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If you are making a casserole and want to make two so you can freeze it and have a yummers casserole whenever you want without having to cook do this:

1.)   Line your baking dish with tin foil – then cover that with wax paper.  Make your casserole in the dish as you normally would but lay the food on top of the waxed paper.

2.)   Cover with plastic wrap and a rubber band if you don’t have a lid to that dish.

3.)   Freeze until SUPER HARD – this is sometimes done overnight but usually you need a full 24 hours – especially for pasta casseroles like lasagna.

4.)   Pull it out of the freezer and take off lid or plastic wrap – turn over and it will fall out like a frozen block!  Pull of the tin foil and wax paper and seal a meal it!  Good for MONTHS & MONTHS!  If you don’t have a seal a mealer, wrap it again in foil and then in a freezer bag – it wont last as long but I would still say maybe 3 months or so.

5.)   When you want to cook it up just take it out of the bag and plop it into the dish you used to freeze it!  You can throw it in the oven frozen for hours or let it de-thaw throughout the day and bake it for like 30 minutes.

I’ve got 4 or 5 of these ready to go casseroles in my freezer for late nights right now!  So easy and fun!