Freezer Meal Cubes (Portioned Mix-and-Match Meal Prep) 🧊

Freezer meal prep just got a whole lot easier with these versatile meal cubes. Whether it’s zesty gyro chicken, spiced ground beef, or roasted sweet potatoes, these recipes let you prep, portion, and freeze your favorite proteins and veggies for quick, stress-free meals. Perfect for simple lunch-and-dinner combos, these cubes make healthy, homemade meals ready whenever you need them.

❤️ Why You’ll Love Freezer Meal Cubes

• Super Convenient: Prep everything at once, freeze in portions, and have ready-to-go meals for busy days.
• Versatile and Customizable: Mix and match proteins, veggies, and sides to create taco bowls, grain bowls, or your favorite combos.
• Saves Time and Reduces Waste: Portioned cubes mean no last-minute cooking stress and fewer leftovers going bad in the fridge.

🍲 Equipment & Essentials

There are a few tools that will help set you up for meal prep success with these Freezer Meal Cubes. None are necessary but they can make things easier.

• Silicone Trays: I like to have a mix of sizes such as ones that hold 1/2 cup, 1 cup, and jumbo, to help with the different portions of mains, sides, etc.
• Airtight Containers and/or Bags: After freezing in trays, transferring cubes to airtight containers or freezer bags helps prevent freezer burn and saves space.
• Labels & Permanent Marker: Date, contents, and portion size keep meal prep organized and your freezer mystery‑free.
• Baking Trays: These can help, especially when you have liquids in your silicone trays to help keep things upright to freeze in your freezer. Once the food is frozen, you can remove the tray.

👩‍🍳 How to Make Freezer Meal Cubes

How to use these recipes

• These recipes are great for freezing in meal prep freezer cubes! You can make your favourite protein(s) and vegetable(s), freeze and then use as easy meal prep. Defrost the portions in airtight containers in the fridge before enjoying.Some of our favourite ways to enjoy them:*The ground beef can be used to make taco bowls along with the cilantro rice, sweet potatoes and your favourite taco toppings.*Enjoy the gyro chicken with sweet potatoes, kale and some hummus.

For the ground beef

1. Add the olive oil to a large skillet over medium high heat. Add the ground beef and cook, breaking it up into smaller pieces as you cook, until browned, about 6-8 minutes. Drain any fat if desired.
2. Add all of the spices (garlic powder, onion powder, smoked paprika, cumin, dried oregano, chili flakes, kosher salt and ground pepper and stir to combine. Then add the Worcestershire, beef or chicken broth, soy sauce and tomato paste. Stir to combine everything and then cook over medium-low heat until the sauce is thickened, about 3-5 minutes.
3. Enjoy the beef immediately or let beef fully cool and then portion into 5 freezer meal prep cubes and freeze.

For the roasted sweet potatoes

1. Preheat the oven to 400F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. Prepare the sweet potatoes by adding the sweet potatoes cubes to a parchment paper lined baking sheet. Drizzle with 2 tablespoons olive oil, 1 tsp kosher salt, ½ tsp ground pepper and 1 tsp garlic powder. Toss to coat the potatoes and then spread out on the baking sheet.
3. Bake for 30-40 minutes, flipping halfway through, until the potatoes are cooked through to your liking.
4. Let the potatoes fully cool before portioning into 5 portions in the prep cubes, cover and freeze.

For the kale

1. To a large dutch oven or high-sided saute pan add the olive oil over medium heat.
2. When the oil is hot, add the chopped kale and cook, stirring often, until the kale is wilted.
3. When the kale is wilted, add the salt and pepper and stir to combine and then remove from the heat.
4. Let the kale fully cool before portioning into 5 portions in the prep cubes, cover and freeze.

For the cilantro lime rice

1. Use the cilantro lime rice recipe found in our fish taco bowls for these meal prep cubes.

For the gyro chicken

1. Use our gyro chicken recipe to meal prep chicken for these meal prep cubes. You can use half the amount of chicken if desired, but the same amount of seasoning.

For the hummus

1. Make our hummus recipe and then portion into the meal prep cubes and freeze.

🪄 Tips and Tricks

• Cool Before Freezing: Hot ingredients can cause ice crystals and affect texture. Let everything come to room temperature first.
• Portion Consistently: Use measuring cups or a kitchen scale so cubes are uniform. This makes meal planning and reheating easier.
• Use Silicone Trays: They make releasing cubes easy without sticking or breaking, especially for smaller portions.
• Label: Include date, protein type, and any dietary notes to avoid mystery meals later.
• Prevent Freezer Burn: Lightly drizzle roasted vegetables or proteins with oil before freezing, or use airtight containers and cover trays tightly.
• Reheating and Texture: Creamy sauces, dairy, or grains like rice and oats sometimes separate, add cream, yogurt, or cheese after thawing rather than before freezing. Add this note to your labels so you don’t forget.
• Mix-and-Match Wisely: Keep a balance of protein, veg, and starch cubes ready to combine quickly into soups, bowls, or stir-fries.
• Freeze in Stages: Soups, sauces, and proteins can all be frozen separately to maintain best flavor and texture.

