Plan on adding some freezer-friendly soups to the menu so you'll always have a delicious meal ready to heat and serve. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.

To thaw in the microwave, place the bag on a dinner plate and thaw in bursts until you can break the food apart or wiggle it out of the bag. Thick/flexible material: the bag should be made of material that’s durable enough to expand with the contents of the bag as it freezes without busting or breaking. Keep your sandwiches, soups, and snacks fresh and delicious with our innovative range of foil food bags.

A lot of the “slider” seals- they come with the attached plastic piece that slides- tend to break and don’t offer as much air control easily. While a number of the silicone bags do well in our tests, the PEVA bags we test do a lot better on the whole. I usually use a jelly roll pan, which is smaller than a full baking sheet and easier to fit in the freezer.

When it comes time to thaw your food, I recommend putting the frozen bag inside another container and thawing in the fridge. Then reheat your soup on the stove over medium-high heat, adding water or broth to match the consistency you’d like. These packets will take up less of your freezer space, and they’ll be easily organized without much effort. If the item comes direct from a manufacturer, it may be delivered in non-retail packaging, such as a plain or unprinted box or plastic bag. Then when I want to make up some stew or similar, I only have to chop up any additional veg I want to throw in.Use one hand to hold the bag open (or use a canning funnel) and use your other hand to fill the bag using a measuring cup. Even after following these instructions we still found that most silicone and PEVA bags had some residual staining and still smelled.

I freeze food in portions (normal ice cube trays for things like pesto and 5cm ice cube trays for things like pasta sauce or chilli), then put them in ikea plastic bags. Odour – our tests have found bags of both types can have residual food smell after being used and cleaned.

I chop up all the veg, add it to a large bowl, mix well, so you have an even distribution of everything, and then use a 1 cup measurement (240ml) add two cups worth to each freezer ziplock bag. Witness: several cups of unused rugelach filling, enough frozen whipped cream to last for months, and more Thanksgiving turkey than you need to know about.