Thanks Kathleen for sharing your very good ideas. I home make from scratch almost everything we eat so freezer cooking will really help me reduce the time I spend on cooking. I've kind of sorted out how to freeze cook breakfast, breads and main dishes. But I heard vegies don't freeze well. So how do you freeze your vegies?
Thanks
Rowena
--- In frozen-assets@yahoogroups.com, Kathleen Ellison <kathy.firefly@...> wrote:
>
> Hello Rowena,
>
> Have been in your situation myself many years ago. What I found was that
> many things you cook normally for meals can be frozen. I used to cook a meal
> for the family when the kids were small like yours a meal for 4 would allow
> me to freeze 2 portions and still have a little to freeze for the kids
> (after all most kids don't eat a meal the size an adult would). I usually
> would just cook a few extra veggies when I knew I wanted to freeze some of
> the meal at the end.
>
> You can buy bulk plastic containers for takeaway meals that also freeze
> well. IGA Cole's and Woollies have them in their plastic aisles but as to
> any other shops you may have I am unsure about. These are are stack of 10
> plain white containers. You can also buy the Glad bake white with blue top
> freezer containers. The small ones come in stacks of 3 or 4 while the larger
> size come in stacks of two be aware though the Glad bake ones are quite a
> bit dearer and they do the same job.
>
> Some meals that freeze well are things like savoury mince, lasagna, stews,
> casseroles, soups, quiche, curried sausages, apricot chicken, beef
> stroganof, just for starters (and what I can think of at this minute) if you
> like to bake there are several cakes and biscuits that also freeze well. I
> bake a lot but other than biscuit dough I tend to not freeze my cakes as
> they don't last long enough around here anyway. Scones are another item that
> i do freeze. I make my own bread and when the kids were younger as I needed
> it for home and school lunches I found I would make 2 or 3 loaves a day,
> keep one loaf for use, slice the others lay them out on a tray cover with
> towel and freeze, once frozen (usually took less than an hour) I would pack
> them in a freezer container and put them in the deep freeze. Doing it this
> way I found I could easily remove as many slices as I would need.
> the kids loved pizza and so I make my own pizza dough. One ball of dough is
> usually enough to make a family size pizza for my family. You can freeze the
> dough so if pizza is something you would like from time to time and don't
> want to take the time always to wait while you make it, then make a dough
> roll it into a ball and freeze it. Keeps about 3 months.
>
> I have several freezers, a tucker box 150litre, a large F&P upright with 6
> drawers, a large upside down fridge freezer with 3 deep drawers and 2
> fridge freezers with usual capacity freezer tops. They are not all used
> daily. Only 3 are in use at this moment although I do turn the others on for
> a day here and there just to keep them active.
> What you will need will depend on what amount of freezing you intend to do.
> I freeze left overs but then I also freeze my surplus veggies from the
> garden, those that I have not been used either fresh or in canned foods (I
> home preserve)
>
> As far as babies go I am not particularly a good person to answer this as I
> never bought food for my babies. What ever we ate the babies ate though in
> smaller portions of course and dependent on how old they were with each food
> group.
>
> Good luck
> Kathleen
> Western Australia
>
>
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