Does anyone find that soups, stews or things containing pasta, rice or potatoes are not so good frozen and thawed? Especially pasta dishes or anything with cheese. Oh well, we shouldn't be eating those anyway, right?
That's what I thought too, but tell the stores that which only sell big packages of meat and of so many other things. This is getting better though as I am finding more stores are offering smaller sizes...and yet the price often ends up being the same of more than the regular size. My freezer is just part of my refrigerator and cannot hold a whole bunch of stuff at one time. So I'm considering buying a small extra freezer so I can buy more things when they have good sales on these things...and dividing them up in smaller portions to freeze.
The problem I have with most cookbooks and cooking magazines these days is that most of the recipes call for so many ingredients or spices, etc. that just buying all those things for one recipe would eat up a big chunk of my food budget...and buying spices, etc. that I will never use again is also a waste of my food budget money. I want simple but delicious and as few ingredients as possible.
