[Food] What's in your freezer?

[The Clamp]

Can anyone here recommend a decent frozen pizza?

All the ones I've tried have been inedible shite

You need to cook them. Nowhere near as nice straight out of the freezer, even on a hot day.

 

[Whoislloydy]

Can anyone here recommend a decent frozen pizza?

All the ones I've tried have been inedible shite

This won't help you, but i buy frozen pizzas from my local italian restaurant. they have a sort of deli section where you can buy fresh made pasta, sauces, frozen pizzas to take home and cook.

Maybe you can find a similar place near you?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Too many bags of oven chips and hash browns as the Frau NEVER checks the freezer before shopping.

 

[Cordwainer]

This has reminded me of my intention to document the contents of our freezer in an Apple Note so I know what is in there at any one time, saving me from having to open it up and have a look through.

Our old fridge freezer gave up ghost a few months ago, so we got one of them big ugly chrome boxes that are marketed as "American Fridge Freezer", giving me far more freezer space than ever before, and I've seized the opportunity.

The top two shelves are basically bread products - bread itself, muffins, crumpets, flat breads, pittas, ciabattas, bagels and garlic breads.

Below that, there are two shelves of "dinner" stuff - pies, burgers, some frozen portions of sauces I've previously made and bags of frozen herbs.

The top drawer is potato products, fries, chunky chips and hash browns etc.

The bottom drawer is Quorn stuff - non-chicken pieces, mince, not-meat balls and sausages.

The door storage is full of ice creams on sticks - Magnums etc - whatever was on offer when I last did the shopping.

Crikey..apart from our ice cream stuff is all in one drawer, the organisation and contents of your freezer is pretty much identical to ours

 

[The Clamp]

Hash browns and fried eggs used to be my go to breakfast on a weekend.

Over two years Asda hash browns have gone from 80 pence a bag to almost £3

They used to be an absolute bargain.

I’ve switched to heart healthy breakfast now.
Seedfull slice with wilted spinach and poached egg but I do occasionally break out the hash browns. Bloody lovely.

 

[The Clamp]

I went though a period two years ago of buying in frozen, protein rich prepared meals from a company called Gold Standard Nutrition.

Delivered weekly.

My freezer was rammed full of them.

They were tasty but after about a month of eating this stuff, my guts were a wreck, I was throwing up in the morning, waking up in the night with gut gripes. Grim.

I knocked it all on the head and buy fresh now as much as possible.

It means a couple of extra trips to the shops a week but my guts are much happier with me.

Stuff like hash browns and fish in batter etc are very useful once in a while but they are highly processed and ultra bad for us.

It’s great to freeze down stuff you’ve made yourself though, sauces etc.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Hash browns and fried eggs used to be my go to breakfast on a weekend.

Over two years Asda hash browns have gone from 80 pence a bag to almost £3

They used to be an absolute bargain.

I’ve switched to heart healthy breakfast now.
Seedfull slice with wilted spinach and poached egg but I do occasionally break out the hash browns. Bloody lovely.

It's why I switched to Waitrose Potato Rostis

 

[Anger]

This thread reminds me of the Friday Night Dinner episode where Martin tries to keep Jackie from finding out that he’s been storing a dead fox in their freezer.

 

[The Clamp]

It's why I switched to Waitrose Potato Rostis

Well. I see the financial advantage but rostis aren’t hash browns.

They are very nice though, don’t think me a critic of the rosti.

 

[The Clamp]

I used to quite like those frozen discs of bubble and squeak until I realised they taste nothing like bubble and squeak.

 

[kevo]

Emergency quorn mince. I'm not a outright veggie, but it's very versatile and lasts forever - just fry it up in olive oil and chuck it in pasta with garlic and tomato puree and spinach if you have some, and you have yourself a makeshift dinner.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Mrs BN9 BHA - Why have you got the freezer door wide open and standing there with a pen and notebook?
Me - So i can post on North Stand Chat what’s in the freezer.
Mrs BN9 BHA - Have a word with yourself.

 

[Muhammad - I’m hard - Bruce Lee]

The usual bags of frozen veg
12 tuna steaks
Bread
Oven chips
Evening meals for the next 2 weeks all batch cooked at the weekend
Mince
A Pork fillet
8 chicken thighs
And some other stuff

 

[banjo]

Fish fingers
2x tubs of ice cream
Peas
Cauliflower grills
Bean burgers
Chicken mini fillets
Burger buns x 2
Pitta pockets.
Emergency pizza

 

[WATFORD zero]

Well. I see the financial advantage but rostis aren’t hash browns.

They are very nice though, don’t think me a critic of the rosti.

It's taken me over 60 years to learn how to make rostis. The secret is to par-boil the potatoes, put them in the fridge overnight, and then grate and cook them and Bob's your Auntie's live in lover.

You have not been charged for this information

 

[Cheshire Cat]

There used to be a lot of frozen apples, pears, redcurrants, and plums because I planted too many fruit trees and there is only so much fruit I can eat at a time.

However, owing to the power of home-made flapjacks, I am down to one tub of frozen redcurrants.

Oh yes, and the usual peas, veg, curries, pizzas, milk, chicken, fish etc.

Except the fruit trees have blossomed again and I can't escape the incoming glut.

 

[Anger]

About 30 loose and randomly scattered peas……and a big lump of ice at the back.

Traditional. Nice.

 

[oldboyroy]

Bag of ice, chicken breast fillets, sausages, burgers, broad beans and peas as well as a mixture of frozen fruit bits and a few frozen meal leftovers.

 

[clapham_gull]

White stilton and black pudding.

 

[Since1982]

Homemade chilli
Homemade Bolognese
Homemade tomato sauce
Slow cooker lamb and beef stews
Bread
Chicken portions, thighs and breast
Bags of ice
A turkey bought late on Christmas Eve for a bargain price
Leg of lamb
Sausages from the butcher in Hassocks
Lots of fish from the place at Shoreham Harbour - whole plaice, sea bass fillets, rainbow trout, smoked salmon, prawns, scallops, fish pie mix
Ice cream
Hash browns
Frozen breakfast pastries
Homemade soup
Fish fingers
Bacon
A couple of Charlie Bigham meals

We keep a list of what's in the one in the garage and in the kitchen otherwise stuff stays in there for years.