r/SouperCubers

African chicken stew, garlic sauteed cabbage, coconut rice, black beans, maduros.

I used to get a take out plate like this at a local food truck every other week for $16. Now I make myself and it's cheaper, healthier, and tastier.

Air fried the plantains, microwaved the rest. Dinner ready 5 minutes while I sit on the couch and only one plate and spoon to wash after.

I'm trying to recreate all my take out favorites. I've done my go to Mexican and Indian take outs, next I want to try Chinese take out.

Do you have any dishes you used to go out to get that you can now meal prep ahead?

I've been a freezer for a while, then heard about souper cubes but unfortunately they're not sold in my country so I found silicon molds and used them instead. I find that I can fit a lot more food in the freezer and I don't have to thaw the food in order to be able to take it out of it's bag and then heat it. I just pop it out and put it in the microwave.

Rice, two type of mushrooms and spinach, then added a fried egg and sauce. 10/10

I've been a freezer for a while, then heard about souper cubes but unfortunately they're not sold in my country so I found silicon molds and used them instead. I find that I can fit a lot more food in the freezer and I don't have to thaw the food in order to be able to take it out of it's bag and then heat it. I just pop it out and put it in the microwave.

Rice, two type of mushrooms and spinach, then added a fried egg and sauce. 10/10

The school year is about to start and weeknights, my husband and I always feel dead. We've both wanted to meal prep more but haven't had the freezer / fridge space. Finally got a chest freezer and some cubes, so we hit up Costco on Friday and spent the weekend prepping the haul so nothing sits in our pantry going bad. 🫠

Costco:

- 3lbs steak

- 1 rotisserie chicken

- 10lbs potatoes

- 16 Bell peppers

- 5lbs yellow onions

- 2 cans of black beans

- 1.5 cans of corn

- 1 bag shredded cheese

Recipes:

- Bone broth + Chicken and Dumplings (minus dumplings)

- Steak Fajitas with black beans and corn over roasted potatoes - no real recipe but I can drop the seasonings / proportions at the end.

- everything we didn't use was prepped and frozen for future use.

- Lazy Stuffed Peppers - will be making this tonight (cut the veggies yesterday when cutting everything else) and freezing leftovers!

There are also 4 pot roast portions and 2 chicken fajita meals that we had leftovers for and decided to test the cubes earlier in the week.

Pretty excited to start the year! And do more leftovers + big preps at the end of the month.

Steak Fajitas:

- 3 lbs flank steak, sliced + marinaded for 1+ hour

- Marinade: lime juice, cumin, olive oil, salt, pepper, smoked paprika, chili powder, garlic powder, onion powder, ancho chili powder, chipotle seasoning.

- Cooked in olive oil, more seasoning added as they cook, set aside.

- 3-4 yellow onions, 3 green peppers (they were small), 1 yellow, orange, and red pepper (they were huge).

- Cooked in the same pan, added more oil and fond scraped up. Same seasonings added as they cooked + garlic cloves. Cook until onions are translucent.

- Add steak + juices back in. Add water + corn starch slurry. Taste flavor for what you might need more of.

- Potatoes were just cubed, tossed with olive oil, salt, and pepper. Then roasted in the oven at 400°F for about 45 minutes (it was 2 pans worth.)

Loaded baked potato soup and pesto beef rigatoni leftovers went into the freezer of the new place last night. Move was frantic and stressful but it’s DONE! Keys to the old place are returned and all, finally had enough time to breathe and start a stash for this new chapter. Thinking about doing chicken enchiladas next, also gonna ask my dad if I can take his rarely used vacuum sealer off his hands. Good times, good cubes.

My daughter is headed back to school out of state and loves my beef stew (which is something of my mom’s that I loved), so I made a batch to freeze and send with her.

Thanks y’all for this awesome page and tips tricks etc.

This is definitely the way! (Pardon the poor photo- we temporarily lost power during the time I took it lol)

Hi Cubers. In my continued efforts to use what I have on hand, and to turn said items into freezer meals, I present you with garden chili. Last night I noticed a few cans of forgotten Muir Glen chili starter in my pantry and decided to make a big batch of chili this morning. I have a lot of ground beef from previously buying 1/4 cow about a year ago, and my garden is starting to really churn out veggies. To the 3 cans chili starter I added 3lbs of ground beef, 3 green peppers, a couple handfuls of cherry tomatoes, shredded zucchini, and corn. Turned out great and will get vacuum sealed and taken to work for lunches.

Thanks for giving me an outlet to share my efforts!!