Happy & Healthy

Why it’s great to have a freezer

And the rules

I am a fan of the freezer. And I’m also a fan of a lot of products that come out of the freezer in the grocery store. Spinach for example, or red fruit. They usually get frozen right after they’ve been plucked. In my own freezer, you’ll always find shrimp, red peppers and bananas. A freezer is useful when you don’t have time to do a grocery run or you made too much food that you’d like to save. When you freeze it, you stop bacteria from spreading which makes it expire less quickly. Here are a couple more tips about your best friend in the kitchen.

• Put your food into Tupperware containers (or ziplock bags) in the freezer and add a sticker on it with the date that you put it in.
• Don’t put anything warm inside your freezer. Let it cool off first.
• When you’ve taken something out of the freezer and you’re letting it thaw, then you shouldn’t re-freeze it. This allows the bacteria to multiply.
• Vegetables that contain a lot of water like lettuce, tomato and cucumber shouldn’t be kept in your freezer. During the thawing process, these vegetables will loose all it’s liquidity.
• Try to keep the products you put in the freezer as fresh as possible. Although freezing products helps them last longer, it doesn’t make your ingredients fresher.
• Be careful when you’re working with raw eggs, yoghurt and milk. Don’t freeze them because when these products are thawing, they might leave you with chunks. You don’t want that.
• For bread and dairy products there’s a max of three months you can freeze it and for vegetables, depending on which ones, it’s six to twelve months. Regarding fruit: same story here. It depends on the type of fruit but can be stored eight to twelve months in your freezer.