to think frozen food is not bad.

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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.

Frozen spinach is great for adding extra iron to one pot meals, just drop a block into a homemade curry etc

I don't use any water, just bung in microwave with butter and salt. It's lovely with a bit of nutmeg on as well.

I never used to use frozen veg so I'm a convert. Was telling DH that up until last year I used to dutifully cook frozen sweetcorn before dropping it into a hot pan of pasta sauce. I'm an idiot

Ooh, Whipple, that is an excellent idea; thanks for the tip.

That's what I use frozen spinach for too: I don't find the texture great when cooked, but its fabulous for an iron/nutrient boost in pasta sauces and risottos.

Will try microwaving with butter & nutmeg next time we have a meat and two veg meal though.

Frozen garlic blocks are brilliant too, as are frozen chopped okra. They're great for adding flavour to a curry.

Any frozen vegetables are great for making a cheap and nutritious soup too.

Frozen sliced peppers are great for adding to curries and stews also. Much cheaper than fresh.

The school run mum is crazy!!!

I also have frozen blocks of garlic and ginger for when I make curries.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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

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.

Where does she keep her vodka?

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.

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.

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.

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...

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

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.