🗒 Variations

There are millions of variations you can make of Freezer Meal Cubes. Here is some additional inspo to get your wheels turning:

• Soup & Broth Cubes: Chicken, beef, or vegetable broth; blended soups like tomato, butternut squash, or carrot-ginger; miso or curry bases.
• Sauce Cubes: Pasta sauce, enchilada sauce, curry sauce, pesto, or even a simple gravy.
• Protein Cubes: Shredded chicken, turkey, pulled pork, ground beef or turkey, white beans, lentils, or tofu crumbles.
• Vegetable Cubes: Roasted sweet potatoes, carrots, zucchini, sautéed greens, mirepoix (onion, celery, carrot), roasted bell peppers, or mushrooms.
• Breakfast Cubes: Oatmeal portions, chia pudding bases, smoothie concentrates (blend fruit + liquid and freeze), or scrambled egg + veggie mixes.
• Flavor Boosters: Herbs and aromatics like ginger, garlic, fresh herbs, or hot peppers can be frozen in small cubes for easy additions to meals.
• Snack or Topping Cubes: Hummus, guacamole, or mashed avocado, small portions of cheese sauce or tomato salsa.

🍽️ Other Freezer-Friendly Recipes

• Meal Prep Chicken Rice Bowl: Freeze the chicken and rice components separately and assemble when thawed.
• Coconut Curry Soup
• Creamy Greek Chickpea Soup

👝 How to Store

To store your Freezer Meal Cubes, once frozen in the trays, you can remove them from the trays and add them to labeled freezer bags to save space and have them last longer.

🤔 Common Questions

Freezer Meal Cubes (Portioned Mix-and-Match Meal Prep) 🧊

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This post is your ultimate guide to freezer meal cubes, showing how to prep, portion, and freeze proteins, veggies, grains, and sauces for quick, stress-free meals.

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Cook Time 15 minutes mins

Total Time 20 minutes mins

Course Lunch

Cuisine Mediterranean-Inspired

Servings 4 cups of cooked beef

Calories 203 kcal

Ingredients

  

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For the ground beef – yield 5 servings

• 1 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
• 650-680 grams / 1 ½ lbs lean ground beef
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• 1 1/2 tsp onion powder
• ½ tsp smoked paprika
• ½ tsp cumin
• ½ tsp dried oregano
• ¼ tsp chili flakes
• 1 ½ tsp kosher salt
• ½ tsp ground pepper
• 2 tsp Worcestershire
• ¼ cup beef broth or chicken broth
• 1 tbsp soy sauce
• 1 tbsp tomato paste

For the roasted sweet potatoes – yield 2 cups roased

• 4 small sweet potatoes skin-on, cut into 1-inch cubes
• 2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
• 1 tsp kosher salt
• ½ tsp ground pepper
• 1 tsp garlic powder

For the kale – yield 3 cups cooked

• 4 bunches of curly green kale remove stems and roughly chopped
• 2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
• ½ tsp kosher salt
• ¼ tsp ground pepper

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Instructions

 

How to use these recipes

• These recipes are great for freezing in meal prep freezer cubes! You can make your favourite protein(s) and vegetable(s), freeze and then use as easy meal prep. Defrost the portions in airtight containers in the fridge before enjoying.

  Some of our favourite ways to enjoy them:

  *The ground beef can be used to make taco bowls along with the cilantro rice, sweet potatoes and your favourite taco toppings.

  *Enjoy the gyro chicken with sweet potatoes, kale and some hummus.

For the ground beef

• Add the olive oil to a large skillet over medium high heat. Add the ground beef and cook, breaking it up into smaller pieces as you cook, until browned, about 6-8 minutes. Drain any fat if desired.
• Add all of the spices (garlic powder, onion powder, smoked paprika, cumin, dried oregano, chili flakes, kosher salt and ground pepper and stir to combine. Then add the Worcestershire, beef or chicken broth, soy sauce and tomato paste. Stir to combine everything and then cook over medium-low heat until the sauce is thickened, about 3-5 minutes.
• Enjoy the beef immediately or let beef fully cool and then portion into 5 freezer meal prep cubes and freeze.

For the roasted sweet potatoes

• Preheat the oven to 400F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Prepare the sweet potatoes by adding the sweet potatoes cubes to a parchment paper lined baking sheet. Drizzle with 2 tablespoons olive oil, 1 tsp kosher salt, ½ tsp ground pepper and 1 tsp garlic powder. Toss to coat the potatoes and then spread out on the baking sheet.
• Bake for 30-40 minutes, flipping halfway through, until the potatoes are cooked through to your liking.
• Let the potatoes fully cool before portioning into 5 portions in the prep cubes, cover and freeze.

For the kale

• To a large dutch oven or high-sided saute pan add the olive oil over medium heat.
• When the oil is hot, add the chopped kale and cook, stirring often, until the kale is wilted.
• When the kale is wilted, add the salt and pepper and stir to combine and then remove from the heat.
• Let the kale fully cool before portioning into 5 portions in the prep cubes, cover and freeze.

For the cilantro lime rice

• Use the cilantro lime rice recipe found in our fish taco bowls for these meal prep cubes.

For the gyro chicken

• Use our gyro chicken recipe to meal prep chicken for these meal prep cubes. You can use half the amount of chicken if desired, but the same amount of seasoning.

For the hummus

• Make our hummus recipe and then portion into the meal prep cubes and freeze.

Notes

These recipes are great for freezing in meal prep freezer cubes! You can make your favourite protein(s) and vegetable(s), freeze and then use as easy meal prep. Defrost the portions in airtight containers in the fridge before enjoying.

Some of our favourite ways to enjoy them:

*The ground beef can be used to make taco bowls along with the cilantro rice, sweet potatoes and your favourite taco toppings.

*Enjoy the gyro chicken with sweet potatoes, kale and some hummus.

Nutrition

Serving: 1serving of cooked ground beef | Calories: 203kcal | Carbohydrates: 3g | Protein: 30.6g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 2.4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.6g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3.6g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 81.4mg | Sodium: 598.5mg | Fiber: 0.5g | Sugar: 0.9g

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