Freezer containers (merged threads)

joannasephina_2

Have you tried looking in the cash & carry - if you have access or can beg or borrow a card - they have these brilliant plastic lunchboxes with lids (meant for takeaways i think, you'll find them with the burger and pizza boxes), I always freeze leftovers and microwave in them. Sorry can't remember how much they are, but they can be reused so many times, and dishwasher safe too. Also try pound shops / cheapy places, I got some nice round containers 10 for £1 which are lasting well.

SailorSam

Butter and ise cream containers.

beverley1471

Do you have a pound shop where you live? I got a pack of five plastic ones from mine and they've lasted well. I bought ones with flat lids so i could stack them easily in the freezer.

2cats1kid

I only have a few containers as they drive me potty when they need storing in the cupboard, but what I do is freeze the meal in a container, then once frozen I pop it out and into a plastic bag. That way I have blocks or slabs of food, which only take up their own space in the freezer (no waste space). You need to put a sticky label on to identify it! Currently I have a stack of slabs of vegetable soup frozen into thermos-sized portions and just take one out and put it in a pyrex to defrost/heat and my work lunch is sorted.

Rikki

2cats1kid wrote: »

I only have a few containers as they drive me potty when they need storing in the cupboard, but what I do is freeze the meal in a container, then once frozen I pop it out and into a plastic bag. That way I have blocks or slabs of food, which only take up their own space in the freezer (no waste space). You need to put a sticky label on to identify it! Currently I have a stack of slabs of vegetable soup frozen into thermos-sized portions and just take one out and put it in a pyrex to defrost/heat and my work lunch is sorted.

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I do that with soup. I freeze in the bag - inside the container and the remove the container once frozen.

louisaL

thanks guys thats great! i was going to look on site where takeaway places go for large quantities of storage containers. doubt i need too many but enough and also i now need some jars for chutneys etc i have got 2 i've save but thats it. i'll ask family and friends for theirs but otherwise where else can i get some?

Meadows

I have used the foil trays and tend to wash the lid and re-use until its seen better days, then I just cover them with foil.
Other than that I use the plastic Chinese takeaway containers (not that I have one very often), that I have kept for years.
I used to buy Vitalite many years ago so still use those containers.
I also have pour and serve bags and freezer bags.

Meadows

louisaL wrote: »

I now need some jars for chutneys etc I have got 2 I've save but thats it. I'll ask family and friends for theirs but otherwise where else can I get some?

My attic, I have boxes of them :rotfl:

2cats1kid

Yup, I can relate - I have loads in my larder cupboard!

I find that if I put chutney etc. in a big jar we get fed up with it and the half jar sits in the fridge forever, but since I've been asking people to save their baby food jars for me and using those, that they get used up. The baby food jar is just enough for people not to get bored, so then I bring out another flavour of jam/chutney/whatever. It's also a nice size for little gifts - a chutney, a jam and some lemon curd, say, each in a diddy little jar makes for a nice thoughtful gift for someone.

louisaL

LOL
oo really where are you meadow (PM me) i'm in milton keynes
(seriously LOL)