Packed Sliced Ham etc.....

f1owers

The large packs of ham, beef etc that you can buy from Costco -any reason why you can't freeze them

DD has just gone to school and I need to stack up on packed lunch stuff.

What about humous? Can it freeze?

What about Bagels?

Thanks and Hugs

Flower

Grumpysally

f1owers wrote:

The large packs of ham, beef etc that you can buy from Costco -any reason why you can't freeze them

DD has just gone to school and I need to stack up on packed lunch stuff.

What about humous? Can it freeze?

What about Bagels?

Thanks and Hugs

Flower

My friend gets her sliced meat from costco. She portions it up and freezes it, seems OK.
Bagels and humous, yes and yes.
A x

liz545

f1owers wrote:

What about Bagels?

Flower

One tip with freezing bagels - slice them *before* freezing. Makes it a lot easier to defrost as much as you need, and you're less likely to accidentally break a partly-defrosted bagel when you slice it!

floridadreamin

I always freeze packs of ham and turkey etc. I often look in the reduced section and split into smaller portions to pop in the freezer (on the day of purchase of course:) ) I haven't managed to poison any of the family yet!!!

On the subject of hummus, does anyone have a recipe? I think it's something I might like to try.

purpleimp

Hello, this is something I've been wandering about.

Not about the shop bought stuff, I was thinking that it would be best, at the start of the month (ok pay day) to bulk buy and cook, cool and slice meat (bit of topside or something, a gammon joint, and chicken breasts) portion indo individual daily sandwich sized rations in the freezer ( DH has been buying 2 sandwiches at work almost every day till I put the foot down and said we would make our own, so we've started that) anyway we aren't morning people at all and it's a bit soul destroying to be comming home and cooking the nights dinner(when the sc hasn't been on)then cooking stuff for sandwiches after the dinner's out of the way, (chicken, eggs, pork, steak (the steak was frying and we got loads of it on offer on the use by day) will freezing the individual portions work ok? I don't want to go to the expence of loading the freezer full of cooked meat to discover it's nasty when defrosted.xxx

finc

Costco sliced meat is great for freezing. We buy the beef and ham and always freeze it. It tastes no different when it's defrosted to when it is eaten un-frozen (is there such a word )

I wouldn't recemmend their sliced turkey though. It didn't freeze very well for us and tasted a bit strange. Might just be us though!

Bambam

Think maybe the reason packet cooked meat freezes well is because of the water content. I have tried cooking a joint, slicing it then freezing for sandwiches and its not quite the same once defrosted, bit dry, depends what you like really. Now when I freeze leftover meat I always freeze it in a thin gravy.

Many years ago when I knew I was going into hospital to have my babies I made and froze a weeks supply of sandwiches for my hubby,using packets of cooked meat (think I even made cheese sandwiches) and there were no probs. If its your thing try making your sandwiches up on a Sunday for work. Worth a try!

Mumstheword

Mum used to do this. She'd buy a cooked joint of ham, slice it (cheapo elec meat slicer thingy) and freeze it in weekly portions.