15 Recipes With Freezer Ingredients for Days and Days of Easy Meals (2024)

Updated August 23, 2022

• Spring Shrimp Scampi with Peas and Mint

  

  Shrimp is a great protein to have on hand in your freezer because it cooks up fast. While this recipe calls for fresh shrimp, you can easily sub in frozen shrimp. Pair it with a box of pasta and frozen peas, for a complete meal on the table in no time!

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• Spanakopita

  

  Got frozen phyllo? Got frozen spinach? Then you’ve got the makings of spanakopita! It’s such a convenient vegetarian dish to serve for dinner.

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• Black Bean Salad

  

  Make a giant batch and eat it for lunch the whole week. It’s just that good! It also uses up canned or frozen beans and frozen corn which makes it even more convenient.

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• Slow Cooker Taco Soup

  

  This soup uses up chicken broth, frozen ground beef, AND frozen corn. How’s that for clearing out your freezer? Added bonus: You can freeze leftovers of this soup to use for another time. It’s the soup that keeps on giving.

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• BBQ Chicken Burrito Bowl

  

  This burrito bowl uses up a variety of frozen ingredients, but the one that’s the most exciting is using up frozen rice! Yes, we tend to get excited about things like that, but you can basically clear out your freezer in one swoop with this recipe!

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• Chinese Orange Chicken

  

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  Simply pull out some chicken, orange juice, a bag of veggies, and rice from the freezer, and dinner is served.

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• Easy Hamburger Soup

  

  Defrost some ground beef to make this classic soup. Add a bunch of vegetables (frozen vegetables, if you want), beef broth, tomatoes, and seasonings. This family-favorite meal will warm you up on a chilly night.

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• Creamy Chicken Florentine

  

  Any time a dish's name contains the word Florentine, it's made with spinach and a creamy sauce (traditionally a Mornay sauce). If you have frozen spinach, you're halfway on Mornay-ing your dinner. This quick one-skillet meal contains chicken (you have that in the freezer, right?), cream, Parmesan, and mushrooms.

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• Shrimp Fried Rice

  

  Lurking in the back of most freezers is a bag of frozen peas and carrots. This is their time to shine along with some frozen shrimp. And, FYI, if you have leftover white rice from another meal, or from Chinese takeout, you can freeze cooked rice to use for recipes just like this.

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• Homemade Pizza Bagels

  

  Kids will love this meal idea. Frozen bagels and frozen tomato sauce are a perfect foundation for pizza bagels. Top with shredded cheese, pepperoni, veggies, bacon... whatever you have on hand.

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• Spring Vegetable Tortellini Soup with Pesto

  

  Start with a bag of frozen tortellini, frozen English peas, and frozen vegetable broth (or homemade vegetable stock), and you've taken care of half of the main ingredients you need for this soup. The recipe calls for fresh carrots and asparagus, but you can use frozen, too, saving time chopping vegetables and getting this soup on the table for dinner more quickly.

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• Easy Chicken Pot Pie

  

  Store-bought frozen puff pastry and frozen vegetables are two of this pot pie's ingredients. If you make your own chicken stock and freeze it, you have another ingredient sitting in your freezer. Frozen leftover chicken would work, too, but if you don't have any, use rotisserie chicken to make light work of this savory pie.

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• Shrimp Creole

  

  Shrimp has shown up on this list several times, and there's a good reason for that. Frozen shimp is so quick to defrost compared to chicken, beef, or pork. You can opt for frozen vegetables, too—onions and bell peppers—use them and cut down on your prep time. If you have homemade shellfish stock in the freezer, that goes in there, too.

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• Strawberry Banana Smoothie

  

  Breakfast is an important meal, and this quick, healthy, and yummy smoothie is full of frozen banana and strawberries. It takes just 5 minutes to blend together, and you can drink it on the way to work or school.

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• Chocolate Chip Pancakes with Raspberry Sauce

  

  This is an easy breakfast or brinner (breakfast for dinner) that is made from pantry staples and frozen raspberries. Keep this recipe in your back pocket for those nights (or mornings) when you don’t have anything fresh on hand. Plus, who couldn’t use a little chocolate right now?

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