to HATE the Sainsbury's bloggers adverts with their addiction to frozen onions

[ZammoMcGuire]

Saisnbury's you are DEAD TO ME

Barry is a particular low point

Honestly, I was past voting age before I realised someone told me that the Krankies were ancient and one was a lady. I'd not noticed.

Tiggy - either way will work. Open freezing them will mean that they hopefully don't stick together too much, and freeze more quickly. But if they do stick together, just give the bag a good thwack on he countertop and they'll come apart anyway.

Thank you Spotted. I was afraid I was going to have to set up a new email account so I could rejoin Netmums and ask on there.

Where do you buy onions for 0.75p a kilo?

"" If you want quick onions asian shops have dried onions which are ace""

They're very often not Vegeterian, let alone Vegan and don't work in every dish.

I don't mean the meat onions, just the vegetable ones. .

Trills www.alibaba.com/showroom/wholesale-onion.html

I will defend the frozen chopped veg to the death. I have a newborn and a 2yr old who wants to poke the baby's eyes all the time. I dont want to risk chopping an onion.

Frozen onions could change my life. Lazy or not I don't care. Two mins chopping an onion is two mins wasted. How do I have time to Mumsnet? I spend a LOT of my life on trains.

The risotto in that advert looks foul.

...but I'm tempted by the frozen onions. As far as I know I'm not allergic, but when I chop one I have very painful eyes for 3-4 hours. Whenever it's my turn to cook I have to get someone else to chop the onion for me

FloppityFlop A cheaper solution!

What is a meat onion?

I do chop onions, I even grow them myself on my allotment (how's that for not lazy?) but they cause me extreme agony. I think I might have to give up and opt for frozen ones!

I do not want to chop an onion at 7.50 when I'm making a quick Indian omelette for breakfast. Actually I don't want to chop one at lunchtime, quite often, when my head's full of work. And in any case a one-egg Indian omelette only uses half an onion's worth of chopped onion. I would prefer to keep frozen onions lurking helpfully in the freezer till such moments as they are needed. Ditto frozen spinach. And frozen butternut squash in cubes (makes an effortless soup when shoved in the oven for 30 minutes with spices and blended into stock). And frozen green beans. And even frozen cauliflower, which can also be roasted and turned into soup.

I hate chopping onions. My eyes hurt for ages after and I can't see fuck all.

So I buy them when I can.

I also love frozen peppers but rarely buy them.

How about frozen chopped garlic? Best thing ever!

What about frozen water! You just bung it in to a stew with a bit of stock and heat! Its amazing!

That sounds amazing vinegar! Where can I buy some of this frozen water of which you speak?

I tried frozen chopped onions once but found them a bit shit. They stuck together and the pieces weren't finely chopped the way I like (I don't like to taste the onion in things so I chop them super fine and use the smallest amount).

Now I keep fresh onions in an onion storage bag and they last for two weeks or so. It's just a fabric bag lined with dark fabric and it keeps them fresh. Got it off Amazon.

Frozen peppers made my whole freezer and everything in it smell like peppers.

motherinferior we need the recipe for that omlette now.

I froze my onions today.

Will report back when I've used them.

You can normally find frozen water in convenient chunks in local Asian shops. They normally have it in blue and white bags. just ask!

As for Frozen Onions, they sound like great murder weapons..

I actually get my frozen water piped, pre-defrosted, to my house. [smug]

Trills- my version is to chuck a bit of chopped onion, some chopped coriander (also conveniently frozen), a few chopped cherry toms and some chopped green chilli into hot oil, fry up for a bit and then mix in an egg and stir around. V quick and delicious.