Reheating/freezing question

[DenimDeer]

I've bought a packet of pre-cooked puy lentils. If I reheat them and add them to a warm salad, can I then freeze a portion of that salad to be reheated again at a later date, or would that be considered unsafe?

I've frozen soups containing lentils from pouches and reheated without thinking twice so I can't see what the difference is .... apart from the fact the texture might not be lovely of the salad after freezing depending on what is in it.

I think it would be perfectly safe. They're just cooked lentils. It's quite normal to make a soup with tinned beans and then freeze/reheat that soup. A bigger question I guess would depend on what you mean by salad? I assume you don't mean like a green salad, so more something like a rice/couscous/roasted veg type warm salad. It's be more concerned about some of the other ingredients not freezing/reheating well and it just being a bit rubbish.

If you were serving them in a restaurant you could freeze them once and reheat them once, in any order. The reheating should be to 82 degrees.

If you were me and you were eating them at home you'd reheat them vaguely hot a couple of times, freeze them, reheat them again maybe twice, and be absolutely fine.

If you have a less than iron stomach, I'd go for something in between.