Not sure if you eat meat, but if you do, separate out each cut of meat, and freeze individually. You can thaw in the fridge when you need it, and most things you can just put in the oven, on the grill, or add to rice and cook in one pot/pan, ect. You can make exactly the amount you need. I also make a good veg. soup. Make sure you have lots of browned hamberger meat, as you can make just about anything out of it~ sloppy joe (no, not out of a can!), veg. soup, spaghetti, mix up a lasangne or other casserole, tacos/taco salad, ect. I also need to make some hamberger patties up and freeze them (we buy a whole beef, so ours is packaged at the processor, and I have to thaw, and then refreeze if I make ham. patties). Things that go good w/ the meat dish, and are easy: baked potatoes, microwave a few minutes, then I sit them on the grill while I do the meat (hamberger, steak, chicken breast, ect.); you can make mashed potatoes ahead of time, an freeze them into the serving size you need for your family~ thaw in frigde all day, and bake for about 45 min. or so on 350, really good if you want to add a bit of cheese on top, or however your family likes potatoes. You can make homemade rolls and freeze them! My family is a meat, potatos, and 2 veggies every night family, and my DH doesn't do well w/ casseroles, so I try to just have the ingredients for the things we do eat already as prepared as possible. Another thing that is good, buy a whole spiral sliced ham, bake it one night, eat it on sandwiches, make hot ham and cheese, freeze some, use some in brown beans or soups (esp. potato soup). We usually eat on ours all week. It's easy b/c all you need to do is put it in the oven for a few hours. I also cook a whole turkey or turkey breast and do the same thing (turkey pot pie, turkey sand., turkey and rice, ect.). NOrmally I do cook either a turkey/large chicken, ham or some other large item every week. I try to not use it every single night, but rotate: ham Monday night, taco Tuesday, hambergers Wed., hot ham and cheese Thrusday, potato soup Friday (w/ ham chunks it). you can be creative! I suggest taking your normal menu and then figureing out how you can easily freeze either the ingredients, or steps in each dish. That would be easier than trying to figure out how to make alot of new things right now. BTW, and good crockpot recipies? I need some!
Here is my Vegetable Soup, totally crockpotable
1-1.5 lbs ground beef, browned
6 potatoes, cubed
1 bag mixed veggies (with whatever you prefer in them)
2 cans crushed tomatoes, diced tomatoes, or however you like them
squirt of two of ketchup, or a small can of tomato sauce/paste
4 bullion cubes
(if you like, season w/ worchester sauce, a bit of steak sauce, salt, pepper, all to your taste specifications
)
Put potatoes on to cook for a while (20 min on stovetop, 30-40 on high in crockpot), then add the rest of the ingredients, enough water to be right consistency, season to taste, and let cook (at least an hour on on low on stovetop, 3-4 hours on high in crockpot, 7-8 hours on low in crockpot). Make sure to add enough water to be the right consistancy for soup, and keep watching it, especially on the stovetop to make sure it has the right amount of water, ect.
You can probably tell, I'm one of those people that never follows a recipie completely. I take what we like, and make it suite my taste
Feel free to add whatever you like to the veg. soup, even pasta (at the end, w/ plenty of water!) to make it suite your family.
: 
:
(thanks Shannon!)
