Freeze fresh fruit/veg?

room512

I bought a bag of ready chopped onions - reduced and it says not suitable for home freezing? Can I still freeze them? Also I bought some new potatoes with butter on (the ones you just pop in the microwave) - can I freeze them? TIA x

Popperwell

That is the only reason I avoid chopped onions but I now have a minichopper I can use and they are done in seconds(except it has packed up:mad:)but I have a manual chopper that is pretty quick and only cost a couple of quid. Everything goes in the plastic bowl, on goes the lid and you twist the lid back and forth...sorted. I think it was made JML...

I sometimes eat reduced items after the date, rarely does something go off as soon as the date arrives...A week could be a different matter of course.

As I said yesterday when I hardly had any money on me the SM put the biggest variety of reduced food I have ever seen but I got two breaded haddocks, quality pork sausages and a pork loin for £3.46(saving almost £8)

Linda32

Village Saver, I'm afraid you have got me on the fresh figs, no idea

room512, yes onions will freeze just fine, however, you might want to use them for cooking as I would imagine they will defrost rather wet. Don't get me wrong, there won't be anything wrong with them and they will cook fine. Its just that the texture won't be good in a sandwich.

I wouldn't freeze the potatoes with the butter on. Although not sure why, as you can freeze butter and potatoes apparently.

pinkieminkie, I do know the sort of book you mean, there quite scary arn't they. I have a similar sort of book.
However, as others have said, just peel, chop into sizes you want and bung in a freezer bag and pop in the freezer. No need to blanch or anything like that.

zippychick

ive merged this with an older thread which should help

Zip

room512

room512 wrote: »

I bought a bag of ready chopped onions - reduced and it says not suitable for home freezing? Can I still freeze them? Also I bought some new potatoes with butter on (the ones you just pop in the microwave) - can I freeze them? TIA x

Linda32 wrote: »

room512, yes onions will freeze just fine, however, you might want to use them for cooking as I would imagine they will defrost rather wet. Don't get me wrong, there won't be anything wrong with them and they will cook fine. Its just that the texture won't be good in a sandwich.

I wouldn't freeze the potatoes with the butter on. Although not sure why, as you can freeze butter and potatoes apparently.

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Thanks for the above answer, decided to just keep both in the fridge and eat them a couple of days out of date! Useful to know about the onions in the future though. Didn't think the potatoes would freeze x

artydoll

can I freeze oranges please?

karenccs67

I buy tinned pineapple for pizza topping but we usually end up with half a tin left over, could the rest be frozen?

moments_of_sanity

Good Evening All, on my visit to t&sco this evening I managed to buy Brussels for 10p a pack, stew packs with carrots, onions, parsnips and a swede, 3 of these for 15p each, mixed peppers 17p a pack, parsnips 9p a pack 2 cucumbers for 9p each so very happy. However, I am not sure how to freeze the veg and peppers -do I need to Blanche them first or can I just freeze them?

Many thanks

Linda32

Hi, for everything apart from the peppers and cucumber, peel slice/chop and put in a food bag and put straight into the freezer.

When you want to use it, just take out as much as you want and cook from frozen. Its as simple as that

Peppers I would imagine you just slice and freeze the same, we never have them you see so I'm not sure.

Cucumber will have to be used as it is. It won't defrost very well, too much water you see.

The onions would be best used in cooking if you freeze these, rather than sandwiches.

joedenise

I just prep the veg and then freeze - no need to blanch unless you plan to keeping the veg in the freezer for a long period of time.

Only thing which won't freeze is cucumber, that needs to be used immediately.

Denise