Storage: Can I freeze it? Questions about freezing your stockpile here!

[queenofthehivemomof5]

Cheese frozen does tend to crumble. But I have had good luck with mozzeralla cheese as it is a bit more rubbery in texture.

I do tend to like it for lasagna and other dishes where if it is a bit crumbly it would be OK.

I have frozen mozzarella cheese sticks (string cheese) and they are fine and dandy and perfectly stringy when thawed. In fact I pulled out a package yesterday and the kids had some today.

[cintinative]

I freeze block parmesan cheese--it crumbles a lot when thawed but that usually works out well for me because I need to grate it anyway.

[BARGINSHOPS]

I recently got a super good deal on sweet corn so I bought a lot. However we wont eat all of it fast enough so I cut the ears in half and froze them (why not, thats how GG sells them, right?).

Anyway it got me thinking, what else (besides meat of course) could I stock up on and freeze when the price is right? I was hoping maybe you could all share whats stocked in your freezer that is maybe a nontraditional frozen food.:smile77:

[momabrown3]

I get the flavored liquid coffee creamers after the hollidays for free or very cheap using coupons.That way I have the holliday flavors all year.They freeze well.I put them in the fridge a few days before I need to use them so they defrost.Just shake good before useing.Now time for a cup of Java.LOL

[mama22qts]

There's a thread already for this in Stockpiling, so I'm moving this to that area. OP, I"ll link to that thread in just a second for you. There's a lot of good info there.

[mama22qts]

Here you go, OP.

[BARGINSHOPS]

Thank you! Sorry about that, I'm really not good at using the search option, it always tells me "no match found"

[cintinative]

Okay, I'll confess to not reading this whole thread--we need to split it up by product type! =)

Anyway, a couple things I wanted to share.

My husband saw or read this somewhere and it works great for us. If you don't typically use a whole package of bacon, then when you buy the bacon take out each strip and roll it up then put the rolls on a cookie sheet (so swirl is visible--vertically) and put them in the freezer until frozen. Then put them in a ziploc and place in the freezer. Now, if you only need two strips of bacon, grab two rolled pieces of bacon to thaw. It's great for recipes that use a half package of bacon.

I like to freeze overripe bananas for use in banana bread. There is a recipe by Tyler Florence of a certain tv network (see their website) which calls for four bananas--two pureed (by mixer) and two mashed. I use the frozen ones for the pureed part. Great recipe. Also on the same website, Alton Brown has a good banana ice cream recipe.

[cintinative]

Originally Posted by BARGINSHOPS I was hoping maybe you could all share whats stocked in your freezer that is maybe a nontraditional frozen food.:smile77:

Coffee, cornmeal, wheat flour, butter, bacon, opened tomato paste, opened tomato puree, bread, hamburger buns, etc.

[BARGINSHOPS]

How long can bread and buns be frozen b4 they get FB or any other kind of "damage"?
Do you just put the dry cornmeal or WF in a bag and freeze it dry like that?