IFV (usually birdseye brand in my fav haunts) baby green beans, baby peas, white corn. If I don't have all three in my freezer I get a little nervous.
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Once I discovered I could roast them in the oven, I switched to mostly buying frozen
🤯 I haven't tried that yet. What are your favourites?
Our favorites are broccoli, green beans and brussels sprouts. Take out of freezer, toss with olive oil, salt and pepper, spread out on a cookie sheet, and bake at 425F (~220C) for 20-30 minutes turning once. For broccoli I usually bake 20 min, flip, then bake another 10 min.
Sometimes when there’s 5 minutes left I sprinkle some cheese on the veggies (usually parmesan or cheddar) and let it finish baking so the cheese melts and gets crispy.
Oh yeah! Crispy cheese beans. I'm going to try those first!
Thanks
Those air-fryable, pre-seasoned asparagus tips are delicious.
They are also more nutritious in the off-season because they have to wait for the fruit/vegetables to ripen before freezing as opposed to picking unripe and using treatments to ripen in storage. Though I prefer to get stuff from my own garden and process enough to have during the winter so I know I'm always eating nutritious food from my garden year-round. Understandably unattainable for some however.
Iirc, they can be healthier than fresh veggies too because they're usually flash frozen shortly after harvesting, whereas "fresh" veggies could've been picked weeks or even months ago. Same with canning. Think about how you can get "fresh" strawberries in the middle of winter.
Interesting take. It does kinda make sense, but they also taste a bit bland and just less in general to me. I still use them, though. Because it's so quick and convenient
Discovering frozen precut vegetables was key to solving lunch for me. You can find them very cheap too. Add some boiled chicken and that's been my lunch for over half a decade straight.
My only complaint is woody stuff that gets in the bags sometimes, like pepper or broccoli stems.
Even when buying fresh I eat the brocolli stems.
It's not most of the broccoli stems I mind, it's just the woody parts. The parts that no matter how long you chew on them they don't break up. If you don't know what I mean, lucky you I guess.
Yeah, I was eating dinner yesterday and got what I thought was a mouthful of bones from my fish. It was the broccoli
YES
YES!
Frozen vegetables are a go to for me in many cases with some exceptions. I have two rhetorical questions though: Why is it so hard to find frozen carrots on their own? Why is it so hard to find frozen mixed veggies without peas?
I think I've seen frozen carrots but now that I think about it I'm not so sure. LOL I think you maybe right. My guess would be because they're so cheap and easily sourced that fresh is better maybe?
Yeah I don't have a problem with buying fresh carrots and I could always freeze them myself. Just seems odd to me.
They really are! Most veg I eat is frozen it's way cheaper
You should try defrosting and cooking them. So much tastier
And easier. I don't get why they don't grow them precut and frozen in the first place.
They are quite a lot more expensive here, than fresh vegetables 🤔
Also they seem to have a lot of waste included in the bag. Especially broccoli and cauliflower seem to be partially filled with bits and pieces that are too small to use
"Broccoli florets" is what you want the bag to say. A bag of "broccoli cuts" includes stalks and stems, which is why it costs less.