I’ve looked online and am experimenting with freezer meals that you can thaw, throw in a crockpot, and set. I have a friend who has multiple disabilities and lives some distance away, and this would allow me to fix up a few weeks worth of meals for her at a time. She doesn’t have any restrictions or allergies, so anything I can put together will work.
A lot of recipes that I’ve tried are just “meh” on the tastiness scale…but this being the Dope, I figure there’s got to be someone who has tried and true recipes that will work for my buddy.
Right now I have in the freezer: Garlic Lime Chicken (tried it–too much soy sauce), BBQ chicken, Salsa chicken. Obviously it was chicken week. 
Ideas? Thank you.
I like to make big pots of soup. Let the pot cool a bit, then put it into storage container(s) and freeze. On a busy day I put frozen soup in the crockpot and turn it on. When I get home I add noodles/potatoes/etc and allow it to finish.
There is a book called Parents Need to Eat Too. It’s targeted for new parents so it has a lot of crockpot and freezer recipes. The ones I have tried are good. And they are all simple.
I make white chili and black bean chili, both from mostly canned and frozen stuff. I see no reason why you couldn’t put everything together in a bag for easy freezing. I think they’re darn tasty. The two are similar:
One onion, diced
One small bag frozen green peppers
One large can diced tomatoes
2 cloves garlic, minced
1+ tsp cumin
1+ tsp ancho chili powder
1 tsp chipotle chili powder
salt to taste
2 cans black (or great northern) beans
1 lb hamburger (or 1 lb chicken breast plus 1 lb chicken sausage sliced)
You may try some kind of creamy chicken recipe. Cream cheese, when it’s going to be incorporated into a recipe, does just fine being frozen.
I think part of my problem is that I don’t like the texture of chicken in a crockpot. Chicken breasts seem dry regardless of how much liquid there is, chicken thighs seem kind of weird. Maybe it’s just me…the kids and my room mate both loved the garlic lime chicken I made.
Chili is a good idea, and I do freeze huge batches of meaty spaghetti sauce…
cheaper cuts of meat do well in a crock pot as do meatballs and such( meatball subs for dinner tonight, mmmmm). I love just throwing in pork loin and a mushroom sauce in the crock pot to ladle over white rice, you can do the same with a Salisbury type steak concoction.