When Walt or I are home during the day, we enjoy cooking dinner. When both of us have to work, we like to choose something that is quick and easy so that we are not eating dinner at 8 pm. One of my methods of dealing with quick, weekday meals is to make bigger batches of meals when I am home and freeze the extras for later.
Soups, chile, and spaghetti sauce are all easy ones to make big batches of and freeze, and we usually have several of these on hand. I also do casserole dishes and lasagna. When I make dishes like this, I prepare them in smaller pans. For example, I make lasagna in loaf pans, then freeze it before baking.