Frozen food

[matchmaker]

I've just (before chucking it in the recycling bin) had a look at a flyer that came through the letterbox from Farmfoods. Suggestions for feeding a family of 6 every day of the week entirely on frozen food

No wonder this country is going down the plughole.

I blame the Tories.

[jmorgan]

I blame parenting skills going down the pan. And those ads where some woman shops at a shop. At those prices I wonder how many cows lips, hooves and oles are used?








Edit. Certain brand name removed.

Edited by jmorgan on Wednesday 25th November 08:16

[Glassman]

Most packaged food is suitable for freezing.

Which is nice.

[Hugo a Gogo]

what's wrong with frozen food?

some of it is st, just like some non-frozen food

some of it is as good or better than 'fresh'

[Lucas CAV]

matchmaker said:

I've just (before chucking it in the recycling bin) had a look at a flyer that came through the letterbox from Farmfoods. Suggestions for feeding a family of 6 every day of the week entirely on frozen food

No wonder this country is going down the plughole.

I blame the Tories.

there's plenty of good frozen food.

what's your problem?

[f13ldy]

Is it true that frozen veg retains more nutrients than its fresh brothers?

Without frozen veg I'd be chucking out 3/4s of a brocolli every week.

[Vipers]

Hugo a Gogo said:

what's wrong with frozen food?

some of it is st, just like some non-frozen food

some of it is as good or better than 'fresh'

Agree, however we are breading a bunch of kids who have absolutely no idea how to prepare fresh food.

At the same time when you look at some of the cooking programmes on telly, I think they are a bunch of ste, hours and hours of preparing, and what turns up! a plate with enough food on it to feed at least one mouse.

We keep stuff in the freezer, like peas, fish, as the misses says "Just in case I can't get to the shops". At the end of the day, each to their own.

[Lucas CAV]

Vipers said:

Hugo a Gogo said:

what's wrong with frozen food?

some of it is st, just like some non-frozen food

some of it is as good or better than 'fresh'

Agree, however we are breading a bunch of kids who have absolutely no idea how to prepare fresh food.

At the same time when you look at some of the cooking programmes on telly, I think they are a bunch of ste, hours and hours of preparing, and what turns up! a plate with enough food on it to feed at least one mouse.

We keep stuff in the freezer, like peas, fish, as the misses says "Just in case I can't get to the shops". At the end of the day, each to their own.

convenience food has been around for years

plenty of older people are st at cooking

[james_tigerwoods]

We cook and freeze meals for our 18 month old daughter - it works well (she gets veg with each meal though) and we also keep in frozen veg - that works ok too. However, we for in a load of frozen "finest" type fish and I must say that compared to fresh, the quality and taste is pretty poor - I won't be buying the likes of frozen fish again...

[Matt_N]

Lucas CAV said:

Vipers said:

Hugo a Gogo said:

what's wrong with frozen food?

some of it is st, just like some non-frozen food

some of it is as good or better than 'fresh'

Agree, however we are breading a bunch of kids who have absolutely no idea how to prepare fresh food.

At the same time when you look at some of the cooking programmes on telly, I think they are a bunch of ste, hours and hours of preparing, and what turns up! a plate with enough food on it to feed at least one mouse.

We keep stuff in the freezer, like peas, fish, as the misses says "Just in case I can't get to the shops". At the end of the day, each to their own.

convenience food has been around for years

plenty of older people are st at cooking

Yep, Id agree.

Loads of time, whilst Ive been doing the shopping Ive seen old people with loads of frozen ready meals in their trollies, things like frozen roast dinners, euch.

[f-fuxake]

I would imagine that a good number of old people have difficulty cooking meals on the hob, lifting pans etc.
Microwaving a ready meal would be the safest way to prepare a meal.

[jmorgan]

I have no problem with cooking and freezing, makes sense. Usually my frozen stuff has been cooked from fresh and its a waste to bin the the left overs. Frozen veg, again no problem there nor with the odds and sods for coming home late.

