Frozen Food Favorites
There’s nothing better than fresh fruits and veggies, but sometimes I have to rely on frozen food to get me by. Not only is it super convenient, it also tends to be cheaper, and it keeps for a lot longer. The issue is usually navigating through the freezer section, to find things that aren’t loaded up with artificial ingredients and preservatives.
So I made a quick little list of some of my frozen food staples.
Frozen Foods I Love
Frozen Fruit
- Berries last longer and they’re much cheaper, especially when they are out of season! I also like to freeze my bananas when they start getting too ripe. (Peel them first!)
Ezekiel bread (or any sprouted grain bread)
- It keeps longer in the freezer, and a few minutes in the toaster brings it right back to life!
Vitatops (and VitaCakes)
- They’re kind of expensive, but they’re pretty tasty! You could also just make these apple pie oatmeal muffins and freeze them.
Frozen dinners (without the weird stuff)
- Amy’s makes some of my favorites, but I also like Kashi and Lightlife.
Frozen dinners can come in handy if I need to pack my lunch, or I don’t have time to cook something. I like that the sprouted grain bread keeps in the freezer (really, any kind of bread would) so it doesn’t go stale before I can finish the loaf. And I actually prefer frozen berries for yogurt and smoothies! Vitatops make a great dessert when you just need something sweet.
Things I Don’t Love
- Steamed broccoli– I just don’t think this tastes great. It’s not bad in a stir fry, but fresh is so much tastier
- Frozen meals with 10,000 ingredients– Take a look at what’s in there… and watch out for strange preservatives and chemicals
- Soy crumbles– I really wanted to like these, but I used them in this vegetarian chili and I just hated the texture
I’m vegetarian and I love to make twice as much vegi bolognaise and then freeze half of it to use on jacket potatoes another day.
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Haha, that’s so weird… I LOVE frozen broccoli steamed. I have it almost every day!
Hahaha maybe I’m buying a bad brand?? What kind do you get?
Does coconut milk ice cream count? Or Cool Whip? [Technically you keep it in the freezer…] 🙂
Actually, I love using frozen bell peppers in stews, when they are going to cook down anyway. I will often use a frozen stir fry blend just to make a quick dinner…it is much cheaper than buying all the individual ingredients. I used to love to buy the sugar snap peas frozen and steam them just a little so they were still crispy–it was cheaper than buying them fresh and I could add them to salads and such.
Frozen Brussells sprouts aren’t that bad if you thaw them and then roast them.
I go back and forth about frozen food myself, sometimes I find myself buying all kinds of Trader Joes yummy frozen things and assume they are healthy then realize woahh they are not. Those berries look incredible though! Whenever I get them they look all macerated and unripe. I will need to get the kind you get because alternately if I buy them fresh they go bad in 2.5 seconds