Help! My freezer has accidentally been left open over night?!

[YourHardyLemon]

Hi 👋, hopefully someone can help me haha!
My freezer was left open over night and I had meat, pizzas, chopped veg and peas, garlic bread, chips & potato waffles & ice pops in there.
I have flung the frozen pizzas and ice pops.
I have put the meat in fridge so I can use tomorrow.
can I re-freeze chopped uncooked veg and peas? And can I refreeze chips and potato waffles? Or would you suggest to fling them too, or put them into the fridge to use the next two days? And the garlic bread, should I just fling that too?
I’m absolutely gutted!

You can refreeze veg and chips but the quality may suffer a bit.

I’d cook what I can and then freeze the cooked food.

So cooked pizza, make veg soup or cauliflower cheese- that kind of thing.

Happens here quite often. I just close it and pretend it never happened. Not poisoned anyone yet.

Agree with PP, the quality will be impacted, when food is frozen the water inside expands and it changes the texture.

The frozen veg will likely turn to mush if refrozen and then cooked. So using it all up for soups etc and freezing that is much better

I doubt very much that anything has even defrosted.

Frozen pizza is full of preservatives anyway so that the manufacturers can transport it unfrozen. Ditto ice pops. I wouldn’t have thrown them.

there’ll be almost indiscernible difference in veg that’s partly defrosted and refrozen.

Only thing I’d worry about is the meat.

Do you mean wide open or just not quite closed?

If it’s not quite closed then it’ll most likely be fine unless you’ve got uncooked meat. Perhaps cook that off.

You can refreeze any bready and vegetably items. You can't refreeze the meat and dairy but it is safe to eat it within 24hrs of defrosting so you can have some interesting unplanned breakfasts, lunches and dinners (pizza is a great breakfast. Any melted icecream can be combined with flour and eggs to make cake or cookies). If there's more than your family can eat today, post on your local facebook to give it away to anyone who can eat it today.

Was it all still frozen - hard, not soft? If all still hard, it'll all be absolutely fine.

This.

the meat was slightly frozen. So I have put it in fridge going to slow cook it tonight.
mostly everything was soft pizzas ice pop etc. the veg still has ice on apart from the broccoli so I’ve put it in fridge to use.

Was slightly open, but most of the food went soft

Not sure why you chucked ice pops. Out of anything in the freezer they would be most likely to be completely unaffected by thawing and refreezing.

This happened to me the other day but I wasn't sure how long it had been open for so chucked my chicken and Sausages just incase. We ate the pizza the next day and the base was a bit of a weird texture but tasted fine and the veg etc we left in there

I've done this before a few times,just not quite shutting the door properly, but my freezer tends to work overtime if I do and ices up all the more, icicles down the front of the drawers and really frosty inside them and I end up having to defrost it and clean it out. I've never had anything thaw out thankfully.