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Love your freezer

A well-stocked freezer opens up a world of delicious possibilities and makes cooking on busy weeknights much easier and quicker. Pack your freezer with homemade batch meals, fresh food and frozen ingredients, ready for quick meals at the end of a long day. Use your freezer wisely and you can store all the vital ingredients for time- and money-saving meals. Look out for the snowflake logo on food packaging and recipes – it tells you which foods and recipes you can safely freeze. Guidelines on food packaging will advise you on length of time to store freezable foods.

  1. Top tips for freezing food

    You can safely freeze most raw or cooked foods providing you follow the principles of safe freezing. Take a look at our top tips below:

    1. Make sure all cooked food is cooled thoroughly before freezing, ideally within 90 minutes. Adding food that is still hot to your freezer runs the risk defrosting other foods.

    2. Once cooled, divide into portions, place in airtight containers, label, then pop into the freezer.

    3. Always freeze food before the use-by date.

    4. Never refreeze raw meat (including poultry) or fish that has already been frozen and defrosted. If you cook frozen meat or fish once fully defrosted, you can then refreeze. Be sure to only refreeze cooked meat and fish once, as long as it is properly cooled beforehand. If you are unsure whether something can be refrozen, it is always best to avoid doing so.

    5. Defrost food in the fridge, ideally overnight, and use within 24 hours of defrosting. Reheat in a microwave, covered in foil in the oven, or in a saucepan on the hob. Ensure food is reheated until piping hot throughout.

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