Always buy frozen
Keep frozen foods
Try to keep frozen food together during shopping, and on the trip home, as this will help
keep the food fresher.
Store food right away
Do not buy frozen foods unless you can freeze it right away. Special insulating bags can
be purchased in most supermarkets and hardware stores. These keep
longer.
Thawing of frozen foods
For some foods,
thawing before
can be added directly to boiling water or steamed. Frozen sauces and soups can be put
in a saucepan and gently heated until
Freezing fresh food,
Use quality food and handle it as little as possible. Freeze food in small amounts, freeze
faster, take less time to thaw and allows you to eat in the amount you need.
Freezing
fresh food
First, estimate the amount of food you will freeze. If you are freezing large amounts of fresh
food, remember to turn the control dial to Max. This will reduce the temperature in the
freezer, freezing your food
should do this sparingly to conserve energy.
Preparations for freezing
· Let the cooked
foods cool completely.
· Cool food in a refrigerator before
you want
· Consider how
· Do not freeze
food in
the
from
freezer.
· Use special freezer bags available in supermarkets, freezer film, polyethylene
plastic containers, aluminum foil for acidic foods (such as citrus).
Do not use film or thin glass. Do not use used food containers
clean it carefully).
products at once in the supermarket.
together
cooking is unnecessary. Vegetables
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faster and helping to keep the best of them. However, you
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food before
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