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Question: We have an extra large freezer and like to stock up on great deals. What foods can be frozen?

Answer: Freezers are one of the best money-saving tools you can buy. They preserve most foods for a long time and allow you to stock up on sale items to reduce your overall cost.

But there are some drawbacks. Frost-free freezers tend to dry out foods quickly because they utilize a fan to constantly circulate air while eliminating frost.

The foods we freeze most often are:

• breads (carefully stored to avoid crushing),
• meats,
• old bananas (saved for banana bread),
• all sorts of berries,
• cheese,
• peaches,
• margarine and butter,
• milk,
• nuts,
• and of course, Snickers bars (frozen is the only way to eat those).


Don’t freeze sliced, but uncooked, potatoes; they turn black — we know from experience.

We cover the topic of food storage in much greater detail in Chapter 6 (Stocking Up and Organizing) of our book, Cut Your Grocery Bill in Half with America's Cheapest Family.

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