You can freeze salad, right?

FREEZE                                                                                        DON’T FREEZE

Pasta                                                                                              Sour Cream

Enchiladas                                                                                       Cream Cheese

Shredded/sliced cheese                                                                             Lettuce

Cooked rice                                                                                    Cottage cheese

Pancakes                                                                                        Scrambled/fried eggs

French toast                                                                                     Bechamel/cheese sauce

Cookies and cookie dough                                                               Shortening

Corn and flour tortillas                                                                      Unblanched asparagus

Chopped onions                                                                               German Pancakes                   

Refried beans                                                                                   Cake batter

Fruits                                                                                                Mayo

Veggies                                                                                             Raw potatoes

Pumpkin                                                                                           Tomatoes

Biscuits and rolls                                                                               Gravy

Lasagna                               

Baked cakes/cupcakes (frosting doesn’t do so well)

Coffee

Guacamole

Avocado

Buttermilk (freeze in ice cube trays)

Eggs (crack them into a freezer safe container)

Milk (if you must….pour off about 2 cups so it doesn’t burst)

Yogurt

Nuts

Spices

Sugar/flour (even brown sugar)

I prefer to freeze using double zip freezer bags. We aren't storing for posterity here, just for about a month. If you are diligent about dating your bags you should be using it long before it would "expire" so I don't really worry about it.

Anything small or sticky (like raspberries or hamburger patties) place them in a single layer on a cookie sheet and freeze until solid. Then place them in freezer bags. Do the same thing with cookie dough then you just plop them onto cookie sheets and bake them adding about 1 minute extra to the baking time!

Hardware:

Quart and gallon freezer bags

Aluminum foil

Plastic wrap

Wax paper (use for forming/wrapping meatloaves/hamburger patties and separating cheese slices)

Disposable pans

Permanent markers for labeling and writing cooking directions on bags

Don't use glass pans in the freezer...just take my word for it! :)

Next up...... Cooking chicken 3 ways!!