Two suggestions: - tomato paste. The canned is cheaper than the tubes. I spread the leftover tomato paste on parchment, roll it up (like fruit leather), stick it in a freezer container, and freeze it. When I want to use a tablespoon or two, I just peel off what I need and use it from frozen. The rest goes right back in the freezer. - dry rice. We have trouble in my area with weevils/pantry moths. I just keep my dry rice in the freezer.
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Sauteed mushrooms. You can't freeze raw mushrooms, but if you think they might go bad before you can use them sautee them and then you can freeze and save.
For rice, grains, and pasta sauce, I put the ingredients in a freezer bag, just enough so that, when pressed flat, it’s no more than 3/4” thick. This allows me to break off a chunk at a time, rather than defrosting the entire bag.
I freeze chopped pineapple, ripe bananas, and also spinach. This way when I want a green smoothie, everything is nice and cold. No need for ice to water it down!
Just froze leftover herbs (sage, rosemary, oregano). Chop it up, add the herb in an icecube tray, pour olive oil over till it covers it. Then set to freeze. When they've frozen, transfer the frozen cubes into a plastic bag & label. Done! No more throwing herbs away! :))))
“As a small family, we can struggle to get through a whole batch of hummus.” Me: *trying desperately to not eat the six cups of hummus I made in one sitting* 😂😂
I make a huge batch of brown rice in my instant pot. Then I put it in my food saver bags, pop them in the freezer and when I'm ready for them I poke a few holes in the bag with a fork and pop it in the microwave. No more waiting 60 minutes for brown rice. You can also drop the bag into a pot of boiling water.
My Mom used to get bell peppers on sale and chop them all up and freeze in one cup portions to use in recipes like chili or taco meat. She just wrapped the portions in plastic wrap. Cooked bacon too, same method.
There used to be a grocery that sold over ripe bananas for 10 cents a pound. I would buy all they had, peel, lay on a cookie sheet to freeze and then bag them. They are good for a zillion things. Also when cherries are in season freeze on a cookie sheet, bag, and enjoy them all year. You can pit them first if you want. I really enjoyed this show. Thanks,
I freeze as much as possible. Here are just some of the items: English muffins, shredded cheeses, strawberries, cookies, donuts, pancakes, French toast, peeled onions, cut up celery, bread, muffins, raw fresh veggies cooked white rice. I double bag some things and they store perfectly for years.
Another great tip: If you make your own bread, after it cools..slice it and place in a container and put your bread in the freezer. It lasts lomger..all you have to do when you need to make sandwiches or toast is take out of the freezer the amount of bread you need and let it thaw on your counter. Makes your bread last longer too😊
I like to buy big bags/containers of greens to have for salads and smoothies, but sometimes it gets wilty, or starts to get a little slimy looking. I just stick it straight in the freezer and they're still perfect for smoothies.
I cut lemons, oranges, and limes into ice cube trays then add water! Great for cold/hot drinks. I also love to freeze Oreo cookies or dark chocolate and even Fresh whipped cream! Yum!!! I also like to freeze chicken stock in ice cube trays / or muffin tins. I cook for one, so it helps to add to rice dishes etc.
I freeze green onions. I never make it through a whole bunch, so freezing is the answer. Just chop them up into small pieces spread out on a cookie sheet and freeze. Then put into whatever container you want.
Yes! I do this, too but I don't dry them out before storing them. I chop them up and place a folded paper towel in the sealed container. They will stick to each other but a quick shake before using will separate them. This is one of my favorite food hacks!
Watermelon, pineapple, capsicum, curry leaves coriander leaves, mint spring onions, celery, onions, flour of any type cooked rice, cooked salsa, cheese, fruits of any kind berries, eggs, rotis, samosa, dhal tomatoes, lemon zest and juice, the list is on. Anything you see frozen in the supermarket basically!
