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Burrito Pie Freezer Meal Recipe | Freezer Meals for Large Families!

My husband awarded this Burrito Pie Freezer Meal Recipe as being one of his very favorite all-time freezer meals. I made three large deep dish 19 x11 pans during my recent freezer meals for dayzzzz big batch cooking times.

I said with my deep dish Macaroni and Cheese Freezer Meal that that meal would end up being two to three meals for our family (large family leftovers isn’t always a thing 🙂 ). However, this deep dish Burrito Pie Freezer Meal Recipe was more like ONE hearty meal with just a bit of leftover for a few folks for the following day’s lunch. I will say though I usually serve extra side dishes to stretch our meals such as salad, applesauce, or other fruits and veggies. The three times over about 6 weeks when we had this Burrito Pie Freezer Meal it pretty much WAS the entire meal. Stretch it as you’d like!

If you enjoy this large family recipe you might also enjoy this Chicken Enchilada Freezer Meal Recipe and another big family favorite, my large family Taco Bake Freezer Meal Recipe! I made several pans of both last summer for my postpartum freezer meals. It was a blessing to have a filled freezer and to not have to think about food during that sweet new baby time.

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Burrito Pie Freezer Meal Recipe | Freezer Meals for Large Families!

Enjoy this wonderful Burrito Pie Freezer Meal with your large family! One 19 x 11 pan feeds our family of ten once with a few leftovers. It’s a family favorite.

  • Author: Jamerrill Stewart

Ingredients

  • Five bags of 10 tortillas (50 tortillas total)
  • 10 lbs of cooked ground beef
  • 2-3 diced green peppers
  • 1 diced onion
  • 1 cup of taco seasoning (yes, this is for all of that meat! I buy taco seasoning in bulk or you can make homemade)
  • Four 16-oz cans of refried beans
  • Four 7-oz cans of green chilies
  • 12 cups of shredded provolone cheese
  • Four 16-oz packs of sliced pepper jack cheese (each pack has 24 slices)

Instructions

To Make Burrito Pie Meat Mixture

  • Cook 10 lbs of ground beef along with 2-3 diced green pepper, onion, and 1 cup of taco seasoning. I cook my ground beef in a variety of ways (slow cooker, pressure cooker, roaster oven, conventional oven, or two big pans on the stove).
  • Once ground beef is fully cooked, crumbled, and drained add in and mix thoroughly four 16-oz cans of refried beans.

To Assemble The Burrito Pie Freezer Meals

  • Layer the bottom of each deep dish pan with 6 flat tortillas
  • Add a layer of meat mixture on top of tortillas
  • On top of meat mixture spread out approximately 15 slices of pepper jack cheese
  • Top cheese slices with about 1/2 of one 7-oz can of green chilies
  • Start next layer with 6 flat tortillas
  • Repeat steps above
  • End with 6 tortillas topped off with 4 cups of shredded cheese. Use your favorite shredded cheese. In this recipe, I used shredded provolone.
  • To eat right away place pan in preheated oven at 375 with a tented foil lid for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes remove foil lid and allow Burrito Pie to cook an additional 15 minutes or until hot and bubbly.
  • Freezer meal directions below

Notes

FREEZER MEAL STORAGE DIRECTIONS

  1. Allow your meals to cool completely before placing in the freezer.
  2. Wrap each pan with two layers of foil.
  3. Label the top of each pan with recipe name and date.
  4. Wrap each pan with a layer of plastic wrap.
  5. Set each pan to freeze in the freezer. Do not stack the pans on top of one another until each pan is individually frozen.

FREEZER COOKING DIRECTIONS

  1. Set the pan out in the refrigerator the evening before you’d like to serve them.
  2. Preheat your oven to 375 (oven times may vary).
  3. Remove plastic wrap and one layer of foil.
  4. Place in preheated oven for 1 hour or until heated through.

This Burrito Pie Freezer Meal Recipe would go perfectly with steamed corn on the cob and a big slice of watermelon! You can tell I’m ready for summer 🙂

Don’t miss the FREEZER MEALS FOR DAYZZZZZ! Bulk Cooking for a Large Family which featured this new large family freezer meal recipe. You might be interested in all of these large family freezer cooking days and the growing collection of large family freezer meal recipes! If you’re just getting started making freezer meals I have a list of my must-have large family freezer meal supplies here for you. xoxo

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Baked Beef Macaroni and Cheese Freezer Meal | Large Family Recipes

This new BIG Beef Macaroni and Cheese freezer meal is an even bigger variation of my original Homemade Baked Macaroni and Cheese. My original recipe was for about three 9×13 pans full. Well, this “super mega” version is enough for three 19 x 11 deep dish pans!

