Next Week's Meal Plan: 5 Big-Batch Dinners to Stock the Freezer — Next Week's Meal Plan

This week's meal plan is doing double duty as both dinners for this week and as fodder for the freezer for the busy weeks of September ahead. As you can imagine, with two little kids at home it's pretty rare that there's a whole day each weekend to cook and prep, but this sneaky method — cooking once and eating twice — means I've got some meal prep waiting in the deep freeze when I need it.

These big-batch dinners mostly rely on the slow cooker and will make enough to feed my family of four this week and still freeze four servings for future use with some leftovers for lunch this week.

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