Lemons. My trees are full. Rinse them, dry them well. Then cut in half. Wrap each half tightly in plastic wrap. Then place the halves in a larger reusable container. Thaw as needed. The juice will be just like fresh picked, but the peel will be ruined, so no zest. You can zest before cutting and freeze the zest separately if that is important to you. I know we are all trying to get away from non eco-friendly products, buy the plastic wrap is a necessity here.
I zest all citrus, mix some with sugar and freeze and some with salt, depending whether I will use it for sweet or savoury recipes, although if I run out of sugared zest, I just use the salted and leave out the salt in the cake recipe. Then I freeze the juice in ice cube trays. Thanks for this idea, though, I am sure there will be times I cannot dedicate a whole day to zesting and juicing, and I won’t waste what my beautiful trees give me!
I have issues with my esophagus, so I drink a lot of smoothies. I freeze and save my pineapple core in chunks, cubed mango, bananas, berries, spinach and ginger. After they freeze I put them into a bag and use them as needed. I do the veggie scraps and chicken bones for stock. I also make juice from pineapple skins, turmeric and ginger with fresh lime. Very healthy and delish!
Hi, it was a pleasure, watching your video!!!!! I live in South India and it can get awfully warm here, so I end up freezing quite a lot of things, to keep them from spoiling. Chapatis are soft flat breads, that I half cook and freeze in foil. Mangoes. Melons, herbs, greens, chilli, citrus, and flours like chickpea, rice flour, wheat flour, and homemade sauces, pickles, sliced vegetables as well.
I freeze a lot of these things and it does make life very convenient. My kids absolutely love frozen grapes in the summer. I use them in place of pop cycles....all natural sugars with no food dyes or preserves. I also freeze fresh herbs in ice cube trays such as rosemary, thyme and basil that I grow during the summer. Just chop or mince them up and add a little water to each cube. Freeze and store in a bag. I use them in soups and sauces all winter.
If you like blue cheese dressing on your salad, but want to save calories. Freeze a hunk of blue cheese. Use a micro plane grater and grate over your salad. Then you can use a low calorie dressing and get all the flavor of blue cheese.
Wow. Thank you so much for this video. There’s a few things I just wouldn’t have thought about freezing. Nuts, coconut milk and Parmesan. This is going to mean I always have those things to hand for recipes. 😀
I would love to see the inside of your freezer. I realize that's being a little nosey, but I'm curious how people who freeze a lot of meals finds the room. I never have room in mine. My freezer is always loaded w/ meat, bacon & bread/bagels. I wish I had room for extras. 😊
I have an upright deep freezer and a side by side fridge/freezer. Basically, if you're freezing meals you wouldn't be freezing tons of ingredients as well. I use my side by side for opened packages of ingredients so I can be sure to use them up and a designated space in the deep freeze for meals ready to go. Basically, it is trial and error in organizing freezer space to have the space for what you want to do with it. Typically I have two shelves dedicated to breads, all the breads, in the deep freeze. 1 shelf for frozen veggies, half shelf for frozen fruits and the other have goes to frozen beans, meals made up for hubby's lunches, and other "meal prep" items. The door shelves I use for the floors and baking good and bags of nuts as well as ice cream and freezer pops because we only keep small amounts of those at a time.
I was too disorganized to get my cards into this video, and had meant to leave a link to my freezer tour: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_8oALZPfFug.html. while it does NOT look this organized right now, it's a good representation of what I normally have in there :)
@@SweetPeasSaffron Just watched the video. Very impressive. It's nice when you can have a spare freezer. May I ask what kind of labels do you use that don't fall off?
@@sunflowerbaby1853 I wish I was super organized, that would be great, but reality is after years of throwing food away and then cleaning up my parents' food storages after their deaths and caring for my grandmother and cleaning out her food storage, I came to the conclusion I did not want to throw cash away in unused and uneaten groceries. Hence the energy, time and focus put into our own food storage solutions. We eat 98% of our meals at home or from our home food stores, therefore it requires a bit of diligence to maintain a low grocery budget and use what we have and not let items go to waste. I do hope that it helps anyone. So much food wasted especially, in America.
