Cut my grocery bill by 40% with one freezer trick

I was throwing away $80 a month in spoiled produce from my weekly stock-up at the H-E-B in San Antonio. Started freezing leftovers and bulk veggies on the same day I buy them instead of waiting till they go bad. Anyone else try this and see a big drop in your food waste?

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eric_johnson5d ago

Hold up though, I gotta disagree with the whole premise here. Freezing doesn't just change texture, it straight up kills a lot of the nutrients in veggies if you don't blanch them first, which nobody does. So you're basically eating mushy, less healthy food just to save a couple bucks. And @garcia.charles is right, the texture thing is real - frozen broccoli tastes like wet cardboard no matter what you do with it. Plus, you end up with a freezer full of mystery bags that you forget about until they're freezer burned anyway. The whole "buy fresh and freeze later" thing is just a way to make yourself feel better about buying too much stuff you don't actually need.

johnson.adam5d ago

Man my freezer is basically a graveyard of good intentions. I keep telling myself I'll meal prep but instead I just have a freezer full of sad looking broccoli from three months ago that I'm too scared to defrost.

garcia.charles5d ago

Heard freezing actually changes the texture of veggies, so you're not missing much lol.