What foods can/can't you freeze?

susank

You can freeze blocks of cheese or grate it and just use what you need from the freezer - e.g. a handful for a cheese sauce etc. It is not quite the same from frozen but not bad.

lil_me

Catering size cheese - It'll be ok in the fridge as long as your fridge is very cold and you don't open it. Once it's open it either use within about a week or I would freeze it in portions, grated, in blocks, sliced or whatever you use it as. I defrost it then as I need it, usually overnight in the fridge works for the size I freeze.

Swan_2

thriftmonster wrote: »

If you ever see it in a charity shop, I can highly recommend the St Michael Freezer cookery book - ie a M&S one from the late 70s / early 80s - it has a pale blue cover. As well as all the basic info, it has some fabulous recipes - it's one of my bibles

try Amazon or ebay for out of print books

searches bring up quite a few different St Michael freezer books by different authors, some going for a little as 1p + p&p
unfortunately there's no pic of the most widely available one on Amazon, but there seem to be a couple with pale blue covers on ebay

Melissa177

Sweetcorn (on the cob) taste better when frozen. Blanched first.

Can I freeze black pudding? I bought quite a bit at Borough Market in London yesterday, and I know I'm not going to eat it all in a hurry (unless I get some more northerners to come around for breakfast!)

I have quite a lot of cherry tomatoes too - any ideas on freezing those?

lil_me

I've always frozen black pudding because I buy a big slab of it and only DP eats it

phizzimum

DH keeps a bottle of vodka in the freezer...as long as it's a good quality one it will never freeze solid and it means he doesn;t have to dilute it with ice.


keeping coffee in freezer will help preserve the flavour, also glad to know i'm not the only one with assorted black bananas stashed away!

Kimmywim

Hi all!

Been reading through all these threads and have seen loads of "will this freeze?" threads, so thought it might be a good idea to start a specific thread for people to write down what they know will freeze, how they do it and what definantely won't freeze. And hopefully we can comprise a really useful thread that we can refer back to!!

Ok so I will start I found out the other day that you can freeze bananas in their skin and eat them as lollies - yum!!
Obviously you can freeze things like milk and ham, milk will sometimes detiorate in taste but its never bothered me. with ham I try to buy the biggest pack I can and split it up into freezer bags and defrost as I need them.
Mash is great for freezing just heat back up in microwave thoroughly with a bit of butter.

So anyone got any others?

Kim x

stressedoutmumof1

I chop onions and pop them in a freezer bag and freeze, saves time later on - also mushrooms too.

derrick

Thread already running http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=518915

debbiedeejay

sundancer101 quotes,

One question I would like to ask is, can people recommend sandwiches that can be bulk made then frozen for use in the week? I have tried ham ones in the past and they seemed to work, but it would be nice to have some different ideas.

This is something I used to do last year as there was at one point the 4 of us having packed lunches 5 days a week and I hate making packed lunches.
the only sarnies I too ever made were meat and cheese variety-any salad was put in bags in fridge to put in the lunch bag next day.

I love Tuna Mayo sarnies but never tried freezing them.Didn't think you could freeze it(the mayo or tuna) or if it would be safe, so never tried it.

I took this idea one step further and after making each of the families fave sarnie combo,I would have four different big box/bag(one for each of us) and bag up each days lunch with carton of juice,choccy biccie/scone/and a pot of yoghurt-so it meant only dipping into each of the families personal box, popping the whole lot into their lunchbox with a piece of fruit from the bowl and crisps if they wanted some, and hey presto-by lunchtime,nice cold defrosted sarnie,drink etc.
Plus it only meant an hour or so sorting it all out the day you do your shopping ,a lot less hassle. In winter I also used to freeze portion sizes of soup for me, the kids had to have sarnies still but it never bothered them.

Must admit I do have a small chest freezer,so that helps(I bought it second hand years ago for I think £50 and I never have had a problem with it)

The only thing I didn't freeze was the packet of crisps!:rotfl:

There is only me now having packed lunches and I stopped doing this but might start again as it will stop me nipping down to the bakery to buy lunch-not good on waistline or pocket!

Hopes this helps!