Storing Foods in the Freezer

My parents do a huge garden every year, so I have lots of home grown frozen vegetables. As far as freezing what I buy, I freeze the usual stuff, but also included butter and bags of grated cheese when they go on sale.

Oh, I didn’t even think of freezing our vegetables from the garden! Great idea. I think we will have plenty of bell peppers to freeze since I just counted at least 10 on one of our plants this morning!

A good way to freeze bell pepper is to go ahead and chop, then spread on a cookie sheet to freeze. Once frozen, bag it up, and you get out just a little at a time to use as you need it. I’m not a big green pepper fan, but my mother does hers this way all the time

Wonderful, thank you for sharing! I bet I can do the same with the jalapeno peppers (if we have an extras that is) :)

I wonder why wild game lasts longer frozen than other meat?

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We go through at least a loaf of bread a week, so if it is BOGO, I buy one and throw one in the freezer–so the following week, the bread is ‘free.’
Blueberries freeze beautifully. I spread them on a cookie sheet and freeze until hard, then throw them in a container. All I need is to grab handfuls when I want to make blueberry muffins or pancakes in the winter…when blueberries seem to run about a dollar each at the store. (They are down to 2.99 a pint now…almost cheap enough to buy and freeze!)

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I don’t know about wild game since I’ve never had it- but that is interesting!

You are all reminding me of more things that I like to freeze! I always stock up on bread and cheese, too. Those are things that freeze/defrost well. I have also found deals on bagels, biscuits, etc (especially when they are on sale in the bakery section for day old breads).

I love having blueberries on hand! :)

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