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#Beef and macaroni bake full#

Top with remaining shredded cheese if you’d like.

#Beef and macaroni bake full#

Fill each dish 3/4 of the way full with Baked Mac and Cheese mixture. Spray your baking dishes with non-stick spray.Stir gently, so you don’t mash your noodles. Pour in 96 oz of cooked and drained elbow macaroni and the 10 lbs of precooked, drained, and crumbled ground beef into your large stock pot of homemade cheese sauce.This takes about 2-3 minutes of additional stirring. Using a metal or wooden spoon, stir in 16 cups of cheese until completely melted.

This is where having a strong-armed teen can come in handy. Stir constantly for several minutes until boiling.

Whisk in 16 cups of milk (yes, an entire gallon!).

This happens quickly so stir, stir, stir!

Pour 2 cups flour into melted butter and stir together until flour is thoroughly moist.

Stir continuously so you don’t burn your butter (ask me how I know it happens 🙂

In a separate large stockpot melt 2 cups butter in the pot.

Cook, crumble and drain 10 lbs of ground beef.

Now below is how this big deep dish Macaroni and Cheese freezer meal looks hot out of the oven! Anyway you choose to dish it out, how lovely to have homemade baked Macaroni and Cheese in the freezer and ready to go! If you want to only use 9 x 13 pans for this Macaroni and Cheese freezer meal you should end up with about 8 pans full. The large family recipe below is for three 19 x 11 deep dish pans. One of these 19 x11 deep dish ends up being approximately 2 1/2 9 x13 pans in volume (we did look up the depth of each pan to do this properly.) My husband nerded out with me and did the math on the 9 x 13 average baking pan and these 19 x 11 deep dish pans.

Here’s my affiliate link to see a big list of freezer meal pans on Amazon! You can also see my personal large family “must have” freezer cooking supply list here.īelow is a picture of how my Macaroni and Cheese freezer meal looked after it was defrosted for 24 hours and before it went into the oven. If you’re tight on freezer space you may want to make the 9 x13 variations. I had space for it since my freezer meal stash was nearly zero. I also had to place these large deep-dish pans on my middle oven rack and check-in on them a few more time than I normally would.Īlso be aware that these big deep dish pans take up more freezer room. In order to get them to cook all the way through I needed to set them out from the freezer into the refrigerator at least 24 hours in advance, so be aware of that if you tackle cooking in this much bigger size. After experimenting I found they did work out well overall. I had a few concerns about doing large family recipes in these size pans. I wanted to try these 19 x 11 deep dish pans I picked up during my last large family Costco haul. Well, this “super mega” version is enough for three 19 x 11 deep dish pans! My original recipe was for about three 9×13 pans full. This new BIG Beef Macaroni and Cheese freezer meal is an even bigger variation of my original Homemade Baked Macaroni and Cheese.