I wanted to try these 19 x 11 deep dish pans I picked up during my last large family Costco haul. I had a few concerns about doing large family recipes in these size pans. After experimenting I found they did work out well overall. In order to get them to cook all the way through I needed to set them out from the freezer into the refrigerator at least 24 hours in advance, so be aware of that if you tackle cooking in this much bigger size. I also had to place these large deep-dish pans on my middle oven rack and check-in on them a few more time than I normally would.

Also be aware that these big deep dish pans take up more freezer room. I had space for it since my freezer meal stash was nearly zero. If you’re tight on freezer space you may want to make the 9 x13 variations. Here’s my affiliate link to see a big list of freezer meal pans on Amazon! You can also see my personal large family “must have” freezer cooking supply list here.

Below is a picture of how my Macaroni and Cheese freezer meal looked after it was defrosted for 24 hours and before it went into the oven.

 

My husband nerded out with me and did the math on the 9 x 13 average baking pan and these 19 x 11 deep dish pans. One of these 19 x11 deep dish ends up being approximately 2 1/2 9 x13 pans in volume (we did look up the depth of each pan to do this properly.)

The large family recipe below is for three 19 x 11 deep dish pans. If you want to only use 9 x 13 pans for this Macaroni and Cheese freezer meal you should end up with about 8 pans full. Anyway you choose to dish it out, how lovely to have homemade baked Macaroni and Cheese in the freezer and ready to go!

Now below is how this big deep dish Macaroni and Cheese freezer meal looks hot out of the oven!

 

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Baked Beef Macaroni and Cheese Freezer Meal | Large Family Recipes

Our large family gobbled up this baked beef macaroni and cheese freezer meal.  One of the 19 x 11 deep dish pans is 2-3 meals for our large family of ten. Dish out this same volume recipe into the more standard size 9 x 13 pans and you should yield about 8 pans full. This recipe is good for about 3 months or so in the freezer, so cook ahead for when real life happens!

  • Author: Jamerrill Stewart

Ingredients

  • 2 cup butter (or margarine)
  • 2 cup flour
  • 16 cups milk (one gallon)
  • 2 tsp salt/pepper to taste
  • 16 cups shredded cheese (for cheese sauce)
  • 6 cups of shredded cheese (for topping)
  • 96 oz cooked and drained elbow macaroni (this would be similar to three of these 32 oz boxes of elbow macaroni from Walmart).

Instructions

  1. Cook, crumble and drain 10 lbs of ground beef.
  2. In a separate large stockpot melt 2 cups butter in the pot. Stir continuously so you don’t burn your butter (ask me how I know it happens 🙂
  3. Pour 2 cups flour into melted butter and stir together until flour is thoroughly moist. This happens quickly so stir, stir, stir!
  4. Whisk in 16 cups of milk (yes, an entire gallon!). Stir constantly for several minutes until boiling. This is where having a strong-armed teen can come in handy.
  5. Using a metal or wooden spoon, stir in 16 cups of cheese until completely melted. This takes about 2-3 minutes of additional stirring. Remove from heat when thoroughly melted.
  6. Pour in 96 oz of cooked and drained elbow macaroni and the 10 lbs of precooked, drained, and crumbled ground beef into your large stock pot of homemade cheese sauce. Stir gently, so you don’t mash your noodles.
  7. Spray your baking dishes with non-stick spray. Fill each dish 3/4 of the way full with Baked Mac and Cheese mixture. Top with remaining shredded cheese if you’d like. I didn’t have any more on hand and it still turned out nice and bubbly.
  8. If using the 19 x 11 large deep dish pans fill three about 3/4 of the way full with your beef mac and cheese mixture. Top each pan with about two additional cups of shredded cheese.
  9. If using 9 x 13 pans fill up to 8 pans 3/4 of the way full with your beef mac and cheese mixture. Top each pan with remaining shredded cheese (more or less as you prefer).

