Blast From My Past...DON'T Throw It Out !!!! Freezer Burned Foods and What To Do With Them
Greetings sisters,
Here's another post from my past homestead blog that might be of encouragement for some of you...
All too often we hear of people cleaning out their freezers and tossing out food that has been there longer than someone deemed necessary. For some reason there is the conception that food that has been in the freezer for (___fill in the blank with a time__) months or years, that it is inedible? Dangerous? Should be thrown away? I wonder who came up with this idea? Seems pretty wasteful to us but then again sometimes people just do things because that's what they've heard or been taught but they don't seek to see if there is any truth behind it.
Well, I'm here to say that we don't throw out (waste) food just because it has a bit of freezer burn/ frost on it, or a date beyond what someone told us and we encourage you think twice about doing it yourself.
Here are a few ideas for you to do when you find some freezer food that is less than perfect and has freezer burned or gathered frost....
* Meat can be made into soup or stew.
* Fish can be baked in butter and herbs.
* Fruit can be made into jams or smoothies.
* Vegetables can be made into soups or stews with your meat.
By the time you are done cooking them, you won't even notice a difference, we don't anyway. In fact I just came across a couple bags of home frozen broccoli that frosted and freezer burned so I made it into a broccoli soup.
If you have bread that has dried out or frosted you can simply thaw it, cut it into cubes, put it in the oven at 300 for 15-25 minutes to toast it into croutons or grind into bread crumbs.
Now there is something to be said about left overs that some well meaning person saved for another meal but they got shoved to the back of the freezer and a year later they are found (dried out) and when thawed the food separates. One thing you can do is puree it into a smooth soup, or you can drain out some of the liquid and replace it with fresh. Some, however, are so broken down that they are hard to revive but those are the rare cases and in that situation you give it to the chickens or offer it to your neighbors animals if they want. If they don't then your compost heap is great place to recycle it:-)
Our culture is saturated in this 'disposable' mindset that it's sometimes hard for people discern the cultures mindset vs what is truth.
Hopefully this helps some of you.
Love,
Sister Deb
Here's another post from my past homestead blog that might be of encouragement for some of you...
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All too often we hear of people cleaning out their freezers and tossing out food that has been there longer than someone deemed necessary. For some reason there is the conception that food that has been in the freezer for (___fill in the blank with a time__) months or years, that it is inedible? Dangerous? Should be thrown away? I wonder who came up with this idea? Seems pretty wasteful to us but then again sometimes people just do things because that's what they've heard or been taught but they don't seek to see if there is any truth behind it.
Well, I'm here to say that we don't throw out (waste) food just because it has a bit of freezer burn/ frost on it, or a date beyond what someone told us and we encourage you think twice about doing it yourself.
Here are a few ideas for you to do when you find some freezer food that is less than perfect and has freezer burned or gathered frost....
* Meat can be made into soup or stew.
* Fish can be baked in butter and herbs.
* Fruit can be made into jams or smoothies.
* Vegetables can be made into soups or stews with your meat.
By the time you are done cooking them, you won't even notice a difference, we don't anyway. In fact I just came across a couple bags of home frozen broccoli that frosted and freezer burned so I made it into a broccoli soup.
If you have bread that has dried out or frosted you can simply thaw it, cut it into cubes, put it in the oven at 300 for 15-25 minutes to toast it into croutons or grind into bread crumbs.
Now there is something to be said about left overs that some well meaning person saved for another meal but they got shoved to the back of the freezer and a year later they are found (dried out) and when thawed the food separates. One thing you can do is puree it into a smooth soup, or you can drain out some of the liquid and replace it with fresh. Some, however, are so broken down that they are hard to revive but those are the rare cases and in that situation you give it to the chickens or offer it to your neighbors animals if they want. If they don't then your compost heap is great place to recycle it:-)
Our culture is saturated in this 'disposable' mindset that it's sometimes hard for people discern the cultures mindset vs what is truth.
Hopefully this helps some of you.
Love,
Sister Deb
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