Souper Cubes

I have discovered and have been really enjoying my Souper Cubes. And because this is something that I utilize when I am cooking, it felt appropriate to do a recipe blog post about it. I hope to use this post to keep a list of things that I have frozen (and enjoyed later) in my cubes to keep my stock fresh and full of good ideas. See my quick tutorial below for a description of what Souper Cubes are and how to use them.

I have also created a "Souper Cubes" tag on this site, that if you use it, it will bring up not only all of my soup recipes, but any other recipe that I have tried using this method. Enjoy!

Browse Souper Cubes here, if you want to browse/buy something: https://www.soupercubes.com/

Things that have worked well in my cubes:

• Any soup recipe
• Casseroles
• Rice (Mexican, fried, plain, jambalaya, etc.)
• Tray meals from Costco/Sam's Club that you would bring home and heat up or bake:
• Mac and cheese
• Chicken Alfredo
• Butter chicken and rice
• Cilantro lime rice and chicken burrito bowl tray
• Any of their big tubs of soup or stew

Quick tutorial... what are Souper Cubes?

Souper Cubes is a brand of freezer trays that lets you freeze individual/manageable portions of food to store in your freezer. This could be freshly prepared food or leftovers.

Do you have to use the Souper Cubes brand? Of course not. You can always use any freezer-safe container that you have to accomplish the same idea, but the benefit of using the Souper Cubes brand (or similar product) is that these molds are made from silicone so you can easily remove your frozen portions from the mold. Simply push up from the bottom of the mold, and your food should easily pop out. These trays also come with lids to protect your food, and custom ceramic baking dishes that are perfectly sized for baking/reheating your portions. I also think the Souper Cubes products are very high quality. Also, it keeps your from having all of your food storage containers tied up in your freezer.

You can freeze anything you like, but as you can see in the above picture, let's say it's spaghetti night and you have leftover noodles and sauce. Or let's say it's chicken and rice. Or jambalaya. Or mashed potatoes and BBQ pork. It doesn't matter. Place your leftovers in the trays, in layers or individually, freeze and enjoy next week... or next month... or sometimes even next year (if you vacuum-seal), instead of getting sick of eating the same leftovers day, after day, after day.

If it is something that I know will reheat well that I'd like to have for a lunch some day in the future, I will often pull out my trays at the end of a meal and divide the leftovers up for the freezer instead of putting them in a food storage container for the fridge.

Some leftover reheat really well. Some do not... So for those things that you might prefer more fresh (like a pasta), prepare you dish up to the point that you would bake it, then freeze it in individual portions instead and the bake later. Examples of this might include mac and cheese, lasagna, or casseroles. Baking each portion of mac and cheese separately can be such a better experience than baking an entire family-sized tray and then eating the leftovers.

This image shows the single-serving portion baking dish that you can get to go along with your freezer cubes. This is the rectangular 1 cup portion, but they also make a square 2 cup portion to go with the 2 cup freezer trays.

I also highly recommend investing in a vacuum sealer. Storing leftovers in food storage containers often results in a gap between the top of the food and the lid, creating a cavity where frost, ice crystals and freezer burn can occur. Vacuum sealing prevents this, allowing you to keep these items in your freezer much, much longer. You can use a permanent marker to write what item is being frozen and when you froze it. It also prevents you from needing a bunch of food storage containers for all your items in the freezer, and you throw the sealing package away when you open the food, rather than cleaning and then storing a bunch of containers.