whats the best frozen veg?

Diflower

Now that I don't have a car we have to rely on frozen veg to supplement the fresh; I can walk into town but can't carry the stuff. We eat an awful lot of veg, so better frozen than running short .

I try to keep the things that are most useful, we don't have a very big freezer. The value bags of mixed veg are brilliant, they vary between the supermarkets as to what's in them but all are small pieces and all about £1 a bag. Great for adding to stir-fried rice, either Indian or Chinesey - or just add to the rice near the end of cooking. Also good for making samosas and adding to veg curries.

Spinach is brilliant, the one that's chopped and in little nuggets, just stir into curries. I use it for stuffed mushrooms too (under blue cheese or tomato sauce & mozzarella), but never cook it first, just thaw it; it never has extra water in it.
Fine green beans, never quite the same as fresh but far cheaper and really handy. And I got a bag in Lidl last week, a French soup mix, that looks good but haven't used it yet.

spike7451

Diflower wrote: »

Now that I don't have a car we have to rely on frozen veg to supplement the fresh; I can walk into town but can't carry the stuff. We eat an awful lot of veg, so better frozen than running short .

I try to keep the things that are most useful, we don't have a very big freezer. The value bags of mixed veg are brilliant, they vary between the supermarkets as to what's in them but all are small pieces and all about £1 a bag. Great for adding to stir-fried rice, either Indian or Chinesey - or just add to the rice near the end of cooking. Also good for making samosas and adding to veg curries.

Spinach is brilliant, the one that's chopped and in little nuggets, just stir into curries. I use it for stuffed mushrooms too (under blue cheese or tomato sauce & mozzarella), but never cook it first, just thaw it; it never has extra water in it.
Fine green beans, never quite the same as fresh but far cheaper and really handy. And I got a bag in Lidl last week, a French soup mix, that looks good but haven't used it yet.

If you like Chinese food,the Lidl's "Green Grocers Oriental Veg",around £1.50 a bag,it top notch scran!

RHemmings

abankerbutnotafatcat wrote: »

Peas, peas, peas. We don't bother eating sweetcorn as it just passes on through...

I'm getting worried by how rude some of the suggestions I'm making are. But, if sweetcorn is passing through, then chewing better will help. Chewing food properly will aid digestion. It will also lead to less swallowed air, which can result in less flatulence.

I don't always get it right, but if I remember to chew properly, then I don't see my sweetcorn again. And it tastes nicer because I actually get to taste the corn, which I don't so much if I'm gulping it down.

Absinthe_2

Only frozen sweetcorn, and peas for me. Also oven chips, which I dislike, but are handy.

I freeze loads of blackberries when in season. They cost nothing as theres a large bush in my garden.

abankerbutnotafatcat

RHemmings wrote: »

I'm getting worried by how rude some of the suggestions I'm making are. But, if sweetcorn is passing through, then chewing better will help. Chewing food properly will aid digestion. It will also lead to less swallowed air, which can result in less flatulence.

I don't always get it right, but if I remember to chew properly, then I don't see my sweetcorn again. And it tastes nicer because I actually get to taste the corn, which I don't so much if I'm gulping it down.

I didn't mean me specifically, I meant generally. As I understood it sweetcorn has little nutritional value and chewing merely disguises it. I am happy to be advised to the contrary though (i'm a bankernotanutritionist!!!) and then i'll resume eating the stuff but in the meantime it just seems like a waste.

RHemmings

abankerbutnotafatcat wrote: »

I didn't mean me specifically, I meant generally. As I understood it sweetcorn has little nutritional value and chewing merely disguises it. I am happy to be advised to the contrary though (i'm a bankernotanutritionist!!!) and then i'll resume eating the stuff but in the meantime it just seems like a waste.

I never thought of that. Certainly I've heard that corn flour and tortillas have useful amounts of nutrition in them. I've looked up a few pages, and it seems that sweetcorn don't have as much nutrition (particularly calories per gram) as other grains, but that they have more nutrition than many typical "vegetables" and a number of useful minerals and vitamins. E.g. see this page: http://www.nutrition-and-you.com/sweet-corn.html

Alison_Funnell

Isn't there a chemical process needed to 'unlock' certain nutrients in sweetcorn flour?

easy

Surely sweetcorn is a very useful source of fibre ??

abankerbutnotafatcat

Thanks RHemmings, I read that and wiki'd it below, a full break down of its nuitritional content but it went over my head!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetcorn
I remain undecided.
Must admit that the banker side of me kicks in on this one as I know that our friends in the US have a big economic interest in promoting corn/maize. I read an article a while back on the economics of food that was about this.

This is guy whose work I read
http://michaelpollan.com/books/the-omnivores-dilemma/

abankerbutnotafatcat

easy wrote: »

Surely sweetcorn is a very useful source of fibre ??

Undoubtedly, as described!!!:)

So if, for instance it was the only 'veggie' someone would eat then it would be good. But I eat a lot of veggies, pulses and whole grains so get plenty of fibre.

I really didn't mean to start a vendetta against sweetcorn!! It's just that I don't bother with it myself.