This tasty Slow Cooker Freezer Meal Lasagna is a must have recipe! Yes 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.
So I got busy finding and creating recipes so I could take an afternoon and have meals ready to go for my family. 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.
Slow Cooker Lasagna is so good and it's an easy freeze slow cooker supper that everyone will love. My whole family loved this complete crockpot dinner meal and they want me to make it again soon! Be sure to make this crockpot freezer meal, you will not be disappointed. I like to serve it with a side salad and garlic bread.
Be sure that you invest in a good quality slow cooker. Our favorite is this programmable cook and carry 6qt oval slow cooker. We hope you enjoy this delicious Slow Cooker Freezer Meal Lasagna as much as we do! This delicious recipe for Slow Cooker Freezer Meal Lasagna is so good and will save you time and money on dinner!
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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Joanna M
Why no pasta sauce in the freezer? I'm cool with it....I'm just curious why. 🙂
Melissa@StockpilingMoms
It is just too much for the bag 🙂
Wayne Lewis
Is there an easy link to nutritional value and servings?
Melissa Jennings
You can upload easily into My Fitness Pal.
Sherrie
Do you use uncooked lasagna noodles?
Melissa@StockpilingMoms
Yes - they are uncooked for this recipe. So easy!
Roger
Do you use the 'oven ready' lasagna noodles for this one or the regular?
Melissa@StockpilingMoms
Regular Lasagna Noodles
Ali
Do you really put the cottage cheese and mozzarella in the crockpot the whole time?
Melissa@StockpilingMoms
Yes you do.
Kathy McCarthy
What size jar pasta sauce?
Melissa@StockpilingMoms
1 (24 oz) jar pasta sauce
Andrea
Do you really have to prepare cook the meat?
Melissa@StockpilingMoms
No you don't! 🙂
julia
do you have to layer anything when it goes into the crockpot? noodles on top or anything like that?
Melissa@StockpilingMoms
No you just dump it in.
Danielle
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.)
Babs
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!
Melissa@StockpilingMoms
Yes, your choice.
Amy
Could I use ricotta cheese instead of cottage cheese?
Melissa@StockpilingMoms
Yes, you can!
Erin
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)?
Melissa@StockpilingMoms
Yes, that is no problem.
Kay
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...
Melissa@StockpilingMoms
Yes, I would think that would be no problem!
Katie
If you choose to use a different type of noodles, do you know about how much?
Eileen
What if your bag doesn't unthaw all the way over night?
Melissa@StockpilingMoms
That is ok! No problem.
Clare
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.
Melissa@StockpilingMoms
They are the same 🙂 Your package should state they don't need to be boiled if they are oven baked.
Carys Price
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
Melissa@StockpilingMoms
Uncooked regular noodles not oven baked noodles.
Stephony
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.
Melissa@StockpilingMoms
It is uncooked regular noodles not oven baked noodles.
Whitney Rota
How many calories per serving? and serving size?
DeGenai L Copeland
Can i cook it on high and it'll take 4 hours!?
Melissa@StockpilingMoms
Yes!
Steph
Can this be made without cottage or ricotta cheese? I don’t like either of those.
Melissa@StockpilingMoms
You sure can!
Ayla
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!
Julie West
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.
billie317718
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!!!
Tiffany
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