Stocking Your Fridge & Freezer

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This is a video that was offered from my employer’s Healthy Living Video Series Here are my notes. any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.

– Like to keep healthy food to head.
– Freezers some people do not like to have frozen meat and vegetables. It is nice to have a fully stocked freezer.
– Stoke up on bulk meat and separate them. Put in a ziplock, and put the date so I use the oldest first.
– Like frozen vegetables. They are harvested at peak condition. Avoid spoilage of vegetables or fruit. Already chopped. They are sashed, flash-frozen, and healthy.
– Frozen butternut squash. Put on a roasting pan 400 degrees for a half-hour. Cook it, mash it, and put it to squash macaroni and cheese. It is already prepared.
– Liker frozen peas and put them in soups and is a great filler. Ingredients just have the vegetable. Canned vegetables will have a preservative. Canned items have salt put in so put in a strainer and wash. If you see bubbles that is the salt.
– Love frozen onion so you don’t’ have to chop and cry every time.
– Have a bag of frozen berries. Fresh berries can go bad within the week. Eat berries for any season. Put on yogurt, signage, and berries for fruit smoothies. Add with yogurt, and
– Like multigrain waffles with peanut butter and sliced bananas. She looks for waffles that have fiber. They can be premade.
– Protein: fresh and ready to make. Freeze you can thaw and it remains fresh.
– She likes making two Lasagnas. one for now and one for later. Wrap and seal the second when needed. Do the same for big batches of soup and freeze them into smaller containers.
– The safest way to thaw it in the fridge overnight or in the microwave. or in running water.
Fridge
– Like having milk, eggs, and cheese available.
– Cheese can go a long way.
– Greek yogurt is a great snake on the
– You can have lemon juice in you don’t have real
– Minced garlic (Kirtland in Costco) so you do not have to chop and peel.
– When choosing jelly or jam make sure the first ingredient is the fruit. . Look for fruit juice concentrate as the second ingredient.

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