The only things in my freezer are ice, frozen berries, puff pastry, and vodka. There was a time when my freezer was full of tupperware, but I never ended up eating anything I froze, so I stopped. Although I make soups and casseroles, I prefer to eat the leftovers rather than freeze them for a later date. How about you?






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I freeze stuff all the time. Like all the summer squash that I get from my CSA that I couldn't possibly eat before I get the next box. New Year's Cassoulet made a really nice hearty meal in February.
I don't necessarily eat them all later, but I give myself the option. And I periodically clean out the freezer so that nothing turns into a vicious Ice Monster.
1I freeze things that are already frozen. My mom freezes strawberries. My dad sometimes freezes homemade spaghetti sauce.
2Im beginning to use my freezer more and more often. Just last week I baked blueberry muffins and had about 10 left. I froze them and last night I made blueberry bread pudding!
3Of course I freeze stuff! I freeze everything from banana bread, muffins, spaghetti sauce, chili, homemade bread, stews, soups... My main regret is that my freezer isn't big enough for all I want to put in it!
4And, with 4 kids, I don't ever throw out food. It gets eaten too fast!
I try to be picky about what I freeze because I don't like to waste...
When I go to the amish market or come across good grass fed/ free range/ no hormones, etc. meat I buy extra and freeze it. Fish too. I always have some kind of protein in the freezer. I can plan meals accordingly using that stuff... like on Sunday I may take out some fish or flank steak to have for dinner in the next two days. Also make extra when I do home made spaghetti sauce or chili. All I have to do is take the tupperware out and I have next days dinner. I love the freezer!! Have an extra one outside!
5I will take a rainy day and make pans of lasagna, pots of stew and soups or whatever I want to make and freeze them so that whenever I have a crazy day, I can pull something out ready-made and not have to worry about "what's for dinner??" I love it when I can go to my "go-to's"! Plus, it helps us from eating out more so it's great for that,too
6yes! I find it's convenient to have some frozen veggies and protein in the freezer for meals and --too often I'm having to discard some thing that has gone bad in the fridge. It just gives you more options and saves money too!
7i do freeze things or rather my fiance does. he doesn't like to throw things out and is willing to eat them later so we do put things in our freezer and surprisingly they do get eaten and don't just take up space.
8I always freeze my meat unless we're going to eat it that night or the next. I'm not big on freezing leftovers or anything like that but meat definitely or else it would go to waste.
9I just froze a bunch of fruit that we got from our neighbor. There was so much of it and I didn't want any of it to go bad, I'm good for the winter I think! We also freeze meat and bread.
10i always keep a bunch of frozen veggies & costco meat, but right now the only thing in my freezer is breastmilk! I'm pumping for my baby who is in the hospital, and it will take her months to use it all ... better than having the opposite problem
11I need a new freezer because of the horrible freezer burn! I do freeze meat and veggies.
12I freeze practically everything! I've got a Food Saver vac that eliminates freezer burn. It really does pay for itself!
13It's just the two of us, so we never end up having leftovers when we cook. I never buy ahead; I just grab a loaf of bread at the store when we need it, so I don't have to freeze anything. I doubt my freezer could hold it all anyways.
14I freeze vegetables and meat. I sometimes buy a whole chicken, cut it, freeze, and then use different parts for different meals over the next two weeks. There are also frozen fries and fish in my freezer, but those I already bought frozen.
15I freeze homemade wontons and pasta sauce. Soup never lasts long enough. I freeze a lot of meats to cook later too.
16Just about everything but cheese. It's just hubby and me but some days it's just too hot to cook or we remember how yummy something was and want to have it again.
Does anyone dehydrate food? It's great with tomatoes kinda like sun-dried one.
17I freeze leftovers, meat, and bread. I especially love baking and freezing big batches of muffins. Then I have an easy breakfast for the next month.
18I freeze stuff occasionally and usually end up never eating it and tossing it out
19My husband's processed frozen food
(for when I don't want to cook)
Meat
(divided up in to individual pieces)
sometimes if a sauce that I create turns
out really well I'll put that in a tiny
bowl and save it to reuse later.
And I never eat the rice when I order
Chinese food so I keep it in the freezer
since my daughter likes it.
And her popsicles.. and ice.
(Sounds like a lot but it really isn't.)
20I got a million bunches of chard from my CSA box this spring so I used it to make tons of pesto. Froze the pesto in ice cube trays so now I can defrost as many as I need to use on pizza, pasta, etc. It's fab!
21cali, Great idea with the pesto! I'll have to give that one a try!
22Yes! I have so many berries in my freezer, and veggies for soup. Mmm. Also being one person, I often freeze a half loaf of bread so that it doesn't grow mold before I can finish it.
23i cook hamburger and freeze it for later. makes dinner eaiser and quicker. spaghetti, tacos, that kind of thing.
24I need remember to start freezing my leftover vegetable scraps. They make great starter bases for stocks.
25I throw nothing out. Nothing. I freeze the smallest bits of leftovers and throw them on top of a salad to bring to work.
26I freeze leftover rice in individual portions. It's SO much better than refrigerating it. But, I freeze very few actual leftovers. Between my husband and son, they're usually gone anyhow.
27i freeze everything! soups, pasta sauces, meats, meatballs, burgers, hot dogs. my grocery store does a lot of buy one, get one free sales so i usually freeze one of them. anytime i make trays of baked ziti, lasagna, mac & cheese, or anything similar- i make double and triple and just freeze the 2 or 3 other trays. also when i make my homemade sloppy joe's (which are awesome!) i always make extra and freeze! if i didn't, my fiancee would kill me! my freezer is always full of good stuff. i hate to waste food and my freezer helps me not too!
28Only pizza dough. We make a bunch at once and roll it into balls (each of which will make one crust) and freeze them in zip-locs. Then on the day we want pizzas for dinner, we'll put the frozen crusts in the fridge to defrost before we leave for work.
29I don't freeze many leftovers but have lots of veggies and meats in there. I do make big batched of pancakes occasionally on the weekends and freeze the leftovers for quick breakfasts.
30I like to have frozen Boca meat on hand too for protein and quick dinners.
Freeze and forget... I usually am so excited about new recipes that I don't want to revisit things I've already made... but having things in the freezer does make it easier on hectic nights..
31I freeze soups, sauces and Belgian waffles. A bath of that batter makes way more than 2 people should eat in one sitting.
32I freeze bread mostly
33Probably should, but can't. I despise leftovers, so freezing something is the ultimate leftover to me.
34Wow. I freeze uncooked Chinese dumplings. That's about it.
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