The ideas from others are very good. In addition, may I offer the following (and these have been very successful). Steak and kidney thickened with cornstarch rather than plain flour. This reconstitutes very well indeed. You can make pies with meat interiors and these also freeze well.
I make meat balls (not very spicy - but you can add whatever you like - and then when thawed out I cover with a good brown onion sauce or brown gravy and reheat. These are really very good. And easy.
Meat loaf freezes very well indeed. And so does sweet and sour pork - only the pork part mind you. This may not appeal to elderly people of course, but again I have used a brown gravy rather than the Asian sweet and sour sauce.
Elderly people tolerate rice dishes very well indeed. And fried rice is very good when frozen - using finely chopped bacon and finely chopped spring onion, frozen peas and corn and chopped capsicum for colour if you like this. Add an egg or two when frying this up and some soy sauce, and I'll bet they love it. I introduced my 98 year old mother to this and she was absolutely rapt.
Good luck from another Kiwi.
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