FREEZER MEAL STORAGE DIRECTIONS

  1. Allow your meals to cool completely before placing in the freezer.
  2. Wrap each pan with two layers of foil.
  3. Label the top of each pan with recipe name and date.
  4. Wrap each pan with a few layers of plastic wrap.
  5. Set each pan to freeze in the freezer. Do not stack the pans on top of one another until each pan is individually frozen.

FREEZER COOKING DIRECTIONS

  1. Set the desired pans in the refrigerator 24 hours before you’d like to serve them.
  2. Preheat your oven to 375 (oven times may vary).
  3. Remove plastic wrap and one layer of foil. Leave a tented foil layer on top of your pan.
  4. Place the big deep dish pan on the middle oven rack in preheated oven for up to 2 hours or until heated through and hot and bubbly. Check on your deep dish about an hour into the cooking time. Remove the foil tented layer about 30-minutes before cooking time is complete.
  5. For the smaller 9 x13 pans follow the same directions, however, cooking time total should come in no more than an hour.

This Macaroni and Cheese Freezer Meal was part of my FREEZER MEALS FOR DAYZZZZZ! Bulk Cooking for a Large Family post and YouTube video if you’d like to see it made in action!

Large Family Freezer Meals

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Click here for many more freezer meals for a big family!

BREAKFAST FREEZER MEAL RECIPES | Protein Sausage and Egg Cups!

On my last big freezer cooking day, I made 120 of this breakfast freezer meal recipe for protein sausage and egg cups. These are perfect to have a stash of in the freezer for when you know your family has a busy day coming and you may not be able to spend a morning tending to dishing out a hearty breakfast.

Just set a stack of these sausage and egg cups out the night before. In the morning quickly reheat in the microwave and serve the family with a piece of fruit or cottage cheese. Then you can dash into your busy day with your bodies charged and ready to go full steam ahead!

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BREAKFAST FREEZER MEAL RECIPES | Protein Sausage and Egg Cups!

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These Protein Sausage and Egg Cups are perfect for large family breakfasts! I like to set a frozen bag out into the refrigerator the night before we have a big field trip or another outside event. This way I know the children (and momma!) will have a healthy protein packed breakfast that will fuel our bodies for our big day.

  • Author: Jamerrill Stewart

Ingredients

  • 120 eggs ( 10 dozen)
  • 8 cups of milk
  • 2 1/2 lbs of sliced mild Italian sausage or whichever precooked meat you choose
  • 8 cups shredded cheese
  • salt/pepper to taste

Instructions

  • In super mega large mixing bowl (I use my 30 qt mixing bowl) mix all of the above ingredients adding shredded cheese last.
  • Use silicone or paper muffin tin liners.
  • Fill cups 3/4 of the way full and place in preheated oven at 350 degrees. Bake up to 20 minutes.

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FREEZER MEAL DIRECTIONS

  • Once cooled place protein cups in desired size freezer bags.
  • Place in freezer for up to 3 months.
  • When you need these quick and easy protein cups in your life 🙂 place desired amount of frozen bags into the refrigerator the night before.
  • To heat up, set protein cups on plate and microwave for 45 seconds to one minute.

 

On my last freezer cooking day, I packed most of our sausage and egg protein cups in small baggies of 4 each. You can pack yours any way you’d like based on the baggies and freezer cooking supplies you have available on your cooking day

Here are more large family freezer meals!

11 Things Large Family Moms Can Stop Worrying About

This large family mom article is from Tauna of ProverbialHomemaker.com

Large family moms are busy and blessed! It seems like we have a hundred kids to care for, a thousand tasks to do, and a million things to worry about.

However, one thing most people don’t realize about large family moms is that the more children we have, the better our perspective is. Large family moms tend to know what’s really important and cut out the rest. And what we qualify as “the little things” can surprise people!

I was chatting with a couple of fellow large family moms the other day (they have several more kids than I do, actually) and we were cracking ourselves up with all the things we had STOPPED caring about over the years that people would probably think we were crazy for.

11 Things Large Family Moms Can Stop Worrying About

 

Do any of these sound like you? Maybe it’s time to go shopping for a new thing YOU can stop worrying about!

