Tips for freezing food

As you know, if you’ve read the story of how I got involved with THRIVE Life (formerly Shelf Reliance),  I first started building my home store (my food storage) through couponing.  I also stocked up on meats, produce and dairy when they went on sale for a great price and froze them.  At one point, I had about a 6-9 month supply of these foods in my freezer.  This worked well until my husband lost his job and we had to move: we lost all that food in our freezer.  As a result, I started stocking up on Thrive freeze dried foods instead b/c they taste and can be used just like the foods I used to stock in my freezer, but they have a 25 year shelf life!  My goal is to have a 12 month supply of meat, cheese, and produce.

However, most of those particular freeze dried foods are much more expensive through Thrive than they are at the grocery store.  I use my Thrive supply on busy nights to be sure I rotate through it, but I don’t use it every night.  I still find value in storing a 1-2 month supply of meat, produce and cheese in my actual freezer.  (and I’m looking into getting a solar generator, especially after our blackout).

I learned a lot about storing foods in the freezer: far more things can be frozen than you might think.
  A few examples:

• sour cream (not as a topping, but in sauces / baking)
• cream cheese
• milk
• eggs (just crack ’em open first)
• berries
• bananas
• herbs

Purchasing freeze-able items in large quantities (1-2 months worth) when they go on sale for a very low price is smart financially.  That way, you can “shop” from your freezer at a really low price instead of shopping at the store each week and paying whatever the price is that particular week.

I found a great article through pinterest today (let me know if you’d like an invite!) all about freezing food.  It is very well written: detailed and helpful.  I thought I’d share it for all of you who may be interested in freezing a bit more food!  Enjoy!

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