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Food waste is not only bad for our wallets, but also for the environment. If you don’t want to waste unnecessarily and you find it objectionable when you have to throw food away just into the bin, make full use of the freezer and rather freeze the following 5 foods and use them in the future.
Tomatoes and peppers
Vegetables that often go bad are tomatoes and peppers. If they already look tired in the fridge, simply wash them and put them into freezer bags. They will be useful in various sauces and mixes.
Root vegetables
Celery, parsley root and carrots are excellent foods that can be stored in the freezer without problems and later used in soups, sauces or just with meat. However, before freezing them thorough cleaning is necessary and ideally also cutting them into smaller cubes right away, which will make them much easier to handle and work with when preparing a dish.
Pepper cores
Throwing away the cores of peppers is also unnecessary waste. You can remove the seeds, but you can also leave them, because they don’t directly harm anything. Again, this is an ingredient that you can add to various vegetable mixes for sauces and meat mixtures.
Top part of tomatoes
When cutting tomatoes, leftovers usually remain in the form of the top parts where the stem used to be. Definitely don’t throw them away, but rather use them, for example, for future sauce cooking. You can freeze them separately or in a mix with other vegetables that you keep for later and save from being thrown away.
Other vegetables suitable for freezing
Especially in the winter months you will be truly glad that you saved vegetables in the freezer. Besides the types mentioned above, you can also preserve various herbs or garlic this way, which are not damaged by freezing. Don’t forget to label the individual packs of herbs, such as dill, basil, thyme, rosemary and sage thoroughly so that you have an overview of what you can actually cook with.
