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Do You Eat A Lot Of Frozen Food ?

I don't eat much frozen food ...



I defrost it first 😛


Seriously, I am more likely to freeze fresh food. The "bread drawer" of our freezer is filled up every weekend with my home baking.
We also buy peas, sweet corn, sweet corn and pollock that are bought from the freezer aisle.
 
I buy stirfry, mixed veges and mixed berries as there's only me eating them, but when frozen there is no waste - even if I forget to return them to the freezer I either add them to the pressure cooker or make a jelly.
 
helli said:
I don't eat much frozen food ...



I defrost it first 😛


Seriously, I am more likely to freeze fresh food. The "bread drawer" of our freezer is filled up every weekend with my home baking.
We also buy peas, sweet corn, sweet corn and pollock that are bought from the freezer aisle.
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I bought some coley yesterday which apparently is a cheaper alternative to cod ?

But is NOT pollack ?

I was just going to microwave ir from frozen with a bit of butter , salt and pepper and serve it with green beans ?
 
debs248 said:
My daughter prefers to eat her peas frozen :confused:

We don't eat a lot of frozen food, maybe once a week, but always have fish, seafood mix, spinach, peas, green beans and sprouts available. Also if there's a good meat offer in the shops we buy extra to freeze, usually lamb legs or beef mince.
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I buy frozen mince ?
 
We have split fridge freezer in kitchen plus a chest freezer in garage, so safe to say we consume frozen foods.

Sometimes when lucky we pick up bargains in Aldi early on in morning, things like chicken pork beef which are half price so are bought & put in freezer for later use. Other items in freezer are frozen veggies bread rolls ice cream to name a few.
 
Taffyboyslim said:
I bought some coley yesterday which apparently is a cheaper alternative to cod ?

But is NOT pollack ?

I was just going to microwave ir from frozen with a bit of butter , salt and pepper and serve it with green beans ?
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Sounds good
I find Pollock is "meaty" like cod but much cheaper. It is often what is in the packs of "white fish".
It works well in fish dishes where the other ingredients provide the flavour (e.g. fish tagine) but I prefer cod when the fish is if "star if the show". For example, I panne cid in breadcrumbs for fish and chips (ish).
 
We freeze meat/fish and defrost when used
Spinach is usually kept frozen.
Everything else is fresh.
 
We have two freezers. One in the garage is the overflow. We buy some frozen food. Also we freeze fresh food and leftovers or batch cooking portions if we are really organised.
Don't see anything wrong with using frozen food. I just need to remember to defrost it in time.
 
Taffyboyslim said:
I bought some coley yesterday which apparently is a cheaper alternative to cod ?

But is NOT pollack ?

I was just going to microwave ir from frozen with a bit of butter , salt and pepper and serve it with green beans ?
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When we were first married (50+ years ago!) we had very little money and ate coley frequently. At that time many people saw it as for cats only and so it was very, very cheap compared with other white fish. It does have a slightly off-putting greyish tinge when raw, but becomes white when cooked. Sadly over the years more people have realised it is very good, and although it is still cheaper than cod, haddock and hake the price difference is much less.

We also eat pollock, perfectly acceptable. We had a brief holiday on the North Norfolk coast recently and treated ourselves to a 'small' fish and chips at a restaurant in Cromer. The waitress whispered that it was pollock, presumably some customers expected a smaller portion of cod. It was very good!

Our freezer is mostly used for storing yellow-sticker bargains, usually fish, meat and berries. Morrisons often has fresh blueberries and raspberries at 10%, (ie 90% off), and we have also had steak, lamb chops and expensive fish for 20% or 10% of the full price.

In summer and autumn OH forages for wild cherries (sour but good cooked), mirabelle type plums and blackberries, much of which is frozen.
 
I have just remembered something else in our freezer - homemade sauces/pastes. When I make a batch of Thai curry paste, I freeze it in an ice cube tray. One cube is about one tablespoon and I can use it straight out of the freezer - defrosting it as I hear it in the pan.
 
In our freezer - bread, various veg, the produce from batch cooking (soups, traybakes, casseroles etc), leftovers, homemade curry sauces in single portions because the OH isn't a fan, fish, prawns, beef mince, chicken thighs (much tastier than breast). I don't like freezing meat joints, chops, steaks etc as they just never taste as good as fresh to me. Ice-cream now and then (vanilla to accompany things and mini Magnums for a treat). Some sort of a dessert in case of visitors. Plus odd things from Christmas that we never got round to using - usually just about gone by the following December!
 
silentsquirrel said:
When we were first married (50+ years ago!) we had very little money and ate coley frequently. At that time many people saw it as for cats only and so it was very, very cheap compared with other white fish. It does have a slightly off-putting greyish tinge when raw, but becomes white when cooked. Sadly over the years more people have realised it is very good, and although it is still cheaper than cod, haddock and hake the price difference is much less.

We also eat pollock, perfectly acceptable. We had a brief holiday on the North Norfolk coast recently and treated ourselves to a 'small' fish and chips at a restaurant in Cromer. The waitress whispered that it was pollock, presumably some customers expected a smaller portion of cod. It was very good!

Our freezer is mostly used for storing yellow-sticker bargains, usually fish, meat and berries. Morrisons often has fresh blueberries and raspberries at 10%, (ie 90% off), and we have also had steak, lamb chops and expensive fish for 20% or 10% of the full price.

In summer and autumn OH forages for wild cherries (sour but good cooked), mirabelle type plums and blackberries, much of which is frozen.
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Is coley " coalfish " ?
 
Went to Iceland today .....and their frozen chicken is definitely cheaper than the fresh

Wether that's a general point regarding all frozen food ?
 
Taffyboyslim said:
I bought some coley yesterday which apparently is a cheaper alternative to cod ?

But is NOT pollack ?

I was just going to microwave ir from frozen with a bit of butter , salt and pepper and serve it with green beans ?
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My husband was lamenting at how restricted the supply of fish is, with perfectly good fish thrown overboard dead as they are not regarded as edible, so are not worth landing. It is good to read that at least some fish normally regarded as gash are being processed and sold.
 
While I do like a nice bit of haddock from the chippy, at home it's whichever of coley or pollock is available at the time. Cheaper and more sustainable AFAIK, and if you're going to drown it in garlic butter, hard to tell it from cod anyway.
 
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