 cup bread crumbs and bake for 40 minutes at 350 degrees. You can top it with sour cream as desired.

You’re brilliant! I’ve been asking for an extra freezer for years! All I have is my freezer that’s attached to my fridge. I make it work but dang it’s hard lol

$133÷18 casseroles is just under $7.39 per meal! Wow! Thats actually quite impressive to feed at least 4 with large portions and maybe 6-8 people with more reasonable portions. Less than $10 to feed an entire avg sized family for 1-2 nights even if you add a couple/few cans of veggies and bread and butter or garlic bread, if wanted, on the side!

Tater Tot casserole ... add mixed veggies put it all into a Ziplock and smoosh it around ... Freeze it flat and it takes up a lot less room ( i freeze most of my freezer meals in Ziplock and save tons of space

Smart Woman..❤ your videos 😂😂😂... keep positive and posting wonderful content!

Obviously tons of effort put into this video. I’ve never heard of the crescent casserole, anxious to try it. Thank you, Brooke!

If you start thrift shopping you can find some glass Pyrex casserole dishes pretty cheap. Just start buying and saving them for your freezer meals so you don’t have to always buy aluminum pans. It will save you money in the long run.

I also have a stand up freezer. I think it’s easier than floor freezer. It’s a lot better to see what you have in there.

Just a tip, if you'll get some of the plastic cutting boards from $tree they make perfect spacers for stacking your pans in the freezer and prevents 1 sinking into the other😊

I was not a super huge fan of tater tot casserole until a friend of mine had me try hers. She also does not put the veggies in and substitutes a can of cheddar cheese soup for one of the cream of soups. No shredded cheese because of the cheese soup. Then a healthy amount of pepper and that is the filling. So good.

Great variety and amount of skillet/casserole meals for $133, Brooke! Wonderful.. HEY~ You may want to heed the advice of Becky over @Acre Homestead after she lost quite a bit of her freezer meals by not shutting her stand up freezer door all the way, without realizing it...yep, lost it all~so she now has an ALARM for it so she'll be made aware and won't lose all that hard work, time and $$$$ again. Just thought I'd pass that along to ya~ Enjoy your evening!

I’m a single adult but wanna start getting into freezer meals for the sheer convenience. Hopefully soon, I just got some items that should help me keep my extremely limited freezer space better used than it’s ever been before. So far it has been.

Wow what an accomplishment

I love your Sweet Boys. I have 3 Grandsons. One is a High School Teacher now. The 2nd One is working for a Water Company. And my youngest One is going to Middle School soon.

Thank you Brooke. They all look so delicious. I’m saving for an upright freezer as well.

Hi from the uk! Just wanted to let you know that your vids have been getting me through some really tough times. I love watching your vids it feel like being with a friend. You are such a comfort to me. Even if we don't have a lot of the stuff you use here in the uk! Thank you so much for being you, so lovely!

That's impressive! Love your channel, Brooke.

That last chicken casserole looks absolutely delicious. I have got to try that.

I just want you to know I LOVE watching you and your family! I've been a bit down lately(financially and emotionally), and you videos really help me. You help so many people! I just love ya'll and I know Jesus loves you too! You keep doing the Lord's work, girl!❤

Hey Brooke! Thanks for all you do❤ would love to see a video on cooking your freezer meals❤ keep on being you!!!!!

so yummie thanx for sharing have a great night

Hi Brooke , Dusty and boys I love your deep freezer . Thank you Brooke , for sharing your freezer meals with us and the list of foods needed to make them . Thank you Brooke , for all your hard work and research and dedication to put together these videos. Sending lots and lots of hugs , love , blessings , and countless prayers for y'all ❤️🙏

Last week hubs and I had your freezer meals for dinner M-F. Everything was a hit & THANK YOU for making my life easier! Our faves were the tater tot casserole and the alfredo shells (that I had to sub rotini pasta b/c there were no large shells anywhere) & I did add frozen broccoli when I put it together last weekend. After a long day at work, it was so awesome to just throw something into the oven, make a salad & heat up a veg. WONDERFUL!

Hello from Canada 🇨🇦 yours is the best new channel I have come across. Thanks for what you do. 😊

Nicely done! I love the idea of freezer meals.

