Slow Cooker Freezer Meal Lasagna
This tasty Slow Cooker Freezer Meal Lasagna is a must have recipe! I made this in an afternoon when doing twenty freezer meals for my crockpot. With end of the school year activities in full swing I needed a bunch of prep ahead meals that I could make for my family. This is one of the 20 Slow Cooker Freezer Meals in 4 Hours Plan.
This pasta crockpot recipe has been my kid’s favorite so far out of all the slow cooker meals. I served garlic bread and a side salad along with it. It is hard to please the whole family but this recipe does! It is a win at my house!
Slow Cooker Lasagna is so good and it’s an easy freeze slow cooker meal that everyone will love. My whole family loved this complete crockpot meal and they want me to make it again soon! Be sure to make this crockpot freezer meal, you will not be disappointed.
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Slow Cooker Freezer Meal Lasagna
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 lbs ground beef browned and drained
- 8 lasagna noodles broken into pieces (uncooked regular noodles not oven baked noodles)
- 28 oz can diced tomatoes
- 5 1/2 oz tomato paste
- 1 24 oz jar pasta sauce
- 1/2 cup fresh celery diced
- 1/2 cup fresh carrots diced
- 1 cup fresh onion diced
- 1/2 cup fresh green pepper diced
- 1 cup cottage cheese
- 2 cups grated mozzarella cheese
- 2 tsp sugar
- 1 tsp ground parsley
- 1/2 tsp ground oregano
- 1/4 tsp garlic powder
- 1/4 tsp dried basil
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
Instructions
- Label gallon size freezer bag with name of recipe, date and instructions.
- Place all ingredients except pasta sauce in bag and seal.
- Place in freezer.
- To cook: Place bag in fridge to thaw overnight.
- Dump bag in crockpot and add pasta sauce.
- Cook on low 8 hours, stir halfway through to ensure noodles are covered in sauce.
- Serve and enjoy!
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Why no pasta sauce in the freezer? I’m cool with it….I’m just curious why. 🙂
It is just too much for the bag 🙂
Is there an easy link to nutritional value and servings?
You can upload easily into My Fitness Pal.
Melissa, I’ve used MFP for years and didn’t realize I can get the recipes to go there. How is this done?
Thank you.
It is so easy! You can upload our URL and it figures out the nutritional value in seconds.
Do you use uncooked lasagna noodles?
Yes – they are uncooked for this recipe. So easy!
Do you use the ‘oven ready’ lasagna noodles for this one or the regular?
Regular Lasagna Noodles
Do you really put the cottage cheese and mozzarella in the crockpot the whole time?
Yes you do.
What size jar pasta sauce?
1 (24 oz) jar pasta sauce
Do you really have to prepare cook the meat?
No you don’t! 🙂
do you have to layer anything when it goes into the crockpot? noodles on top or anything like that?
No you just dump it in.
I made this last night for my family of 5. We all really enjoyed it. I will definitely make it again. I made it from fresh as I forgot to buy the cottage cheese when I did my bulk buying for the rest of the meals I made. Thank you putting together these recipes AND the grocery list! I omitted the carrots and added a 1/2 pound extra meat. (It was extra from when I browned up my bulk meat.)
in the one picture, the freezer bag has written on it 8 hours low and also 4 hours high. Is that either or?
Gave 4 stars only because it’s not “beautiful” on the plate. But it gets 5 starts for taste!
Yes, your choice.
Could I use ricotta cheese instead of cottage cheese?
Yes, you can!
My family are pasta lovers – will affect the recipe to add more noodles (as long as they stay covered by the sauce while they cook)?
Yes, that is no problem.
can i ure a different pasta in this recipe, my 2yr old eats pasta with his fingers, & torn lasagna noodle are hard for him to handle, with a toddler utensil or his fingers…
Yes, I would think that would be no problem!
If you choose to use a different type of noodles, do you know about how much?
What if your bag doesn’t unthaw all the way over night?
That is ok! No problem.
What is the difference between “lasagne noodles” and “lasagne sheets”? I’m in the UK, so noodles to me means long thin things like spaghetti. I’m also not sure on the difference between uncooked and oven baked – how do I know what mine are? Thanks.
They are the same 🙂 Your package should state they don’t need to be boiled if they are oven baked.
hi! I’m also in the UK just wondering what pasta you ended up with! desperate to try this tomo but confused about pasta! thank you
Uncooked regular noodles not oven baked noodles.
The recipe calls for regular lasagna noodles but the comment above says to use no boil or oven ready. So that means NOT regular noodles? Today I used regular noodles, low on 8 hours and the noodles turned to mush. Any suggestions? I want this recipe to work.
It is uncooked regular noodles not oven baked noodles.
How many calories per serving? and serving size?
Can i cook it on high and it’ll take 4 hours!?
Yes!
Can this be made without cottage or ricotta cheese? I don’t like either of those.
You sure can!
Hey Steph I don’t like either of those cheeses either so I usually use cream cheese in their place for lasagna. I haven’t tried this exact recipe yet so I’m not sure of it will work.
Melissa @StockpilingMoms thanks for the recipes!
This is a family fav! I use the 2 gallon size freezer bags and add the pasta sauce too. This way my eldest can handle throwing it in the crock for me.
You just made my heart happy!!! I love lasagna but not all the work… So this is the best of both worlds because there is no layering or precooking involved!!! Awesome 🙂 Can’t wait to try this! Thank you SO much!!!
So uncooked noodles in the bag? Won’t they break into pieces when you lay it down in freezer ? Or become soggy while freezing sitting in the tomato’s ect
As for ground beef does it have to be cooked before placing in bag ?
We did but you could do it without too.
How long does this keep in the freezer