The Pros and Cons of Freezing Prepared Foods

These days with our busy lives, we always looking for shortcuts to make things easier for ourselves. One of those ways is to be able to prepare food in advance and store it in the freezer until we need it. This works especially well for packed lunches, casseroles, and baked goods. However there are advantages and disadvantages to freezing prepared foods.

Some of the advantages are:

You can prepare this food at your own convenience, for instance on your days off. Your oven is used much more efficiently, because you can cook lots of dishes at once. You can avoid any wastage, by freezing the food instead of throwing it into the garbage. You can save lots of time by doubling and tripleing the amounts of food you are cooking, and then freezing the extra food.

Another advantage if you live alone, is that you can cook and prepare all your foods for the week, and then freeze them separately to save time cooking every night. Once again, if someone in the family need special foods, like baby foods or diet foods, and they can be prepared in quantity and frozen in single portions.

Some of the disadvantages are:

Unless you have a microwave, which allows you to thaw food quickly, you must allow a lot of time in the refrigerator for the food to thaw. Some products do not freeze very well, so you need to avoid these. A lot more energy is used when you cook food, freeze it, and reheat it, rather than just cook food and eat it. And freezing can be expensive when you add up the cost of the freezer itself, the cost of packaging and the cost of the energy used.

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