Make-ahead casseroles are real life savers. When you're busy around mealtime, it's nice to know that you can pull out a casserole from the fridge or freezer and put it right into the oven. These Make-Ahead Casseroles: 30 Overnight Casserole Recipes and Other Easy Meals will come in handy when you need them the most. If you know you have a busy week coming up, do some cooking on the weekend so you're weekdays aren't as hectic.

Make-Ahead Casseroles:
30 Overnight Casserole Recipes and Other Easy Meals

• Make-Ahead Casseroles

• Freezer Meal Recipes

• Overnight Breakfast Casserole Recipes

• Overnight French Toast Casserole Recipes

Make-Ahead Casseroles

Make-ahead casseroles are the best on busy weeknights. You can prepare them a few hours earlier or even the night before so there's not much work to do before dinner. When you come home, pop the casserole into the oven and work on other things while it bakes.
 

• Make-Ahead Pizza Casserole
   
• Skillet Tamale Pie
   
• Wonton-Topped Chicken and Rice Casserole (shown)
   
• Grown-Up Tuna Noodle Casserole
   
• Polish Pierogi Casserole

Freezer Meal Recipes

Freezer meal recipes are important to have at your fingertips. You save a lot of time and effort by doubling a recipe. By doing a little extra cooking one day, you'll have dinner for that night and for a day in the future. And depending on how many mouths you have to feed, there may even be leftovers both times. These freezer-friendly make-ahead casseroles are absolutely terrific.
 

• Creamy Baked Rigatoni with Italian Sausage
   
• Blue Chip Mexican Casserole
   
• Chicken and Rice-a-Roni Casserole (shown)

• Southwest Chicken Noodle Casserole
   
• Chicken Posole Casserole
   
• Baked Chicken Bacon Alfredo
   
• Freezer-Friendly Spinach Manicotti
   
• Fondue-Inspired Macaroni and Cheese
   
• Charlie's Layered Mexican Casserole
   
• Garden Vegetable Tuna Casserole

Overnight Breakfast Casserole Recipes

Where would we be without overnight breakfast casserole recipes? Breakfast is perhaps the hardest meal to make because who has time to make a lot of food before they have to leave the house? Overnight breakfast casseroles are the solution. All you have to do in the morning is through the casserole in the oven. You can get ready while it is baking, and when you're done, breakfast will be ready.

• Ham Croissant Breakfast Casserole
   
• Make-Ahead Breakfast Casserole with Sausage
   
• Southwestern Breakfast Casserole (shown)
   
• Sausage and Egg Casserole with Sun-Dried Tomatoes
   
• Slow Cooker Good Morning Casserole
   
• Cheesy Potato Breakfast Casserole
   
• Make-Ahead Sausage Breakfast Casserole
   
• Slow Cooker Southwest Breakfast Casserole

Overnight French Toast Casserole Recipes

French toast casseroles are some of our favorite overnight breakfast casserole recipes. We love them because you can prepare them the night before and they serve a lot of people. It's hard to serve French toast to a crowd, but it's easy to do when it's a French toast casserole. Even if you're not serving a crowd, these French toast casseroles are great because they can feed you for a week.
 

• Overnight Cinna-Toast Casserole
   
• Skinny Baked Apple French Toast
   
• Overnight Berry French Toast
   
• Foolproof Creme Brulee French Toast (shown)
   
• Strawberry Raisin French Toast Bake
   
• Overnight Praline French Toast Casserole
   
• Monkey Bread French Toast Casserole