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Just checking my freezer essentials.
My 3 essentials are in no particular order.
1/ Pizza for when you arrive home (late/ knackered/ hungry) after an epic day doing stuff and need a carb heavy treat. Prob the only time I really enjoy pizza.
2/ Sliced bread for that quick snack when the fridge is empty or a pre ride extra addition to breakfast.
3/ Ice pack ready to go.
Hmmm let me think...
1) Fish: Salmon, Battered Cod, Battered Haddock something like that
2) Sliced bread - agreed
3) Ice pack - agreed
4) Frozen Peas: vegetable for meals obvs but also suitable for treating injury if the ice pack is in use elsewhere :o)
Pizza and bread for me too, but I'd swap the ice pack for a 50 bag of mini sausage rolls.
Blueberries, ice lollies and bread.
Pizza and ice cream
Ice cubes, Vodka, Cornetto…
Oven chips
Fishfingers
Frozen peas*
There is also currently various other stuff including forest reared pork belly and sausages from 5minutes up the road but the essentials are the three above.
* Double up as dog treat.
Potato waffles
Lidl monster fishfingers
Ice!
Sliced bread, bacon, hops.
You never know when you might need a sandwich or to brew a beer
Ikea type meatballs
Emergency Chips
Frozen Peas
Covers a range of uses - meals, snacks, sides, first aid
Pizza, chips and some vegetarian options for the daughters boyfriend is round.
Which are often pizza and chips....
Gel wrist wrap and gel hand ice packs. Sliced bread and peas
Potato waffles
Lidl monster fishfingers
Ice!
In fairness i think it might be waffles at the moment, one or the other, good catch.
Cheesecake, minced beef, lamb kidneys.
Directionally frozen ice, we aren't animals
Frozen cherries
Hash browns
Chips
Batch cooked "bolognese"
Chinese dumplings
Batch-cooked pulled pork chilli
Homemade chicken stock
Chips
Frozen fruit (see the 'things that make you disproportionally cross' thread)
Peas, berries, leftovers.
Sliced onion, mushroom and peppers... Often cheaper than the fresh versions, as well as super convenient.
Kelly's Clotted Cream Ice Cream
My home made chicken stock for making sauces
Stormsure wetsuit repair glue
This thread reminds me of my late Auntie Norma. I guess she'd heard something said on a cookery programme that she thought would make her sound sophisticated. She proudly announced "I always keep three things in my fridge: lemons, parsley and...errm..."
(Going to take ice cubes as out of scope)
Peas
Chips
Decent quality chicken goujon/nugget type things (great for throwing together with rice + either katsu or Koroen Gochujang style sauce).
Proper bakery sliced bread.
Frozen peas
Those bags of British ‘semi’ cooked baked potatoes.
So - frozen peas... Cheapest own brand stuff you can find or fancy petit pois?
Personally I prefer the really cheap ones – they are usually a bit bigger, have a slightly nutty taste (as opposed to sweet), and a bit of bite to them (which I find essential when making matar pilau).
Sausages, bacon and black pudding
That way I know that I know I'm never more than 20 minutes away from a full cooked breakfast, or a sausage or bacon (or both) butty. It gives me an enormous sense of wellbeing
Oven chips
Years ago I made the mistake of making home made triple cooked chips. Unfortunately I cannot go back. Got a batch 2/3 of the way through the cooking process at home right now, just drying out before they go in the freezer. Main problem being they don't last long, no matter how many I make.
I agree about frozen peas. Would also add frozen spinach to stick in a curry.
So - frozen peas... Cheapest own brand stuff you can find or fancy petit pois?
Fancy Birdseye petit pois.
Pizza a must.
Quorn stuff.
Batch made chilli con carne.
Oven chips.
Batch cooked chilli con carne.
Frozen mixed veg.
If you're only talking shop bought things instead of homemade / batch cooked, I'd replace the chilli with pitta / naan bread.
Chips
Fish
Pizza
Ice
Ice-pack
Linda McCartney sausages
Sausages, bacon and black pudding
That way I know that I know I'm never more than 20 minutes away from a full cooked breakfast, or a sausage or bacon (or both) butty. It gives me an enormous sense of wellbeing
You should cut down on your pork life mate!
Peas
Stir fry mix
Aldi mozzarella burgers - sadly these appear to be awol in Ireland ATM so no chicken kiev has taken their place as emergency dining.
Would also add frozen spinach
Agree with this, it's brilliant and so much better than buying huge bags for fresh stuff. The frozen cubes are another of our freezer staples.
Chianti, fava beans and leftovers from my last victim meal
The discussion about frozen peas reminded me when I went to the frozen pea factory in Kings Lynn where they process them for several brands. They told me that the premium brands have to have consistency, otherwise they get customer complaints. This means they have to make a blend of excellent, good and not-so-good peas. They keep masses of peas, all graded, in their freezers for the whole season. When this season's peas start coming in they need to offload the old stock to make room for the new. Sometimes they'll have a surplus of excellent peas and theses will find their way into the discounters' bags. So, just occasionally the cheapest Aldi or Lidl peas will be the very finest of all. A shame there's no way of telling before you try.
A visit to the Rank Hovis MacDougall flour mill in Southampton gave me the same story about bags of flour.
MacDougall by the way is the annoying answer to the pub question "name all first division footballers named after flowers".
No one on here keeps human body parts? Weird.
Ice cubes - fishfingers - sweetcorn
*why would anyone keep sliced bread in freezer?
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Head, feet and hands...and hope no-one else needs to go in the freezer for quite some time!
Edit - you can tell I posted without reading the thread and it now looks like I've tried to jump on a previous reply!
Only things i keep in my freezer are ice cream and the very occasional loaf as im not a big bread fan.
I prefer fresh food.
People putting something like steak into one should be taken out and shot.
I prefer fresh food.
Most stuff from a freezer is almost indistinguishable from fresh once (re)cooked.
