Pre-made, homemade meals for one

[Jaymes]

Soups are good, the only problem I have had is that I get a weird texture if I try to freeze my leek and potato soup that has chunky potatoes in it. For some reason, the potatoes wind up with an unpleasant (to me) texture. The husband thinks its fine.

It's been my experience that cooked potatoes don't freeze well. They turn into a kind of mealy mush, and fall apart.

So what I do when I want to freeze a soup or stew that has potatoes is to take out however much I want to freeze before I add the potatoes. I add the potatoes to whatever we're eating that night, and then, when we want to eat the rest, take it out of the freezer and add the potatoes then.

It doesn't take long at all to cook cubed potatoes, so by the time the soup or stew is hot and ready to eat, the potatoes are cooked.

Of course, I usually have to adjust the seasonings and liquid for the second batch.