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Was dead set against frozen veggies for cheap meals, now I'm converted
I always thought frozen vegetables were mushy and gross compared to fresh, so I avoided them for years. But last month I was broke after paying rent and grabbed a $1.49 bag of frozen mixed peppers and onions from Aldi to stretch a pack of ground beef. Threw them in a skillet with some cumin and garlic powder and honestly they crisped up fine and saved me like 3 bucks. Anybody else have a cheap ingredient they swore off but now use all the time?
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the_hayden4d ago
Screwed up scrambled eggs for a week straight before I learned to just cook @rose_clark81's favorite frozen spinach dry first.
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rose_clark814d ago
Wait, hold on. "Held a pack of ground beef." It says you stretched ONE pack of ground beef with a 1.49 bag of frozen veggies? How small are those packs you're buying? I go through like three pounds of ground beef for tacos, and my husband still complains there's not enough meat in them. But seriously, the texture thing was my hangup too. My mom used to boil frozen broccoli into a grey mush when I was a kid, so I wrote off all frozen stuff for like fifteen years. Then I moved in with my roommate who swears by the frozen peas and corn for throwing into her pasta salads. She pointed out that they're picked at peak ripeness and flash frozen, so sometimes they taste even better than the fresh stuff that's been sitting in a truck for two weeks. And the price difference is bonkers when you're broke. I still won't buy frozen spinach though, that stuff is pure water.
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