11 Things Large Family Moms Can Stop Worrying About

Getting The Kids’ Names Right – Your kids may decide to put together name tags so you can get their names right the first time. Mine tried! It didn’t work. Lol! It’s ok! Go for the generic “dear” or “sweetheart,” and rest assured that Suzie knows she’s loved even if you called her Alice. 😉

Knowing Their Ages or Birthdays – After several embarrassing phone calls where you told the advice nurse the wrong day or year of some child’s birthday, you now rely on a note on your phone where you’ve listed them along with what grade they’re supposed to be in. Hopefully, nobody asks how much they weigh.

Remembering Anything, Actually – Things like how many months pregnant you are, precisely how old your baby is, how old YOU are, what’s on your calendar, what you planned for dinner, where your coffee is, or why you’re standing in the pantry. None of us knows. It’s ok.

Getting a Perfect Family Photo – You used to make sure everyone was color coordinated, smiling at the camera, and in perfect form. Now you’re hoping everyone’s mostly clothed and has their head in the frame.

What They’re Wearing – You used to have cute outfits, hair bobs, shoes, and everything! It was like the cover of a homeschool magazine. Now you let them scavenge for clothes every morning to dress themselves and hope for the best. Half the time they’re still in their pajamas by noon anyway. Occasionally you have to swap out something stained or full of holes so they don’t look homeless at church, or cut off their sweatpants so they have shorts to wear for baseball practice. It’s all good.

Matching Socks – You have waved the white flag in the age-old battle of matching socks. Now it’s an extra earning chore your kids can take on if desired. Otherwise, you keep giant a free-for-all bin of loose socks in the living room and wish everyone luck. Bonus: Kids learn matching skills and patience. Plus, you just put that bin in the laundry room when guests come over and feel like you cleaned.

Finding Their Shoes – There are shoes all over the floor and nobody can find theirs. That’s ok! You’re not getting out of the car anyway, or are going to grandma’s house and will be inside all day. You all load up in the van sans shoes and make it a teaching moment on why we put things back where they belong.

Getting Everything Done – You always knew that getting ALL the things done wasn’t realistic, but you kept trying anyway. Now you’re happy if you get one thing done well, and just focus on doing the next thing. But that’s a skill, my friend, not a failure. *fist bump*

Elaborate Bedtime Routines – Gone are the days of nightly epic bath time, 20 bedtime stories, 5 glasses of water, 3 silly dances, 2 prayers, and a tickle fight. Now the kids bathe once a week in the winter or on a rotation, get one bedtime story (sometimes you just make one up – you read to them all day anyway), and a prayer. That’s all. You’re done. Goodnight.

Making Everyone Happy – There will always be a kid who doesn’t like what you cooked or isn’t happy with the current activity. Call them teaching opportunities for contentment and resilience! There will always be some friend, family member, or total stranger who doesn’t agree with you having a large family or your parenting choices. Hey, it’s a perfect chance to embrace our calling and keep our eyes focused on Jesus instead of the opinions of others! And along with all that, running a loving and busy home means becoming comfortable with protecting our margins, saying “no” to some good things in order to say “yes” to the best things.

Whether We’re Doing a Good Job – We all want to strive for faithfulness, excellence, and wisdom as large family moms. Those are good things and definitely worth pursuing. But hear me on this, dear moms, and put this on your list of things to stop worrying about!

Here’s the thing… You are an imperfect, flawed woman with your own ups and downs. Your job isn’t to be perfect or raise perfect kids, nor is it to have it all together and do everything right. Instead, you are sowing the seeds of the gospel and of Christ-centered character in your children (and yourself). You are watering that garden faithfully and focusing on relationships over performance. You know what the most important things are.

And you’re pretty sure matching socks isn’t one of them.

You might also like:
– Scriptures for the Overwhelmed Mom
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– What Christian Moms Really Want


Tauna is a Jesus follower, wife, mom, [domestically challenged] homemaker, homeschooler, and writer. Her passion is to help women pursue God’s call on their lives (no matter the learning curve) and rely on Him to equip us for the task!

You’ll find her at ProverbialHomemaker.com, bringing you encouragement and tools for your journey.

BIG Freezer Meals Prep Day for LOTS of Large Family Freezer Cooking!

