Cooking for a week

Yesterday, 2 friends came over and within 2 hours we had made 3 meals each.  It's quite simple really.
Our criteria for choosing recipes: - simple ingredients that we can find at our local grocery store.
                                                   -things that freeze well
Each person picks a recipe that can be frozen, multiplies it by the number of families coking together and picks up the ingredients.  On cooking day everyone shows up with their ingredients and recipe and containers for the freezer.  We spent the morning chopping and doing all the prep. It really helps to have a HUGE mixing bowl or two.  This time we were doing soups/stews for the crock pot.  I froze mine in ice cream containers.  They are slightly smaller than the inside of my crock pot. On cooking day, all I will need to do is run the container under water to thaw the edges and slide the frozen lump into the crock pot.  Yay, turn on high and ask hubby to put it on low in the late afternoon if it looks cooked. (or if you have one of the new programmable ones, set it and forget it!) As well as having food for the week ready to go, we had a bunch of laughs and enjoyed each other's company!