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?

I’ve looked at these and it says put them in the oven for 55mins, surely you can pretty much cook one from scratch in this time and save yourself lots of money ?!

I’ve been a frozen mash convert for several years now, I never do my own. I always try to have in stock frozen diced onions, frozen shredded cabbage, frozen sliced peppers, frozen sliced red onion, frozen spinach, frozen broccoli and frozen cauliflower. I’ve lately started to stock frozen croissants, frozen chocolate croissants and frozen pain au chocolate (all go in the airfryer). My waste over the years has reduced dramatically since getting as many frozen products as possible.

Celeriac, cos it's such a shit to prepare. And Greggs pasties.

Berries
whole leaf spinach for cooking
Ginger (I buy whole and grate)
Chillis for freezing, thaw for a bit or put in a blended soup recipe

Good old pot stickers

5 mins in microwave

Agree with lots of the above.

Another good one is frozen pizza dough. Very handy if you have a small amounts of leftover marinara sauce/ meatballs / veg / odds and ends of cheese, ham etc but can't be bothered with the effort of making your own dough

Tesco is £1.80 a bag. Really nice!

Yes, this is brilliant - we use it for Thai seafood curries.

Love these

I'm pretty sure she does them in the microwave and they take a few minutes. She wouldn't bother if it was 55 mins.

Sounds great! Thanks so much. 😀

I always have frozen...:

Prawns
Spinach
Edemame beans

Frozen organic blueberries from Ocado are my breakfast go to.

Oh! And the M&S Frozen chicken and beef stock.
We use it to make a thin soup/broth with beans and chopped peppers and edemame beans and some chilli.

And in risotto and stew.

Hash brown bites (basically American tater tots)

The M&S one is really finely chopped, much finer than I'd ever be able willing to do by hand. I love it!

This has inspired me to Iceland to stock up before the next term starts - especially with ingreidents to make cooking easier.

So far my list is:
frozen mash
chicken skewers
chopped onion
mince
prathta

what else should I add?

Oh yes Picard shop is the best. Just arrived at our place first stop Picard today as tomorrow it will be mobbed.
Think we’ve tried most of their stock yet to find something we don’t like.
Back on UK we stock up with frozen berries various varieties veg all sorts.
Ikea meatballs and cinnamon buns pancakes hash browns.
Why make life harder when your to busy to prep food.

Do they still have crispy skins ?!

Omg I used the Picard bechemal sauce for a lasagne recently and it was fab. And I can make my own bechemal sauce but this was so much better.

OT, but don't bother with frozen leeks.
There's a lot of the tough dark green tops that needs to be picked out before using.

In my freezer:

Frozen sourdough (buy a whole one and cut in half, no wasted bread)
Spinach
peas
Big cubes of soup for work lunch
prawns
batch cooked meals of chilli, lasagna and lentils
pizzas
itsu packets of bad buns and gyozo
chocolate brioche loaves
chips and sweet potato fries
chilli’s, ginger
frozen berries and bananas (freeze extras before go off)
frozen avocado

They are great if you're just going to fry them up as the base of a stew.

My freezer standbys are salmon wellington (Tesco, Aldi); potatoes dauphinoise; apple strudel (totally unauthentic, but dirt cheap from most supermarkets); frozen berries for overnight oats.

Vegetable base from Morrisons ie finely diced onions, celery and carrots

less healthily - waffle fries. I love them