Dear food friends,
I'm looking for some great freezer-friendly foods (that my kids will eat) to start trying out now. That way I can stock my freezer a little at a time, thus softening the blow to my grocery budget and easing my time constraints.
Any help, either recipes or links, would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Flat-Broke
meaning veggies to freeze? or ready made meals to freeze? just about everything freezes ....
ReplyDeleteBrownies are actually better after they've been frozen.
ReplyDeleteyeah- for sure!!!!!
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this is my FAVORITE blog- I just got her book at the library so I have been cooking 1-2 things from it a day for the three weeks I have it.
the pizza muffins are amazing and freeze great. Darren just grabs them for lunches. On saturday for a picnic we had the peanut butter wraps. and for dessert- I am dying to try her cake balls.
check it out!
you can make burritos with rice, beans and cheese (or anything freezer-friendly), freeze them, and then re-heat them in the oven or microwave. You can make soup and freeze it in portion-appropriate bags, then heat however many servings you need in a saucepan. (I mean soup without croutons or noodles added, you can add that as it is re-heating)
ReplyDeleteSecond on the soop's soup idea. I wouldn't bother with the burritos. Just go buy frozen ones. They're just as cheap, if not as tasty.
ReplyDeleteMost people rolls their eyes when I say "casserole." Then I remind them that lasagna is a casserole. It's also freezer friendly. Stir-fries should freeze pretty well, too.
Oddly enough, my son freezes pop corn. The fully popped stuff. It actually tastes pretty good that way.
What about rice soup? Should I not add the rice part (you said to not add noodles until reheating) until I re-heat the soup as well?
ReplyDeleteI've never tried it, but cooked rice freezes well on its own (a great idea for too much rice from Chinese take-out) so maybe rice soup will turn out fine.
ReplyDeleteI have frozen most anything. I would consider cooking chicken (grilled) and bagging it already cooked. I use left over chicken for a bunch of stuff. The key to freezing is making sure it doesn't get freezer burnt ... because then you're done.
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