[little jeremiah]

What kind of things do you vacuum seal and freeze? (BTW i am a vegetarian...). I only buy ingredients, no pre-made food.

[ponygirl]

I’m a Costco buyer, so I vacuum seal a lot of their meats. Example, one package of their stew beef will be 2 or 2.5 pounds. I split into two (since my stew recipe calls for 1 lb), vacuum them and freeze. Same with their large sides of salmon. Cut it into filets, seal them 2-3 filets per bag, and freeze. And when buying the huge bags of almonds, pecans or walnuts, I also divide those into smaller bags, vacuum seal and freeze.

I recently bought an Anova circulator, so I’m going to be playing around with that also.. supposedly you can make recipes in the bag, seal and freeze, and then pop into the circulator when you’re ready to cook. I’ve tried a couple of things in it and it doesn’t save you any time, but the quality is a thousand times better than reheating frozen meals in the microwave. (And I would never put raw fish in The microwave!)

For a vegetarian, I would think you could do pastas, skillets or curry meals in the vacuum bags and freeze them.

[Snowybear]

> What kind of things do you vacuum seal and freeze?

All the veggies I grow. I still have peppers from last season!

-SB

[Cleebie Grums]

What kind of things do you vacuum seal and freeze? (BTW i am a vegetarian...). I only buy ingredients, no pre-made food.
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If you can, buy local foods. Right now that would be rhubarb. Just chunk it and freeze it. No blanching. It freezes great and makes wonderful pies or compote. Next up are strawberries. Just hull and freeze with a little sugar. Spring spinach, kale, and swiss chard can be frozen too, but must be blanched.