— LJ Anderson

I am not a fan of plastic, I know, but sometimes if I don't have it, I'll just use one of these Ziploc bags. But I also have some other, um, reusable containers and you just need to make sure that no air can get in them and that you leave enough space so that they don't burst out of their containers. Now what I will definitely do is fruits and vegetables. So for instance, I went blueberry picking this summer and I had way too many blueberries. So I put them in bulk and have them in my freezer and I will use them probably the last half the winter. And I'll have fresh berries picked and frozen right away that I can eat. So leftover fruit, that's a really good one. Just know that when the fruit gets, um, thawed that it's gonna lose all its texture. So you really need to put it in something like a puree or a smoothie. It's not gonna look good. It'll look mushy, uh, vegetables also. So if something's on sale, broccoli's on sale, you might want to cut it up, put it into a container and stick it in the fridge. And the third thing I usually do is I will, um, make bulk grains. So I'll go to the bulk section, I'll buy a bunch of grains and then I'll cook a huge amount of it and then stick it in my freezer for some reason. And I'm not the only one who's like this whole grains because they take longer to cook than processed grains. A lot of people are like, oh, I'm not gonna bother with that. But if you have it in the freezer and you just put it, pull it out in individual, um, containers, you can make a smo. Um, you can make a bowl, a Buddha bowl or a dinner bowl and have some whole grains be in that. And you can put it in a little bit of olive oil and heat it up with some, um, sauteed onions and garlic and really bring back, uh, a whole bunch of flavor and taste to it as well. So fruits, vegetables, and grains. And when we're talking about protein, absolutely, if they're on sale, I'll put some, I'll put them in individualized containers. So if I have a family of four, I'll make sure I'll have like either four patties or chops or enough meat for stir fry for four people in each container so I can just pull it out because we need to make it convenient. Convenience is one of the barriers for cooking healthy food as well as cost and keeping things in the freezer.