About food keeping
Jul 1st, 2008 by Sandra
On the Menu Blog for my site I’ve added a page that deals with blanching vegetables – and I suppose with all food storage. Guess I’ll change the name of the page.
In the news we are hearing about the problems with food. The cost of gas is going up daily which means the cost of everything is going up. I’m not really an alarmist but since moving back into my condo and working to simplify my life I’m also aware of getting all of my life organized, which includes one of my biggest faults – wasted food. When I order my groceries I have the best intent at heart that this time I’m really going to cook that brocolli. But then a week late it goes out in the trash. btw, what is it about blogs that gets you to “tell” on yourself. lol
This weekend I was watching QVC and they had on this great new version of a Food Saver. I soooo wanted to buy it – I mean it was on Easy Pay no less. But, I’ve purchased and donated atleast two – maybe three – Food Savers. I just couldn’t get them to work for me – and when it went into the cabinet it was gone for good. I was proud of myself for resisting. But I still was sold on the idea that I
wanted to preserve some local produce. I had told my son about the Reynold’s Handi Vac and he picked one up. It worked great. I looked at a similar one from QVC and the reviews weren’t the best, so I went to Amazon and looked at the reviews for it and the majority were positive. So I decided that I’d use that. If I get really good at this I might treat myself to the fancy Food Saver but for now I’ll stick with the hand-held Handi-Vac.
My plan at first was quite grandiose. I was going to buy five pounds of green beans at the Farmers Market this Saturday – then I thought better and decided two pounds would be enough. That should be about four 2-person servings and something reasonable to attempt with my first try.
I’m hoping the Handi-Vac will work on meat. I normally have my groceries delivered, which does cost but I know in the end it saves me money – no impulse buying. So this week they have bone-in chicken breasts for half price. This would certainly be a time to buy a dozen or so and then put them in the freezer in packs of two. I also have a great meat market across the street and if the meat freezing works I’ll go over their once a month. Then there is an even bigger meat market on the other end of town where I could go.
Well, I’ll post updates on my experiments over on the Menu part of the site.