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I cook up a few boxes of spaghetti and freeze in dinner portions. I loved your marinara sauce recipe!! Thanks for the onion tip! I hadn't thought of using processor for chopping onions!
Freeze tomato paste left from an open can by 1 Tbsp each in an ice cube tray. Then put in zipper bag. Next time a recipe calls for 2 Tbsp, go to your freezer!
The trick you shared with shared with the onions ๐ง , I do that with tomato paste. I only ever need a tablespoon or 2 at a time, so I just freeze portioned off like your onions. Works great! I cannot wait to get moved and start my freezer scrap bag for veggie stock again! I love it! And to stalk my freezer with homemade beans. So easy & so cheap. Totally worth the minimal effort it takes. I make both of these in my instant pot.
i finally downloaded Fetch. Thanks for the reminder. Going to try your marinara recipe this weekend. Sounds delicious. I make my beans from dry too, no soaking needed. 34 minutes for pintos, which are my current favorite. I've got a bag of scraps in the freezer too, just waiting to be made into broth!
So question…do you scrub your onions and stuff first then? Bc confession, I never wash my onions usually. Also, are there any veggie scraps would you not recommend using? Loved the tips, thanks!
That is a great idea for the onions. Let us know if it works on other food, please. God bless you from grandma Katie in Oregon
Yes- love freezing portions of zucchini, onion, peppers, jalapeรฑos, kale, spinach, tomatoes, ect- we had a garden and our neighbors share a ton too- so excited to save a ton of money this winter again for our big family!
Thought I'd share a hack that I've been meaning to try. "Wet some paper towel and keep it on the cutting board.ย The acidity from onions gravitate towards water. So instead of hitting your tear ducts it'll seep towards the wet paper towel instead.โ ๐ฅฐ๐ง
I put the jar of water or broth that I will be using for the meal next to the cutting board and it no longer bothers me. Works every time. Excited to try your sauce and veggie broth! Thank you!
Freeze onions for 5 minutes before chopping. Put face in freezer if tears fall.
Have you ever heard of souper cubes? They are kind of expensive, but they are awesome for food prep/freezing soups and sauces. I use them every week. It's food grade silicone. Once it freeze, the cubes pop right out to put in a plastic bag.
Onions really irritate my eyes too. I'll try your freezer trick! ๐ง
For my homemade veggie broth..I make my veggie broth then reuse plastic water bottles which is 16oz . So , I can stack my freezer and I just take 1 bottle per use in my meals.
Plus, like you I reuse glass jars as well..
Thanks for the onion hack it just changed my life. I also, take a small cube silicone cube tray and portion out my tomato paste and sauce put into freezer and it make it quicker n meals are finished in timely preparation..
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too much work…just chop as needed
Love these tips/hacks and love your content, thank you!!
Oh, you can freeze cooked rice, wrap in Saran Wrap into desired portions, heat in microwave to eat!
Oh my goodness! I bought 2 bell peppers last week to chop up and freeze. Thank you so much for the reminder.
I pressure cooked 2 lbs of dried pinto beans and didnt soak them. My tummy didnt like it so I will soak them next time but I felt so accomplished after making them. We made refried beans and portioned them out. No more buy canned refried beans. Well I have some but I want to use the canned stuff for emergencies or convenience. Pressure cooking your own beans truly saves money.
Homemade marinara tastes better to me too. I need to start doing that as well. I buy Raos and its pricey. I would save a lot of money if I made my own.
My mind is spinning and thinking of all of the stuff I have in my fridge that o can freeze.
The onions kill my eyes and sinuses. I tried doing this with the onions, peeling/chopping them and they still did the same thing to me. But I may just do more dicing at one time and still freeze them. Great idea to have this happen once in a while and not everytime you need onions.
Thanks so much for all of the great money saving tips.
Got my bag of veggie scraps going. I threw some out for a couple of days and when I realized it I was so mad at myself but forward and onward. ๐
Blessings. ๐
Great ideas as usual. I've been doing that for years. My bell peppers, onions and celery never go bad! (Except for Ian, when we had throw it all out). And I love homemade veggie broth!
These were really very helpful tips, thank you so much! I will definitely apply a lot of them. I started to follow emily and she seems to be a very nice person, but i felt too triggered due to the complete opposite of my nutritional standpoints (she is basically high animal protein, low carb) so i stopped following her. But i find it inspiring that you are so open minded in regards to nutritional standpoints – something i have to work on.
New subscriber here – liked the freezing onions in sections vid. Several hacks that work for me are: making veggie broth, beans and lentils(separately of course ๐) overnight in my slow cooker on low for 8 hrs. This leaves the slow cooker available during the day for other meals (I use mine a lot!). I also use it for baking quick breads, pizza, etc. Also when ground beef is on sale I buy 2pkgs. and make up meat loaves to freeze and cook up the rest and put into freezer bags in meal size portions. The cooked ground beef tastes better after freezing imo than freezing it raw. I also do this with bacon and take out a portion to โnukeโ while my eggs are cooking.
Why don't you use the bottom of the pepper? I under stand the seedy part but the bottom is fine.
Great idea with the frozen onion hack! I had to hammer out my frozen onion bag yesterday ๐
Hi Miranda โค this is such a great video! I love the onion hack. I actually do the same thing. I get them on sale, dice them and slice them in different sizes for different applications, then freeze them. I like the food processor idea because you can use it for all kinds of soups and stews. I do the pepper thing too. Peppers are horribly expensive here and now is the time to buy and chop. They last me all winter. We have horrendous winters here, so if I can get ahead, I can save a ton of money and I donโt have to drive in a blizzard. Peace and love to you โฎ๏ธ๐
Thanks for a reminder! I have frozen homemade refried beans I need to use up!!
We grow a lot of food, so have learned to freeze alot. Take carrots, steam partly done and them freeze. Love orka and freeze or eat raw.