What other brilliant frozen food have I missed?

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So the recent thread resoundingly in favour of frozen mash made me buy some… and yes Mumsnet is quite correct.. totally converted. Which got be wondering what else have I missed?
My frozen foods are just the usual chips, peas and fishfingers. What other game changers are out there?

Agree these are fab. I buy McCain’s. Done in 4.5 mins.

I buy lots of it - it's called base mix in Sainsburys. Sofrito in Waitrose and Morrisons discontinued it last year. Its my base for so many meals and soups - I truly would be lost without it. That and the frozen world food garlic are staple cooking ingredients in this house.
I also buy frozen cherries - makes the best overnight oats.

A fast and easy soup recipe made entirely with frozen veg -- chopped onions, spinach portions and broccoli florets.
Fry chopped onions for five minutes or so in a large saucepan with olive oil, (they don't seem to give out any liquid) add half a dozen balls of the spinach (or more) and about half of a 1-kg bag of the broccoli. Add about a litre of chicken or vegetable stock (Stock Pots are fine) and simmer for 15-20 mins until the veg is soft.
Go in with the stick blender and blitz until smooth, check seasoning and serve with some crumbled Stilton on top. Other cheeses are available.
(If the soup is too thick for your liking you can add milk, gives extra creaminess.)

You can get peeled frozen broad beans in Asian food shops!

I also make a from the freezer soup - frozen onion, garlic, whole bag frozen mushrooms, chicken stock (light on water). Blitz when soft - add milk. Can also add nutmeg pepper, dried mushrooms and a slugg of vermouth if are feeling fancy.

Lidl sometimes have the frozen pastel de nata 6 to a pack and so delicious warm. IKEA frozen cinnamon buns are lovely as are the meatballs of course

Frozen peppers, garlic and onion. So handy and no prep or waste!

Same in my household, kids love the 'purple porridge!'. I throw in a couple of frozen berries after making the porridge which cools it down quickly as always a rush in the mornings! Great way to add in some fruit in the mornings.

Doesn’t take quite as long if you pop it into an oven dish and microwave first thus seperating the florets, while you’re heating up the oven . Much quicker.

Morrisons do vegetable base because I buy it.

Delia Smith recommends Aunt Bessie's frozen mashed potatoes.

Iceland's Luxury Moussaka is surprisingly good.

Frozen doesn't necessarily mean what you're thinking of as convenience food - but frozen vegetables and fruit ARE very convenient!

M&S butter puff pastry if you can find it.

Iceland black dial.

Ahh someone else that likes them with jam on .
( see my post @21.02 yesterday)

As is their steak cianti pasta. So lovely.

M&S do frozen cookie dough blocks, just slice into chunks and bake - incredible! Also garlic and herb frozen butter disks are really nice and very handy.

I don’t get posts like this. What is the point of putting the OP’s comment into AI and generating an answer.

If the OP wanted to ask ChatGPT she could have done that herself. She wanted real life recommendation from real people.

@JamesWebbSpaceTelescope maybe they're a bot?

But what would the point of a bot be on munsnet? You can’t gain followers to then spam with advertising. Just posting boring content isn’t even going to get your any enjoyment of trolling. Just why bother?

No idea? Apparently there are though?

I think in some supermarkets that’s called Soffrito.

Unfortunately, the (huge!) Sainsbury's we get our deliveries from doesn't stock them. Location seems to determine stock and they've clearly decided that people in the Scottish borders won't buy them. 😠

Bloody annoying.

Yes - the posh ones call it soffrito. Normal ones use English.