supermarket OWN frozen vegetables

I must confess, I have not found any noticeable difference between frozen veg, no matter where you buy them.

I buy from Waitrose and Iceland because their shops are local, but I do not buy a lot of frozen begetables, mainly chopped onion, peas and sweetcorn.

I'm not keen on supermarkets' own frozen peas, or even M&S so buy Bird's Eye.

Otherwise they seem fine, we don't buy a lot of frozen vegetables but I like to keep some in in case there's a shortage.

If vegetables are on offer I may buy a few eg cauliflowers and blanch and freeze them myself.
At the moment I'm ploughing through runner beans from the garden, cutting up, blanching, freezing! Given some away too.

Chopped ginger is very useful.

Supermarkets used to do frozen tiny onions suitable for boeuf bourguignon but I haven't found any for some time now.

I order, in fact have just done so, Tesco casserole vegetables, I’ve been using them for a few years, perfectly fine. Occasionally I buy their farmhouse mix, again, no problems.

We regularly buy Morrisons frozen broccoli and cauliflower mix and it’s very good.

I buy either Waitrose or M&S frozen veg. We like French beans, Broadbeans, Spinach in particular.
With just the 2 of us this is more handy for us.

I don't have a microwave but recently bought a steamer. I buy the individual bags of frozen vegetables from Iceland and Birds Eye. So much better than fiddling about with a pan on top of the stove.

Taste is a personal thing, but there is plenty of evidence that frozen vegetables are full of vitamins, sometimes better than fresh.
Living alone, I find them very useful.

I love fresh veg, especially from our own garden, but frozen veg is so handy to have as a standby. I've never really found much of a difference between brand names and supermarkets' own brands, to be honest. Things like spinach, butternut squash, sweet potato etc are particularly useful for chucking into curries.
Oh, and Allira has just reminded me of those small onions. I haven't seen them for years - I used to use them in stews and things like Greek stifado.

I regularly buy Tesco broccoli and cauliflower mix and it’s great in a veggie fricasee. I have also used the mix with peas, carrots and peppers.

I buy Morrisons broad beans, petit pois from Aldi and DD gets me packs of diced celery, carrot and onion from Sainsbury’s which are very useful for shepherds pie, bolognese sauce and chicken soup.

I like frozen veg. They are harvested at the peak of freshness and frozen very quickly afterwards, They have been shown to keep more nutrients than tinned or even fresh. There is no wastage as vegetables are ready prepared for cooking and don't go off.
I always buy broccoli, sprouts, carrots and petit pois from Tesco and Waitrose do a lovely mix of cauli and broccoli florets, carrots and peas.

thank you ladies

ViceVersa

I love fresh veg, especially from our own garden, but frozen veg is so handy to have as a standby. I've never really found much of a difference between brand names and supermarkets' own brands, to be honest. Things like spinach, butternut squash, sweet potato etc are particularly useful for chucking into curries.
Oh, and Allira has just reminded me of those small onions. I haven't seen them for years - I used to use them in stews and things like Greek stifado.

I remember buying them in Tesco about three or four years ago but not since. Nor in Waitrose.

My Dad would sit and peel small onions to pickle - large jars of them! They were better than any I've ever bought.

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ViceVersa

I love fresh veg, especially from our own garden, but frozen veg is so handy to have as a standby. I've never really found much of a difference between brand names and supermarkets' own brands, to be honest. Things like spinach, butternut squash, sweet potato etc are particularly useful for chucking into curries.
Oh, and Allira has just reminded me of those small onions. I haven't seen them for years - I used to use them in stews and things like Greek stifado.

I remember buying them in Tesco about three or four years ago but not since. Nor in Waitrose.

My Dad would sit and peel small onions to pickle - large jars of them! They were better than any I've ever bought.

I do pickle my own onions, but it's interesting to see that you can still buy the little pearl ones, as JaxJacky has posted. Not sure if we can get Ocado deliveries here though. I've never had groceries delivered.

Jaxjacky

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Thanks *JaxJacky.

Perhaps I'll try Ocado deliveries occasionally this winter, we were talking about getting deliveries perhaps once a month and topping up in between.

At the end of the day, i doubt whether the major supermarkets grow their own vegetables for freezing. Some only work with elected producers, but at the end of the day, a carrot is a carrot is a carrot. Peas certainly may vary in quality, but you pay higher prices for the better quality.

Frozen vegetables are as good nutritionally as fresh vegetaables, and often even higher because the vegetables are much fresher when they are frozen. It takes, even British grown vegetables several days, even up to a week, to get from cropping toappearing on supermarket shelves, while frozen eg are processed and frozen within 24 hours.

We only like Birds Eye peas but I always have frozen beans and cauliflower cheese in and they are Sainsbury's.

We buy them as it is good when you want something ready prepared, saves peeling and chopping. Ours are usually from Waitrose or Tesco and they are all perfectly fine, undistinguisable from each other regarding quality.

Allira we have Ocado maybe once a month and found it to
be head and shoulders above any others, for quality of food especially fresh, packaging, reliability and the lovely pleasant, polite and civilised drivers. They deliver in bags, sorted by content, which are 10p refunded when returned - of course we pay for them initally.
The prices initially made me gasp, but once I was more acclimatised I was able to locate bargains. We have had some lovely items, hard things like kitchen tools, a huge Pyrex roaster/casserole dish Santoku knife, both half price, for eg.
They also deliver for M&S.
I should be on commission.

we have to have deliveries as we do not drive now, nowhere near a choice of supermarket, have no garden or allotment anymore, not even a balcony or window box and
did not realise, how difficult it would be to buy food and goods in a town with a medium Waitrose, small understocked Sainsbury and weekly market, the fruit and vegetable stall is ok but expensive and just one morning a week.
There is a farm shop 5 miles away which sadly does not deliver.

We miss the growing freezing pickling giving away boxes of runner beans/soft fruit in exchange for eggs experience we left behind.
Now we are older, arthritic, we moved to frozen veg, usually from Morrisons, who charge £7 then invariably arrive with half the order so need to change as they are unreliable and expensive!
I’ve read that frozen veg is equally nutritious as fresh and determined to believe this.
Swede, celeriac, especially difficult to cut, spinach not always available fresh, the packs of sweet potato, or carrot and swede already mashed, these are a revelation. Who knew? as they say.

Thank you ladies for your comments and opinions.

Jaxjacky

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oooohh - good sleuthing Jaxjacky! these are French?
I just bought 2xroll out pastry to make flans as they
are typically, flour and (French) butter, from Ocado,
one of the many things we miss about living/shopping
in la Belle France where butter reigns unbeaten

I’m sure the Tesco? mixed veg packs had little onions in or
was it Morrisons, which always made a casserole seem more authentic somehow, a thoughtful addition anyway.

also,
for pasta lovers,
Ocado have a range of real Italian pastas made with Italian flour, EV olive oils and olives.

woodenspoon thanks, I think you just summed it up really, nothing to choose between them
if I encounter anything really horrid I’ll let you all know

We dont actually buy frozen food apart from frozen veg Mackies ice cream on offer and frozen cherries which are unavailable at the moment
also! turkey drumstick which I use to make winter soup, £2+
at Tesco, a small one to fit the slow cooker, flavour and collagen.

^I just bought 2xroll out pastry to make flans as they
are typically, flour and (French) butter, from Ocado,
one of the many things we miss about living/shopping
in la Belle France where butter reigns unbeaten^

whyDelilahwhy
Tesco used to do own brand pastry sheets with just flour and Normandy butter and I didn't feel guilty buying them. They stopped selling them and the ones they do now contain palm oil.