If I'm making soup I make a huge pot, use what we need and freeze the rest in portion sizes. I still cook like my kids lived at home. I freeze stew, roast beef, mince( for you American gals that's ground beef with onions a cup of red wine, squirt tomato purée, and gravy stock) that Can then be made into cottage pie or mince pie with a pastry topping. Bolognese, chilli, curries, basically most meals can be bulk cooked and then frozen.