I can’t possibly do all that in a day any more. I’m sure you’re exhausted but look at all those nights you won’t have to worry about cooking. Everything looked delicious too!

Add mixed vegetables to your creamy stuffed chicken. It stretches it and taste good. More filling. I do this with can biscuits.

Going to try some of the freezer meals,just on a smaller scale for just two of us

A tip on the jar cheese is u can warm it up a little and it will spread out easier

We bought the same freezer 2 years ago and we love it, and it is full of wonderful foods, when I get better from Chemo I want to make freezer meals too just for 2 people tho. I will simmer the lasagna sauce for a hour or so, so the flavors can mell together, I printed out your recipes for future use Thank you Brook you are awesome my bestie have aa wonderful week.

You did absolutely fantastic!!!!

Hi Brooke this is Sue, WOW 155 for all that food, here in Canada that would be closer to double.... We not big fans of cassaroles, but the John Wayne and the tater tot ones look good, told hubby and he said we can try them. So yeah there a go, thanks. Only thing is l need to find some room in my stand up freezer,,, l need 2-3 of them, cause l love to bake and put stuff up.. Want to make a few up cause l am having shoulder surgery next week, and l want to make it as easy for hubby as possible since he works all day.. Thanks again,

Hey sweet Brooke!!! Will you do a video focused on making dishes using the deer meat?? I would love to learn more dishes to make with it. Love you and your sweet family and awesome channel!! Youve helped us all so so much and its appreciated so very much!! Lots of love from Alabama!!❤❤❤

Can you show us how you thaw one casserole out and re-hear and feed your family 👀

Instead of salt, the next time you cook chicken, use chicken soup base, Orrington Farms or L.B. Jamison when you start cooking. They are much better than "Better Than Bouillon." The same with beef. The flavor of the chicken will really pop! A beef roast is really helped by that. Save all broth for other meals. Its worth its weight in gold!!!

We have one of those freezers and it's bare, can't wait to save up to do exactly what you did! So so smart!

They all look delicious. You did a good job face to make the ones with the rice. I’d have to put cauliflower rice and we don’t eat regular rice anymore but I bet it be just as good.

Super Brooke,awesome recipes, thanks 👍👍👍🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Those look so good, Brooke! Thanks for the casserole ideas. We need to do that for the fall. With my husbands schedule, it would make things a lot easier. Have a wonderful weekend and be blessed always my Southerland Squad! xoxo

I'd love to seethese cookedup and a follow up to eating them and see how the family likes them ❤😊

Whoo!! I'm tired just taking notes, but you sure made short work of filling your freezer with meals❣️❣️

You could poach the chicken in milk instead of boiling them in water... it helps to keep the smell down.. and you can add different seasoning to the milk.. and reuse the milk for the next batch of chicken if cooking a lot ..

Use masking tape for labeling it's cheap and easier to read also put date on piece so you know when it was made you can rotate it to be used before other things. Just helpful hint, I mean you could get fancy labels but not necessary masking tape and sharpie works just as good.

works good making meals ahead. for conveince and for emergency

Great job Brooke you have been busy between filling blessing boxes and filling the freezer and I am sure doing lots of gardening now or lots of watering it has been so stinkin hot here in Tennessee this week I have been watering 2 times a day this week just trying to keep things alive my melons are loving the heat and all the water they are growing like crazy. Take care and stay safe cooler days are coming.

I do a tater tot casserole but I use cream of mushroom soup golden mushroom soup and cheddar cheese soup. Never any leftovers😁. Yours looks delicious too

How great!! Good eatin right there. And I LOVE your hair!! So jealous 🤩

I like all these! I will try!

My sister and I did something like this before we had our babies it was very helpful!!

Any time I'm making a casserole, I try to double or triple the recipe in order to eat one and freeze the other(s). Sometimes, my husband will ask for a certain casserole, so I try to have the necessary ingredients in the pantry for extras. I haven't tried the beef rice one yet. Wrote the needed ingredients on my shopping list. Freezer meals are so handy even for retirees. Thanks!

Thanks!

Just love these simple recipes.. l will certainly try making these

❤ Love your channel. Your tips are fantastic. Your recipes are really inspiring...