But when you have "feed your whole family on frozen food for silly amounts of money" type ads for a week you are pretty certain the best cuts, nay, even decent cuts are not used and it is so easy to knock up something far better and healthier. Perusing one site and ready meals for a £1. Probably worse things than cows lips in pies.

[mitzy]

The only thing we buy is Frozen pizza for the "cant be bothered to cook dinner" every now and again and frozen fish.

But agree we are breeding a nation of "Ping" chav foodies.

All these busy people who say that they cant prepare a fresh dinner of meat and lots of good veg.......... thats what slow cookers are for , bung it in the morning and when you get home you dinner is ready.

[Piglet]

You need to decide what you're whinging about.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with frozen food per se and for those with limited mobility or living away from shops etc.a well stocked freezer is a lifeline. We keep loads of meat, frozen veg, frozen home made "ready meals" in ours.

Frozen convenience food is a whole different ballgame but it's no different to non frozen convenience food so it's not really the fact that it's frozen that's a problem is it?

[Lemmonie]

Sadly a sign of the times.

Mothers these days more often work as well as rearing the children and running the household. It's no wonder people buy and use more frozen food.

For example: I work 16 hours per week in an office, have two children age 2 and 3, i then work every evening in my beauty salon. Some days i have no choice but to throw a frozen meal in the oven. I have even had to buy another freezer as i dont have time to go shopping either! Obviously i do make and freeze my own meals, always for the kids but husband and i eat alot of frozen stuff

[speedchick]

We tend to have a lot of frozen veg, ready to roast potatoes and also frozen chips in ours, as I find it mor eeconomical to grab a bag of veg out of the freezer for a meal, than to keep fresh veg and end up throwing it away as it didnt get used, same with potatoes I guess.

We do have fast things, like fish fingers etc in, for when something needs to be done fast, and my son loves frozen sausages, as when he is peckish, he can get a couple out, bung them under the grill and make himself a sausage butty.

I also have some of the Asda £1 meals in the freezer for me, the chicken curry, hotpot type of things, as when I am working, I generally can't get away from the computer long enough to make something from scratch, so I throw one of those in the microwave for my lunch, and it does seem a waste going to a lot of effort to make a meal for one person.

Tonight is going to be a proper roast dinner, with the chicken breasts that I bought last week and bunged them straight in the freezer, the only 'packaged' foodstuff we will have wiht that will be the stuffing (at Christmas I do make proper sausage meat stuffing for the turkey)

[matchmaker]

Don;t get me wrong - I have nothing against frozen food per se - we have a lot of frozen food in our freezer - veg, meat, oven chips etc. As well as food we have prepared from scratch and frozen - soup, lasagne, pasta sauce.

My gripe was against the way of life that seems to be springing (or have sprung) up where many kids rarely or ever eat fresh, home prepared food. It's not just cost - I can rattle up a nice pan of stew, veg, dumplings and potatoes and feed 4 of us for about a fiver. With enough left over for my lunch the next day. It ain't rocket science!

[bazking69]

It all depends what it is that is frozen. The art of freezing food itself isn't the problem.

I make up big batches of good food using fresh ingredients and freeze them, and probably eat these frozen meals 4 days a week.

[TheLemming]

There are both advantages and disadvantages with frozen food. A lot of it is crap, but it's cheap and tends to be relatively quick.

I tend to live out of the freezer through the week and cook on the weekends. I'm a damn good cook (nowhere near the standards of some of the peeps on the cooking forum tbh but still). but just cant be bothered through the week as a rule. Cooking for one isnt normally worth the effort.

This could perhaps explain why I'm getting fat though!

[Cotty]

matchmaker said:

I've just (before chucking it in the recycling bin) had a look at a flyer that came through the letterbox from Farmfoods. Suggestions for feeding a family of 6 every day of the week entirely on frozen

If you are talking about ready meals then yes I agree, but a lot of veg is supposedy better frozen at source than shipped and bought "fresh"

I keep lots of veg (peas, sweetcorn, etc) in the freezer along with chicken, lamb and beef. If you you buy the BOGOF deals you could not eat it all on your own so buy two freeze one.