The Food Freezer: Lifesaver of Busy Home Cook Fans

My life in the kitchen can be told in two stages: Before and after discovering the food freezer.

No need to say that utilizing the food freezer effectively helps me a lot in the kitchen by saving me time and money. I am so very happy about this that I cannot wait to share my methods with everyone. Just follow these easy steps below to discover the road to making it easier and quicker to home cook, by benefiting more from your deep freezer.

• As we are only two persons at home I was always worried that excess of fresh vegetables we bought would end up in trash. I tended not to buy some types which are sold in bundles or bought only enough to cook the next few days' meal. Then I discovered frozen vegetables, which are mostly prepared for cooking and can be kept for a long time.
• Of course you cannot find all kinds of vegetables frozen but you can make your own. Simply clean and cut the vegetables , make one meal enough bunches and put in refrigerator bags.Keep them in the deep freezer to take out when necessary.
• In some meals we use more than one kind of vegetable. In that case, prepare all the vegetables, make into one meal enough piles and keep in the deep freezer in refrigerator bags.
• You can even make your own ready to fry frozen potatoe chips, you do not always need to buy them, if it is more economical to buy fresh ones.
• Sometimes I prepare too much of a meal ,deliberately or by mistake. No need to throw away the excess food. Pu it in refrigerator bags or storage containers and keep in the deep freezer, to take out when necessary.
• Roasted onions and minced meat is the basis for most Turkish meals. When I buy minced meat, I roast it with onions, make one meal enough piles and put in refrigerator bags again to keep in the deep freezer.
• Other than ready frozen vegetables, there are other kinds of frozen food. I constantly search for them in stores and try if they are tasty or not. I buy frozen meatballs, pizzas, fish fingers and other sea food, mozarella fingers and borek and manti; these last two are special to my country.

All kinds of frozen food, ready or home made, save a lot of time for home cook fans who choose to eat healthy and economical and and would like to spend some of their precious free time and Money for other precious hobbies.

So these are some of the methods that I discovered to make my life in the kitchen easier and happier by utilizing the food freezer more. I would appreciate it if you share your methods with me.