Mashed avocado will freeze. If I can’t eat all the avocado in the 5 minutes it is perfectly ripe (!) I mash it and freeze it in portions that will cover one piece toast. When thawed (I use a microwave) it spreads perfectly and tastes the same. If you leave it open to the air to defrost it will of course go brown.
I do freeze Leftover pasta 🍝 and take out one day before...it’s good...before I never thought of it....now I almost freezing everything...thanks for sharing...for Money saving matter..
Amazon now carries silicone freezer containers that have 4- 1 cup compartments or 8 - 1/2 portion compartments. I freeze the portion size I need in each section and pop those out and into freezer bags or wrap them in wax paper & label. I can pull out however much I need when I need it. Such a space saver! Often I'll free mixtures of food - an example is 1/2 rice & 1.2 beef in a single compartment. To note: Wax paper is wonderful to wrap foods in for freezing!
Caramelize a head of cabbage chopped however you like, can add some onion too. Freezes beautiful cooked. I do a full electric fry pan of it, freeze two flat containers for later. Family loves it.
For years I have been freezing lunch meats and cheeses, although if left too long sliced cheese will crack or become difficult to peel apart. Bananas.... Slice the banana into 1in or into planks. Dry off both sides with a paper towel. Using cocoa powder and milk, mix into a slightly THICK, pudding like consistency. Line baking sheet with wax paper or silpat. Coat bananas and freeze. Bag for storage
A lot of people have already commented on frozen grapes but a little twist on frozen grapes is to roll them in sugar free jello powder before eating. You can do this with unfrozen grapes too. Yummy!
@@joanmayo3330 They don't have to be fresh. Frozen berries work just as well. I don't eat meat/dairy, so I save a lot there. Next year, I'm going to try to grow my own raspberries, blackberries, blueberries & strawberries because I agree that the prices are high.
Herbs 🌿 & I always freeze celery(I chop, measuring 1 cup increments or however much u would prefer, place in bag/jar/containers) and always available when u need for a recipe! Garlic, minced using ice cube trays, onions 🌰 any & all especially green onions we never seem to use up, pedialyte or electrolytes replacement beverages, goes bad really quickly & I pour into ice 🧊 cube trays, freeze & then pop into a storage receptacle. Homemade doughs...pizza dough, pie 🥧 crust, cookie 🍪 dough, etc. Just be sure to put in ball shape & wrap pizza & pie doughs in 🐝 wax wrap, plastic wrap & then into your receptacle. Lastly, chocolate 🍫😋. Good quality chocolate 🍫 is pricey...mine as well make it last & not waste it🤭 Thank you, everybody for the wonderful tips!!!🥰💜
I have never been one to freeze a lot of foods because I don't know how to properly defrost them once Frozen. However, I do end up throwing a lot of food away and that drives me crazy! When it comes to thawing them out, do we just set them in the refrigerator?
I freeze egg whites, when I only use egg yolks in recipes. And when I have enough of them, I make some biscuits we call "langues de chat" (= "cat's tongues" in French... yes, I am French) or biscuits that only require egg whites. I've been doing that for years!
Perfect timing for this, trying not to let anything go to waste. I at least try to freeze something especially if it would go to waste anyway, I figure nothing to loose! Also if it’s in the freezer aisle it can probably be frozen.
You can also keep many fruits frozen: bananas, melon, pineapple, strawberries...and use them not only on smoothies, even in some recipes as muffins and pancakes too...
You can freeze tomatoes whole. Another easy option if your garden has a bumper crop. They are perfect for cooked tomato recipes. I was, dry and freeze them in doubled large ziplock freezer bags
I make my own chicken bone broth so my freezer always has a bag of chicken bones. Ginger it’s way easier to peel with a spoon when it’s frozen. Like to freeze beans and lentils. Rice and beans in sofrito.
