Watching the Kitchen on HGTV RE: things you can freeze - WOW

shredded cheese
spagetti sauce
most meat
cookie dough
bread
butter
chicken stock (homemade, in pre measured amounts)

In addition to all of the above, I freeze eggs when I can get them on sale and stock up. I just crack a few eggs (4-6 per container) into small tupperware containers and stir up a little bit. DH likes eggs for breakfast most mornings, so when they're at a good price, I buy as many as I can.

I also sometimes make breakfast burritos (9-12 of them) and freeze them. If you wrap them in a paper towel, then in foil, and store in a big ziploc bag, you can microwave them (wrapped in just the paper towel, that's important) for 30-90 seconds and they are just right!

In the garage we have a big upright freezer that stores fruit, veggies, cheese/dairy, juice, breads, pie crusts, bread dough, chopped nuts, etc . There's a chest freezer in the sunroom that has the meats, jars of broth, frozen pizza, ice cream tub, and water bottles for DH's lunch. DH hunts and when he can get a deer or elk, it fills the freezer pretty full.

We freeze milk, creamer, butter and spaghetti sauce. I'm sure there is more as we have a freezer in the garage. So we also freeze the normal things, meat, bread (when we have to), veggies, etc.

I don't know how to can so I only make freezer jam.

I didn't know you could freeze raw eggs. I'm going to try that. I have no problem freezing cooked rice - it reheats really well with all the grains free flowing and not stodgy. I use basmati rice, rinse it straight away with cold water and immediately freeze, normally in a cheap tie top freezer bag. Really handy for days when I'm out and my non cooking DH needs a meal. I grab a bag of rice and some chilli or curry from the freezer and he can reheat it.

I freeze grated cheese quite a bit. When I get to the end of a piece, I grate it, bag it and mix it with some homemade frozen breadcrumbs in the bag to make a tasty savoury, crunchy topping for pasta bakes.

I freeze raw banana in chunks to add to smoothies.

I freeze raw mushrooms. I often seem to buy too many. I wash them (controversial I know), slice them, lay them in a single layer in a ziplock back, and seal the bag leaving a tiny hole. I put a straw through the hole and suck out all the air leaving a nice flat package which lets the mushroom slices all freeze separately.

You can stock up on sweet corn on the cob when it's in season and just chuck the whole thing in the freezer, husks and all. You don't even have to wrap it. When you want it, throw it on the grill or in the oven with the husk on, and it comes out tasting like you picked it in August! No blanching necessary, no cutting the corn off the cob....nice.

I've used the straw trick before too but I saw an idea on Facebook yesterday that I plan on trying.  Seal your ziplock bag of food closed leaving about one inch unsealed on one end.  Sink the bag into water keeping only the still unsealed end above water.  The water forces all the air out of the bag and you can finish closing it easily before removing it from the water.  You couldn't keep your mushrooms separated this way but it might work well for other foods.

I tried freezing corn without the husks and it didn't work out at all, that's good to know. I LOVE corn on the cob.
AN had lots of helpful suggestions on a recent freezer thread. Search freezer and it should come up.

I also freeze cooked rice with no issues -- I love having a few bags in the freezer.

I sometimes freeze cooked beans (made from dried beans) in 2-cup portions. One bag equals about one can of beans in recipes, but the home-cooked beans are cheaper and have no sodium.

Many people freeze cookie dough, but I freeze (mostly around the holidays) baked cookies. A surprising number of cookies freeze really well. You freeze them after baking, but before adding any embellishments such as frosting. A bonus is that any topping (frosting, melted chocolate, etc.) can be applied while the cookie is actually still frozen, and the topping will set up almost immediately. This is (for me) a huge time saver around the holidays, when I make numerous "fancy" cookies to give as gifts.

I had not heard of freezing citrus fruit, but I'm going to give it a try. I always buy limes at 3 or 4 for $1, and rarely manage to use them all before they go bad. I had no idea I could freeze the extras!

Yeah same with me. I have citrus trees and always have surplus, even with giving fruit away. Will try freezing some grapefruit I think.

Well, thanks for this. I like to have limes for the occasional gin and tonic. Now I can buy a whole bag.

Chips and crackers
Bread
Nuts

I worked with someone who didn't know you could freeze things, like hot dogs! The look on her face when I said they were on sale so I bought a few and put them in the freezer. She had no idea (and she is quite a bit older than me). Pretty funny.