10 things I had no idea I could freeze!

No matter how hard I try, I always end up with wasted food that gets thrown out. I have been researching ways to reduce this and this week I looked into what food I could freeze to store to reduce waste.

Here are 10 things I never knew I could freeze:

1) Eggs: Freeze your eggs in ice cube trays ready to use in your cooking. 2) Herbs: Freeze your herbs in ice cube trays with some water when you have leftovers and they will be ready to use the next time you make the recipe.

3) Milk: Freeze your milk that’s about to expire in ice cube trays or in the plastic bottle.

4) Ginger: Instead of letting your ginger go wrinkly in the fridge, peel it and slice it up ready to use in juices or cooking.

5) Nuts: I often have leftover nuts from a recipe that end up going stale in the cupboard, freeze them ready to use next time.

6) Cheese: Stock up on your favourite cheese blocks when they are on sale and freeze.

7) Root vegetables: Freeze your excess root vegetables by peeling, cutting up, blanching and freezing in portions ready to use.

8) Cookie dough: Make a double batch of dough and freeze half to save time baking next time.

9) Avocado: Stock up on avocados in Summer and freeze them to eat in winter.

10) Wine: Freeze wine in ice cube trays to use in cooking.

What do you freeze? Please add comment below.

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45 Comments

- - meedee said
  - 15 Oct 2021
    11:58 am
Freezing Avos is not something that I had ever thought of doing but im willing to give it a try.

- - mom206279 said
  - 23 Mar 2017
    10:30 pm
Not sure I’d try freezing eggs enen if you can do it. Seems so wrong.

- - Joy WATSON said
  - 15 Mar 2017
    5:02 pm
I had no idea you can freeze avocados. I would guess there would only be certain ways you could used them after defrosting. I guess not on sandwiches.

- - Isma said
  - 23 Feb 2017
    12:31 am
Egg and milk… never thought of…

- - mom79844 said
  - 20 Feb 2017
    4:20 pm
I sometimes freeze egg white, not whole egg when I only use egg yolk for baking. Defrost frozen egg white, and used for icing or meringue. I’ve tried milk before, but it didn’t work.

- - coastalkaryn said
  - 24 Nov 2016
    9:23 pm
1, 2, 7, 9, 10 WOWZA!

- - mom70876 said
  - 23 Nov 2016
    2:17 pm
Remember that freezing damages cell structure.. .so not a good idea to freeze things like eggs!

- - mom19782016 said
  - 13 Oct 2016
    12:39 pm
What? You can freeze eggs? No idea about that one!

- - tessie said
  - 11 Oct 2016
    3:06 am
The one that surprised me was being able to freeze avocado. As for the wine, there’s usually never any left over to freeze. Good to know though

- - rovermum said
  - 10 Oct 2016
    10:39 am
I had no idea that most of these could be frozen. I do love that herbs can be frozen. I find I use them so rarely that I’m always throwing them out. It become a very expensive exercise.

- - mom134803 said
  - 08 Oct 2016
    1:25 pm
I’ve frozen all of them but never eggs. But then I’ve never left over eggs, they’re to good to use, lol. I find the consistency and taste changes a bit with cheese when you freeze it.

- - mom101628 said
  - 07 Oct 2016
    10:53 pm
Always heard you couldn’t freeze dairy, but have successfully done so – but eggs?
Guess they are only good to have in omelettes or scrambled eggs after that.
Do you freeze them in their shell or crack them into a container?

- - mom94125 said
  - 03 Sep 2016
    6:12 pm
i knew that you could freeze milk but i didn’t know about eggs! i wonder how they turn out?

- - Melissa89 said
  - 27 Jul 2016
    11:52 am
A lot of these I had no idea about. I do know that you can freeze grapes and use in place of ice cubes in alcohol as they do exactly what the ice would do without adding water to your beverage. The more you know!

- - hopefullyheidi said
  - 30 Jun 2016
    10:04 am
The raspberries and mint leaves pictured look amazing and could be served in drinks to jazz them up

- - ella12 said
  - 21 Jun 2016
    12:45 pm
Gee, wow, I had no idea about most of these. Thank you so much (-:

- - rovermum said
  - 20 Jun 2016
    10:06 am
I absolutely love this list. I have not frozen any of these, but am prepared to give some a try. I do love the idea of freezing herbs. I hate buying them when I only need a little and they end up going off and being thrown out. Great tips.

- - cherz said
  - 18 Jun 2016
    4:03 pm
Freezing certain food items does however change the flavour and texture but if you were going to throw them out what have you got to loss.
Thanks Jessica.

- - robyn_smithwick said
  - 17 Jun 2016
    1:33 pm
wOW! tHIS IS A GREAT BLOG. I did not know you could freeze eggs or avocado!

- - Lori-Anne said
  - 16 Jun 2016
    2:24 pm
I had no idea you can freeze avocado. Might try that. Will add other suggestions if I stumble across any more.