to think frozen food is not bad.

[extra80]

A school run mum once proudly declared that her freezer compartment was empty. Ie we only have fresh food.
Aibu to think that actually some frozen food is better than fresh. Ie veg.

[raisah]

We live off our freezer! A quick peak inside my freezer & you will find:
Frozen fish & chicken
lamb curries x 2 batch cooked
Kebabs batch cooked
samosas
ice cream
cheesecake
fish fingers
x 2 batch cooked 2 veg curries

[cantspel]

I have two freezers that a refilled every Saturday . I buy enough bread for the week (5 loaves and a large pack of soft baps) Meat for the week (enough for 7 evening meals for 5) frozen peas, frozen potato products, frozen rice, snack food like pizza, garlic bread and horror of horrors the odd crispy pancake. i also freeze left overs or batch cooked meals. No way could i cope without my freezers.

[AudrinaAdare]

at MadBusLady's, "special special" ice-cube trays.

This has been my favourite thread all day. Am definitely going to do Wallison's spinach and soft cheese pasta sauce

[fantashtic]

For a variety of reasons I have 12 limes and now I'm going to chop them and freeze for my G&Ts. Thanks MrsHoarder!
Also in my house a full freezer is a happy freezer.

[ShadowStorm]

YANBU.

Our freezer is full of frozen veg, frozen fruit, frozen meat and fish, portions of meals that we've batch cooked and then frozen so we can have homecooked meals when we're too busy to cook from scratch. Plus ice-cream, of course.

[Elquota]

YANBU.

However maybe she just enjoys cooking from scratch? Some do, some don't. It's not "better" or "worse" so don't be too hard on her, she may not have meant it as a stealth boast at all!

[Whipple]

Having the freezer means you can still feed the children a 'naice healthy meal from scratch' without having to cook anything.

I always have portions of veg curry I have batch cooked in mine. Defrost, heat up and serve. A healthy meal in no longer than it takes to cook fishfingers.

Not that there is anything wrong with fishfingers every now and then.

[SmiteYouWithThunderbolts]

Well I am going to 'fess up and say that my freezer DOES have its fair share of crap in it. Sausages, waffles, fish fingers, pizzas. There may even be a pack of chicken nuggets lurking somewhere. Meh. It's stuff the kids will eat happily on nights where I just don't have time/CBA to cook a naice healthy meal from scratch.

[JRmumma]

Ohh I love tinned potatoes roasted in the oven! My DH thinks im weird but i just love them! Reminds me of my childhood...

[Crinkle77]

I have tried frozen veg and although they say it is better for you as it is frozen quickly and retains the vitamin content I just find that the flavour seems to be impaired. When she is referring to frozen food maybe she is talking about junk food. I have all sorts in my freezer but it is stuff like bread, fresh meat which I have put in the freezer, meals that I have pre-prepared etc...

[ceeveebee]

One half of my freezer is filled with various cuts of meat as we buy our meat in bulk directly from a farmer. The other side is full of tupperware containers with portions of home cooked meals, sauces, soups so that after a day at work I don;t have to start cooking from scratch every night.
She probably serves up tinned potatoes every night.

[Yonididnaedaethat]

Oh jeez the only thing I have in my freezer is ice lollies, bread and veg. I stopped freezing things as I found once I put things in the freezer it would tend to stay there. I don't chuck away a load of fridge stuff tho before I go shopping I make up a meal plan for the week and buy what I need takeaways are planned 2 nights a week.

[BookieMonster]

YANBU for all the reasons above but most importantly because without a full freezer, she can never do the "dipper tea" that one poster described in an old thread - dangle a toddler by the ankles into the chest freezer and eat what they pick out. Apparently it gets a bit less random (and fun) when they start to read. I've been hankering after a chest freezer ever since I read that. I would need to borrow a toddler, though.

[FayeKorgasm]

Where does she keep her vodka?

[WilsonFrickett]

She is vair, vair odd. My freezer is packed full of naice things. Farm shop bacon, cheap packs of organic chicken thighs, frozen peas, bread and milk as well as batch-cooked meals and leftovers. She's mad, mad I tell ye.

[HappyJoyful]

Folkgirl Yep, I now have serious freezer envy - especially someone mentioning 3.

Good tip re- spinach (I'd forgotten that) and will be looking out the peppers next.

Wallison Frozen pea treat!! I have happy memories of eating them like this as a kid makes note to go home and introduce dd to this delight

[MadBusLady]

That first "special" should obviously be "get". Because I am not 4.

[MadBusLady]

Here are some. I'm pretty sure I didn't pay £7 for mine though! maybe they are cheaper somewhere else.

[MadBusLady]

You have to cut them up and freeze them yourself. You can even special special ice trays (I think at Lakeland?) which are shaped so that each ice cube has a slice of lemon or lime embedded in it.

[Pigsmummy]

Where can you buy frozen lemon slices?? Wow. Seriously
my freezer is full, frozen home prepared meals for when I can't be arsed to cook, frozen meat that I bought fresh, ice cubes and weight watcher ready meals that I will probably never eat. Didn't a study a few years ago say that frozen veg was as good as fresh?

I have no ice cream, does that make me weird?

[HaroldLloyd]

What? Thats silly. What if there was a hurricane or tornado, all her food would go off and she would be fucked, whilst I sit in happiness eating potato smilies.

What a very odd thing to boast about.

[Arabesque]

She obviously equates 'frozen' food with 'processed' food and doesn't realise that meat and homecooked meals freeze well and are a very economical way of managing a household budget.

[TalkativeJim]

YY to frozen peas and sweetcorn - instant boost for when they only want cheesy pasta slop.

And frozen spinach.

And batch cooking and freezing.

Mad Empty Freezer Woman has made a terrible 'fo par', as someone on another thread once so amusingly said.

[CakesAreNotTheAnswer]

frozen spinach also excellent in quiches and omelette. Just nuke first.

makes a good tuna, sweetcorn and spinach pasta bake too.

[SkinnybitchWannabe]

Nothing at all?! Where does she keep her vodka and Ben and Jerrys icecream?!
Thats just odd