What foods are always in your freezer?

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Trying to get more organised so thought it might be useful to share ideas.

We always have veggie burgers and a sliced loaf of our favourite bread, several flavours of ice cream, and some frozen fruit for chucking on breakfast or for smoothies. There's usually a portion or two of something like a lasagne for lunch, that was leftover from a dinner. When we go away I try to always freeze milk so we can always have a cup of tea no matter how late it is when we get home.

What handy items do you always have in that help you throw a meal together? I tried frozen chopped onions which seemed like a really useful timesaver, but they tasted kind of weird to me - maybe I should try them again?

Oven chips
Berries for smoothies
Peas
Pittas
Fish fingers
Garlic baguettes
Ice cream; vanilla & some other flavour, usually chocolate.
choc ices & lollies in summer
Portions of home made pasta sauce, Chili, stew etc.
Yellow stickered ready meals, sausages, deli meats, chicken breasts etc.

Chips
Bread
Garlic bread
Fish fingers
Ice cream
Veg, various
Blueberries
Raspberries

Fish fingers, hash browns, frozen peas and mystery meals wrapped in tinfoil at the back.
Usually the odd ice pop also.
Yellow sticker bread which my oh always buys when we have bread already..

Homemade marinara sauce in easy portions.
Great for a quick easy tea or when making pizza x

What is this chopping of which you speak 😀

I usually buy this:-

https://www.ocado.com/products/cook-with-m-s-soffritto-base-frozen-522418011

Vanilla ice cream
Bananas
Petit pois

we nearly always have frozen petit pois, frozen pastries, wraps, pittas, individual portions of batch cooked sauces, green veg medley, meat in various marinades, home made meatballs, frozen salmon & frozen fish pie mix. Plus ice cream and lollies when it’s warm.

"Chicken" kievs, quorn nuggets, hash browns, chips, base sauce for making curry (frozen into cubes), hidden veg pasta sauce (also frozen into cubes), pizzas, ice cubes, fresh herbs, and then various other veggie things e.g. burgers, cauliflower grates.

Peas
Sliced bread
Fish fingers
Frozen cod and hake
Pre cooked rice frozen into portions
Home made veggie chilli in portions
Raw prawns
Berries
Scones
ice cream
Milk sometimes

Peas
Sweet corn
Spinach
Herbs
Fruit for smoothies
Marmalade oranges so we have enough for the year (I don't have space for jars of marmalade so make in small batches)
Foraged fruit (for jams, Smoothies, crumbles)
Batch cooked soups or pasta sauces.
Chips
Fish fingers
Ice cream
Other left overs

Crumpets
Sliced bread
Mediterranean vegetable mix
Casserole veg mix
Peas and sweetcorn
Mini cocktail sausage rolls
Fish cakes
Popcorn chicken
Chips

And then the only other thing is either batch cooking (lasagne, soups etc) or yellow stickered meat

Oh yes, always some overripe bananas lurking in there too for smoothies.

Fruit: overripe bananas (smoothies/cakes) and berries (with breakfast )
Vegetables: sides such as fine green beans/edamame/spinach/mash/ peas/corn and pre prepped Eg onions, soffritto, peppers, leeks
herbs and spices: garlic/ginger/parsley
Meat: chicken thighs, bacon, beef short ribs
Emergency beige: fishfingers/ veggie fingers/ pizza
home made meals: lasagne/shepherds pie (I always make double quantities)
home made sauce: tomato with veg blended
ice cream
bread (sourdough, garlic, naan)
sourdough
bag of waffles (my DD makes on Sunday for the week and toasts them to have with frozen berries and yogurt each morning)
we are about to temporarily downsize from small plus American to just small freezer and I hadn’t realised quite how much we have in there.

Square sausage
Potato scones
Variety of frozen vegetables
Quorn pieces
IlKEA meatballs
Yorkshire puddings
Roast potatoes

Chips, frozen peas, mixed frozen veg, pizzas, a couple of loaves, ice lollies/ice creams.

Chips
Bag of ice
Other random stuff

Pukka pies, peas, sweetcorn, quorn mince, sausages, fries, broccoli, nuggets, ice lollies

Peas, prawns, berries, ice crem

Island Delight curry patties
Garlic bread
Fish fingers
Hash browns

Fish fingers, fish cakes, waffles, chips, peas, spinach, edame beans, quorn mince, pieces, sausages and nuggets, sausages, bacon, bread, muffins, ice pops, leftovers, homemade soup, smoked salmon, chicken pieces and nuggets, ikea meatballs.

Peas
fish fingers
bolognaise (I batch cook it for when I can’t be arsed with tea)
frozen berries
Veggie sausages

oven chips, peas and some sort of breaded / battered fish so there’s always a meal in there.
frozen raspberries or blueberries to put in natural yogurt and overnight oats.
i keep my bread and rolls etc in the freezer as I don’t eat them fast enough to keep them out.

I don’t like the Ocado soffrito and the pieces are a bit large which puts off my fussy children, hence I make my own! Doesn’t take long in the food processor. However you have to be careful when freezing - stir up the mix in the freezer every 30 mins or so or it turns into a massive solid lump that you can’t easy extract a portion from.

TLDR:buy Aldi frozen mash, cheesy hash browns and skin on fries

A £4.32 turkeys currently taking up 1/4 of my freezer!

We have lots of meal in trays rather than components so pasta/ currie/ sausages and ratatouille with chickpeas/ meat soup / salmon roasted veg and rice.

Mini kievs/chips/garlic bread slices /

Raw prawns/ raw herbs / peas bread wraps/ sausages/

Half blocks of black wrapper butter and cheese so I don't eat them

We make our own bacon and ham so there is tones of that slices in a vac packs along with containers pie fillings

Turkey will be smoked and sliced

We do argue about the real estate of space in the freezer!

Blueberries for porridge.
Green beans.
Quorn sausages.
Bread.
A piece of root ginger.