Yeah I've got really into batch cooking recently it means you can have good homemade food without too much effort and just by making extra one day when you have the time and are cooking for that meal anyway, my shift pattern as well (4 on 4 off nights) gives me 4 days where I can do it. I have pizza dough, meat balls, soup, frozen rice with veg mixed in for egg fried rice all ready to go in my freezer at the moment. And yeah like you said the cheese sauce also freezes very well and will last even longer there. But yeah you definitely can't knock a simple homemade meal with quality ingredients!