I love all of your tips on what can be frozen....especially ginger! And then I thoroughly enjoyed reading a bunch of the comments, like freezing lemons. Very fun and informative. I find that thawing zip lock bags in lukewarm water a great alternative to microwave. 💕
Sooo glad I came across your page! I ran to the kitchen and started slicing, dicing, and freezing! Thanks! No more wasted food. Especially loved the scap food bag!
THANK YOU! Great video, and I also love the way you outlined each item and the time stamp in the video. It was so cool to be able to skip right to the items that we use and not have to watch the stuff we don't. That alone made me a subscriber 😁👍
FREEZE CUCUMBERS.. GRATE FROZEN AND MAKE A CUCUMBER DRESSING FROM SCRATCH OR MIX WITH YOUR FAVORITE CONDIMENTS... POUR OVER SALAD... THIS CAN BE DONE WITH TOMATOES WELL.
When I did pasta sauce, mine would tent to sort of separate. Not as good. Also homemade enchilada sauce. I like to make a huge batch but the green sauce separates too. Thanks, Mary
Lack of space in freezer . I cook my beans, let them cool . Portion out in my qt. Freezer bags. Seal. Lay flat. I’m only one here so I don’t need big portions. I do the same with my bbq sauce. I make it, cool it , freezer bag sauce, lay flat freeze . I put all the same kind flat freezer bags in one large freezer bag . Labeled of course. I need sauce. I take large bag out , remove one bag and close again. Freeze wine ?
omg!! i wash then freeze my red grapes for a nice frozen treat in the summertime. They are so goood. I will try some of those you mentioned. Thank you for the tips :)
I freeze very ripe bananas. I slice them on to a piece of cling wrap. I wrap them up and lay the package flat to freeze. I store the frozen bananas in a zip bag. I use them frozen in smoothies and thawed in muffins.
Frozen grapes are better than popsicles. I freeze my blocks of cream cheese and butter. Tomato paste frozen in a small baggie is easy to cut pieces off from
I keep diced onion, diced green pepper, chopped parsley and diced celery in the freezer, also all my fresh herbs though some of them are only good for soups and stews after being frozen.
I freeze herbs and herbs in olive oil in ice cube trays. Dill in melted butter for fish. Herb Butter in ice cube trays for shellfish or veggies/rice. Peppers for making sauce.
I freeze flour, rice, and uncooked beans. No Mexican grain moths, or weevils. Also, smelly garbage in a glass container, so that it doesn't stink up the trash or attract animals to the garbage cans before pick-up.
Excellent idea. Thanks. I'm constantly getting moths. My husband is in charge of the kitchen cause I've been sick a while and need to start taking over again. He needs a break. But the freezer is full capacity. I don't even think he knows what he has in there. Just all is store bought.
Sauteed mushrooms. In Oregon we go mushroom hunting and if you find a whole bunch you can chop up and saute in butter then freeze in portions to be used in recipes like spaghetti sauce and stroganoff.
We’ve recently been growing lions mane & oyster mushrooms in our kitchen and now finding we can’t keep up to the fresh ones, this is exactly what we do.
I also freeze mushrooms in ziplock freezer bags and then break off the amount needed. Just did this tonight for some frozen barley pilaf. Never found them to be rubbery as long as they were well sautéed before freezing.
I freeze calentro/olive oil for sautés. As my cherry tomatoes start to get soft I put them in a zip lock and they go right in a freezer bag in the freezer and use for stews and sauces.
Frozen grapes are awesome! I just watched another video that suggested freezing celery (chopped in one-cup servings), spinach (apparently if you crumble it while frozen it's super easy to make chopped spinach), and garlic (garlic, water, salt -- puree and freeze in cubes).
Just came across your video. Your tips on the celery, garlic, and lime slices was so helpful. I have tossed to much celery. I don't know why I didn't think of this before. Thanks for the tips.😮😮😊😊😊😊.