Freezer Meals Prep Day

In April I did a big freezer meals prep day with a day-long large family freezer cooking marathon. As you’ll see in a few days with my next freezer cooking post this was the only fully dedicated freezer cooking day I could complete. The rest of my April freezer meals were completed in little freezer cooking sessions here and there spread over several days. We do the best with what we have, right?

But let’s chat about my BIG freezer meals prep day! On this day I was able to gently get going in the morning and before I knew it I had complete several hours worth of freezer meals prep before I started actually filming.

In the morning I got 18 lbs of ground beef cooked in the roaster oven. I cooked another 12 lbs of ground beef in the electric pressure cooker. I also used my 8 quart Instant Pot to complete a total of 12 lbs of shredded boneless/skinless chicken breast (I cooked 6 lbs of frozen chicken breast twice). I also cooked 10 additional lbs of frozen chicken all at once in my oh so lovely 14 quart Go Wise electric pressure cooker.  Here are my MUST HAVE supplies for large family freezer cooking!

Must Have Large Family Freezer Meal Supplies

Meanwhile, Zion (14-year-old son arm muscle power 🙂 ) washed up and prepped 40 lbs of baking potatoes. He filled to overflowing my favorite 30-quart mixing bowl. I poked holes in all the potatoes and rolled them in a little Olive Oil. Then three pans at a time I worked through baking them all in the oven. Just a tip: you can cook potatoes in the electric pressure cooker or roaster oven as well (you can also do homemade mashed potatoes for the freezer). Since I had those tied up I decided to bake potatoes the old-fashioned way.

On this BIG freezer meals prep day I also cooked 10 lbs of elbow macaroni for an upcoming recipe and I made a huge pressure cooker full of homemade pasta sauce. With the pressure cooker pasta sauce, I made 5 9×11 pans of Double Layer Chicken Parmesan Bake!

And last but not least I made over 120 English Muffin Pepperoni Pizzas. These are so great and a perfect freezer meal to have in the freezer when you get in the homeschool lunch rut! I also served these as an easy dinner on this big freezer meals prep day.

 

Once everything was cleaned up around 11 pm I called it a day. Later this week I’ll share all the large family freezer meals I made that served our family for 6 to 8 weeks! A helpful aspect of my slowness in publishing these posts is I can tell you how the meals worked out for our family of ten.

I had planned for my April freezer meals to be peppered over 4 to 6 weeks using them 3 to 4 nights a week. On the other nights, I did Instant Pot meals or my husband made what I call “Dad dinners,” (he’s really great at doing steak or other meat and veggies!). We also usually had a leftover night. I’m happy to report that’s how things went! We actually, 8 weeks later, still have about 4 meals plus the freezer pizza dough in our freezer. We’ll pull out the freezer pizza dough this weekend and get that taken care of, no problem!

This picture is a glimpse of my freezer meals prep day. I need more counter space! I’m so thankful for the space I have though.

BIG FREEZER MEALS PREP DAY! Large Family of 10

Click here to watch my vlog BIG FREEZER MEALS PREP DAY! Large Family of 10 on YouTube.

 

Freezer Cooking Days

Don’t miss my past large family freezer cooking days and my favorite large family freezer meal recipes here!

Freezer Cooking Day One | 30+ Freezer Meals completed in ten hours! And on this Freezer Cooking Day Two I completed 27+ more Freezer Meals in ten hours! Here is the complete list with over 57 large family freezer meals.

LARGE FAMILY FREEZER COOKING DAY: In this freezer cooking day from February 2018 Daniel and I make 15 dozen baked oatmeal muffins, burgers, and tuna cakes for the freezer!

LARGE FAMILY FREEZER COOKING DAY: Freezer Meals Report & Free Freezer Meal Recipes (November 2017)

100+ FREEZER MEALS FOR BIG FAMILIES | Including June 2017 Large Family Freezer Cooking Report

Mega Freezer Cooking | 60+ Freezer Meals | 26 Dinners, 21 Breakfasts, 16 Lunches | Large Family Style!

Freezer Cooking Day | Large Family Style! {Pancakes, Sandwiches, Muffins, Cooking Meat for the Month!}

Freezer Cooking Day Two | Freezer Burritos, French Toast, Apple/Blueberry Muffins {with a towel on my head}

Large Family Freezer Cooking: 75 PBJs, 60 Burritos, 84 Muffins!

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